Sand Lake Center for the Arts - Circle Theatre Players

If you would like to register for one or more of our workshops, please print the registration form and return it with your check made payable to SLCA-CTP to PO Box 179, Averill Park, NY 12018. We must receive your registration form and full payment two weeks prior to workshops beginning. Register early as spaces are limited and class may be canceled if registrations are low. In this event you may transfer to another workshop if space permits or request that your money be refunded. A full refund will be available if you withdraw at least two weeks prior to the start of your workshop. No refund will be available if you withdraw after this time. SLCA and Kiwanis Scholarships are available You can print the scholarship application and mail it with your registration to PO Box 179, Averill Park, NY 12018 or you can email the completed application to info@slca-ctp.org. Age ranges are meant as general guidelines. Please call the Center at 674-2007 if you have any questions or want more information about these workshops.
Youth Theatre Players (July 5-August 1)
Youth Theatre Players present the play . . . "William's Window" by Marina Stockdale July 5 - August 1 Ages 9-12 Tuition: $55/month Rehearsal 3 time a week Performance Dates: July 31 at 7pm & August 1 at 2pm
This class is for students interested in acting and being involved with a full theater production. Rehearsals with be three times a week. Schedule to be announced after discussion with students and parents. Sue Frost and Val Kavanaugh will teach acting skills, direct and produce the show. They're looking forward to working with enthusiastic young actors on this project. The first 20 students to sign up will be accepted. All will have a role in the show and a chance to explore building sets and costumes and the opportunity to explore theater individually and work as a group to present a show for the public.
Week 1 (July 5-9)
MAKE YOUR OWN THEATER with Val Kavanaugh Monday-Friday, 9am - 12pm Ages 10-13 Tuition: $55/Week
Does your child enjoy playing games, using their imagination, and creating skits or art? If they do, and are between the ages of 10-13, they will enjoy the Sand Lake Center for the Arts week long theater camp. During the camp there will be opportunities to learn some basic acting techniques and also how to create and produce their own play. There will be time to experiment with improvisation and theater games. At the end of the week they will be able to participate in their own production - their own play. Val Kavanaugh taught 11th and 12th grade English for many years, including teaching a theater elective. She also directed the drama club at Berlin Central School for seven years. Currently she teaches theater and American Literature at Hudson Valley Community College. She has also co-directed a number of Circle Theatre Players Kids for Kids Productions. She received her BA from SUNY Albany, MA from St. Rose, additional grad credits from SUNY Albany, took a number of "arts" courses during my teaching career, and attended a week long workshop with Shakespeare and Company at Lenox.
BUILDING BLOCKS OF MUSIC with Hilary Cumming Monday-Friday, 1 - 2:30pm Ages 4-8 Tuition: $55/Week
A foundations of music class for beginners. We will explore how rhythm, melody and timbre form the basic building blocks of music using classical composers such as Schumann, Bartok, Beethoven, Mozart, Satie, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. We will listen to music and make some of our own as well. Using the new ideas and vocabulary we have developed in class, students will respond to twelve short classical pieces over course of the week with movement and a daily paper craft. Participants will receive a CD of all the pieces studied to take home and keep. With a deeper understanding of the building blocks of music students can begin to recognize the patterns and structures that form good music. The course will use the book "From Bangkok to Bangor", a children's book that introduces classical pieces to kids through a story about two children traveling west through Europe, hearing and interacting with musical characters along the way, and ending up in America. The students' daily craft will mirror the travels of the children in "From Bangkok to Bangor", and they will bind their own illustrated version of the book on the last day of class.
Week 2 (July 12-16)
ARTSMART with Pat Smart Monday-Friday, 9 - 11am Ages 6-12 Tuition: $55/Week
Pat will lead a program of three simultaneous creative arts activities - Batik with a cold resist, sunprints, and mosaic art. In Batik, fabric is waxed and dyed in successive layers. This is a new year with new artistic activities. Pat has been a resident of West Sand Lake and Averill Park for the past thirty years. She taught in the Averill Park school district for twenty years before retiring early to pursue an Art career. She began her art education at local colleges; studying drawing, painting, printmaking, art history, papermaking, and ceramics. She continues her studies through workshops in monoprinting, batik (which she began in the 70's), drawing, and watercolor. She has been teaching ArtSmart through the Poestenkill PTO since 1998.
CREATIVE CLAY with Jami Gras Monday-Friday, 1 - 3pm Ages 6-12 Tuition: $55/Week
Kids will be encouraged to experiment and use their imagination to have fun with a variety of activities which include: Pinch Pots, Masks, Carving, and Hand Building. Students work will be fired in a kiln and needs to be picked up at the SLCA one week after the last class. Jami Gras is a well-known local artist with many years experience in creating sculptural art. Jami works at his home studio and does contemporary, clay sculptures and shows his work at galleries throughout the region.
FILMMAKING (July 19-30)
FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN with Jim Powers Monday-Friday, 9am - 12pm Ages 13-18 Tuition: $110/2 Weeks
Experience filmmaking starting with the basics and ending with a finished film. Bring home a copy of the DVD you helped create Jim Powers, a student at St. Lawerence University won Best Student Feature for the film "Killing Saul" a comedy. He has directed and produced a civil war film called "Reaping Men" which will be premiering this spring, along with a 1950s college comedy called "Baker's Dozen"
Week 3 (July 19-23)
HIP HOP AND ZUMBA with Diane Nardacci Monday-Friday, 1 - 3pm Ages 10-13 Tuition: $55/Week
Diane will begin class with a warm up and stretch to get the students ready for movement. The class will help students develop skills involving student-friendly hip hop and Zumba movements as well as some jazz techniques. Diane will work with students on creating a dance for performance. Diane is a certified dance instructor with over 20 years of dance experience. She is a certified fitness instructor and certified zumba instructor. Among other things, she teaches zumba, step, hi-lo, body sculpting, most recently at the East Greenbush YMCA.
Week 4 (July 26-30)
CREATIVE MOVEMENT with Jackie Abbott Monday-Friday, 1 - 2:30pm This class is for children ages 4-8 who are interested in creative movement. Tuition: $55/Week
This class is an enjoyable way for young children to develop physical skills, channel their energy, stimulate their imagination and promote creativity. Jackie will choose a "theme of the day" and the children will be given opportunities to explore and discover different aspects of movement based on this theme. She will also provide a theme-based story and related craft project. Jackie Abbott is the artistic director of The School of Creative Arts at Sand Lake Center for the Arts. She teaches ballet and creative movement throughout the area at local schools, dance studios, libraries, and museums. Jackie Abbott has degrees in Elementary Education, Special Education and The Creative Arts with a concentration in dance. She teaches dance and the creative arts at local schools, dance studios, museums, and libraries. She is the artistic director of The School of Creative Arts at The Sand Lake Center for the Arts in Averill Park, NY.
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