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Take Cover from the sleet and snow under the Blyth Centre for the Arts Winter Arts Umbrella

Friday, November 20 2009

For Immediate Release: November 20, 2009

Media Reference: Heather Ervin, Outreach and Development Intern

Phone: 519.523.9300, ext 203

Email: hervin@blythfestival.com

 

Take Cover from the sleet and snow under the Blyth Centre for the Arts Winter Arts Umbrella.

 

Constantly trying to get people to listen to your stories? 
Always looking for an opportunity to get on a stage? 
Ever wonder what it would be like to try acting?
Wish there were a place where you could go and talk about art?
Tired of the winter blahs dragging you down and keeping you in? 

 

The Blyth Centre for the Arts has an answer to all those questions and more, with its brand new initiative- The Winter Arts Umbrella. A series of programs designed to reach into the community and further develop its artistic interests and needs.  Through a wide range of artistic activities the BCFA hopes to develop and nurture the existing artistically minded individuals and groups within the community.

 

Blyth Festival theatre’s Artistic Director, Eric Coates, hoping to reinvigorate the community’s connection with the BCFA, has spearheaded this initiative. The Winter Arts Umbrella wants to energize artistic pulse of the community.

 

The first branch of the umbrella is aimed at the children and youth of the area offering an after school drama class on Thursdays and a morning improv class on Saturdays.  The after school class is for grades 5-8 and runs one hour from 4:00-5:00 beginning December 3^rd.  Join the Arts Hooligans as they play games and have fun! The Saturday morning improv class will begin November 28^th and runs two hours from 10:00-12:00.  The improv team is for high school students and will focus on various styles and genres of improv.

 

Not only will there be exciting classes and workshops for youth, the BCFA is also launching a March-Breakaway camp for kids in grades K-8.  The camp will have a different theme each day and everyday will explore a variety of arts components. 

 

The second arm of the umbrella will be to target adults with artistic inclinations. The first of two programs will be held on Friday nights beginning December 4^th and is an arts club.  This will be an informal meeting for arts ‘newbies’ where participants discuss and explore various art forms.  The programming will range from improv to choral singing to play reading to drawing to you name it; it is meant to be eclectic, informal and fun. The second program is a theatre intensive class held every Saturday from 2:00-4:00 beginning November 28^th.  This class will focus on the basics of theatre and will range in topic from scene study to character development and everything in between.

 

Another focus of The Winter Arts Umbrella is to create an active arts movement for seniors.  The first development from this project is a Seniors Story Sharing group.  This will be an informal meeting over coffee and tea where stories are swapped and memories are created.   These story swaps will take place before the

Monthly luncheons.

 

 

Add to listings immediately:

 

Blyth Centre for the Arts presents

The Winter Arts Umbrella

Programming Begins November 28th

Blyth Centre for the Arts, 423 Queen Street

Cost:

The after school  Arts Hooligans and Saturday morning improv class are free of charge.

The Saturday afternoon Theatre Arts Intensive is $35.

The Arts Club is $35 plus any additional materials.

March Break-away Camp is $35.

*All registrations are accompanied by a membership to the Blyth Centre for the arts (wow…what a deal!)

 

To Register:

Contact the Box Office @ 1.877.862.5984 or

Heather Ervin @ 519.523.9300 ex. 203

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