Scott H. Flamm Center for Afterschool Development, All Stars Project of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

The center takes its inspiration from Newark’s rich history of transportation connecting the eastern seaboard to the South and Midwest. As a “station for development”, young people and adults arrive at the center to create new performances together, grow, develop, and then leave for new destinations such as Lincoln Center, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and the Newark Museum, where they continue their development journey. The center’s design incorporates elements of a transportation station - large clock, information booth, and ticket counters - that are pressed into service to provide development stages for new life performances.

A large, three-dimensional marquee sign, “A New Play for Newark,” rendered in industrial vernacular metal letters, brands the waiting room by capturing the role that performance plays in development, the role of play in building relationships, and that the center, as the All Stars Project’s national site for its developmental learning initiatives, is a demonstration play creating Newark where all of Newark is cast.