Bay College Drama Club

Great final in Acting today! Those students should be proud of the people they have become.

A special thanks to our Theatre students for all of the end-of-term gifts! You're good people, people!

THE THREE SISTERS, by Anton Chekhov, at Bay College. Here are a few photos.

A great show just closed. Good work to the company of THE THREE SISTERS!

Great opening of THE THREE SISTERS! Two more shows!

Opening night is TONIGHT! Got tickets, yet? No? I think we might have some. Go to http://baycollege.tix.com/Schedule.aspx?OrgNum=3755 to solve your no-THREE-SISTERS-tickets problem!

Bay College - Ticket Sales

Also, a photographer is coming tonight for the run. I'll try to stay out of the pics so that they look good.

Another great article. This one also merits a question: "Why would any society NOT want its young people to inherently think critically, empathetically, and methodically? What good are skills when the user has no capacity to determine the worth of their ex*****on?"

Why Theater Majors Are Vital in the Digital Age As technology and machines consume more and more of life, perhaps theater can help us remember what it means to act like a human.

Brook McGinnis found a wonderful article about youth in arts. I advise reading it. The list means a lot to me, so I copied it here:

Children and young people (*I think everyone, but young people are often denied a creative role in artistic processes, so they're specified here.) involved in the arts should:

1) have a sense of ownership and control in the process;

2) have a sense of possibility, transformation and change – that the process is not closed with pre-planned outcomes;

3) feel safe in the process, and know that no matter what they do, they will not be exposed to ridicule, relentless testing, or the fear of being wrong;

4) feel the process can be individual, co-operative or both;

5) feel there is a flow between the arts, that they are not boxed off from each other;

6) feel they are working in an environment that welcomes their home cultures, backgrounds, heritages and languages;

7) feel that what they are making or doing matters – that the activity has status within the school and beyond;

8) be encouraged and enabled to find audiences for their work;

9) be exposed to the best practice and the best practitioners possible;

10) be encouraged to think of the arts as including or involving investigation, invention, discovery, play and co-operation and to think that these happen within the actual doing, but also in the talk, commentary and critical dialogue that goes on around the activity itself.

How we teach the arts is as important as the fact we're doing it Michael Rosen shares his checklist for how teachers can ensure that arts education is worthwhile for all students

Cue-to-Cue Tonight!
6:30 PM - Theater

Tonight's Schedule:
6:00 PM – Run Show
BESSE Theater

Let's make this count!!!!

Tonight's Schedule:
6:00 PM – Costume Parade/Run Show
BESSE Theater