Youth Programs
Summer QAMP!
Dreams of Hope hosts an overnight arts camp every summer at the Emma Kaufmann Camp near Morgantown, West Virginia, for LGBTA youth ages 13-17. Each camp day include arts, games, educational workshops, and traditional camp activities.
Web Poets
Web Poets is THE place for queer youth to show off their talent with words. Any and all poets welcome, whether you do poetry slams or write classic epics. Here you can workshop your stuff with other young poets, get advice from published poets, and, most important, share and improve your work.
Performance Troupe
Dreams of Hope's Performance Troupe of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied youth (LGBTA), may be Pittsburgh’s most courageous performing arts group. Creating and performing new works of drama, song, dance, and poetry, all based on their lives, these courageous youth perform 18-20 outreach shows at non-traditional venues such as community centers, houses of worship, universities, high schools, corporate diversity lunches, and union halls, in addition to our Season Preview in January and a Season Finale in June.
Formed in 2003 to develop LGBTA youth leaders who educate audiences about issues they face, each performance includes a youth led discussion. Celebrating who they are through the arts these creative youth speak out about their personal experiences as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and straight youth today.
Check out an upcoming show, book the Performance Troupe at your event, meeting, or work space, get more information about being a performer, or see where we've performed over the years.
