Education Outreach > June 09, 2010
Our goal at Arclight Repertory Theatre is to offer professional arts instruction, both during the school day and after school along with professional assemblies that come right to your school! For schools, we offer residencies right in the classroom. We partner classroom teachers with teaching artists. Residencies allow students to tap into the artistic experience and their own creativity in the context of meeting specific curriculum objectives. Theater arts-based activities include performance, improvisation, voice, movement and character analysis.This will infuse more fun into the learning process, and help students improve a range of academic, creative, and critical thinking skills. Students are more engaged and successful in school, develop their own artistic voices, and enlarge their capacity for community participation.
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Arclight Rep Edu Year One Wrap-Up
Sunshine? Check. Lemonade? Check. Porch swing? Check.
It is indeed the first few days of summer, where all teachers and students can look back on the last school year with a heady mixture of wistful nostalgia and palpable relief. This is doubly true for Arclight Repertory Education Outreach, as the 2009-2010 school year was our first major programming year. It was an adventure every step of the way, but bringing arts education to the South Bay was well worth the occasional danger. So sit back on that porch swing, sip that lemonade, and let me regale you with the thrilling tales of our year in review.
A journey of a thousand miles...
Fresh off providing educational materials for last summer’s Shakespeare on the Square Festival, we entered into the Fall with excitement. We assembled a crack staff of teaching artists and educators and boldly took our first steps forward. Our first opportunity brought us to the newly constructed East Carnegie Branch of the San Jose Public Library on a cold, crisp October day. Over the course of a two-hour workshop, over twenty children constructed their own unique monster puppets and learned how to give them life and character through voice and movement. The monsters all made it home for Halloween and the kids had a blast.