WORKSHOPS INDEX
Penticton
Chamber Theatre
is organizing a
Set Design
Workshop
to be given by Eugene Leveque.
The workshop is Eugene's
Introduction to Set Design
Saturday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 12
noon
at Leir House, Manor Park Rd in
Penticton.
The cost will be $20
(preferably paid in advance).
To
register, please phone Alanna
Matthew at 250-493-8202 or email:
bridgid@telus.net
Intermediate/Advanced
On Camera
Acting (Nanaimo)
push
yourself farther than you thought
you could go!
Ages 14 and up
4 sessions
Scene Study
Audition Technique
When:
Tuesday March 23rd to Tuesday
April 12
6-9pm
Cost: $210.00
including GST
earlybird rate:
$189.00
if booked by March 15th
SOUNDSWRITE
INTRODUCTION TO VOICEOVER WORKSHOP
MARCH 20TH AND 21ST
SOUNDSWRITE
voices and casts
for Translink, Remax, Simmons
and
more.
Come and join us for
an intense two-day workshop.
Everything you need to know about
the business,
and plenty of time
to practice in our studio.
Special rates for
Theatre BC, and
Theatre club members.
And,
make time for our Cartoon Workshop
March 27th.
Call us at
604-985-5532
or click here for more
information.
Director-Driven Creation with
Christian Barry (Belfry
Theatre, Victoria)
Friday,
March 19 / 1 – 5 pmAn
introduction to the working methods
of 2b theatre company’s artistic
co-director Christian Barry.
Participants will explore methods of
generating material and discuss 2b’s
particular principles for
director-driven creation. 2b
theatre will be bringing The Russian
Play to the SPARK Festival.
Fee $20 (*Half Price with proof of
purchase to Preview or Opening of
The Russian Play). To register
call 250-385-6815
Voice Over,
Animation & Commercial Workshop
March 14th, 2010 in
Vancouver
Western Canada
Theatre's (Kamloops)
Stage One Theatre School!
Spring
Break: March 8 to 12, 2010
Community
Music Room (Next to Sagebrush Theatre)
Ages 8
to 14
Instructor: Sheanna Beau James
Assistant Instructor: Jennifer Jones
Register BEFORE February
26 for early bird savings!!!
Download
a Registration Form
HERE
The Henry Vandenberghe
Memorial Fund is available to students in
financial need with a strong interest in the arts.
Download an Application Form
HERE
MARCH
2010 VOICE-OVER WORKSHOPS:
"ANIMATION & RADIO COMMERCIAL VOICE-OVER
WORKSHOP", plus "MASTERING THE ART OF
NARRATION: INTRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE AND
PROFILE":
Our flagship voice-over
workshop, the "Animation & Radio
Commercial Voice-Over Workshop" is now
scheduled for Saturday March 20th, 2010
and our Narration workshop, "Mastering
the Art of Narration: Introduction,
Performance & Profile" is scheduled for
the evenings of Tuesday March 23rd, 2010
and Thursday March 25th, 2010.
Information on our Private Training
schedule is also included. Workshops are
held monthly; private one-on-one
training, by the hour.
Cathy
Weseluck Voice Productions
604.687.4033
chattbox@telus.net
www.cathyweseluck.com
Arts Communities Online: Engaging patrons, donors
and the public through social media
with Angela Crocker
Wednesday April 7, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00
p.m.
at the
Alliance for Arts and Culture conference room,
#100 – 938 Howe St., Vancouver
The Vancouver arts community has embraced social
media over the last year. Many Facebook fan pages
have popped up and lots of tweets and blogs are
being posted each day. Is your company ready to
take this effort to the next level? Are you
connecting with your tweeps in a meaningful way?
Has your blog mojo dried up? Do you want to more
fully engage patrons, donors and potential
audience members? If so, this workshop is the
perfect next step.
A follow up to the GVPTA’s very
successful Social Media Workshop series in 2009,
this day-long workshop, led by
Angela Crocker
of Beachcomber Communications, will focus on
creating a social media plan participants can
implement right away. This plan will include a
blog editorial calendar, concrete methods for
creating content, suggestions for sparking
dialogue and opportunities for community
participation. We'll also explore pacing those
efforts and three ways to analyze the
interactions. Participants will talk in broad
terms about common social media tools for building
communities, blogging, bookmarking, information
sharing, news sources and photo & video feeds and
how to use these tools.
This course assumes participants
have a working knowledge of common social media
tools such as Facebook, Twitter, blogging tools,
YouTUBE and Flickr and are comfortable with social
media terminology such as tweet & hashtag.
Only a minimal amount of time will be spent on the
technical how-tos. This course is about generating
content and engagement strategies. Participants
are encouraged to bring their laptops to
participate fully in the class and to prepare
plans to put into action immediately. The venue's
wifi will be available to participants.
Workshop Leader Angela Crocker's
personal and professional passion for the arts
translates into her workshops and writing. She
brings twenty years of marketing and fundraising
experience in the Vancouver arts community
together for a unique bridge of experience between
customer relations and donor relations. Today, she
works on a wide variety of projects including
writers, theatre companies, publishing houses and
small businesses and is writing a book about
social networks for a major international
publisher.
REGISTRATION FEE:
$100 plus GST for Members of GVPTA = $105
$125 plus GST for non-members = $131.25
TO REGISTER:
See the GVPTA
website for a Registration Form and
return by Friday Feb. 26 to
info@gvpta.ca or by mail to 1405 Anderson St.,
3rd Floor, Vancouver BC, V6H 3R5
On Camera-
Adult Beginners (Nanaimo)
Ages 18 and
up
With Adrian Hough
(The Fog,
Falcon Beach, X-Men 3,
Jennifer's
Body, Human Target)
6 sessions
covers the basics of
acting for the
camera
commercial auditioning
scene study
cold reading
and more!
When:
Monday Feb 1st to Monday
March 8th
6-9pm
Cost:$262.50
including GST
email
info@spotlightacademy.com
phone: 250
755 8975
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Creating Great
Characters and Dialogue
for Film and Television
with Pilar Alessandra!
On Saturday, April
17th,
Los Angeles-based
screenwriting
instructor and
script consultant
Pilar
Alessandra
will teach writing
tools and techniques
to help
screenwriters and
television writers
create strong
characters,
heightened emotional
moments, memorable
lines of dialogue,
and engaging screen
patter.
Topics that day will
include:
-
Building a Story
From Character
Flaw
-
Creating
Multi-dimensional
Characters
-
Inventing a
Language and
Voice for your
Character
-
Building
Relationships
Through Dynamic
Dialogue
-
Crafting and
Editing Your
Dialogue
-
Managing
Exposition and
Monologue
About the
Instructor
Pilar
Alessandra
is the director
of the Los
Angeles writing
program
"On the Page".
She's worked as
Senior Story
Analyst for
DreamWorks
and
Radar Pictures
and has trained
writers at
ABC/Disney,
MTV/Nickelodeon,
the
National Screen
Institute,
the Los
Angeles Film
School,
the UCLA
Writers Program
and more. Her
students and
clients have
sold to
Disney,
DreamWorks,
Warner
Brothers
and Sony
and have won
prestigious
competitions
such as the
Austin
Film Festival
Screenplay
Competition
and the
Nicholl
Fellowship.
Her weekly
podcast
On the Page
is regularly in
the
iTunes
top 50 of film
and TV podcasts
and her book
The
Coffee
Break
Screenwriter
will be
published by
Michael
Wiese
Publications
and released
fall of 2010.
Class
Details
Date:
Saturday April 17th,
2010
Time:
9:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. -
There will be a 1 hour
lunch break
Location:
Shape - 1385 West 8th
Avenue, Suite 280
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Vancouver Youth Theatre Winter Acting
Program
In spite of the recent cuts to BC Arts
funding, VYT is soldiering on and
offering acting programs starting in
late January.
Registration has
begun, so get your young actor signed up
soon!
NOTE: The format of our advanced program
Kids' Writes has changed. We will only
rehearse one day a week and will not be
holding a full school tour. As well, we
are unable to offer a Teen touring
production this season.
Our current brochure can be viewed
here (picture of brochure) or by
visiting our website at
www.vyt.ca.
Friday,
March 5th
- Pre-PitchMarket Workshop: Turning Your
Screenplay into a TV Pilot with Ellen
Sandler
Emmy nominated
writer/producer, Ellen Sandler, shares her
practical tools for transforming your
ideas into a great original pilot and
provides you with a template for a TV
series proposal. Only a few years ago it
was considered crazy to write your own
pilot. Now it's the preferred writing
sample in Hollywood.
This industry
trend opens the door to exciting
possibilities for writers who want to make
the big TV bucks, but what's the secret to
creating a great series pilot? Whether
you're in the earliest stages of
development, thinking of turning a
screenplay into a series pilot, or have
already written your pilot script, this
workshop will help you nail it.
About the Instructor: Ellen Sandler
was a Co-Executive Producer of the CBS hit
series, Everybody Loves Raymond, and has
created original pilots for ABC, CBS, NBC,
Fox Family, Oxygen Network, and the Disney
Channel. Internationally she has consulted
on pilots for CBC, Canada; ABC, Australia;
MediaCorp, Singapore; as well as
supervised development with producers in
Melbourne, Tokyo, UAE, Dubai, and Germany.
Class Details Date: Friday,
March 5, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West
Georgia Street Cost: $195
Click here to register for your spot in
the class!
Friday, March
5th
- Pre-PitchMarket
Workshop: Inside Story, the
Transformational Arc of Character with
Dara Marks
Dara Marks returns
with Inside Story, the Transformational
Arc of Character, a comprehensive seminar
that will take you into the depths of the
writing process and teach you how to build
a great screenplay from the inside out.
Inside Story
enhances a writer's abilities regardless
of his or her level of experience:
- Beginning writers
will gain fundamental insights into
the basic elements of story.
-
Advanced writers will refresh their
understanding with a more insightful
and meaningful approach to writing.
All will gain
essential tools for building powerful,
meaningful, and marketable screenplays.
About the Instructor: Dara
Marks, Ph.D., is a writer and leading
international script consultant who has
devoted the last twenty years to the
development of a groundbreaking approach
to the theory of the transformational arc
and screenplay structure. Her unique
method of story analysis has earned her
top ratings by Creative Screenwriting
Magazine as the best consultant in the
business. She has worked with most major
Hollywood studios and many independent
filmmakers. Class Details
Date:
Friday, March 5th,
2010 Time:
2:00 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Location:
Four Seasons Hotel, 791 West Georgia
Street
Cost: $195
Click here to register for your spot in
the class!
Are you interested in attending
both classes?
Full Day of Workshops with Dara
Marks and Ellen Sandler
Cost: $365
PitchMarket 2010
Highlights
Saturday, March
6th
Forum at the Vancouver Fairmont Hotel -
900 West Georgia Street
-
Pitching workshops and coaching for
newcomers
-
Career accelerator workshops for
industry advancement
- A
referral-based master series for the
more experienced writer / producer
-
Digital Directions series for those
interested in media for multiple
platforms
Sunday, March
7th
PitchMarket at the Vancouver Fairmont
Hotel - 900 West Georgia Street
- Face-to-face pitch meetings with
agents, managers, and producers
currently looking for new material and
fresh voices for Film, TV, and Web.
-
An
application-based TV Series Panel
Pitch (held at the Four Seasons),
where a handful of talented applicants
will have the opportunity for extended
pitching sessions to an entire panel
of decision makers, while other
participants watch and learn .
- The
PitchMarket Cafe where you can chat
with story editors and check out
industry services between pitching
appointments
Passes for
PitchMarket 2010 are available to buy from Biz
Books.
PitchMarket Pass -
Saturday Forum Only - Cost: $100
OKANAGAN COLLEGE - ONLINE INTRODUCTION
TO NON PROFIT MANAGEMENT
Okanagan College is now accepting
applications for their online offering of the course
"Introduction to Non Profit Management". Through
funding provided by the BC Center for Nonprofit
Development, free funded seats are available to those
non-profits who qualify -participants are only
required to purchase the course text. This online
course offering is ideal for Executive Directors,
Boards, Staff and Volunteers of Non Profits. It's
designed to
accommodate those who wish to further
their understanding of the Non Profit sector, but
do not have the ability to take a regularly scheduled
class. Introduction to Non Profit Management covers
many of the topical issues facing Non Profits today.
Challenges relating to funding, financial management,
marketing, public relations, leadership, Human
Resource Management and Volunteer recruitment and
retention are just a few of the topics covered by this
course.
Applicants should be prepared for
working in an online environment. They should feel
comfortable accessing course materials from an online
classroom, posting weekly to discussion boards, and
uploading assignments. While students will be guided
through each of these steps, it is suggested that
participants recognize this aspect of the course.
Students can also expect to spend between 3 and 9
hours/week on the course (depending on the workload
for that week).
For additional information, please
contact the course professor, Kerry Rempel MBA, BPE:
Email: krempel@okanagan.bc.ca Phone: 250.762.5445 extension 4779
2010 MASTERCLASS FOR DIRECTORS
Canadian Actors' Equity Association is pleased to announce
that Josette Bushell-Mingo and
Martha Henry will join National Arts Centre
Artistic Director
Peter Hinton for nine days of mentoring and
instruction,
June
9 - 19, 2010.
Follow this link for more info>>>
Kelowna ActorStudio
Our theatre classes
provide opportunities for growth and expansion
throughout every age group (beginning at age 7) and
talent level.
Whether you
want to be on Broadway or just be more comfortable in
front of other people - our theatre classes are for
you, providing skills that can be applied to every
facet of your life.
All classes (unless marked)
culminate in final performance on stage.
Glee Club A New Performance Group
Ages 14 to Adult
Tuesdays 4pm to 6pm
(added Thursdays as required)
February 23 to June
30
A New Performance Class for the
aspiring underdog in all of us! It’s time to
make GLEE great again! With great music and
dance numbers this performance opportunity is sure to
be a blast. So ‘Don’t Stop Believin’! You
won’t be able to fight this feeling when we do various
performances throughout the year. So take a bow
and audition for the performance opportunity of a
lifetime.
Follow
this link for more info on this and other classes they
offer >>>
Project X Theatre,
Kamloops, BC
Do you have a child who has a knack for
performance?
An interest in acting?
Follow this link>>>
Do you have a story to tell?
Do you have an idea that you want to turn into a play ?
Need feedback on a script or grant application?
Study online with award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen .
Learn the basics. Master the art.
Go to
http://vernthiessen.com/workshops.html`
Classes start NOW!
Vancouver TheatreSports® League
holds weekly drop-in workshops every Saturday at The False
Creek Community Centre on Granville Island (1318 Cartwright). This
quick-witted workout is taught by a rotating roster of our finest
players and is designed for any adult interested in dipping a creative
big toe in the wavy waters of improvisation.
For more info:
http://www.vtsl.com/workshops/
John
Strasberg's
"ORGANIC CREATIVE PROCESS"
4-Day Intensive Workshop
with
GILLES PLOUFFE
The ONLY endorsed John Strasberg trainer in Canada
More Info>>>
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