Community Collaborations

Out of Hand partners with a wide range of community organizations in Atlanta in Georgia to produce theater-based projects to support their missions. Projects cover topics such as homelessness in partnership with Families First, the celebration of Juneteenth with The Home Depot Foundation, climate change with the Atlanta Science Festival and The Weather Channel, and voter turnout with Atlanta comedian Mark Kendall.

Current Collaborations

PACE (Preventing Abuse and Commercial Exploitation) 

PACE is a child sex trafficking awareness and prevention program for Georgia middle school students featuring the original film, See You. See You was developed with the Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Council for the Arts, Office of the Attorney General, Wellspring Living and Street Grace. The current PACE curriculum aims to fill the need for engaging and practical prevention education at an age-appropriate level. 

The PACE Education Program is being implemented at four middle schools in Athens Clarke County this 2024 spring semester!

Equitable Vaccines 

Equitable Vaccines is an innovative vaccine confidence program that seeks to address vaccine deliberation among community members by intersecting art, information, and meaningful conversation. To achieve this goal, we are proud to collaborate with CORE—our vaccine partners on the project who offers COVID vaccines to participants. Together, we aim to host meaningful and effective events. During events, we feature an artistic asset and engage participants in an open, safe, and respectful conversation surrounding the film and reasons for vaccine deliberation. 

Currently, we feature a creative short film entitled, Comfort. Comfort centers the character Tia Comfort, a middle-class schoolteacher in Georgia faces her own insecurities and her family’s individual trials and tribulations when bringing them all together for their first annual gathering since the start of the pandemic.

There are also additional artistic assets underway! In short, our goal is to inspire honest conversations through art, create well-informed communities, and increase confidence in COVID vaccines.

fear not.

fear not. is a short film written and directed by John Settles made possible by support from the Gilead COMPASS Initiative and Out of Hand Theater.

fear not. aims to serve as a hopeful example of what it can look like when we use our faith practices to uplift our LGBTQ+ neighbors and people living with HIV, since the social impact of HIV/AIDS stigma intersects with many forms of discrimination, and faith-based discrimination is no exception.

PAST COLLABORATIONS

PROMOTING VOTER TURN OUT

We have partnered with the Atlanta Science Festival to produce 2100: A Climate Odyssey, a fun, family-friendly, interactive piece of theater exploring Atlanta in the year 2100.

Helene S. Mills senior Multipurpose Center Project

Each summer Out of Hand brings a playwright, a choreographer, and a composer to work with a group of seniors at the Helene S. Mills Senior Center in the Old Fourth Ward. Together they devise a short piece of theater on a central theme that they then present to other members of the facility.