We’re on the Government’s Website!
March 22, 2011 at 11:14 am | Posted in In the News, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentShakespeare in Action is featured on the Government of Canada’s website! Our Virtual Lab can help develop language skills in kids of all ages. Go check it out!
www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/manchettes-headlines/shakespeare-eng.html
Watch us on TV!
February 3, 2011 at 2:41 pm | Posted in In the News, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentThe excitement continues! Shakespeare in Action will be featured on CBC’s News Network (channel 26 for those in the Toronto area) TODAY at 3:45pm and 4:45pm. Be sure to tune in!
Shakespeare in the News
February 3, 2011 at 11:46 am | Posted in In the News, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentWe are having a very exciting day here at SIA headquarters. In addition to the great feature in the Globe & Mail on Wednesday, today two more articles about us have been released! See us on CBC.ca and CTV.ca, courtesy of The Canadian Press, or read all about it in the National Post.
Of course all of these articles are about the launch of our Virtual Lab – which went live today! So check it out here and e-mail us (shakespeareinaction@gmail.com) for log-in information so you can karaoke with the Bard!
Shakespeare in the Globe
January 31, 2011 at 3:31 pm | Posted in In the News, Virtual Lab | 2 CommentsHello gentle blog readers! In case you missed it this morning (on Twitter and in the paper), here’s a link to the lovely Globe and Mail article all about our Virtual Lab. Thanks to Kate Hammer, the Globe’s education reporter, for a great piece. If you want to see the Lab in action, please come back on Thursday, click on the blog’s “Virtual Lab” tab, and check it out!
Festival Guidelines: Dance and Movement
January 25, 2011 at 4:01 pm | Posted in Dance, National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentTags: Dance, Students, Virtual Lab
How to… Create a Dance and Movement Piece.
- Number of participants: 2 to 10
- Time Limit: up to 5 minutes
- Perform a dance piece or movement sequence interpreting one of Shakespeare’s scenes, themes, characters or monologues. The Movement and Dance category is designed for interpretations of Shakespeare’s work expressed through dance or physical movement. Text is permitted and any music is permissible. We must acknowledge the original artist of music as part of our program. Ensure that you provide us with the relevant information on the registration form.
- Minimal sets, props and costumes are allowed (One person must be able to carry them on and off).
For more information and tips, click below! Continue Reading Festival Guidelines: Dance and Movement…
Festival Guidelines: Design
January 25, 2011 at 3:30 pm | Posted in Design, National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentTags: design, Students, Virtual Lab
How To… Design Sets and Costumes
Participants: 1 – 3 students
What you’ll need to present:
In-Schools Festival: Renderings for costumes for AT LEAST 5 separate characters; AND ground plans and front-perspective drawings showing your ideas for a set design. You can visit the Virtual Shakespeare Lab for examples of each.
National Festival: In addition to the above, students must provide fabric swatches for costumes, a SECOND drawing for each of the 5 characters, and a basic paper-model of the set design. You will also need to contribute to the Festival blog each week, so make sure you keep your entries up to date!
Keep in mind: When developing your ideas, imagine you are designing costumes and set for a real full-scale production with an endless budget! Students should justify how the design relates to the play and why this design has been chosen.
For more tips and info, click below!
Festival Guidelines: Group and Duologue Scenes
January 25, 2011 at 2:31 pm | Posted in Acting, National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentTags: actors, Students, Virtual Lab
How To… Create Group and Duologue Scenes
Without actors, Shakespeare’s words would never leave the page!
The guidelines are:
- 2 actors for a Dualogue; 3-10 for a Group Scene
- Maximum of 7 minutes for a Dualogue; 15 minutes for a Group Scene
Here are some tips for how to choose and act in scenes for our Youth Festival.
Continue Reading Festival Guidelines: Group and Duologue Scenes…
Thank you, Telus!
February 8, 2010 at 9:00 am | Posted in National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentTags: grants, National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Telus, Virtual Lab
Shakespeare in Action is proud to announce that TELUS has made a generous contribution of $16,000 towards our inaugural National Shakespeare Youth Festival.
This vital contribution comes from the TELUS Toronto Community Board, and will assist us to develop our Virtual Shakespeare Lab (visit the tabs on this site!), and to hire professional artist artists to mentor participating youth.
Participants from across Ontario will now be able to communicate with professional mentors using innovative, web-based technology throughout the entire Festival process.
On behalf of the Board, staff and everyone at Shakespeare in Action, thank you TELUS! You have made a real and significant contribution to our organization and will ensure the ongoing success of this landmark new program.
For more information about the Festival, please click here.
And for more information about the TELUS Community Board, please click here.
See that Virtual Lab tab? Yeah, that one up there.
December 11, 2009 at 1:39 pm | Posted in Miscellaneous, National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Virtual Lab | Leave a commentTags: National Shakespeare Youth Festival, Resources, Virtual Lab
Michael Kelly editing Virtual Lab footage
There is a lot happening at Shakespeare In Action as the holidays draw near. We’re stuffing envelopes, eating cookies, meeting students, eating cookies, organizing our National Shakespeare Youth Festival, eating cookies, working on upcoming programming, eating cookies. You get the idea. And in the midst of all this chaos (and cookies), there is the Virtual Lab. Which you will find on this wonderful blog. Sort of.
As the National Shakespeare Youth Festival is coming along, we’re quickly realizing that we can’t be in every classroom all the time. We also know that performing and interpreting Shakespeare can be intimidating, to both students and teachers. So we wanted to provide our Festival participants (and anyone else who might be interested) with some resources to help them through the process. Because our Festival (and theatre in general) is all about the process.
Enter the Virtual Lab, brainchild of one Mr. Michael Kelly. Eventually, this will be a place where we are able to share our resources, ideas, exercises, and general Shakespearean brilliance in video, audio, and possibly photographic form. We want it to be visual, interactive, and, of course, interesting. Plus, we like putting actors to work. And Michael really likes that video camera.
Still in its infancy, the Virtual Lab is currently a single tab on the blog here. But soon it will be home to many mini-tutorials, which Michael is busily shooting and editing, and eventually we hope to make it an independent micro-site. In the meantime, we thought we’d let you know what we’re working toward. Hopefully the next time you click that tab up there, there will be something new and exciting to check out!
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