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Honeybees are Important! written and directed by Sandra Hughes was performed by Gateway Performance Productions in Atlanta, Georgia on February 25th. The production was  presented  by Young Audiences at the Woodruff Arts Center.  Principal performer and master gardener  Jerilynn Bedingfield portrays an Italian Honey Bee. Italian honeybees are favorites of  beekeepers in the USA.  Honey Bee is in trouble! Comic characters from the Italian Commedia del' Arte Theatre - Michael Hickey as Arlequino and Sandra Hughes as Columbina - are determined to do everything they can to help Honey Bee stay healthy and able to pollinate to keep all the delicious, nutritious foods she makes possible in their diet... Photos: Bunny Vrooman ... and in their beloved chicken Sylvia's diet as well. Sylvia is portrayed by Fieldtrip- a particularly gentle chicken who lives at Oakhurst Community Garden in Decatur, Geor...

Some of you may have seen a performance of  my play for family audiences about the importance of honeybees at the Bug Out Festival at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta last August and September. A school version of Honeybees Are Important! will be performed Friday, February 25th at 11 a.m. – presented by Young Audiences at the Rich Auditorium at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Michael Hickey, Jerilynn Bedingfield and I (Sandra Hughes) utilize masks, music, drama, mime and dance to encourage students to experience, understand, participate and learn about the importance of honeybees to our food supply - as well as their important role as pollinators of  the food eaten by animals. In 2006 after working to help dying honeybees at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland (with support from the Ford Foundation and Alternate ROOTS) I returned to the U.S. and founded The Bee Project with support from Gateway Performance Productions. The ...