Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:34:39 -0500
From: Molly Matlock
Subject: ChathamArts Announces Upcoming Classes
Arts makes you smART! Check out the latest research on “Learning, Arts, and the Brain” from John Hopkins at www.dana.org/news/brainwork/detail.aspx?id=22372. ChathamArts is here for you with our arts-in-education school programs & our new line-up of classes for ALL Ages this spring and summer.
Help your loved ones “get smart” by giving them the gift of intelligence ;-). Register at www.chathamarts.org.
FYI: “Flash Mob Boot Camp” Coming Soon. Stay tuned, because you just never know what’s going to happen around here, and ChathamArts relishes a good, startling surprise. Be a part of the unexpected. If interested, contact .
Here is our current Spring Roster:
1. ADVENTURES IN WATERCOLOR
Shannon Bueker
One Day Workshop: April 2
Six-Week Series: May 7, 14, 21 & June 4, 11, 18
Location: Briar Chapel
$50 plus supplies for One-Day Workshop
$150 plus supplies for Series
This class allows participants to explore watercolor from light
traditional approaches to heavier layering and mixed media techniques.
The class is open to beginners, experienced painters who want to
loosen up, and everyone in between. Watercolors can be trusted; don’t
be afraid.
*****
2. INTERMEDIATE IMPROVISATIONAL ACTING
Anoushka Brod
Location: Briar Chapel
$120 for six weeks
$74 for three weeks
In this class we explore important improv tools such as why it’s important to say “Yes,and” to your scene partners, how to create believable characters through body and voice, and why “commitment” is a key word in performance. We learn how to create a scene with our fellow players without any props, costumes or script. Improv
teaches us to be fully in the moment on stage and in life! In addition to the fun we have, improv teaches us important skills such as cooperation, communication and how to enhance our creative thinking. Join the fun!
Next Winter Series for Beginning and Intermediate Improv, Actors, Ages 16+
February 22 – March 29, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Coming this Spring! Andvanced Improv , Ages 16+
Six weeks: $120
Three weeks: $74
Read the Raleigh News & Observer article about how improv can be a
boon for business:
http://tinyurl.com/2vw9lpz
*****
3. CREATIVE CHILDREN’S DANCE THROUGH STORYTELLING, Ages 4 – 7
Katherine Hirsh, Briar Chapel Resident
Location: Briar Chapel
Sundays, January 30 – Feb 27, 1 – 2 pm
Session B: March 6 – April 3
Session C: April 10 – May 15
$70 for 5 classes (Session A, March 6 – April 3 OR Session B, April 10 – May 15)
$110 for 10 classes
$150 for 15 classes
30% off for siblings
10% off for Briar Chapel residents
In this class dance movements are generated by creating images and
telling stories. Inspiration comes from books and favorite songs such
as Puff the Magic Dragon, She’ll be Comin’ around the Mountain and
more… With 25 years of dance teaching experience, Katherine Hirsh
has developed a children’s dance class that will captivate your child.
There will be local performance opportunities for the young dancers.
Attire: casual dancewear (leggings, skirts or shorts); bare feet or
jazz/ballet slippers (no socks or street shoes)
*****
4. LET’S DANCE, Ages 8 – 11
Katherine Hirsh
Location: Briar Chapel
Sundays, January 30 – Feb 27, 2 – 3:15 pm
Session B: March 6 – April 3
Session C: April 10 – May 15
$70 for 5 classes (Session A, March 6 – April 3 OR Session B, April 10 – May 15)
$110 for 10 classes
$150 for 15 classes
30% off for siblings
10% off for Briar Chapel residents
This class will combine contemporary, classical and hip-hop training
techniques for warm-up exercises; then move into fantastic, fun
choreography. Music genres will vary from popular to hip-hop to world
music. The dancer will gain a broad dance vocabulary and have an
option to perform at community events.
Attire: casual dancewear (leggings, skirts or shorts); bare feet,
jazz/ballet slippers and dance sneakers
*****
5. HIP-HOP FOR TEENS, Ages 14+
Katherine Hirsh
Location: Briar Chapel
Sundays, March 6 – May 15, 2 – 3:15 pm
Session 1: March 6 – April 3
Session 2: April 10 – May 15
Location: Briar Chapel
$70 for 5 classes (Session 1, March 6 – April 3 OR Session 2, April 10 – May 15)
$110 for 10 classes
30% off for siblings
10% off for Briar Chapel residents
In this class dance movements are generated by creating images and
telling stories. Inspiration comes from books and favorite songs such
as Puff the Magic Dragon, She’ll be Comin’ around the Mountain and
more… With 25 years of dance teaching experience, Katherine Hirsh
has developed a children’s dance class that will captivate your child.
There will be local performance opportunities for the young dancers.
Attire: casual dancewear (leggings, skirts or shorts); bare feet,
jazz/ballet slippers and dance sneakers
*****
6. THE ART OF SOULFUL LIVING
Anoushka Brod
Location: Briar Chapel
Tuesdays, February 22 – March 29, 10am-12pm
$120
In this class we explore topics that empower us to live more
profoundly and fully. By developing practices that cut through daily
distractions and stress, we will grow more consistently aware and
connected with our souls. Each week we explore a Soulful Living theme
such as Self-Love, Gratitude, Living with Joy and Developing
Intuition. Through group activities, journal work and guided
meditations we will allow our group energy to support new choices and
visions of who we are. Embark on the most important journey there
is…the journey to the heart of your True Self. All welcome.
*****
7. DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMALL TOWN
Location: Pittsboro, TBA
Two-Day Workshop, April 23 & April 30, 11 am – 5 pm
$150
Documentary photography is about using images to tell stories. This is
a 2-day documentary photography course about learning to find the
extraordinary in the ordinary.
In this course we will work to develop your photographers eye. What
are the elements that make a photograph interesting? How can you use
light and shadow and composition more confidently to make your images
tell a more powerful story? How do you take photographs of strangers?
We will spend the first part of the course looking at and discussing
some iconic documentary images and talking about those elements, as
well as practical topics such as the finding and photographing of
documentary subjects.
This course will help you find new and interesting ways to photograph
things that interest you, but will also help you gain the skills and
confidence to photograph people, including strangers, with grace and
humanity.
For this course, we will explore the town of Pittsboro. We will fan
out with shooting assignments meant to challenge you and encourage new
perspectives in an effort to paint a picture of the landscape and the
people of this small and historical town. We will spend class time
reviewing the images and will go out into the field again. Please
bring a bagged lunch.
*Film photographers are welcome to take this class, with the
understanding that they will need to get their film developed into
contact sheets or prints in the week between each class.
*****
8. INTERDISCLIPLINARY ART FOR ARTISTS, Ages 18+
Matt Zigler
Location: Pittsboro, TBA
Sundays, March 20 through May 29 (10 classes, no class April 17), 2 – 5 pm
$150 plus supplies
Are you a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, photographer, digital
artist, etc. who is looking for ways to expand your ideas and
influence past the confines of your medium? Addressing a concept or
idea sometimes requires us to seek out other languages to express
ourselves, following where our ideas and creativity lead us.
This class is designed to help you unlock your minds potential to
express who you are regardless of your preferred medium. By examining
the ideas behind our work and why we make it we can take a journey of
exploration that epitomizes what it means to be an artist, a creator,
a maker of objects rather than a painter, sculptor or photographer
alone.
This class is part seminar, part critique and part studio course.
Some work will be done outside of class. By looking at the work of
conceptual and interdisciplinary artists, by talking to peers with
backgrounds from other disciplines and by challenging your ideas of
what art is and what you are capable of you will find in this course
new sources of inspiration to expand your current work and generate
new work.
*****
9. KNITTING 9-1-1
Lynn Sims
Location: TBA
Thursdays, April 7- May 26, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
$100 plus supplies
Do you have a knitting project that has you stumped? Have you always
wanted to learn to knit? Do you need help in translating all those
impossible terms in knitting patterns? Would you like structured
help, ideas, tips and tricks? This is the class for you!
Knitting Camp Materials List:
Project assistance: the project you’re working on, the pattern
working from, proper knitting needles and yarn
Learn to knit: Size 8 straight needles. 1 skein worsted weight yarn,
smooth texture, light color
Improve my knitting: 2 swatches 4 x 4 inches in stockinette stitch.
4.5 – 4 stitches per inch, light worsted weight yarn.
Bring notebook and pencils for taking notes.
*****
10. SUMMER PERCUSSION CAMP w/ the PROFESSIONALS
Matt Vooris
Location: Briar Chapel
Tue. July 5 – Sat. July 8 (avoiding the July 4th holiday), 9 am – 5 pm
(AGES 5 – 9)
$100
Mon. July 18 – Fri. July 22, 9 am – 5 pm (AGES 10 – 16)
$120
Participants learn stick techniques, rudiments, reading music, and
applying it all to the drum set. After that, the stage is set to
experience other areas of percussion ensemble and rhythm section
performance. Participant experiences will be fun and educational.
Campers will be placed in a band with kids their own age and skill
level. You will learn about music theory, ensemble playing, promoting
a performance, how to get through a concert, how to maximize your
creativity, and how to compose.
I will be out of the office beginning Friday February 17 and returning Monday February 18th. I will respond all coorespondence when I return. If your matter is urgent, please call my cell phone at 919-522-2399
Thank You!
Beth