Oh, the places we did go! - Tour Recap
This summer, 20 Speak About It educators hit the road for our annual college orientation tour. Adventures were had, memories were made, and thousands of college students nationwide (and in Canada!) saw our show and deepened their understanding of consent.

This was a landmark year for Speak About It’s annual orientation tour. We reached 39 colleges and universities, including a number of schools we visited for the first time and a number we’ve returned to for the seventh year in a row! In just under a month, we reached over 38,000 students with our programs. That’s 38,000 more people who know that yes means yes, that consent is necessary and sexy, and that they can take a role in their own community’s response to sexual assault.
In the Boston area alone, we were a part of orientation programs for twelve universities. That means if you go to a college party somewhere in Boston, more likely than not a student you meet will have seen Speak About It. That means its more likely there will be students at that party familiar with consent and bystander intervention. Sounds like a great party, doesn’t it?
Each of our four casts: Diamonds, Hearts, Spades, and Clubs, performed an average of 17 shows during their time together. On some days, we had four different performances at four different locations across the country. It’s pretty cool to think that college students thousands of miles apart now share a mutual language about consent and healthy sexuality.
Every school, every city, and every day brought new stories and memories. Casts spent hours in mini-vans crossing multiple state lines. One team discovered an underground restaurant in Memphis, with food so good it could cure motion sickness. Two casts engaged in an epic truth or dare game. In Illinois, one cast toured the Bean and Abe Lincoln’s birth place all in one day.
Touring as an educator with Speak About It is a great opportunity to travel the country and engage with people in communities different than one's own. But being on tour is hard: there are long journeys and late nights, there are emotional and difficult conversations with students, and days where doing the show is harder than others. Touring stretches our educators to be better collaborators and communicators and to learn how to take care of themselves and the people around them.




We hear it all the time from our educators: Knowing you have an impact every day on someone’s life can get you going for the early mornings, or help push you through a three-show day. Like any great challenge, when directed by an important mission, the work is deeply meaningful and worthwhile.
Scroll through and read some of our team's best tour stories and reflections below.

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