The Living Archive Project
presents
Be A Star! Performance Workshop Series
This is a workshop series facilitated by Shannon Quinn. It’s ideal for anyone who has an interest in performing and trying new things. If you have an interest in music, theatre or writing…this could be for you!
But what will we actually be doing?
Through a series of four workshops we will explore different ways of expressing ourselves artistically. We will combine techniques we learn with a story about ourselves and create a piece of performance art. Through theatre exercises we will experiment with different ways of telling stories. Finally, we’ll pick a part of ourselves, a story we’d like to tell and make it into a performance piece and get ready for an audience.
Everyone has a story to tell, come experiment with us!
Info Session on Friday, January 14th, 2pm
START DATE: SATURDAY January 22nd 12:00-2:00
TIME COMMITMENT:
Saturday January 22 12:00-2:00
Saturday January 29 12:00-2:00
Saturday February 5 12:00-2:00
Saturday February 12 12:00-2:00
And one rehearsal.
WHERE: PARC in the HEALING CENTRE
What do I get out of it?
You get to create something completely unique and one of a kind.
You will unleash your inner storyteller.
It is an opportunity to build confidence and continue to develop public speaking skills.
You will get to try out different ways of speaking, moving and a whole bunch of theatre exercises.
You get to create a performance piece, and present it in front of an audience!
And it’s fun.
SIGN UP IN THE DROP IN
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Participants are asked to wear clothes and shoes that are easy to move in. All movement exercises will be easy and gentle on the body and geared towards people who move in all kinds of different ways. If you use a walker, a wheelchair or run marathons monthly, this is for you. If you have a journal, bring it with you; if you don’t, paper and pens will be provided.
Workshops are 2 hours long with one 15 minute break. During break we will eat lunch.
Individuals are creating personal performance pieces that reflect an aspect of themselves which involves some type of quest/journey. The creative spark for our pieces will come from significant moments in our lives. It can involve PARC or Parkdale, or whatever feels right. We will discuss what taking creative risks means. We’ll learn how to make abstract and representational choices. We are going to play! Our final products will be solo projects, 3 to 5 minutes in length.
Expectations and guidelines will be gone over at the first session.
The first week we focus on physicality—using our bodies. We will learn to use movement to express words, phrases, thoughts and feelings.
The second week we’ll work on communicating in new ways through voice and sound.
The third and fourth week we will tap into our memories and find the creative spark that helps us tell a story we want to share. We’ll try telling our stories with some of the techniques we learned in the first two workshops.
We’ll have a rehearsal and then end the workshop series with a PERFORMANCE. The performance will be video-taped (if you want it to be – if you don’t, you can decline video-taping) and everyone will receive a copy of the video. We can put it up on YouTube for you, too, if you’d like!
This is all about exploring, being creative and trying something new.
