Building Better People are honored to be performing We Got It: A Show About Empathy, our long-running play for kids and families, at the Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center (KAACHC) in Centerville, Maryland, presented by the Kennard Alumni Association. The FREE performance is Saturday March 15, 2025, at 1PM. Light refreshments will be served, and donations will be accepted for Kennard’s Scholarship Fund. You can more information HERE, and to find more about the KAACHC, check them out here.
Our performance is made possible by an Arts In Education grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
We Got It! A Show About Empathy
Performed by Building Better People Productions
February 15, 2025 at 1PM
Kennard African American Cultural Heritage Center
410 Little Kidwell Ave, Centreville, MD 21617
All Donations Benefit Kennard’s Scholarship Fund
Bring your whole family to see Feeling All the Feelings, our show about emotions, running in Annapolis in March!
Laila is a 10-year-old girl who feels feelings so big, in fact, that she suspects they might be TOO big in other people’s eyes. She comes up with a way to express her emotions that seems to make everyone else happy. But will it work for HER? In this funny, emotional, interactive one-person play starring and written by Lynne Streeter Childress, Building Better People Productions explores the enormous range of kids’ emotions, the pressure they feel to be accepted, and the awesomeness that comes from feeling ALL of your feelings.
Feelings has been performed for schools in Maryland and Virginia, at arts festivals in Annapolis and Philadelphia, and this is a rare opportunity to enjoy it with your family! Shows run March 8th and 15th at 1PM and 3PM each day. Tickets are $13 general admission for people 3 and up, with free admission for kids 2 and under.
These performances of Feeling All the Feelings were made possible in part by a Spring 2025 Mini Grant from the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, who have supported Building Better People Productions over the years.
Feeling All the Feelings
March 8 at 1 PM and 3PM March 15 at 1PM and 3PM
ArtFarm Annapolis, 111 Chinquapin Round Road, Suite 200, Annapolis, MD 21401
Starring and Written by Lynne Streeter Childres
Written by and starring Lynne Streeter Childress
Directed by Danielle Drakes
Tickets are $13 on sale online and at the door; Kids aged 2 and under are free.
Saturday March 8 2025 at 1PM
Saturday March 8 2025 at 3PM
Saturday March 15 2025 at 1PM
Saturday March 15 2025 at 3PM
Contact us at 443 906 0099 or lynne@bbpproductions.com for information about the show, accessibility information, and more about how we use theater to teach kids of all ages about kindness.
We are so happy to be bringing the happy to the people in June (all this week!!) with performances in Annapolis that are FREE to the public!
First off, we will be performing at Kids-n -Kaboodle, Annapolis’ free fair for families on June 2 at the Bated Athletic Complex, 935 Spa Rd., Annapolis, MD 21402 from 12:00 PM-4:00 PM. Our artistic director, Lynne Streeter Childress will be singing with her friend Willie Hadnot, Jr, at 3:25, as they sing family friendly happy songs!
Then, this week, come celebrate Annapolis Arts Week (part of Anne Arundel Arts Month) and see Building Better People perform TWO of our shows at the Arts Hub at Lighthouse Studio, the headquarters for the week’s festivities. They will be free performances and activities, including our Bringing Back the Sun (our show for 0-6 year olds about cooperation) and Feeling All the Feelings (our show for 5-12 year olds about emotional health), both on Thursday, June 6. Again both shows are absolutely free (we will have our virtual tip jar out if you are inclined to give).
Bringing Back the Sun (12pm) and Feeling All the Feelings (4pm) (both funded in part by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County)
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Lightbox Studio
209 West Street, #101
Annapolis, MD 21401
Hope to see you this week!
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Happy Fall!
If you are local to the Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia area, you have TWO chances to hangout with Building Better People Productions this weekend!
First, come see our artistic director Lynne Streeter Childress sing happy songs this Saturday, October 21 with her friend Wille Hadnot, Jr at Fall Fest on West, a family festival of music and art and marching Corgis in Annapolis! We will be singing at 3:30 in Wiseman Park! Also, come see our friend storyteller Tina Streeter Smith at 4PM near Gallery 57 West! Learn about all the exciting things happening that day HERE!
Summer is almost here! We can all use some sunshine and laughs and fun, and BBPP has lots of that! Starting in June (this month!), we are presenting a series of drop-in virtual camps for kids from 4-18, and you can find our about them here! We are also making a few public appearances of family performances in Annapolis that are free for families.
We hope you have a wonderful summer, and that you join Building Better People Productions for our brand of kind, inspiring entertainment for the whole family!
We are so sad to report the passing of Lauren Loader, an amazing artist and teacher who was a big part of the life of Building Better People Productions in our earlier days. She was a wonderful photographer who took press photos for several of our shows, including The Imaginators and one of our casts of We Got It: A Show About Empathy, both in 2017. Lauren also provided babysitting services for the cast and crew of The Imaginators, making it possible for us to bring our kids to work with us, and also personally babysat for me, often coming to my house when I had school shows so she could take my son to school. If you ever auditioned for one of our plays, you may have seen Lauren at the sign-in table, greeting everyone. Lauren went on to graduate from Trinity Christian College in the Chicago-area, and was an art teacher at Zion Central and Shiloh Park Middle Schools. She is survived by her parents and her fiancé’.
Below are some of the images that Lauren took for us. Her spirit and spark come through in them. In appreciation for all she was, we are dedicating the rest of this 2022/23 season, and the 2023/24 season, to her. She is missed.
– Lynne Streeter Childress, BBPP Artistic Director
