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Acting!
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Storytelling
Storytelling
Storytelling Skills
This season we’ll be holding 11 sessions, one every other week. Our focus will be on creating stories from start to finish while collaborating with others for support and inspiration. We’ll work on techniques for memory by learning your story from the inside out.
A little workout is always great too! Grab some skills for taking care of your voice with simple exercises. Most importantly, how do you keep your audience interested?
Whether you want to be a pro Storyteller, a public speaker or tell the best joke ever, this is a great choice. Gain confidence while having fun. Laughter guaranteed.
The Storytelling Skills course starts Wednesdays Nov. 8, evenings. The program of 11 classes will cost $55.
Storytelling Circle
Our afternoon group meets every other week starting Wednesdays Nov. 1. Grab a comfortable chair in the circle and listen while we begin telling short stories of a predetermined theme. In a past Circle, the theme was “That Summer”. Sometimes we make our stories into a fable, or a lesson learned. Storytelling is something everyone does easily. That summer when the wind blew my tent away, or I caught a giant fish, is colourful, exciting, and descriptive. The person next to you is squirming for their turn because you’ve reminded them of a time.
Drop in welcome. Age 18+ $1.00 drop-in fee.
Story Slam
At the end of each season, we will throw a Slam and invite everyone who has attended Circles or Skills throughout the season. A Slam is a social evening where we share a themed story and enjoy a beverage and food.
Performing opportunities
Sylvan Lake Theatre storytellers enjoy performing in local public events. Theatre Trail is our most popular and we spend many hours getting ready for the big show. The experience is exhilarating and worth every minute. Storytellers are also sought by other groups for their events such as the Haunted House at Halloween and the Yuletide Festival at Christmas where we create and tell stories to children and their families while giving back to the community.As Sylvan Lake Theatre grows, so will opportunities to entertain and enlighten. Join us!
To register for any of these Storytelling activities or for more info: contact Norene at norenesstories@gmail.com
Acting
Acting
ACT UP is an on-demand course offered for ages 16+ that is led by guest professionals. Weekly classes will run for 6-8 weeks.
The Workshop Series taught by Richard Beaune, Tom Bradshaw, Paul Sutherland, and Tanya Ryga covered character movement, voice care, improvisation, monologue, and scene study. Utilizing proven acting techniques from Laban, Meisner and Pro-Actors Lab this class is suitable for those with all levels of experience including beginners.
Acting for the Camera is taught by Glen Gaston to those interested in acting in television and film. Glen is a professional film director, actor, and on-set coach. Participants learn Actors Lab fundamental and through improv, monologues, and scenes will develop personal connections with their scene partners to be alive on camera.
Improv Basics/Extending Your Comfort Zone
Sylvan Lake Theatre is offering an Intro to Improv class for adults. Learn improv basics of this” make’em up” art form. Think-Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Whether you want to jump onstage to entertain audiences or be more spontaneous in life, improvisation is a powerful tool to enhance your creativity. Improv workshops have been employed by business, communications and marketing companies to encourage staff to think “outside the box”.
Paul Sutherland, co-creator of Improv Jelly, has been improvising professionally for over a decade. Paul has trained in Red Deer, Edmonton, Calgary and Chicago to enhance his understanding and performance skills of this very popular and powerful collaborative artform.
Writing
Writing
WRITE IT!
"Writer's Gym" is a fun and structured space to find and flex your writing muscles. The focus will be on bite-sized writing-then-hearing activities and scripting challenges to help playwrights increase their skill by directly seeing the consequences of their choices. Topics range from how to properly format a script to the essentials of story, character, theme, and action. You will be encouraged to attend local theatre productions including rehearsed readings of new works, participate in post-show debriefs and become aware of opportunities for playwrights in the community.
The group will meet on Tuesdays from March 12 - April 16, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., NexSource Centre Room #2.
Fee: $120 Space is limited.
To register or for more information please contact sylvanlaketheatre@gmail.com
"Script Lab" is an invite-only (or by submission-process) cohort with a strong focus on work that is on the page. It is not a lab for beginning playwrights. Expectations include being part of an ensemble that invests in each other's projects along with your own. Work in the script lab is goal-focused, aiming for various submission deadlines and production opportunities beyond "sharing for fun and feedback”. A committed cohort of 12 writers is the ideal with new writers joining when there is an opening and, on a case -by-case basis. The script lab operates intermittently for 3-4 months then will take a break. Guidance and incentive are provided by the facilitator though this is not a writing course, and formal dramaturgy of scripts is not provided. Writers are encouraged to seek dramaturgical support and additional opportunities via Alberta Playwrights Network
To register or for more information please contact sylvanlaketheatre@gmail.com