Theater SKAM is calling for participants ages 9 to 13 to perform a show in Victoria during the first weekend in March. Five artists from the fields of textiles, theatre, and photography work with 28 local kids to prepare them for a show where they will remake outfits in less than one hour. Following training from professional SKAM artists, the kids will then circulate among the audience & select lucky, brave patrons to be taken inside the Fashion Machine... Then the action begins.

After an interview with the subjects & a brainstorming session, the young designers will retreat to their open workshop space & begin redesigning the volunteers’ outfits. The audience circles the perimeter and watches the young artists through videos they shot during the training sessions. After 50 minutes at the hands of the kids’ sewing machines, scissors, buttons, ribbons, fabric, needles and thread, the seven audience members don their remade outfits & showcase their new looks in a fashion show.

Fashion Machine is an opportunity to help foster the creativity of the next generation of artists; a new, exciting breed of performance art; and a whole lot of fun. After the performance in Victoria, SKAM Theater is off to New York for the French Institute Alliance Française on March 11th & then head to Fayetteville, Arkansas to perform at the Walton Arts Center for the annual Artosphere Festival in May.

Open to All Ages.