Tag: spring 2016 workshop

Maps & Legends Workshop

Thursdays from 3:45 to 4:45 pm, begins Feb. 18—lasts 6 weeks

free program for middle school students—max 15 participants

led by critically-acclaimed writer Barry Wolverton, author of Neversink and The Vanishing Island (Walden Pond Press/Harper Collins)

to sign up, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444

Our creative-writing workshop for spring will take its inspiration from The Vanishing Island, Barry’s first book in the series The Chronicles of the Black Tulip. We’ll discuss the importance of maps and mapmaking to imaginative storytelling, and how maps shaped The Vanishing Island as well as other popular works of fantasy such as Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Participants will create maps to chart their own fantastical worlds and then write the legends to accompany them. This workshop will culminate in a book-release party of all the participants’ stories.

 

Page to Stage Workshop

Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm, begins Feb. 3—lasts 8 weeks

free program for middle school students at Humes Preparatory Academy; registration is now closed

led by professional actress and playwright Jazzy Miller, and Rhodes College’s theatre class

This theatre workshop is a reprise of our very popular “Page to Stage” workshop from the fall, where young playwrights and actors from Humes Preparatory Academy write their own collaborative script and stage a final performance at Rhodes McCoy Theatre. This spring, in addition to the original “Page to Stage” workshop, we’re also doubling in size and adding another session at the same time that will focus on the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616, celebrated with several events at Rhodes in April.

 

Screenprinting Workshop

tuesdays from 3 to 4:45 pm, begins Feb. 16—lasts 6 weeks

free program for high school students—max 15 participants

led by Memphis College of Arts graduate students Lindsey Mashburn and Kayla Selby

to sign up, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444

This workshop will be a once-a-week introduction to screen printing, open to all levels of students. Screen printing has been used over the decades to create vibrant advertisements, pop-culture art, underground propaganda, and so much more.  We will focus primarily on learning the basic techniques involved; focusing on a more traditional, hands-on, reduction approach. The class will show students how to create vibrant, creative works of art, and we will draw inspiration from our favorite books, movies, and plays.  Screen printing is an incredibly versatile artistic practice, and over the course of this workshop students will gain the confidence and skills they need to create a wide range of new work.  If our schedule allows us the time, we will also show the students how to create some fairly simple, handmade paper books to show off their new prints. Materials will be provided, come with a can-do attitude and be willing to get a little messy! This workshop will culminate in a public gallery show.

 

Film Production Workshop

free program for high school students—max 10 participants

led by professional videographer Justin Thompson

to sign up, please contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org or 901-573-8444

The 2016 Spring Film Production workshop at story booth will offer students an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of documentary film production.  In this hands-on workshop, the students will be introduced to the history, aesthetics, and concepts of documentary film production, the basics of digital-cinema camera operation, lighting, sound recording, and editing. The students will use the documentary form to tell their own stories and stories about the people and things that shape their world. The workshop will culminate in a special screening of the student films, as well as an opportunity to submit their work to potentially be shown as part of a youth programming block during the 2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival.