Darke County Center for the Arts...
DCCA ‘Arts in Education’ opener addresses bullying 
September 9, 2011 

Musical performing artist Lyle Cogen will present her one-woman show Sticks and Stones for fourth through sixth grade students in all Darke County and Greenville City public schools from September 19 through 23. The first Arts In Education presentation of the school year for Darke County Center for the Arts, this award-winning program creatively addresses the pervasive problem of bullying.  The performances are free and open to the public. 

According to DCCA Artistic Director Keith Rawlins, DCCA first presented Sticks and Stones last year for local kindergarten through third grade students.  “Following Lyle’s show, DCCA was immediately beset by requests from teachers and administrators to bring her back,” Rawlins explained. “Lyle effectively deals with meeting the challenges kids face daily not only on the school bus, in the cafeteria and on the playground, but also at their home through technology and social networking, and she does it in an entertaining and quite moving fashion,” the DCCA spokesperson concluded. 

DCCA’s Arts In Education programs which annually take professional performing artists into each grade level of all local public schools are sponsored by Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation, Greenville Federal, Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe, and Vectren Foundation. Additionally, A.I.E. receives funding from the Bocholt Foundation, Ketrow Foundation and Lydia E. Schaurer Memorial Trust Fund as well as the schools. The Harry D. and Esther Stephens Memorial provides operating support to Darke County Center for the Arts, which also receives funds from Ohio Arts Council, the state agency that supports public programs in the arts.

Specific dates and times for Lyle Cogen’s Sticks and Stones are coordinated with schools’ schedules; for more information, contact DCCA at 937-547-0908 or dcca@centerforarts.net