The Bridge Experience is a general education requirement that encourages Skidmore students to understand how power and justice have shaped the experiences of people with a variety of identities in the United States and how these people have responded to the reality of inequality in their lives. 
 
The Bridge Experience includes two components.  

• The first, a Content/Theory/Reflection component, explores how unequal distributions of power affect different individuals, groups, and communities in contemporary America.  

• The second, a Practice/Application component, asks students to reflect upon their own positions in their respective communities and on campus and connect their study of power, justice, and identity to other areas of their education and to the world beyond the classroom. This second component is specifically designed to be outward facing and engage students with realities that exist beyond the classroom. 

 
Theater is inherently outward facing; its very nature demands engagement with the public. Thus, the Bridge Experience affords theater students the opportunity to deepen their already outwardly facing work by specifically interrogating how the plays that the JKB Theater presents on our Main Stage and Black Box can engage internal and external communities in an investigation of power, justice, and identity on our campus, in our town, within our region, and nationwide. In fall of 2024, the process revolved around the mainstage production of Inda Craig-Galván’s BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA, directed by Skidmore professor Eunice S. Ferreira.