Drama Works Textbook

Drama Works

Authors: Kirsty Cunningham Irvine, Joe Tirone, Cameron Ferguson, Carolee Mason

ISBN: 978-1-55239-519-6

 

Drama Works is your one-stop sourcebook for texts, theory, and activities. This colourful and visually engaging student resource offers current, accessible, and performance-ready approaches to the study of high school dramatic arts and encourages students to connect theoretical knowledge, play, and text excerpts with the tools needed to devise, adapt, and stage their own original works. Each chapter follows a three-part structure—Minds On, Action, and Consolidation—that mirrors the natural continuum of student skill development and allows for use in multiple grade levels.

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Fine Arts Summer Intensive

The Fine Arts Summer Intensive is a series of boot camps, intensives, and workshops geared for your artistic development!

High School students can have a university-level fine arts experience and receive a certificate of completion they can include in portfolios or audition packages.

FASI also has an educator series aimed at helping teachers discover new tools for fine arts education program delivery - specifically in Shakespeare, Dance, and Digital Media Education.

Visit www.yorku.ca/fasi for more details.

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DramaWay's Annual Youth and Adult's with Special Needs Multi-Arts Showcase 2013

The artistic talents of youth and adults with special needs will be showcased in DramaWay's annual open class showcase on May 30 and June 15, 2013. This year, DramaWay's actors present, Snow White’s Ever After, an original full-length dramatic production, which will also include a variety of vocal and dance performances. The play is not only a fun sequel to the much-loved fairy-tale, but, in a contemporary spin, addresses current environmental and labor concerns.

 As a celebration of the exceptional artistic achievements of Toronto's special needs community, DramaWay's annual performances also raise much needed funds necessary to ensure its ability to continue to offer creative arts programs.

Drama and Dance lesson now available on edugains!

Tags: Dance, Drama

Grade 9 Drama and Dance resources are now up on the edugains website. To access the resources, click here.

Shakespeare in Action does a feature on CODE!

Read this feature on the shakespeare in action website:

Theatre Ontario's Summer Theatre Intensive

Theatre Ontario's annual Summer Theatre Intensive (August 11-17) is gaining momentum!
 
The Intensive will be taking place in Waterloo at Wilfrid Laurier University.  Accomodation, meals, a trip to Stratford and the choice of a course for the week is rolled into one price.

Read on to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!

Prologue Spring Showcase 2013

 

Prologue for the Performing Arts is hosting its annual preview Spring Showcase on May 28th, 2013 at Young People's Theatre. For more information check the invitation here: 

http://prologueshowcase.eventbrite.ca/

Chicago Public Schools Work to Make the Arts a Core Subject!

Tags: Dance, Drama

Chicago Public Schools are working to increase dedicated arts instruction times and the number of certified arts instructors in their schools.

The full Arts Education Plan can be accessed here:

http://www.cpsartsplan2012.com/

News coverage of the plan can be viewed here:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/cityhall/15768307-418/arts-education-to-get...

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-15/entertainment/chi-culture-...

CODE in the News!

CODE's recent press release on the value of drama teachers has been heard!  Journalists in Ottawa have had an exciting dialogue on Twitter for the past few days on the value of drama teachers as it related to the Trudeau ads. Thank you to all of you who shared the press release on Twitter and Facebook. We know our members care deeply about the integrity and importance of our profession and the value of drama in education.

President, Brooke Charlebois has been contacted by a number of journalists regarding our press release and, yesterday the Ottawa Citizen published a piece about how insulted teachers were with the tone of the Conservative Party attack ads.  Brooke spoke about the importance of drama and gender stereotypes.  
Click here to read the article:

 

Activity of the Week - April 8-12

Member's Only Access

This week's activity is a simple warm-up that works brilliantly in an elementary or secondary school classroom.  It is especially good as a team building exercise, encouraging the students to figure out a way to communicate together.

ACTIVITY: Flip it!

TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Warm-up; team building; communication

PROPS: A blanket or bedsheet