WANTED Individuals To Perform in ARTFARM’s SHAKESPEARE SONNET SLAM
Thursday, April 8 to raise MONEY for ARTFARM’s Shakespeare in the Grove 2010 production of
As You Like It
All you need to do is: *PREPARE ONE OF SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS -as a solo, duet or group! *Get as many people as possible to SPONSOR YOUR PERFORMANCE by donating to ARTFARM. *Come to Kidcity in Middletown, on Thursday April 8 and PERFORM YOUR SONNET at ARTFARM’s Elizabethan Bash Who can do this? YOU CAN! Sign up in one of four categories:
Then start preparing your Sonnet performance and racking up the SPONSORS!!
The people with the most sponsor donations WIN COOL PRIZES!
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Arts Administration Intern
ARTFARM is looking for a talented and energetic individual who can take initiative, take direction and be self-reliant while working on many administrative, artistic, technical and promotional aspects of Shakespeare in the Grove, 2010.
The Administrative Intern will focus primarily on marketing, public relations, production support, and event coordination for a two week run of Shakespeare's As You Like It. Shakespeare in the Grove includes live preshow music every night This is an opportunity to learn about all aspects of producing a large-scale theater event, from fundraising to wardrobe.
May 24 to July 21. Stipend available. We are looking for a current college student or recent graduate.
Relevant skills and experiences include internet literacy, desktop publishing, graphic design, event management, set construction, theater, writing skills, public speaking, imagination and a general willingness to go where the need is most acute and fill the gap.
Send cover letter and resume by March 26, 2010 to:
Ten Percent Tuesdays at It’s Only Natural Restaurant!
Starting Tuesday, January 5, It’s Only Natural Restaurant
has offered to donate TEN PERCENT OF SALES ON TUESDAYS TO SUPPORT ARTFARM’S
SHAKESPEARE IN THE GROVE 2010. So support ARTFARM while enjoying the best
vegetarian food in Connecticut
plus a fabulous selection of organic wine and beer.
Every Tuesday. 11 am to 9 pm.
In Main Street
Market, 386 Main Street
in Middletown.
(860) 346-9210; www.ionrestaurant.com
ARTFARM's Circus for a Fragile Planet performer Megan Berritta (aka Methaney) was recently seen flying over Brooklyn! Learn this and more at... CONNECTICUT
SCHOOL OF CIRCUS ARTS Now enrolling for the spring semester!
This fabulous collaboration between ARTFARM,Oddfellows
Playhouse and Matica Arts offers rigorous, year-round circus training to young
people ages 12 to 18. Monday evenings 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm starting February 1
and culminating in public circus performances on May 21 and 22. The program is
held at Oddfellows Playhouse, 128
Washington Street in Middletown and is directed by ARTFARM
Executive Director (and founder of the Children’s Circus of Middletown) Dic
Wheeler with Matica circus artists Joel Melendez and Heidi Kirchofer. Contact
Oddfellows Playhouse at (860) 347-6143 to register. ---------------------------------------
ARTFARM Teaching artists all over the state in 2010!
Six ARTFARM teaching artists are busy teaching at schools
all over Connecticut.
Currently you can find us at Kinsella Arts Magnet School,
Watkinson School,
and Weaver High
School (all in Hartford) and we
just finished an intensive circus week at Waterbury Arts
Magnet School. Dic Wheeler,
along with Circus for a Fragile Planet performers Maegan Fuller, Megan
Berritta, Joel Melendez and stage manager Allison McDermott are all teaching
circus arts under the ARTFARM umbrella this winter. Artistic Director Marcella
Trowbridge is creating a new work with Weaver High School
students as part of an exciting pilot program called OutFront. Look for the
premiere of this new work on May 6 at 7 at Weaver High School.
Dic is also teaching two classes at Middlesex Community College
this spring: Acting One, which he has been teaching for the past several years,
and Plays in Production, a new course that will culminate in the production of
a play on May 14 and 15 at the College. Both classes start the week of January
25 and still have space available. Participation in Plays in Production
requires having completed Acting One, or requesting permission from the
instructor. Acting One meets Mondays, 1:20 – 4:10 pm. Plays in Production meets
Wednesdays, 1:20 – 4:10 pm. Contact ARTFARM or go to www.mxcc.commnet.edu.
And LOOMING over it all: Shakespeare in the Grove 2010
This summer will be the fifth summer of free Shakespeare in
the Grove outdoors at Middlesex
Community College. We
will be presenting Shakespeare’s As You Like It July 8 -11 and 15 -18. Live
music starts at 6 pm, As You Like It starts at 7 pm.
Open auditions for As You Like It will be held February 27
& 28. Time and place to be announced.
Shakespeare in the Grove is supported by Middlesex Community College Division of Humanities and Arts, City of Middletown, Pratt & Whitney, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Aetna Foundation, Middletown Commission on the Arts, Middlesex County Community Foundation and many generous donors.
