Professional Development: Humanities Science and Math Continuing Education Conferences     Last Updated 11/24/03 Professional Development: Art Enchanted Circle Theater Institute Contact: Priscilla Kane Hellweg, Artistic Director 252 Open Square Way, Studio 421 Holyoke, MA 01040 (413) 534-3789 fax: (413) 534-1998 or email BETWEEN THE CANALS: The Evolution of a Mill Town Performing as part of the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) Fall Season: Day time and school performances: November 3 - November 26, 2003 & March 8 - April 16, The Market @ Open Square ROOTS, RHYTHM AND RAPTURE This is a high-energy, educational performance of music and dance from the Caribbean. Traditional and contemporary songs, rhythms, and dances from the islands of Puerto Rico, Cuba and Haiti are brought vividly to life with live drummers and dancers in colorful costumes. Audience participation is encouraged. ROOTS, RHYTHMS AND RAPTURE are colorful, fun and interactive. February 19, 2004 9:30 Am Scibelli Auditorium Springfield Technical Community College Springfield, MA TALES FROM MOTHER RUSSIA November 22, 200311 AM & 1 PM Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Amherst, MA FOLKTALES FROM JAPAN April 21, 2004 10:30 AM JFK Library Boston, MA Enchanted Circle Theater is widely recognized as one of the finest educational theater companies in New England. Our productions are cross-cultural and multidisciplinary, integrating music, dance, theater, literature and the visual arts. Our programs have inspired teachers to say: "You are proof of how exciting education can be!" and students to say: "You made me want to come to school!" Enchanted Circle Theater's programs are designed to engage student learners and educators by using creativity as a learning tool. Professional touring productions for grades K-6 focus on world cultures, performances for grades 4-8 focus on science and literature. Our reading incentive programs bring professional actors into an intimate classroom setting to share their love of reading. ECT tours six full scale productions to schools and cultural institutions, offers a wide array of artist-in-residence programs, creative arts workshops and teacher training symposia, and collaborates with human service agencies on projects relating to social issues. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Contact: Amy Dane, Education Coordinator, 567-0929. "Daily Life and Afterlife: Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome" is a 1-1/2 hour tour offered February-early May, 2004 by the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum for grades 4-8. The visit and prefaced by a hands-on archaeology lesson in your classroom for schools within a 20 minute radius of the college. Annenburg/CPB Channel FREE Professional Development Opportunities List of Workshops and Courses Find out more about the workshops and courses below: when they are broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Channel and how to purchase them on videocassette. Subscribe to or unsubscribe from a workshop's or course's Channel-Talk email list, or, go directly to each workshop's or course's Web site, which provides information, support materials, activities, and a forum for communicating with other participants nationwide. View the current Professional Development Broadcast Schedule Zea Mays Printmaking 413-584-1783 zeamays@rcn.com Zea Mays Printmaking Arts and Industry Building, Florence, MA 01062 To view a detailed schedule of workshops and classes visit our website. AT THE STUDIO We've got some exciting workshops coming up in the next two months. Details and images available on the website (www.zeamaysprintmaking.com/workshops.html ) Collagraph-relief and intaglio methods with resident artist Liz Chalfin December 6/7 10AM-4PM This workshop will introduce the full range of collagraph potential. You'll use acrylic mediums to create line work and tonal variations, and collage techniques to create relief plates. We'll print these plates in various combinations, which will create richly layered images. We'll make plates on Saturday and print on Sunday. For all levels. Friday Morning Class: Photo Monotype with resident artist Liz Chalfin Fridays, 9:30-12:30, November 7-December 12 Integrate photographic imagery into your monoprints! We'll use Imag-on Ultra film attached to plexiglass printing plates and begin by creating numerous photographic plates. These plates will be developed into prints through painterly inking techniques. The resulting prints will be a beautiful merger of photographs and painterly marks. Limited to 4 participants. $250 + materials. Book Binding Saturday or Sunday, 10-4 $100 per day + materials Sheryl Jaffe will introduce different book binding techniques in this workshop series. No previous experience necessary. Sunday, December 14 -Coptic Binding and Closures Coptic is an ancient North African binding technique, which allows a book to open and lay flat, making it wonderful for sketchbooks. Features of this book include wrapped hard covers, lots of blank pages and lovely linked chains of stitches exposed on the spine of the book. Smith College Museum of Art Ann Musser, Associate Curator of Education K - 12 School Tours at SCMA: Playing House Tuesday-Friday October 28-December 11, 2003 Playing House is a tour of Undomesticated Interiors, an exhibition that remodels the familiarity of home into a playful exploration of who we are and how we live. Groups will discuss homes, both real and imagined, as they look at fabulously decorated life-size art installations by renowned contemporary artists such as Liza Lou, Sandy Skoglund, and Do Ho Suh. This tour is interactive and age-appropriate, with different themes and activities for elementary, middle and high school groups. All teachers who reserve a tour at least two weeks in advance will receive a curriculum packet that includes a disk of images from the exhibition for use in the classroom. For SCMA Highlights and Family programs please visit the web.