This amazing video from the Playwrights Guild of Canada features educators, students and arts advocates speaking about the power of Canadian plays in the classroom. To find out more about what benefits you receive from the PGC with your CODE membership, visit CODE Benefits.
War Horse is a dramatic epic staged at the Outbreak of World War One that describes how a boy's cherished thoroughbred horse, Joey, has been sold, to the British calvary by his father who had fallen on hard times. Young Albert's horse was subsequently shipped to France; after a disastrous offensive, Joey was captured by the Germans and then his ownership changed hands twice more before he was finally entangled in a barbed wire fence. Private Albert Narracott, determined to locate Joey would soon find himself alone in no man's land and found that he would be serving firstly on one side and then later on the opposition.
War Horse was later transformed into a poignant cinematic experience by Director, Steven Spielberg, albeit with a varying impact upon the film's audiences. The National Theatre War Horse Teacher Training Residency program, compiled by the Blyth Education Academy in Thornhill is making its presence with a multi-venue GTA presentation from January 30 - February 3, 2012 and a major presentation in Toronto, February 10.
This year’s FOOT interrogates the complex relationships between Theatre and Learning in both theory and practice. The conference will comprise three broad areas of exploration: learning theatre, learning through theatre and theatre plus learning. Each stream will feature scholarly panels, performances, workshops and a roundtable discussion. With presenters joining us from six different countries, this year’s festival promises a unique international forum for researchers, artists, students, teachers and parents to meet and explore theatre in education, theatre for social change, theatre training and theatre for young audiences (TYA), among many others.
We are especially excited to announce our international keynote panel: from the UK, Professor Helen Nicholson (Royal Holloway University, author of the seminal work Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre); from Canada, Professor
A Code of Ethics for Theatre Workers - Developed in 1945 for the Circle Players Theater in Los Angeles. The code consists of seventeen common sense, stringent and binding rules to follow for actors and others engaged in the work of the theatre. While now almost 70 years old, literally everything stated remains vital, practiced and relevant. The following is excerpted from the forward to the code: “A part of the great tradition of the theatre is the code of ethics which belong to every worker in the theatre. This code is not a superstition, nor a dogma, nor a ritual which is enforced by tribunals; it is an attitude toward your vocation, your fellow workers, your audiences and yourself. It is a kind of self-discipline which does not rob you of your invaluable individualism. Those of you who have been in show business know the full connotation of these precepts. Those of you who are new to show business will soon learn. The Circle Players, since its founding in 1945, has always striven to stand for the finest in theatre, and it will continue to do so..."
Join us for an intensive workshop series in Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre. Some previous experience in forum theatre is required. -Build on your forum theatre play development skills -Build on your improvisation skills to prepare for spectactors -Learn some tricks behind being a joker -Continue Rehearsing for your personal Revolution
Affordable & fun extra-curricular dance, drama and yoga clubs available at your school for lunch time and after school fun! You supply the space and we'll take care of everything else. 6 week sessions include a final performance and certificate of achievement. New sessions begin this month! Contact Aria at info@travellingstage.com for more information.
Effective in 2012, all Travelling Stage bookings will include a FREE 30 minute TEACHER WORKSHOP (Dance 101), customized according to your needs in an effort to help you feel more confident about teaching dance curriculum once we're gone! Contact Information: www.travellingstage.com / (416) 317-8950
Enhance your students’ theatregoing experience with an hour-long pre or post-show workshop taught by a professional YPT Artist-Educator! Workshops available for: SeussicalTM, The Great Mountain, and Jack and the Giant Beanstalk. We also offer a variety of other workshops in schools that can be customized to your needs.
RED SNOW: Isabel’s recurring nightmare of her grandparents’ favorite Chinese opera drives her to search for their silenced story. On her journey she falls in love with Jason, a man who is connected to the same forgotten holocaust. When their lives collide they struggle to reconcile the past with the present - for themselves and their families, shaken from their lifelong silence by Isabel’s pilgrimage to uncover the secrets of her grandmother’s history ... and her own.
Would You Say the Name of this Play?*nggrfg Workshop
This season at YPT, we have been exploring the connection between power and change. Would You Say the Name of this Play?*nggrfg examines "The Power of Change" in telling the story of Buddy, a boy growing up both black and gay in Canada, and his experiences of marginalization and oppression.
Back by popular demand, Branch Out Theatre is offering an intensive workshop series in Augusto Boal's TheatreoftheOppressed. This training will include Image Theatre (Sept. 27th), Forum Theatre (Oct. 4th) and Rainbow of Desire techniques (Oct. 6th). These techniques are excellent tools for conflict resolution, initiating dialogue and motivating positive change, advocacy, community building, self-awareness and personal growth. No previous theatreexperience necessary. A suggested reading list will accompany the training. Sign up for the whole series or the workshop of your choice. Keep reading to find out how CODE members can obtain a discount.
