SALISBURY — Henderson Independent School students found a creative outlet through an Art & Soul Rowan partnership and were recognized at a film festival in Charlotte for their work.
The Mad Monster Film Festival concluded last month, and when the dust settled, a group of young filmmakers from the Salisbury-based school were recognized for the best script for their film, “The Horror of Trauma.”
“The tagline is, ‘What you don’t address can haunt you,’” said Shane Manier, a creative coach, visual artist and trauma-informed care instructor, among other positions, who is serving as a spoken word and art teaching instructor at Henderson.
“We work with the school all year long, and we run a poetry and art program where we work with the students, and it’s basically poetry and art mixed with personal development,” Manier said. “Through artistic expression, we explore identity, rewriting the narrative of your trauma, through critical thinking, anger management, conflict resolution and social-emotional learning … The arts are a vehicle for them to explore those things.”