 that you are as impressed by your outstanding achievements as we are. I would now like to welcome you to the finale of today's events, the award ceremony of the United States of Southeast Homeland. It is an honor to welcome you to our shores, and we hope that we can leave as great an impression on you as you have on us. When the country of your word is called, please stand. From the country of Israel, the face of America, who chose to join our program this year, and I also want to welcome our international friends and those unable to attend or do this ceremony for the very first time via live streaming video on Howard Rout. So, we hope that you can see me on here what's good. I would like to be introduced, the artistic director of Florida Studio Theater, Mr. Richard Piles. We see all these young faces and future generations. I've seen you in plays, I've heard your thoughts. He's in good hands. All of these faces, all of these young faces, also remind me of the old faces. When I say old faces, I mean, the old artists on whose shoulders we stand reach where they are for days and sometimes weeks to reach their destination. And so long and so far because they do, go to see puppies play, practice their skills and play. So, we all attend a theater to practice our skills of life. And in short, to better understand why it is we're alive. You know, we often talk about the new need for food and clothing and shelter. Of course, clothing and shelter. But we also need food for the soul, the human spirit. Just understand why we're alive. It reminds us to be, it reminds us that there is cruelty, that it is harboring. See, if we have the skills to cove, we will have the skills to cove because we practice those skills in the theater and through art. The function of art is as real as a function of a room over your head. If shelter is built to be out of cold, then art is built to keep in our humanity for the body. Then art has meant our souls of living in spirit, good place to raise children. We mostly know the value of art. Each and every one of them, the Greeks. The ancient Greeks gave their winning playwrights the same value of art that they bestowed upon their great warrior generals because the great warrior colleagues of Greece knew that they were in the same battle. He spent his professional life coping with the battlefields of Europe. He taught me that courage was not the absence of the willingness to take action despite what no one had seen. To see what no one had saw. And to express what no one has expressed. In short, to risk the rejection of the hurt not to be self-conscious but to be truly conscious. Conscious but not civilized. That we are born in a way that these things require practice the acceleration of the evolution of human confidence. We don't understand why it has been lived in this room though how a theater has a transformational power. That students who study art on the life it has succeeded in other subjects regardless of their socio-ambient background. That adults who study art on the life they decline the lack of success teaches emotional intelligence. And science is finally proving that emotional intelligence is a better indicator of success if my pharma spirit continues to be an open mean, 3,000 focus zone. Be anxious due to the importance of art and most of us know the importance of art. And today we gather to bestow a medal of honor on our young playwrights. Thank you young playwrights for your courage to create. Thank you for your playwrights. Thank you young playwrights for reminding us all what it is to be alive. A few adult awards to be sent. It takes a team it takes a community to build a play. And to build a right to play program that reaches 55,000 children annually a million over its period of time. And the plays you saw today just today 15,000 children will come every day to see them again locally. We have two awards first for business. 1999 has supported art and play that's a long time for many of the playwrights for more. And some of you more as well. They have a mission which I would like to reach you. We believe that we can only be as strong as the communities in which we live and work. That's why our company is committed more than $11 million to not problems provides students with skills and motivations to recognize those achievements. The company believes that community is stronger by its arts and for a long, long time they have been there year after year ensuring that that poor school that challenged school that community that has nothing can have some artists come in and inspire them. For that we are ever grateful and I would like to bring Bardo to the stage. Congratulations. We have a lot of incredible contributions, volunteerism and the leadership of many of our educational programs, students and to the teachers and supporting organizations who educate them. So actually we applaud you today and we thank you so much for this experience that we can all share. That has been supporting the theater. They've been around a lot more than that. They started giving us a brick just one brick and this was in the days when we only had one theater. We now had a pot and it was across the street and we needed all the help we could get and then they became impassioned, enamored and magically driven to the right to play program. They believed that the arts are integral to children to people. They read the playwrights and they said that was such a great play. They read the playwrights and from the teachers. Their soul is involved with this theater. Their names are the history of their family. You might have seen our piano history and legacy is much poorer and even broader than that piano because it's about high-end scenes for the future. If this future, this theater today back in 97, they were helping it. This morning, they were here. They're loving this theater, they're loving the children, they're loving art and their love that art makes us better is why we're here today and why, since 1997, we appreciate them and we're glad to award them. Some of what I say will be with respect to the panel of health. But first I want to say a little bit about the Forest Studio theater. It is an organization that is actively and tremendously under excellent guidance that Richard Hawkins, Keith Alexander, and those on the board depends on the guilt-cutting and others. It has been an impressive performance. It has crossed my 1,000 subscriber population and 25,000 subscriber population. There are now five theaters that will be soon. My one thing I maintain that is not any one office or structure venue that is the most important part of the Forest Studio theater is the play program that reaches out to children and under the brilliant leadership of Keith Alexander whose maternal and creative instincts seemingly emerged into full blue and estimated 1,000,000 people watched children's programs 55,000 last year 4,000 plays were submitted what a marvelous marvelous performance so much credit to begin with. It is really how the play program reaches out to children that enthralls us, excites us is through structuring through the workshops and personal communication and content that children are brought into an awareness of how to write a play to be fearless in a sense they've been taught to think out of the box another word for thinking out of the box is creativity and it's creativity that is one of the hallmarks of this great nation these children that see the world in different manners than we do we see the world ourselves in a different manner we adults so often look at the world through a distorted vision because of prejudices or past experiences but children see the world new because in an essence they are new and this is just wonderful it's my opinion our opinion that the teaching that's offered through the write a play program offers a metastructure to formally build health and I don't stress this aspect although it may not be obviously relevant from time to time it might be that a play is presented with our elements that are disturbing and then through interpretive analysis how it can be given it's not just an adult but we should have mental health if it's needed it becomes early in childhood and that's an element that I think needs to be stressed the write a play program offers structure and mental health for young children there's much beauty in the write a play program there's much beauty in the children and in the place that they write we strongly endorse the write a play program we are seeing it being in many other countries and we hope we can play a part sometime in Canada where we must see the interviews there I intuitively stand the principles of educators guide these young charges to writing and we thank you we have a special educator award and our right to introduce the director of education to present this Florida Studio Theater has wonderful relationships with teachers and educators in Sarasota County, Manatee County almost every county in the state of Florida and also internationally through wonderful partnerships with the Jewish Federation and our sister cities organizations and as a result of that a fabulous team of educators from Florida Studio Theater are able to go into schools and conduct workshops many of the teaching artists that we send into the schools you saw today up here as actors on our stage and Adam and I have the pleasure of going out and teaching in military based schools throughout the state of Florida and many of the local schools we have wonderful partnerships with Booker Middle School and other schools and the result of that is that we have been in over 600 classrooms this year teaching and having an opportunity to see educators and students work together to create and it's always in spite of every classroom we enter has something to give us but to be honest seemingly the ideal classrooms that we go into and in these classrooms there are energized children open to knowledge ready to risk anything seems possible in these magical classrooms and at the helm we always always find a remarkable teacher ahead of them sometimes over to the side but always they're always encouraging and understanding that that safety to create is one of the most important elements the children in those magical classrooms have extraordinary achievements sometimes achievements that are recognized by test scores sometimes achievements achievements that are recognized only by their peers those achievements are recognized within the students they are when they have done something remarkable and each year we try to honor an educator who has a magical classroom the educator that we're going to honor today we have had the pleasure of working with for over a decade and we have seen her in kindergarten classrooms in third grade classrooms in fourth grade classrooms and in fifth grade classrooms at Doshio Elementary School and this year we have the honor of working with her again with her fifth grade students at Felipe Shor's Ivy World School she is amazing accomplished she's a published author she reads she's wonderfully energized and she is so much fun and our educator of the year this year is Miss Sandy White Sandy White but she is a short video that she will make all things clear I'd like to introduce you to a wonderful friend of Florida's studio in the theater Susie Nations she is absolutely heartbroken that she could not be here and we are celebrating her youngest daughter receiving her daughter a degree she received this honor from Florida studio she called me so maybe I could skype in but I bring you her words from seeing it to my classroom to a joint venture between Florida's studio in the theater Nations meshed all the experiences that took my integration to appreciate and represent their competing cultures I wish I could go back into that worksheet one's an appreciation of others and their ideas of art should not it should instead from the 2013 Younger Playwrights Festival when you perceive her that is one of our fantastic, aprencious acts I am going to ask you to please hold your applause until I write everyone's name and then we'll have a huge reward even the model mention winners in the categories of 106 and 7 Catherine, Calvin Justin Zoe Donald Welch your receiver certificate and medal on stage please hold your applause until all of them this year we want the mothers in the audience to have a special recognition today as well for an honorable tomorrow so remember Shakespeare and as my good friend here to Hector said who remembers a sports figure from 500 years ago but we do remember Shakespeare and as his sonation swings forward creativity takes flight today we're honoring all of the flights of creative imaginations leading far and becoming writers, thinkers and leaders of the future I'm going to present ladies and gentlemen the winners of the 2013 Younger Playwrights Festival from the Child Protection Center Summage accepting groundwater accepting for the 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