Passage's Education Program:
The State Street Project

The State Street Project is an educational outreach effort aimed at Trenton's young people, ages 8 to 22. Founded in 1995, the State Street Project matches Trenton young people with professional artist-mentors in playwriting, performance, spoken-word, and technical theatre classes.

Throughout the year, the State Street Project provides after school arts programs through a number of local partner organizations, including (in recent years) Trenton School District, the Emily Fisher Charter School, the Boys & Girls Club, the Ellarslie Museum and the River City Community School.

A critical element of many programs is "playmaking", a writing process which can be adaptated to teen and pre-teen students, based on a model developed by New York's 52nd Street Project.