You pioneered the creation of a theater in New Africa House in 2016...
... and moved into the beautifully renovated performance space in 2018.
Happy 20th Birthday Brown Paper Studio!
You were born in 2002 in South Africa on the walls of a beautiful Cape Town apartment hosting students and artists in creativity workshops.
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Our first logo!
You sprouted roots at the University of the Western Cape in 2004 as an extracurricular offering for college students who got excited and offered you at Glendale Secondary School as an after-school program.
You brought people together at youth development programs, union offices, corporate gatherings, consulting workshops and retreats in South Africa.
PLAY
You were nurtured by Iya Judyie and
her son, Muhammad Salim.
DREAM
You travelled literally around the world, visiting
ten countries and circumnavigating
the globe as a Theater course on
a 2007 Semester at Sea voyage.
INSPIRE
Happy
Birthday,
BPS!
You flourished in the United States as
an Applied Theater offering at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst since 2013 and
once again college students also got
excited and offered you at a high school,
Springfield Conservatory for the Arts.
You welcomed another generation of young artists with Xavier Coetzee’s Brown Paper Studios initiative in Cape Town.
UNITY
You evolved as an arts intervention in Darius Taylor’s 2019 Wrong Answer Project, an initiative to bring equity and community voices
to high stakes testing.
In 2023 Darius received his PhD in the field of Research, Educational Measurement & Pyschometrics. Congratulations Dr. D!
Bravo!
You traveled to Ghana in 2019 as a pilot program at Osu Presbyterian Secondary School, enthusiastically received by overflow rooms of eager students.
You became a US trademarked methodology for education and leadership training in 2017.
INNOVATE
You are a 2022 capstone project for Sabine Jacques Master’s in International Education Brown Paper Studio: A Pedagogy for Healing and Student Agency.
Congrats, Sabine!
You are generating a documentary film about your first twenty years entitled Radical Presence: The Life and Times of Brown Paper Studio.
Sovereign
creative
Now’s the time to gather your folks spread all over the world to tell your remarkable story.
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Keep Growin’!
Keep Shinin’!
The Best is Yet to Come!
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