Summer at Cornish offers many unique classes and packages, for students ages 15-18, taught by talented Cornish faculty and local professionals.

We also offer a unique residential experience during the programs (if needed).

There are several scholarships left for Summer 2013, so if you have any students that you feel are an appropriate fit, please feel free to refer them to me directly, or have them visit our website – http://www.cornish.edu/summer/programs/theater/.

You still have an opportunity to audition for this summer show!  Email Jenklos@gmail.com for an audition time on June 18, 7:30 - 9:30, callbacks are on June 20, 6:30 - 9:30.  Rehearsals begin June 24 (weekday evenings), performances  Aug. 2-4.  Details:  https://www.facebook.com/events/599012800111512/ or http://secondstoryrep.org/classes/index.html

My current teaching intern, Alicia Doyl, is a board member for Greenstage. They are offering a student apprenticeship for current sophomores, juniors, and graduating seniors to work on their two summer shows, Lear and Midsummer.

If students contact Alicia directly, she could offer them this internship for free (advertised cost $300).

Students will be cast in a small part, have an option to work on a technical element, get acting workshops, and work alongside theatre professionals from June to August 17.

For more info: http://www.greenstage.org/apprentice

If they are interested, they must write to Alicia Doyl <alicia.doyl@gmail.com<mailto:alicia.doyl@gmail.com>>

She can also provide them with the full rehearsal and performance schedule.

Lewis and Clark H. S.
Registration Deadline-Jan. 7th
Adjudication Training-Jan. 11th  

Olympia High School
Registration Deadline-Jan. 17th
Adjudication Training-Feb. 3rd @ Roosevelt 6:30 pm

Ellensburg @ Central Washington University
Registration Deadline  Jan. 17th

Nathan Hale High School      

Registration Deadline: Dec. 16th

The Arts Are Essential to STEM Progress

(Originally titled “The Art and Craft of Science”)

                In this Educational Leadership article, Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein (Michigan State University) argue that the arts aren’t a curriculum luxury; they are integrally involved in scientific thinking and deliver the biggest bang for the buck when it comes to improving test scores in areas unrelated to the arts – and the benefits persist well beyond high school. In fact, Nobel Prize winners are 15 to 25 times more likely than the average scientist to engage as adults in painting, sculpting, print making, wood- and metalworking, performance arts, photography, music, creative writing, and poetry. Einstein attributed some of his most important insights to his violin and piano playing.

Why? Because the arts develop observation, visual thinking, the ability to recognize and form patterns, and manipulative ability, and habits like practicing, persevering, and trial-and-error problem solving. “For these reasons,” say the Root-Bernsteins, “finding ways to foster arts education alongside science education – and, even better, finding ways to integrate the two – must become a high priority for any school that wants to produce students capable of creative participation in a science-dominated society like ours.” Here’s how:

                • Observation – Drawing enhances seeing, say the authors, and other forms of sensory observation hone students’ powers of observation. It’s not surprising that doctors who have had musical training are much better at understanding what they hear through a stethoscope.

                • Visual thinking – “It turns out that one of the best predictors of success in scientific subjects in grades K-16 is visual imaging ability,” say the Root-Bernsteins. “Conversely, students who have poor visual memory and imaging ability often do poorly in science and mathematics.” The good news is that these abilities can be developed by drawing and painting classes.

                • Recognizing and forming patterns – Every scientific and mathematical hypothesis involves seeing a pattern, say the authors. “For this reason, artists, choreographers, and musicians, whose works invariably invent and play with patterns, have a great deal to teach scientists.”

                • Manipulative ability – Craftsmanship and fine motor control are vital to scientific success, especially when working with experiments. “As fewer and fewer students take art, music, and crafts classes in school, with some students even failing to learn cursive writing, fine motor control and simple manipulative skills that were taken for granted 50 years ago are today increasingly absent,” say the authors. “Many of our students are truly ‘all thumbs’… We teachers need to remember that implementing knowledge, even in the information age, must still be accomplished through inventions first constructed by hand.”

                “The skills, knowledge, techniques, models, concepts, and inventions that artists and craftspeople develop sculpt the imagination, making new sciences and technologies possible,” conclude the Root-Bernsteins. “The best scientists have always known this.” In fact, Max Planck, a Nobel Prize winner and accomplished pianist, said, “The creative scientist needs an artistic imagination.”

“The Art and Craft of Science” by Robert Root-Bernstein and Michele Root-Bernstein in Educational Leadership, February 2013 (Vol. 70, #5, p. 16-21), www.ascd.org; the authors can be reached at rootbern@msu.edu and rootber3@msu.edu.

If you have students that plan to apply for Thespian Scholarship or you want to have younger students get ready now

READ THIS

ALL students that apply for scholarships MUST be on ACCEPTD

They will upload information, resume, media for the scholarship committee to view at STATE

How do you do this????

We are going to help you!

THIS THURSDAY Jan. 10^th at 7 PM

You will be able to be part of a WEBINAR, you can call in and/or join online to see on the screen what you will do to help student to get onacceptd.com

This webinar is open to teachers AND STUDENTS!

Conference Call #: 209-647-1000
Access Code: 673261#

Web Demo: join.me/acceptd123

Please be on time

I expect to spend about 10 minutes on what Acceptd is/how it can assist performing arts students, 10 minutes about setting up an account/searchable profile, 10 minutes about how to fill out applications/auditions to WA Thespians and other programs, and a few minutes for questions. Acceptd will also provide an email and phone in case anyone has specific questions they want to ask.

The International Thespian Society and Acceptd are teaming up to provide your students with the only online digital audition and recruitment network. 

Acceptd works with over 100 of the top performing arts universities in the nation, along with dozens of thespian festivals.

With Acceptd, students can:

·  Build their online audition portfolio at no cost

·  Find the right program for their strengths

·  Be recruited by programs across the world

·  Audition for dozens of schools, summer programs and thespian festivals 

Check out getacceptd.com for more information.

January 10 is the first of 2 WEBINARS that both students and teachers can attend. It will include a quick run through of how to fill out an application and also talk about the searchable network.

Applications for the 2013 August Wilson Monologue Competition are now being accepted.

AUDITIONS FOR WICKED’S MAKING MAGIC, DEFYING GRAVITY

SAT – 10:00 a.m.

Roosevelt HS

SEND Audition reservation to:

ruvankempen@seattleschools.org

COLLEGE AUDITIONS

Sat.

Meeting for all actor auditions

8:30 a.m.

Auditions begin at 9:00

Meeting for all tech 2:00 p.m.

Portfolio auditions/interviews - 3:00 p.m.

FREE STUFF

Bring a bag(s)

Various yardage of Fabric (don’t ask what!)

Costume pieces for Havannah sequence in Guys and Dolls

Bring the bag(s), you get it for FREE

Roosevelt HS

Sat. between 11:00 – 1:00