Out of Hand’s Four Program Areas
Out of Hand has four programming areas: Shows in Homes, Educational Programming, and Community Collaborations, including Equitable Dinners and Equitable Dinners at Work. Whether we’re performing in a living room, launching discussions about race and equity with art, or making plays with and for students facing the largest opportunity gaps in our community, we’re doing it because we believe in the power of story to bring us together, to change lives, and create stronger, healthier communities.
Shows in homes
Each Season, Out of Hand produces Shows in Homes - one-act plays on community issues produced in living rooms across Metro Atlanta, and paired with cocktail parties and conversations on the issue with our partners. 2024’s Class Dismissed tackled classroom censorship in partnership with the ACLU of Georgia; 2025's How to Make a Home confronted homelessness and challenges in finding secure housing in collaboration with Partners for Home and Mayor Andre Dickens; and our 2026 show, Prisontown, will shed light on the impact of immigrant detention centers in partnership with El Refugio.
EQUITABLE DINNERS
Equitable Dinners brings together strangers and friends from diverse backgrounds to talk about community issues over a meal, fueled by theater. Equitable Dinners is a partnership between Out of Hand and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Mayor's Office, The King Center, Fulton County Remembrance Coalition, Partnership for Southern Equity, and Atlanta Public Schools, among others.
Equitable Dinners includes four initiatives:
We Hold These Truths
Thriving Together Atlanta
Equitable Dinners @ Work
Equitable Dinners Atlanta
Community Collaborations
Out of Hand partners with organizations across Atlanta to create theater-based projects that spark dialogue and advance community goals. From affordable housing and HIV stigma to climate change, voter turnout, and vaccine confidence, our collaborations bring art to the frontlines of urgent issues, working with partners like the CDC Foundation, Families First, The Home Depot Foundation, and local civic leaders.
We’d love to work with you to advance your goals! Together, we can harness the power of art to spark change and bring your mission to life.
education
Out of Hand’s education programs include the Community Impact Lab and Creative Kids.
The Community Impact Lab is a 6-month accelerator in arts-based community engagement. Through online modules, participants build skills to develop and implement community collaborations on social issues - and grow in appreciative inquiry, cultural competency, racial equity, and more.
Creative Kids is a free arts education program that provides in-school and after-school classes in Atlanta’s most under-resourced schools. In the 2024/2025 school year, Creative Kids served over 440 students at 7 schools with 532 classes, free to students and schools.