with special guest facilitator LUCAS MYERS Oct 4th to Dec 9, Tues/Thurs 4-6pm

Creation and Collaboration:

The Actor as Creator

This workshop will focus on the performer as a creator, with students creating a devised work at the end of each term. The first term will focus on a collaborative performance based on a specific social issue. The second term will conclude with a roving, site specific performance in which the audience will move through downtown Nelson and encounter performers as they travel. Throughout the year, each class will include exercises to promote physical awareness and cultivate connectivity between performers onstage, leading to a more present and available performance style. Focus will be placed on working as an ensemble, both in devising material and in performance. This will empower students to have a clarified presence on stage and to feel confident about discovering their artistic voice. There will also be a yearlong Shakespeare Monologue study and audition training, as well as solo projects and character studies.

Creative Collaboration Drama 10

 Introduction to techniques used in a collaborative process including generating material and focussing ideas. Students will also start to work on intuitive performance, with exercises that promote being in the moment on stage and following impulses.

Creative Collaboration Drama 11

Focus will be placed on working collectively to create a production, choosing a theme and creating material based on the theme. Play building, monologues and implementing various methods of expression including song, puppetry, and video will be explored.

Creative Collaboration Drama 12

The students will create a production based on a theme and implementing a variety of dramatic tools. Exercises will focus on stage awareness and self expression as well as building character and finding a unique “voice”. All aspects of the production will be created by the students.

Space is limited! Register by Sept 27th - info@selfdesignhigh.org | 250 354 1310

New! Gateways is a pilot initiative of SelfDesign to invite young people aged 13 and 14 to move more deeply in to their own personal ‘selfdesigning’ while learning together with others who share their interests and passions.  We feel this approach will support learners as they move towards more independence in their learning, something that they can fully pursue as they turn 15 and  move into SelfDesign High.

Clay Intensive at eARTh Studios

Students Grade 10-12, Minimum 6 participants
Thurs August 26th to Sat Sept 4th 10am-4pm

This course is designed for the student who is interested in everything from forming to finishing pottery in a working studio in Uphill Nelson. Handbuilt and wheel basic skills will be introduced. Individual initiative and creativity is actively promoted and developed over the course of this clay intensive. A special guest will be invited to teach screen printing on clay at the end of the course as a decorating option. Use of stains, scraffito, and glaze will be discussed and exemplified. Students will be asked to pay a $45 material and supply fee and will be taking home fine examples of pottery techniques. High School elective 4 credit swill be given to students who complete the course.

Diane Walters MA is a teacher who has worked with pottery for over 30 years and brings great enthusiasm for working with youth.

To register: Visit our website at www.selfdesignhigh.org