Arts Day
November 15, 2024 – Friday event for High School Students
Area high school students are invited to join us for a day filled with creativity, inspiration, and education. Attendees will engage in various workshops designed to ignite their artistic passions. These workshops will cater to a wide range of interests, including theatre, vocal music, communications, visual art, and writing.
Agenda:
Before registering for this event, please view the available workshops and their corresponding sessions below.
Workshops
Description: Please join our sociology professor as we chat about calling in vs calling out over a hot cup of coffee. This conversation will be an introduction to the important conversations that are paramount in a college sociology course. We will dive into the different strategies society uses to communicate opposing views on emotionally charged issues such as politics, racism, women's rights and the LGBTQ+ community. It is important that as a society we are equipped with effective ways to communicate our lived experience, our viewpoints and our values. The first step in doing this is learning how to listen for understanding and suspending judgment.
Presenter: Malinda McGowan
Description: Come learn and discuss the best way to present your technical theatre work for poster presentations. Many students will use portfolios or poster presentations at theatre conferences, competitions, or for scholarships. What is the best way to showcase your body of work? Come learn some tips and tricks to prepare for a great presentation or interview. Feel free to bring photos/samples of your work.
Presenter: Sarah Owen
Description: Come learn basic print making through potato prints. We will look at reductive illustration and reproduction in art and then create our own by carving designs into potatoes and printing patterns and designs.
Presenter: Luke Blevins
Description:This workshop will show students how much of our communication is done non-verbally, while also providing them a fun and competitive environment to practice those non-verbal skills.
Presenter: Jesse Comeau
Description: We will cover the basics of how to read, comprehend, act, and love Shakespeare.
Presenter: Paul Molnar
Description: Almost everyone can get something out of a creative writing workshop, but composing a totally original story can feel intimidating. In this nonfiction workshop, we'll use experiences from our real lives to create complete "micro-nonfiction" stories of under 500 words. .
Presenter: Rafal Redlinski
Description: Actors are often asked to audition with a monologue, sometimes two. In this workshop we will break down audition etiquette, how to introduce yourself (aka, slating), and then work on how to give a good monologue performance. If you wish to be a volunteer and work on a monologue during the workshop, please come with a 90 second monologue prepared and memorized.
Presenter: Ashley Hovell
Description: Learn how to conduct any band or choir with Professor Halberg. We will cover all aspects of music making and hand waving, with a live pianist for you to conduct! This session is intended for anyone, regardless of musical background or experience.
Presenter: Brandon Halberg
Description: In this collaborative workshop, students will examine selected poems from a range of authors and perspectives before engaging in a generative activity to write poems examining the universal and the unique in specific places and locations. Students will have the opportunity to share their work at the end of the session.
Presenter: Heather Mydosh
Description: QLab is the industry-standard sound playback software for theatre. Join us as we demonstrate the creation of a sound design from start to finish. Bring your own Mac laptop and follow along with the free Qlab4 software (link below) or come and enjoy the experience to take back to your schools.
https://qlab.app/download/ - Please download Qlab 4.7
Presenter: Joel Williams
Description: In theatre, there are specialized individuals, dramaturgs, who assist in the development of the play from writing to production. They explore both the text itself and how the text engages with the world in which we live. Learn the basics of research and how it helps playwrights, directors, designers, and performers understand the script and relate it to the audience.
Presenter: Sarah Owen
Description: This workshop, hosted by an experienced D&D Game Master and player, will explore tools and strategies for character creation in fantasy settings. While we will discuss character creation from the perspective of D&D, these skills are applicable to any tabletop RPG or even fantasy writing. Topics to include: personality, backstory, known NPCs, and incorporation of game mechanics.
Presenter: Anita Chappuie
Description: Come learn basic print making through potato prints. We will look at reductive illustration and reproduction in art and then create our own by carving designs into potatoes and printing patterns and designs.
Presenter: Luke Blevins
Description:This workshop will show students how much of our communication is done non-verbally, while also providing them a fun and competitive environment to practice those non-verbal skills.
Presenter: Jesse Comeau
Description: This will be an introduction to stage combat. Basic falls, punches, kicks, and physical story telling.
Presenter: Paul Molnar
Description: Almost everyone can get something out of a creative writing workshop, but composing a totally original story can feel intimidating. In this nonfiction workshop, we'll use experiences from our real lives to create complete "micro-nonfiction" stories of under 500 words. .
Presenter: Rafal Redlinski
Description: Acting is hard. Singing is hard. Let’s work through how to best put them together and what gives you the most power on stage. We will talk about connecting to your audience, how to use your gestures, and where to plant your feet to “Sing Out Louise”. Those wishing to participate in the workshop should come with 32 bars of a musical theatre song prepared and memorized.
Presenter: Ashley Hovell
Description: As conflicts between states increased during the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy tried to use the Osage to achieve their own aims. Initially divided over how their people should respond in the face of escalating struggles, the Osage eventually emerged as important allies of the Union forces, thwarting an 1863 Confederate expedition tasked with reviving Southern resistance in Colorado and New Mexico territories. This presentation explores the Osage contributions to the Union cause in Kansas during the Civil War.
Presenter: Dr. Isaias McCaffery
Description: Try your hand at arts-related trivia games! See if you can recognize famous paintings and sculptures in visual art bingo. Buzz in to help your team triumph at music and theater questions in a mini–Quiz Bowl tournament. We may even have enough time to find out who is the champion of pop culture!!!
Presenter: Sally Kittrell
Description: Qlab is the industry-standard sound playback software for theatre. But, it also does video projection! Join us as we demonstrate the creation of a projection design from start to finish. Bring your own Mac laptop and follow along with the free Qlab4 software (link below) or come and enjoy the experience to take back to your schools.
https://qlab.app/download/ - Please download Qlab 4.7
Presenter: Joel Williams
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