Brooks Students to Hear Hopeful Message from Performing Arts Troupe

The acronym is "MWAH."

What does it stand for?

Messages Which Are Hopeful and the MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe will be putting on a 90-minute current issues oriented assembly Monday (Nov. 4) at Bolingbrook's Brooks Middle School.

The assembly begins at 8:40 a.m. in the school's auditorium and the MWAH troupe will speak to eighth-graders on subjects ranging from awareness to choices.

In addition to highlighting a recent influx of narcotics in the western suburbs, resulting in tragic consequences for area teenagers, the troupe will focus on several recent cyber-bullying related youth suicides, including a 12-year-old girl from Florida, and contrast those stories with recent success stories at Brooks Middle School,  according to a news release issued to announce the event.

The essence of the 12-member MWAH! ensemble is real life drama combined with contemporary music and lots of audience interaction, said director Ray Moffitt.

He said a key objective on Monday will be to cause Brooks eighth-graders to think about some real life and death issues presented by peers and then relate them to their own lives. The troupe's appearance was arranged by Loretta Furtute, assistant principal, Danielle McDermott, eighth-grade counselor, and Cheryl Jordan, administrative assistant of the Bolingbrook office of the DuPage County Area Project.

For more information about the MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe, visit www.mwah.net.