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Is your theater company providing courses in acting, singing, dance, playwriting, or backstage technical know-how? If so, write down all the necessary information and send it to me to be posted here! Be absolutely sure to include contact email addresses and phone numbers as well as length and COST (if any) of studies or training! If and when you no longer are providing your studies, please write to me and let me know. Free courses and training will always be listed FIRST and all listings will be according to dates started.

(StagewhisperS^© has no personal connection to and takes no responsibility for either the quality or professionalism of any of the courses announced at this site or in its mailings.

StagewhisperS^© can not verify either the license,  ability, or qualification of any individuals or companies, and highly recommends that any persons seeking an education in any area to ask informative questions  regarding costs,  payments, backgrounds and qualifications of either the teachers, schools or groups before signing any contracts!)

Binghamton, NY

Walden, NY

The Hudson Valley Conservatory of Fine Arts provides instruction in all
areas and facets of dance, music, and drama.  (Art classes are instructed
upon availability of staff and client demand.)

Our combined vision continues to offer fine instruction in all aspects of
"the arts"  and to provide a positive environment conducive for a
well-rounded performer.

Our Dance  and Drama Classes begin in September and usually meet
once a week.  We continue to work with these groups resulting in
performances at our New Rose Theatre.  The conclusion of classes is
during the month of June.  Music lessons run from September until June
and  inclusive a Music Show as well.  The availability of the teacher and
private or small group lessons makes it convenient to register any time
during the year.

We continue instruction through out the summer.  We begin July 9th this
year and will run various performance arts summer camps, drama
camps, dance camps, and music lessons.  The Hudson Valley
Conservatory remains open for all until mid August.

If anyone would like information packets about the upcoming summer
sessions or next year's schedule call HVC at (845) 778-2478.  Please
leave the information packet you want us to send to you, as well as, your
name and mailing address.  We will send you the information via the
postal service.
 

Union Dale, PA & Lakeville, PA ~

The Lakeside Players Offer Free Theater Camp 

        For the fourth year in a row, The Lakeside Players are offering a free, fun theater camp for young people. For two weeks in July, children can enjoy acting, play theater games, and rehearse scenes on the stage at Community Hall next to the Lakeville United Methodist Church on Route 590 in Lakeville.

            Camp this year is being offered to children ages 9 to 12. Those interested in working behind the scenes are welcome, too. Everyone will get the chance to show off what they've learned to family and friends in a Saturday performance at the end of the camp. This year’s play is entitled, “The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ring.”

This year’s camp will be Monday through Friday, July 21 to August 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Plenty of time to grab dinner and drive your youngster over. The performance will be on Saturday, August 2, at 7 p.m.

Veronica Deisler, Roxan Schwartz, and Sara Schwartz will continue as camp instructors. As in the past three years, the camp is free. It’s The Lakeside Players' gift to the community for all its support.

For details or to enroll in the camp call Veronica at 857-2226. See you in July!

991 State Highway 12, two miles south of Greene, NY

Chenango River Theatre

Offers Free Kids Summer Drama Camp

Chenango River Theatre, the Binghamton area’s equity, non-profit, professional theatre company, will offer a free, one-week summer drama camp for kids who are going into Grades 2 - 5.  The class is available at no charge to children of season ticket holders, with a maximum of one free child per family.  The first 15 kids to register will be free (applies to this class only). 

This workshop will introduce young people to the exciting world of theatre and acting by providing students with the means to actively explore the dramatic process.  They will learn such skills as how to create a character, discover the elements of plot, and how to use movement, speech and their imaginations to share a story with an audience.  Students will develop their own unique creative voice using familiar stories and poems, but with an added twist.

Noted children’s theatre instructor Marybeth Clark, Associate Artistic Director of Charleston Stage Company (Charleston, SC) and Education Director of that company’s acclaimed education department, will teach the free class.  Marybeth is in her 10th season with Charleston Stage Company.  She has a degree in theatre/performance from the University of South Florida and has worked as an actor in professional theatres throughout the Southeast before settling in Charleston in 1994.  Before joining Charleston Stage Company, she was a theatre instructor at the Charleston County School of the Arts for middle and high school.  She currently oversees all Charleston Stage Company’s education programs, including the Resident Acting Company, after school classes and outreach workshops.

The free class will run from 10:30am to Noon, Monday through Thursday, June 30 - July 3, at Chenango River Theatre’s new home at 991 State Highway 12, two miles south of Greene.

Additional Drama Camps Available

Chenango River Theatre has added two additional Summer Drama Camps to their summer education program.  The two added camps are for kids from Grades 2 - 5 (July 7 - 11) or Grades 6 - 8 (July 14 - 18).  A fee of $150 per child will apply.

Drama classes will run from 10:30am to Noon, Monday through Friday, at Chenango River Theatre’s new home at 991 State Highway 12, two miles south of Greene.

To register, please call the theatre at 656 - 8778.  Payment is due at the time of registration and is non-refundable.

Owego, NY

TI-AHWAGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

OFFERS CHILDREN’S SUMMER THEATER WORKSHOP

Joe Kane, Executive Director of the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce the theater’s upcoming Children’s Summer Theater Workshop.  Three, two week sessions will take place beginning with Session One on July 7 through July 18, 2008, Session Two on July 21 through August 1, 2008, and Session Three on August 4 through August 15, 2008.  Children ages 7 through 10 will meet in the mornings from 10:00am – 12:00pm and children ages 11 through 14 will meet in the afternoons from 1:00pm – 3:00pm.  The workshops will take place at Ti-Ahwaga’s beautiful 156-seat theater located at 42 Delphine Street, Owego, New York.  The fee per child for each session is $40.00.

 The Children’s Summer Theater Workshop is a theater education program aimed at exposing participants ages 7 through 14 to many aspects of theater.  Areas covered will include the history of theater and it’s cultural impact; different theatrical genres including musicals, reader’s theater, drama, comedy, etc.; various aspects of putting on a production including the job breakdowns of director, producer, designers, costumers, set construction, sound and light technicians; the audition process including choosing monologue/song, preparation, presentation, promotion.  Each session will result in a performance on the final Friday of each two-week session. 

 The Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center have been a part of the community for over 50 years, producing such gems as The Odd Couple, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Godspell, Into The Woods, Cabaret, and A Christmas Story.  In addition to their stage productions, the Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center has offered many movie nights, as well as summer arts programs for the youth of the community.

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Theatricks Kids Camp
 

Theatricks Kids! at Roberson Museum & Science Center

Classes begin, Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM -

Just for Kids: Theatricks Kids Camp - Grades 3 and up

Wednesday through Friday, August 6 - 8, AND August 13 - 15, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.

$195 for members, $235 for non-members. Grades 3 and up.

Join Theatricks by Starlight this summer for an educational trip through the world of theatre. Over the course of two weeks, campers will bring a play from the page to the stage, by writing, revising, building, rehearsing and performing their own play. Parents are invited to the playªs world premiere. Materials included.

For More Information: (607) 772-0660, or visit www.roberson.org

YOUTH THEATRE WORKSHOP

Baldwinsville Theatre Guild will be offering a summer youth theatre workshop,

open to all students in grades 5 - 12.

Taught by local long-time actor and educator,  Bill Coughlin,

 it promises to be a very fun, challenging and rewarding experience!

The workshop will run from 9 AM to 2 PM for two weeks, August 4 - 8 and August 11 - 15More information will be forthcoming.  Check back often at the BTG website  www.baldwinsvilletheatreguild.org  Any questions may be directed to Steve Borek at 315-243-5335 or steve.borek@gmail.com

***Please note that Stagewhispers merely reports on available classes and programs and is in no way financially connected with any of the programs noted at this site. It neither recommends nor talks against any theatrical form of education. I leave these things for the buyer to investigate and I take no responsibility either for the professionalism or the lack of it, should that be the case, within any of these programs. ~ Mickey Ray

A NEW PLAY AVAILABLE!

Franz Jägerstätter

by Jack Gilroy

Mr. Gilroy offers his play, Franz Jägerstätter to any play group.

Editors and select readers say it’s a very powerful drama. The story engages, challenges and entertains. You and others can decide that. There is no fee for the play. The message of personal right to form one’s conscience is the reward.

About the Author - About the Play

Jack Gilroy is the author of a couple of novels published by Binghamton University. He lives in Endwell, NY, and has been a peace activist since leaving the military many decades ago –converting to nonviolence based on the teachings of Christ, Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Last fall, Jack traveled to Austria on two occasions to talk to the people who knew Franz Jagerstatter, the father of four young girls who refused to fight for the Nazis. Jack met with Maria, a daughter of Franz, his widow (Franziska) and his biographer, Dr Erma Putz.

On October 26^th, 2007, Franz Jägerstätter, was beatified by the Catholic Church. Curiously, the same church that cooperated with the Nazis when they annexed Austria in 1938.

The life of Franz Jägerstätter is an amazing story. First told in book form by the Boston University professor, Gordon Zahn, In Solitary Witness (Templegate Publishers 1964), the story of the courage and integrity of Franz was read by Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg said that his main motivation for making the decision to release the Pentagon Papers was the story of Franz Jägerstätter as told by Gordon Zahn.

Gilroy talked to Gordon Zahn before writing his novel, Absolute Flanigan, back in the 1990’s. Prof. Zahn made suggestions for framing Gilroy’s fiction story of a young man from the coal mining regions of northeastern Pennsylvania struggling with his conscience at the outbreak of war with Germany and Japan. Gilroy says the inspiration for the book came from Franz, the Austrian Catholic and Ben Salmon, the real life WWI Catholic who refused to train to kill. Ben Salmon was tortured by the US Army, sentenced to death, and years later, after the end of WWI, was released from prison in very poor health.

Now, after writing two novels of young men who refused to train to kill, Gilroay has taken the real life story of Franz Jägerstätter into a play of the same name.                       

The play is fresh, it’s never been done. It can be sent electronically to interested theater groups.

If a group decides to do the play, he simply would like to know when and where and to be consulted.

Jack Gilroy

(607) 748 8105

Jgilroy1@stny.rr.com

Jack Gilroy, Bio

Jack Gilroy is the author of two novels about young men who refuse to train to kill. Absolute Flanigan (published in 2002 Binghamton University Press) and a later novel, The Wisdom Box. (both books stocked at Barnes & Nobles in Ithaca).

A retired Maine-Endwell High School teacher, Jack is a full time peace and justice advocate. His students in the United States and in Australia (where he also taught high school) were known for their research, debate, discussion, and action. The action part of student participation was always controlled but kept administrators at great unease

The Press & Sun Bulletin of Binghamton, and even the Washington Post, marveled at how Jack’s students not only knew their facts and figures but were willing to confront the powers of corporate and government institutions to challenge such things as nuclear weapons (Australian student opposition to French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific 1970’s & Seneca U.S Army Nuclear Depot base in 1980’s and 90’s). Students took to task the US Government and corporate powers for economic support of the racist government of South Africa. Students demonstrated at IBM Endicott in opposition to Apartheid—which was followed by an Apartheid  play Jack wrote for the students. Students  took their play on the road to many schools in the Southern Tier. Jack’s 12^th grade students held a number of Town Meetings to allow community voices to state their opposition to the Broome County NY legislative body that approved the building of a garbage incinerator. The plan was passed by the legislature until students went door to door in two legislative districts and forced a revote. A  one vote turn around killed the garbage burning plans. (Today Broome County has one of the highest recycling records in the United States)

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Even the Washington Post lauded Jack’s students in a story of how students studied the military industrial complex, found it in their own back yard, and worked to expose the facts on how our economy was forced to become dependent on weapon making .as our nation fell back environmentally and economically.

Jack was one of 26 men and women put on trial in Columbus, Georgia in 2001. His crime was trying to deliver petitions to close the US Army School of the Americas, an institution that taught torture and assassination inside of Ft Benning, Georgia. Jack bought a one way ticket to Georgia, was convicted, put in chains and sent to the basement of a totally enclosed cell in Muskogee County Jail. Over a month later Jack was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary. Weeks later given what the US Government calls diesel therapy, Jack was chained to a prison bus seat and sent around several states until arriving at Petersburg prison in Virginia. Jack completed his prison journey in a Pennsylvania Prison work camp where he built fortifications against “suspected terrorists” following 9/11.

Jack and his wife Helene, just returned from a two month work detail in the lower 9^th ward of New Orleans .

Jack is presently working on two plays, one, a comedy, is about his prison camp work team (Chi Chi’s Garden) and the other is an untitled story of FEMA trailer folks in New Orleans and how they manage to keep their dignity and joy of life under difficult circumstances and vivid memories of “the storm.”

Jack has a BS in history and MS in Education. Jack served in both the US Navy (Reserve) and active duty US Infantry.

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