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<DIV>Not that it makes much of a difference, where are you located,
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=stagecraft@theatrical.net
href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">John Lucs via Stagecraft</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 06, 2015 2:34 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [SML] OT: Cultural Arts programming at your educational
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<DIV>Thought I would tap a large audience of people that work in the educational
sector to get some thoughts and input about how you program the arts into your
schools. We require our 550 (high school) student population to attend 2
events a year in our theater to open their eyes to live performing arts.
It has been a bumpy road for the last 3-4 years with what does and does not go
over well. We limit the performance to about 1-1/2 hrs at the most with no
intermission. Homework is suspended for the evening. We also ask the
artist(s) to do a master class workshop with our core arts students during the
class period to develop skills and hear their story. We currently have a group
of about 8 within the department looking at recommendations from other faculty,
students, and literature we received. The budget is about 18-22k a year
for it all, performer fee, tech, catering..etc etc. <BR><BR>Our fustration with
the students more recently in the past year or 2 has been the etiquette use of
technology during the show and behavior that has gone out the window especially
if the performance does not appeal to them.<BR><BR></DIV>How does you facility
go about making your programming choices especially if it is an all school
required event? We are looking to form a committee of 10-15 people
consisting of performing arts related students and some faculty outside of our
department to help develop a working list of acts for next year. We hope
that this may bring the masses to enjoy the events we go with for 2015/16. Would
love to hear of your experiences in this matter.<BR><BR></DIV>Reply in a PM to
me or share with us all. Happy New Year everyone.<BR clear=all>
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<DIV class=gmail_signature>--JEL-- <><<BR><BR>John E.
Lucs<BR>Technical Director, Theater<BR>Peddie
School<BR>jlucs@peddie,.org<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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