The MAD Society Ink, No.4
Why MAD Society Is For Everyone
After school programs? ------------------MAD can start right after a school day and follow the school calendar.
Nursing homes? --------------Residents are a captive audience for MAD meetings and a ministry opportunity.
Church groups? ---------------------------------------------------Creating a community with a shared creative goal.
Homeschool Co-ops? -------------MAD provides the arts which is a scary thing for many homeschool parents.
Friend Groups? ------------Gather a group of people you like, or the kids you want your children to bond with.
Ages 1-101! Play and skit roles call for all ages and types of people, skill sets, hopes & dreams. Everyone can be MAD.
As the activities director at a nursing home, my (Bethany’s) mom hosted a group called “The Rainbow Kids” that she started in 2005. The club spent time focusing on different eras of American history. My mom taught the songs of the era, created costumes and a program with scripted lines.
Practices and performances were all done within arms length of the nursing home residents. It was a beautiful process that can be done exactly the same way with MAD Society.
MAD FUN: Host a costume party each year…maybe include extra friends, neighbors or host it at a nursing home to visit with the residents? (no scary costumes please)
Retirees would make amazing MAD Coaches. How awesome would it be to host a MAD Society in a local nursing home for you, your grandchildren (or some kids you love) and the residents?
~Bethany Baldwin, Owner & Creator of all things MAD
P.S. “Break a leg” is theatrical slang representing a wish for “good luck” to an actor before their performance. It’s rumored that understudies would sit in the back row wishing for the lead actors to break a leg. Yikes! Maybe refrain from using this saying? Words have power :)
