Polk County's Literacy Resource Directory 2nd Edition | Page 13
863-965-5475
EAST AREA
ADULT SCHOOL
[email protected]
www.eastareaadult.com
Hours of Operation:
Contact: Beverly Putnam
Address: 300 E Bridgers Ave
Auburndale, FL 33823
8:00 am - 4:00 pm | Mondays and Fridays
8:00 am - 9:00 pm | Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
About: The East Area Adult School offers Adult Basic Education Courses
to prepare students to take the GED.
Contact: Jennifer Marshall
863-535-5635 | [email protected]
www.edgetheatreco.org
THE EDGE THEATRE
COMPANY
Hours of Operation: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm | Monday Friday
About: The Edge Theatre Company is a new semi-professional theatre company headquartered in Bartow, FL, committed to
storytelling and the art of theatre. We produce adult and youth theatre plays and musicals, workshops and camps, and radio
stage plays in Polk, Hillsborough, and Pinellas Counties. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
- Summer Camps are fee-based but scholarships are available
- It is free to audition
Did You Know!
1 in 4 children in America grow up without
learning how to read.
https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-
facts-about-literacy-america
EXPLORATIONS V CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
Contact: Kerry Falwell
Address: 109 North Kentucky Avenue
Lakeland, FL 33801-5044
863-687-3869
[email protected]
www.explorationsv.com
Hours of Operation:
9:00 AM – 5:30 PM | Monday - Saturday
About: Explorations V Children's Museum provides a variety of literacy
programs open to the general public as part of our day-to-day work or in
workshops and sign-up based interventions:
- Daily storytime for Pre-K children as part of daily admission and
memberships.
- An annual Storybook Explorers summer camp for students entering or
having just completed kindergarten who qualify for free or reduced lunch
- A tutoring program for K - 12th-grade that includes SAT and test prep.
- 2nd annual dedication of the month of January as Literacy Month where
families will make their reading resolutions and the education staff
publishes a 52-week reading list.