The Cultch | Vancouver East Cultural Centre
2010-2011: Vancouver's most intimate venue. Contemporary theatre, dance and music

Summer Youth Performing Arts Intensive

A one-of-a-kind summer camp experience for high-school aged youth

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August 16th-27th, 2010

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Vancouver has a rich and diverse independent performing-arts community known internationally for its innovation. This is your opportunity to work with leading members of that community and learn exactly what it takes to bring a new production to a professional stage. Participants will form performance groups that will work in collaboration with our faculty of expert mentors to create an original multi-disciplinary work. Along the way the young artists will be given unprecedented access to professionals in the industry to which they aspire. The program ends on August 27th with the world-premiere of the student’s work in The Cultch’s beautiful, state-of-the-art Historic Theatre.

Expect to learn!
Expect to laugh!
Expect to be challenged!

It will be the most exciting and inspiring two weeks of your summer, guaranteed.

Schedule

August 16-27, 2010
Monday to Friday
9am to 5pm

What’s involved?

• 40 high-school-aged artists from across the Lower Mainland
• 60 hours of collaborative creation time with our amazing mentors
• 6 unique skill-building workshops with leaders from Vancouver’s arts community
• Full access to The Cultch’s theatres and technicians
• 1 once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Introducing our mentors

Marcus Youssef
Marcus is co-artistic producer of neworld theatre. A recipient of both the Alcan Performing Arts Award and the Chalmer’s Canadian Play Award, Marcus is best known for his plays, which include Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil, Ali & Ali 7, Adrift, The Bobsledder of Baghdad, Apathy House, A Line in the Sand and over a dozen radio plays for CBC. Marcus’ production of Are We There Yet? recently won three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction. And he’s nice.

 

  

 

Kendra Fanconi
Kendra is a theatre creator of original, mostly site-specific, work. She is the co-artistic director of Vancouver-based The Only Animal with Eric Rhys Miller. Her work has garnered 22 Jessie nominations and 7 awards including Outstanding Production (The One that Got Away), Significant Artistic Achievement (Other Freds), Outstanding Actress (Box2) and awards for Set Design (dog eat dog) and Direction (Sam Payne Award for Emerging Director) and was featured at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in both 2007 and 2008. Writing/Directing credits include: NiX, you and the moon for HIVE2, dog eat dog, and Other Freds. Additionally, she is the playwright of The One that Got Away and Bonehouse for both stage and radio. Her plays have been staged in snow and ice, swimming pools, diners, treetops, and the environs of False Creek. Future projects include a Tree Circus.

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is the Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance. Based in Vancouver, she has been creating and performing her unique brand of hybrid dance-theatre across Canada, the United States and Europe for the past decade. Friedenberg is known for her expert blending of comedy, dynamic physicality, and character work. Her solos bANGER: The Power Hour and Nick & Juanita –Livin’ in my dreams have both won People’s Choice awards at The Dancing on the Edge Festival. Her latest solo Goggles will premiere at the Cultch November 17-21 and will hit the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts May 5-8, 2009.

The workshops

In addition to the 60 hours of collaborative creation time with our amazing mentors, The Cultch’s expert staff and members of several indie arts and culture organizations in Vancouver will lead a series of six unique workshops throughout the camp. These workshops will provide invaluable skills and offer essential information that all budding young artists need to know.

Topics will include:

• The Canadian Arts Climate
• How to Write a Great Grant
• Marketing and Promotions
• Talking to the Media
• Professional Standards in the Performing Arts
• How to be Your Tech Staff’s New Best Friend!

Tuition

Early bird special: $650 if registered before April 30th
Tuition fee: $700 including all taxes and service charges.
A limited number of bursaries are available for those with financial need.

How to register

Register online at our online Box Office.
To download and mail in the registration form click here.
To register over the phone, please call our box office at 604-251-1363.

Mail registration forms and fees to:
Corbin Murdoch
Youth Program Manager
The Cultch
1895 Venables Street
Vancouver, BC V5L 2H6

For more information

Please contact Corbin Murdoch, Youth Program Manager:
604-251-1766 ext 105
corbin@thecultch.com

 

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