AZ State Schools for the Deaf and Blind Stories that Soar! Show

At Literacy Connects, there lives a Storyteller in the guise of theatre company known as Stories that Soar! This company, comprised of multi-talented adult performers, invites young people to let their imaginations run wild and write on topics of their choosing. The troupe selects stories to bring to the stage through live theatre productions, each […]

Stories that Transform

Be transformed by the stories of adult learners! Recently, our students have had the privilege of working on an exciting, new project for Literacy Connects. For the first time ever, students Literacy Volunteers of Tucson’s Basic Literacy and English Language Acquisition for Adults programs and Pima Community College Adult Education have come together to create […]

Congratulations GED Graduates!

Congratulations to our recent GED graduates! On Wednesday, May 22nd, ten students reached an educational milestone.  Eight students from the Lindsey Learning Center, a partnership between Literacy Volunteers of Tucson and Pima County One Stop, and two students from Literacy Volunteers of Tucson earned a General Equivalency Diploma. These students participated in the official graduation […]

Backstage with Stories that Soar!: Action Packed ASDB

Development rehearsals are always an action-packed time in a  Stories that Soar! show. We may have our own ideas of how each piece will play out, but it almost always changes in some way. It’s all part of the process! I especially appreciated being able to work so collaboratively with this ensemble to create a […]

Backstage with Stories that Soar! at Soleng Tom

We had our run-through of the show tonight, and it finally hit me that, holy cow, we have this, then one more night, then we’re performing for Soleng Tom! Everything feels like it was such a blur up to this point, haha. I’m used to having at least a month to rehearse and refine a […]