Enrollment will be OPEN soon for our Fall 2010 Session of classes. The session will begin the week of September 13th.
Playhouse Classes, Camps, and Workshops
We are pleased to offer many opportunities for creative expression: ENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN for 2010 Summer Camps! Join us for the most creative camps around! Summer Camp details have been posted, follow the link below. Enrollment will be OPEN soon for our Fall 2010 Session of classes.
Song & Dance Super Stars (Grades K-2), Kathy Marshall
Welcome to the young world of Song and Dance! This class offers and encourages your child MANY opportunities and participation with:
Singing songs while doing motions to songs.
Dancing to upbeat fast and slow songs using rhythm instruments, ribbons, beanbags, etc.
Performing short, age appropriate plays such as Peter Rabbit, The Lion's Dinner, The Little Red Hen, etc.
Children are given props to wear and or use as part of their production numbers.
This is totally a hands on class where EVERY child performs and excels at his/her individual level.
Music selections are currently used in Carmel Clay Schools; adaptations by Mrs. Marshall.
So, come join the fun. This will be an awesome time for everyone!
#SS110SDSS
$80.00
Materials Fee $5.00
8 times on Mondays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 22nd through May 17th
Fabulous Fine Art (Grades K-2), Daphne Jensen
Do you love to draw and paint? We will be exploring through sketching, painting, and sculpting beautiful works of art inspired by amazing famous artists. We will study and create famous faces, lovely landscapes, and simply stunning still life in this class of art making at it’s finest!
#SS110FFA
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Tuesdays
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, March 23rd through May 18th
Mixed Media Collage Painting (Grades K-3), Tina Henderson
Explore the building process of creating your own mixed media collage painting by utilizing a variety of tools and techniques while also integrating paint. Students will discover the unlimited supply of bought and found materials that you can use in your collage. Inspiration will come from exposure to how artists of the past and present work in this medium. This class will focus on the development of the student's individual expression. Demonstrations, experiments, and assignments will help you grow a visual vocabulary to create your own unique works of art. This class is suited for both beginners and advanced students!
#SS110MMCP01
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Tuesdays
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, March 16th through May 11th
Artistic Adventure! (Grades K-5), Adam Seif
Learn to draw cartoons in 3-D with children's author Adam Seif! Adam has been teaching drawing for many years and has expanded to the Second Story Playhouse. This class is is so much fun! Adam's unique step-by-step teaching process makes learning fun and easy. Come take a trip in a speeding race car or zoom to Saturn in a light speed rocket ship. With this class it will happen! Please join us, because the adventure is about to begin!
#SS110AA
$80.00
Materials Fee $5.00
8 times on Tuesdays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 23rd through May 18th
Create in Clay (Grades 1-5), Christine Sweigart
Do you love to get messy while creating fantastic art? This is the class for you! We will be sculpting, pinching, rolling, and building with clay for this hands on Art experience. Students will get the chance to express their creativity through the building of clay vessels, tiles, and figurines. Each student will get the chance to glaze and paint their original creations during this 8 week class and take home memories that will last a lot longer than the clay stays on their clothes!
#SS110CIC
$120.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Tuesdays
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, March 16th through May 11th
The World is Not Flat! (Grades 3-8), Jenny Moon
Loads of fun with sculpture and 3D Design! Have wild and wacky "hands on" experiences working with clay, wire, plaster, Styrofoam, handmade paper, and recyclable art! Caution! Don’t try this at home! Come to Second Story Playhouse!
#SS110WNF
$120.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Mondays
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, March 15th through May 10th
The Art of Manners (Grades 2-5), Sally Cooksey, The Manners Lady NEW DAY!
Kids learn important social skills! The Manners Lady will take children on an adventure of spills and goofs. Kiddos will learn how to handle situations so gracefully that mom and dad will be surprised. Boys and girls will have such fun learning manners that by the end of this class you would feel “comfortable and at ease” sitting next to the Queen of England.
#SS110AOM
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Mondays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 15th through May 10th
Fabulous Fine Art (Grades 3-5), Daphne Jensen
Do you love to draw and paint? We will be exploring through sketching, painting, and sculpting beautiful works of art inspired by amazing famous artists. We will study and create famous faces, lovely landscapes, and simply stunning still life in this class of art making at it’s finest!
#SS110FFA2
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Thursdays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 18th through May 13th
The Singer’s Theater Jr. (Grades 2-4), Katy Gentry NEW TIME!
This 8-week dynamic class will introduce young performers to the various styles of acting, music, and dance that are creatively placed in today’s contemporary musical theater as well as Golden Globe nominated shows like GLEE. During our one-hour sessions students will be learning basic improvisations skills, stage terminology, scene and character study, and focused ways to use their vocal, acting, and dance ability to become triple threat performers! A performance will be given for friends and family after our fabulous 8-week class.
#FS110TSTJ
$80.00 Materials Fee $5.00
8 times on Tuesdays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 16th through May 11th
Fiction Writing Workshop (Grades 5-8, 9-12), Greg & Donna Kishbaugh
This hands-on writing workshop focuses on the writing process and incorporates various techniques and exercises from the Story Workshop Method®. We will play a variety of word games, read out loud, and complete writing exercises such as Take-A-Place, How-To's, Epistolary Forms, How-It-Happens, Parodies, Satires, Comparison and Contrast, Model Tellings, Point-of-View, Steeple Chase, and Journal Writing to name a few! Students will write in class and read their work out loud, which will not only help them energize their storytelling abilities, it will also help them find their writing voice and fine tune their own writing process. Peers will be encouraged to offer positive feedback.
#SS110FWW
$120.00
Materials Fee $5.00 Grades 5-8
8 times on Wednesdays
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, March 17th through May 12th Grades 9-12
8 times on Wednesdays
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, March 17th through May 12th
Stagecraft for Starters (Grades 5-8), Bernie Szuhaj
This class provides students with "the basics" in the technical aspects of a theatrical production. One of the most overlooked aspects of a theatrical production from an educational standpoint; Stagecraft is considered a technical rather than an artistic field as the focus of stagehands is usually on the practical implementation of a designer's artistic vision. Topics covered in this class include constructing and rigging scenery, hanging and focusing of lighting, design and procurement of costumes, and more!
#SS110SFS
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Wednesdays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 17th through May 12th
Acting - Scenework (Grades 5-9), Bernie Szuhaj
The heart of any great scene is an honest, engaging relationship. Children in this class will work together to make positive choices and create realistic relationships on stage. More than just the basics, students will delve into scene analysis, character analysis, acting styles, and more!
#SS110AS
$80.00
Materials Fee $5.00 Grades 5-9
8 times on Thursdays
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm, March 25th through May 20th
In this class quick thinking, give and take, and playing the action will be the key to success...and a lot of laughs!
#SS110IC
$80.00
Materials Fee $5.00 Grades 5-8
8 times on Tuesdays
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, March 23rd through May 18th Grades 9-12
8 times on Thursdays
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm, March 18th through May 13th
Poetry Perfection (Grades 9-12), Elizabeth Krasnoff Levy
In this class the student will learn to create poetry of self, of place, and of interest. They will consider and use figurative language and mine their own experiences to develop and craft poetry in a variety of styles. Focus will also be given on the student developing their own voice and finely tuning their word choice and poetic interpretation of life experience as well as the synthesizing process that writing brings to our culture and our sense of self. In addition, the student will learn how to deliver their poetry in a readers' theater setting so that the performance of the work gives the written word additional substance and depth. We will look at some of our favorite poets, analyze their works and use their examples as guiding forces to develop our own works. Poets to be explored will include Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein, W.H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Octavio Paz and others.
#SS110CWPO
$80.00
Materials Fee $5.00
8 times on Wednesdays
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, March 17th through May 12th
Auditioning (Grades 7-12), Actors Theatre of Indiana
A seasoned actor serves as “audition coach” to help young people develop and improve their audition skills. All audition formats will be covered: the cold reading, the monologue, the vocal audition, the dance audition etc. With the guidance of the instructor students will prepare audition pieces and will receive instant feedback on their progress. The last two sessions will be devoted to developing a “winning” monologue or song to be presented before an audience.
#SS110AUD
$80.00 Materials Fee $5.00
8 times on Mondays
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, March 15th through May 10th
Mixed Media Collage Painting (Grades 4-8), Tina Henderson
Explore the building process of creating your own mixed media collage painting by utilizing a variety of tools and techniques while also integrating paint. Students will discover the unlimited supply of bought and found materials that you can use in your collage. Inspiration will come from exposure to how artists of the past and present work in this medium. This class will focus on the development of the student's individual expression. Demonstrations, experiments, and assignments will help you grow a visual vocabulary to create your own unique works of art. This class is suited for both beginners and advanced students!
#SS110MMCP02
$80.00
Materials Fee $10.00
8 times on Thursdays
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, March 18th through May 13th
