WORKSHOPS INDEX
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
SOUNDSWRITE
INTRODUCTION TO VOICEOVER WORKSHOP
JANUARY 30TH AND 31ST (Vancouver)
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.
Call us at
604-985-5532
or
click here for more information
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
THE FOUNDRY INTENSIVE:
Through intensive
focus exercises developed by
Matthew
Harrison, the actor is drawn out, into
what Matthew calls being 'vectors-out',
the natural place where the performer
can live truthfully in the scene. A
specific preparatory process, clearly
defined by Matthew, helps the actor
explore the worlds of imagination and
experience in order to bring forth the
emotional circumstances of the
character. Articulate story analysis
allows the focused and emotionally alive
actor to truthfully convey the writer's
story.
Get to the CORE
of the art form through a celebration
and exploration of:
- being
CONNECTED IN THE MOMENT
-
being CONNECTED TO YOUR
SELF
- for the best telling of the
STORY
Actors
receive scenes and scene partners in
advance, rehearse and fully prepare
scenes, and apply the work to focal
exercises, preparatory exploration, and
scene presentation.
There is no
auditing allowed for the weekend
intensives.
Workshops are taught by
either
Matthew Harrison
or
Jeb Beach.
Workshop cost: $325 (plus GST)
Register for workshops at:
register@actorsfoundry.com
Next Foundry
Workshop:
Kelowna - January
16/17th
Vancouver - February 20/21st
Workshops are held in Vancouver,
Kelowna, Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina, and
Toronto (Canada), New York City and Los
Angeles (US), Dublin, London, and
Paris (Europe) and Cape Town (South
Africa).
To enquire about dates for
your city, email us at
register@actorsfoundry.com
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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.
Script Live!
Put life in your work!
With Jessie nominated actor and playwright,
Nicolle Nattrass
Ages 14 to Adults!
Develop your acting skills in this class where you
will explore characters, write your own sketch
material and perform it! You will learn the art
and the fun of putting your original ideas into
monologues, scenes and sketch comedy! Experience
the thrill of performing your own work. Class will
finish with a group theatre/onstage performance.
for more details on Nicolle-go to
Nicollenattrass.com
Tuesday nights 6pm-8pm
6 weeks
beginning Feb. 2- March9/2010
$200.00 + GST,
Earlybird special - $180.00 +GST
if booked by January 19th
West Coast Screenwriting asks,
"Are
you feeding your inner screenwriter?”
In January West Coast Screenwriting principals,
Keith Digby (Time Exposures) and Brian Paisley
(Lies Like Truth) will hold a ‘Weekend Blitz’
workshop for NINE aspiring screenwriters.
More Info>>>
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.
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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
One Day Commercial Audition Workshop
with Suzanne Bastien!
Do you want to start booking commercials?
It's all about confidence. Learn how
to get that confidence in the room in this
one day intensive commercial audition
workshop. It is all about giving you the
tools that you need to feel confident,
have fun in the room and start booking!
Actors will go through the audition
process from the night before to the day
on set. You'll perform mock auditions
which will help them develop a sense of
freedom in the room because you will know
what to expect. You'll get career
coaching and guidance and much, much more.
Past
students of Suzanne Bastien in Film & TV,
include Charlie Bewley (The Twilight
Series: New Moon and upcoming Eclipse),
Nolan Gerard Funk (currently starring in
Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway), Jaclyn A.
Smith (Eureka) and the list goes on....
It's a new year. It's your career.
Take charge and go into that audition with
confidence. Take this workshop and start
booking!
About the Instructor:
Considered
the commercial queen of Vancouver, Suzanne
Bastien is more than a sparkling smile.
Since hosting Zed Candid for the CBC,
Bastien has appeared in countless
productions and commercials (now totaling
over 75). Some commercials in regular
rotation included Spray & Wash, Tostito’s,
Curves and Marks Work Wearhouse.
Class Details:
Date: Sunday,
January 31st, 2010
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: 736
Richards Street
Cost: $150.00
Registration:
Call 604.683.2889 or e-mail
atthecreativespace@gmail.com
Biz Books customers can receive a 10%
discount if they mention the Biz Books
Bulletin at the time of registration!
Blackbird Theatre and Melissa Haller are pleased to
announce a new workshop/strong>
The Classical Gym
This workshop provides an affordable space for actors
to work on classical texts in a supportive
environment. Brush up on an audition monologue, or
sink your teeth into a scene or character you’ve
always loved!
You will be asked to bring in a monologue or a scene
of your choice. If you’d like to bring in a scene, you
will need to find your own scene partner(s). The class
will feature a different facilitator every week who is
a respected member of the Canadian theatre community.
You can attend one class, or attend them all. Those
who wish to audit the class may attend on a drop-in
basis. For those who want to get up and work, please
sign up at least two weeks before the class you want
to attend. Spaces will fill up quickly, so sign up
soon!
Facilitators will include: Duncan Fraser, Lee Taylor,
Gwynyth Walsh, Simon Webb, John Wright and more!
Price: $15 per class, $12 for Equity and
GVPTA Members.
Where: St. James Community Square, 3214 10th
Avenue West, Vancouver, BC
When: Monday nights 7pm – 9pm, January 18 –
February 22, 2010.
For more information see the Blackbird website
http://www.blackbirdtheatre.ca/educational.html or
email classicalgym@yahoo.ca.
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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VOICE WORKSHOPS- (Vancouver) visit
www.vocalis.ca 604-782-3022 MOVEMENT (Vancouver)
-TooBa Physical Theatre Centre
www.tooba.com
LEARNING
THE ACTOR'S SKILLS
Theatre BC & Stages Educational Consulting are offering a unique workshop to
business & business professionals - Learning The Actor’s Skills.
Actors, in order to communicate effectively with their audience, must develop the
skills that allow their voices, bodies, and minds to work in harmony. These same skills
can be learned by others who, while not actors, must communicate effectively with their
own unique audiences.
More Info>>>
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