Nonprofit seeking applicants for summer workshop

The Montana-based Share Your Voice Foundation’s Empowerment through Performance Workshop returns later this summer and application to attend are being accepted now through Friday, June 9.

The workshop is designed to help underserved teens age 13 through 17 learn to be comfortable on stage and develop self-esteem. Participants come from diverse backgrounds, some from community support organizations, and others from remote and rural areas. Many get the chance to realize a dream and perform as a signer, actor, comedian or dancer at the workshop.

The six-day workshop, Aug. 12-17, is led by co-founder Jennifer “JJ” Julian and other professional guest artists. Instructors will teach on-stage awareness through movement classes, voice projection, performance preparation, as well as working with the camera and other team-building exercises. The workshop culminates with a live public show, created and performed by workshop participants.

Full scholarships are provided for each participant but do require an application or nomination form. Those forms are online at www.shareyourvoicefoundation.org. More information is available on the website or by calling 888-806-5700.

THE SHARE Your Voice Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to the provision of the Empowerment through Performance Workshop program and other art-based cultural and educational activities. The agenda of the organization is geared specifically toward underserved young people from diverse backgrounds, regardless of race, religion, creed or sex.

The foundation was co-founded by Karen Borger and JJ Julian. Borger is a native Australian now living in the United States, and an accomplished film producer, writer and freelance director. Julian is from the Flathead Valley and has performed as a professional on stage, screen and the radio.

The inaugural ETP workshop was held in 2007.