The Red Curtain Project

03/31/2025

🌙✨ Celebrate Eid with "Eidgah"—a heartwarming tale of love, sacrifice, and empathy! ✨🌙

Presented by Red Curtain Project, a Thresh Initiative, Eidgah follows young Hamid, an orphan whose pure heart leads him to make a touching choice for his beloved grandmother during the joyous festival of Eid. This timeless story reminds us that true generosity comes from the heart. ❤️

Join us in honoring the spirit of Eid with this moving tale.
🔗 Watch & experience Eidgah here: https://www.redcurtainproject.org/eidgah

This special presentation is enriched by the work of global collaborators, including:

🎶 Ben Foskett – A renowned composer and arranger whose work spans classical concert music, ballet, dance, theatre, pop, film, TV, and sound libraries.

🎨 Tom Lynch – One of New York’s most in-demand illustrators and commercial artists, known for designing numerous book covers for leading publishers.

Learn Interactive partnered with RCP on Eidgah. They deliver industry-leading manager development programs focused on key transitions in any individual's career.

10/31/2024

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10/31/2024

10/15/2024

As National Hispanic Heritage Month 🎉✨ comes to a close, we are excited to showcase our Red Curtain Project (RCP) through the vibrant digital performance of “Drum, Chavi, Drum!” 🥁⁠

Our collaboration with has brought Mayra L. Dole’s uplifting narrative to the forefront. Chavi, a Cuban-American girl, demonstrates that girls can take the stage and drum, regardless of what others may think! 🎶💪🏽

Don’t miss the complete performance here: https://www.redcurtainproject.org/drum-chavi-drum

The Red Curtain Project serves as an educational initiative from Thresh Dance Co. ⁠

📖 Written by Mayra L. Dole⁠
🎨 Artwork by Tonel⁠

Permission granted by , New York, NY 10016. All rights reserved. Discover more at leeandlow.com.⁠

04/10/2024

✨🌙 Celebrate Eid with the Red Curtain Project! 🌙✨

Our digital story "Eidgah" takes place during the Muslim festival of Eid, showing the empathy of an orphan, Hamid, towards his grandmother.

This charming story is the perfect way to celebrate Eid and features works from our amazing global collaborators Tom Lynch (Illustrator) and Ben Foskett (composer).

🔗 Watch Eidgah now: https://www.redcurtainproject.org/eidgah
🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by Thresh Dance Co

02/14/2024

We wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day! 💖❤️⁠
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This Valentine's Day, we are celebrating taking pride in our ancestry while showing love and recognizing the beauty in other communities. ⁠
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Let's continue to spread love, understanding, and the joy of storytelling together! 📚️⁠
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🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by Thresh Dance.
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12/06/2023

Give the gift of art to your loved ones this season and help us meet our goal!

Thresh's amazing visual artists have created one-of-a-kind work representing each of our cultural stories for our young audience project The Red Curtain Project.

Help us meet our goal and choose an artwork you would like to give for the holidays. We will send you a beautifully wrapped first-edition copy of your favorite artwork with a summary of the story.

Each print is marked at $1,000 as a donation towards Thresh's annual fund to keep such amazing works going.

🔗 Support Thresh's annual appeal campaign and choose your art: https://donorbox.org/thresh-donation

🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by Thresh

12/04/2023

As part of Thresh’s annual appeal campaign, we are so excited to announce that first editions of our amazing artist's artwork for The Red Curtain Project's stories can each be purchased as holiday gifts!

Each print is marked at $1,000 as a donation towards Thresh's annual fund.

🔗 Support Thresh's annual end-of-year campaign: https://donorbox.org/thresh-donation

📷: The Why-Why Girl- Shreya Mehta, Mei-Mei's Lucky Birthday Noodles- Seema Shakti, The Story of Ganga- Biswajit Balasubramanian, The Golden Mango- Tom Lynch

🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by ⁠⁠

11/12/2023

🕯✨🪔 Happy Diwali from the Thresh team 🪔✨🕯

Be sure to celebrate with our digital story "Lights for Gita," a story that illuminates the spirit of Diwali as recently immigrated Gita learns to share her holiday in her new home.

🔗 Watch "Lights for Gita": https://www.redcurtainproject.org/lights-for-gita

🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by ⁠⁠

08/04/2023

First Friday Find 📚 "The Proudest Blue"

This New York Times best-seller is a powerful and vibrantly illustrated story written by Olympic medalist and social justice activist Ibtihaj Muhammad about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab.

The perfect read to kick off this 💙

🔗 Learn more about "The Proudest Blue": https://www.amazon.com/Proudest-Blue-Story-Hijab-Family/dp/0316519006

🍎 The Red Curtain Project is an educational initiative by ⁠⁠

07/31/2023

Throwback to our Covid-era virtual workshop series with 😷

🔗 Learn more about our workshop with BHSA: https://www.redcurtainproject.org/brooklyn-hs-arts

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