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Join us for Art In Action - Festival Theatre's summer drama camp.

2/26/2018

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Registration for St. Croix Festival Theatre's summer drama camp Art In Action is officially open! Join us for a fun, unique drama camp where campers learn how to stage their own original plays.

The basics:
  • For campers ages 7-13
  • Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • At locations throughout the St. Croix Valley, register and pay here:
    • July 16-20 - St. Croix Falls Middle School, St. Croix Falls, WI
    • July 23-27 - St. Croix Falls Middle School, St. Croix Falls, WI
    • July 30 - Aug 3 - Grantsburg Comm. Ed., Grantsburg, WI
    • Aug 6 - Aug 10 - Luck High School, Luck, WI
    • Aug 13 - Aug 17 - Scandia Community Center, Scandia, MN
  • Campers must provide a snack and water bottle 
  • Our fee: $50 per child for the week, all supplies provided
  • Showtime! Our final performance is Friday at 11:30 am
At Art In Action camp, your child will...
  • Create, rehearse, and perform in an original short play
  • Design and paint the scenic backdrop for the play
  • Create characters and an original costume design
  • Choreograph, rehearse, and perform an original dance
  • Learn about story structure and what makes for a good story
  • Explore and experiment with the three actor tools (the voice, the body, and the imagination) through games and activities
  • Collaborate, collaborate, collaborate
  • Perform their play for a live audience of family and friends!!
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      To us, Art In Action! means empowering kids to take ownership of the creative process and put it into action! 
     Our two main goals: 
we want our campers to think of art as a verb. It’s something you do, not something you make. A process, not a product. When you focus on art as an action, then mistakes are less scary.  And it's only through making mistakes that we can learn. We believe that practicing this mindset makes for better creative thinkers and better people!

      In theatre, often called the collaborative art form, it’s easy to feel unempowered as an individual because you rely on so many other people. You first need to be cast, then you're told what to say and told what to do. But it doesn’t need to be that way. We want our campers to feel like they don't have to wait around to be cast in a play. They can write, produce, and star in their own show! They can be actor, director, producer, designer - an entrepreneur! How to ideate and originate your own work is among the most important professional skills you can learn. 
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Although the structure of the weeks will be nearly identical, each week with be a new adventure and campers are encouraged to sign up for multiple weeks.
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2017 Art In Action campers with their teachers: Apprentice Company members Emily Garst and Erika Kuhn.
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Magic is in the Air with Peter Pan

2/22/2018

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Peter Pan will open at St. Croix Festival Theatre on March 9th at 7:30PM and run through March 18th. Opening night will feature Festival Theatre’s AfterGlow party, complete with pizza provided by Papa Murphy’s.

Peter Pan is directed by Arts Education Director Rachel Kuhnle - her second youth show at Festival Theatre after directing Children of Mystery River last fall.

The story of Peter Pan is a familiar one - the Darling children leave behind the safety of their nursery to fly away to the magical land of Neverland with Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. There they fight pirates and have adventures until they nearly forget they ever had parents who loved them. Kuhnle is taking the tale and putting a new spin on it.

“We’re trying a lot of lovely things and we’re really trying to transform the space,” says Kuhnle.

The framework for the story is a child’s backyard birthday party with a pair of swings and a picnic table. "By setting the play at a child's birthday party, the themes are at the forefront. Birthdays are exciting for kids but they can also be a little bit scary - like the magical world of Neverland."

Also featured in the production is Guest Artist Sherry Pearce, last seen on the Festival Theatre stage in last season's Children of Mystery River and The Real Inspector Hound.

The show will perform at the Franklin Square Black Box. Tickets are $13.50 for adults and $8.50 for students or youth (ages 5-25) and can be purchased at FestivalTheatre.org, emailing festivaltheatreboxoffice@gmail.com or by calling the box office at 715-483-3387.  

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