PAE Postcard June 2008

Shakespeare Meets the Streets in Hip-Shake
Get in touch with your inner Sarah Bernhardt or Kanye West, or maybe both, at a performance of Hip-Shake at Syracuse Stage on Tuesday, July 1st.

Long-time Syracuse theater educator Len Fonte wrote the one-act play with the collaboration of Rochester poet and performer Reenah Golden. The linguistic and cultural odd couple of a hip-hop artist and an actor from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre attempt to understand each other's language, and help both adults and young people get past the stereotypes associated with these contrasting forms of dramatic expression to appreciate the artfulness in both. It's full of humor, surprises, and impassioned language. Len and director Lauren Unbekant will be there to talk about their process and answer your questions.

A benefit for PAE, the performance is part of a celebration of the art$TART partnerships that reached hundreds of Central New York students in the 2007-08 school year. You can read more about those partnerships at PAE's website.

The 6:00 pm performance will be followed by a reception. Tickets are $35 for adults, $20 for students. Sponsorship opportunities are available – call  or email Kristin. Seating is limited. To make your reservations, call Kristin at PAE at 234-9911.

“Keeping the Arts in Mind” Course at Syracuse Teacher Center
Teachers: Would you like to incorporate CNY cultural resources into your curriculum? Expand your knowledge of research in arts-based learning? Learn new assessment methods for learning through the arts and for learning in general?

“Keeping the Arts in Mind:  Arts-Based Learning Strategies” will be offered this summer as an SCSD in-service course for K-12 core content teachers and arts specialists on Wednesdays from July 2 to August 6, 3:30 – 6:00 p.m.

“Keeping the Arts in Mind” will provide artistic and cultural information and connections for integration into your classroom lessons. Participants in the interactive workshops will create and share lessons that incorporate current arts-in-education research. Get information about upcoming 2008-09 repertoires for cultural organizations. Mine arts-education theory to develop practical applications that support critical thinking, inquiry-based instruction, and creative approaches to Standards-based core subject curriculum needs.  Each class will include an arts-based hands-on activity that can be used in the classroom, as well as peer-to-peer support and collaboration to develop lesson plans and share best practices.

This course will provide 15 hours of professional development credit for SCSD teachers. For more information about the Syracuse Teacher Center, visit http://www.syracusetc.org/index.php. A course description is available at http://www.syracusetc.org/images/Inservice/IBSummer08.pdf

Share Your Story at June Roundtable
The next CNY Arts Ed Roundtable will join in with art$TART funded partnership grantees on Friday, June 20th from 4:00-6:30 pm at the Westcott Community Center, corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St. in Syracuse, for the second annual “Share Your Story” session. Did your students do amazing things you want to brag about? Looking for ideas on how to improve your projects next year? Got pictures of your classroom to share? Here’s your opportunity. We will make it a celebration of the year’s work with pizza and beverages, so let us know if you’re coming so we have enough food for all. RSVP to Georgia by email or Sue by email or by phone – 234.9911.

Summer Speed Networking
This year our annual "Speed Networking" Roundtable meeting will be held over the summer – on July 22nd, 4:30 - 6:30 pm. We'll do it as a sort of "happy hour" at Onondaga Community College, cohosted by the Arts Across Campus program, and will include food and beverages. It's a great time to start thinking about what could happen in the next school year while you have the time and mental energy to do some creative brainstorming. Watch for an email with details, or just check our online events calendar.

School, TA Receive Recognition in "It's a Zoo" Competition
Syracuse's Dr. King School received recognition for its integration of the arts into the science curriculum for the play, "The Wishing Drum." Teaching artists worked with students in March and April to create an original staged literary adaptation of Graem Base's book "Jungle Drums," using an original script and music by teaching artist Jenny Dombroske. Dancer Nana Anim worked with the students on original authentic West African choreography, and art teacher Joe Kolsecski created original costumes depicting the African animals featured in the story. Nana's choreography also received special recognition. Dr. King was among the SCSD schools that participated in the competition for the first time. To find out more about It's a Zoo, go to the CNY Community Arts Council's website.

Opportunities
Free Citizen Artist Conference in NYC
Epic Theater Citizen Artist Conference
June 13 – 15, 2008
Registration Deadline: June 9
Register at: http://epictheatreensemble.org/education/citizen/index.php
Contact: Email Darci Fulcher
The conference will be an enriching, interactive experience where members of the arts-in-education community will immerse themselves in Epic's methodology and techniques, which place theatre at the center of civic dialogue. Please note that the $30 fee is waived for participants traveling to NYC from out of town for the conference. The conference includes: interactive workshops that use theatrical techniques to explore power, status, empathy, perspective and ethics; consultation with Epic's lead teaching artists on how to integrate Citizen Artistry into your work; a complementary ticket to Epic's Off-Broadway production of Palace of the End by Judith Thompson; student performances; and a curriculum guide.

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Partners for Arts Education
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