CD!09 Highlights presents…
(your weekly feature on CD! 2009. Come be a part of the celebrations!)
WORKSHOPS & VOLUNTEERS
Celebrate Drama! returns for the 5th consecutive year, and boy do we have an exciting 3-days planned for you! From 23rd-25th July 2009 at The Arts House, SDEA presents a host of engaging workshops, enjoyable performances, intriguing film screenings and other roving performances to keep you entertained.
“But which exactly is a MUST for ME?” – That’s the question CD!09 Highlights hopes to help with, as we put our spotlight on WORKSHOPS this week.
CD!09 is pleased to offer 11 varied workshops, catering to a wide range of drama enthusiasts – be you a drama newbie or aficionado, young or just young-at-heart.
If you’re interested in Singaporean theatre…
Don’t miss Singapore Theatre – A Dramatic Past and Future, a lecture by T. Sasitharan, which looks at the past, present and future of theatre in Singapore. How have we, and should we, work to shape our national theatrical heritage?
Arts House --- 24th July 2009, Friday --- 3pm-5pm --- $10 (SDEA members); $15 (Non-SDEA members), inclusive of tea
If you’ve always wanted to try acting, but didn’t quite know where to start…
Come join celebrated theatre practitioner and educator Nora Samosir in Acting 101: Absolute Beginners as she leads you passionate acting newbies through a fun and easy introduction to using body and voice in bringing a role alive from page to stage.
Arts House --- 25th July 2009, Saturday --- 9.30am-6pm --- $90, inclusive of lunch and tea
If you’re a drama educator wannabe…
Join Fanny Kee through a fun, non-threatening foray into drama teaching as Let’s Play: A Dramatic Experience brings you through hands-on improvisation exercises that can be used to improve concentration and acting skills in drama or in the classroom.
This taster workshop is a good introduction to the work of drama educators, and can be followed by SDEA’s other certified courses, held in collaboration with Workforce Development Authority (WDA).
Arts House --- 25th July 2009, Saturday --- 3pm-6pm --- $32
If you are itching to get even more involved, volunteer to be a PAL (aka. Passionate Arts Lover) during Celebrate Drama! 2009 with your time and talents in the following areas:
Contact Peggy at peggyferroa@yahoo.com or 97408913.
So let’s come together to celebrate a shared passion for drama as we enjoy 3 days of spirited exploration, presentation and reflection and drama and theatre education practices in Singapore.
Click here to download the Play Den Booking Forms, and here to download the Workshop Booking Form.
Celebrate Drama! - an arts festival giving the community a voice with the arts.
Imagine individuals coming together bonded by a strong belief that the arts are integral to the development of an individual. Imagine them forming an association and successfully creating arts events connecting artists with schools and communities spreading the love for the arts and giving the public a voice with the arts. Indeed, the imagination of a few idealists back in 2002, gave birth to the Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA).
Seven years later, the association is celebrating another year of successfully connecting the arts with the community of artists, educators and the public. In July, SDEA stages Celebrate Drama!, its successful youth and community arts festival for the 5th year running. When Celebrate Drama! was first conceived, it was meant to be held only as a celebration of SDEA’s 3rd year. But the response from the community and long-standing support from several arts organizations such as The Arts House and the National Arts Council sustained the festival till today.
Apart from performances by youths, Celebrate Drama! also features a community theatre component every year. It features the good work of artists and their collaboration with the public who has interest in the arts and wish to experience the process of arts making. Previous community projects featured the Very Special Arts (2005), teenage girls from various neighbourhoods (2005), Migrant Voices and Pertapis Children’s Home (2007) and the youths from Yayasan Mendaki (2008). Highlights this year would include a play by director Jeremiah Choy, and workshops by respected actresses and actors, Nora Samosir and Fanny Kee.
“SDEA with its advocacy work is the best outlet for the public to be connected with artists from various fields to understand the arts through creating with the arts.” Says Michele Lim, the new President of SDEA.
Watch this space for more information!
Click here to download the Play Den Booking Forms, and here to download the Workshop Booking Form.
ELEMENTS OF DRAMA is a course that introduces participants to the elements of drama and examines how, when applied together, they create dramatic form. Drawing on the work of Aristotle, Haseman and O’Toole, and a variety of curriculum documents, theory and practice are combined. Participants will explore the dramatic elements as they create, make and shape short drama works and reflect on their experiences. As they learn about the artform and gain an understanding of the fundamental processes needed to develop dramatic work, participants will extend their understanding and meld with pedagogic elements to teach the dramatic form in formal and informal learning environment.
Participants will also learn how to design and teach a drama lesson appropriate for a specific educational context and be mentored by established practitioners before they plan, structure and implement drama lessons to their own students.
This course includes an assessment as well as a 6-hour mentoring programme. This course was organised by SDEA in collaboration with WDA (Workforce Development Authority). SDEA's offering of WDA courses offered mark competency levels in drama educators so that we can confidently say that our work has consistency and meets a national standard.
Click here to download the workshop details and registration forms! For more information, please email SDEA or contact Sarjit Kaur (90625964).
