Summer Apprenticeship in the Arts/Theater for Teens and Young Adults
The Summer Apprenticeship in the Arts/Theater for Teens and Young Adults will provide new learning opportunities for teens with and without disabilities.
Apprenticeship? What is that? An apprenticeship is where you learn real life skills side by side with an experienced professional. Hands on learning is an important part of an apprenticeship.
Teen Apprentices will be provided hands on training in a new artistic medium each week while working towards a culminating exhibition and drama performance. The Apprenticeship will be run as a work setting, with Apprentices provided opportunities to learn employment skills such as goal setting, time management and leadership.
Two different curriculum sessions (three weeks each) for a total of six weeks are planned. Try to sign up for both. Payment Plan or reduced fees available.
Day & Time: Monday through Thursday, 9:30 am to 2:00 pm
Session I: June 21 - July 9 (Monday, July 5 Holiday so we meet Friday, July 9)
Session II: July 12 - July 29
Full Session I: $700
Full Session II: $700
Half Session I or II: $350 per session, 9:30 am -11:30 am
Where:
A.G.E. Building
Austin Groups for the Elderly
We Are Learning Multi-Purpose Room 101
3710 Cedar St.
Austin, TX 78705
Master Teacher: Carol J. Stensrud, Ed.D, CTRS will be the main teacher-mentor for the Teen Apprentice Summer program. She is a working/showing artist showing locally at Yard Dog Gallery in Austin. Since 2009, she has been a Master Teaching artist and consultant in inclusive arts with VSA arts of Texas. She holds a doctorate in Recreation Therapy and is a certified recreation therapist. She loves the arts and is a skilled teacher in theater, dance and fine arts. She approaches each learning task with each student’s individuality in mind. She has conversational level ASL sign language skills.
Trained interns, Guest artists, interns, volunteers and VSA arts staff will provide the Teen Apprenticeship with additional staff to assure your needs are accommodated.
Registrations are limited! Register Now! Click here to download registration form and fax to 512-454-1944 attn: Lynn or mail to
Lynn Johnson
Community Relations & Outreach Services
VSA arts of Texas
3710 Cedar St. #7
Austin, TX 78705
Make check payable to VSA arts of Texas.
If accommodations are needed to make the class/workshop accessible, please request at time of registration.
Showcase and Awards Evening
July 10th
6-8:30PM
A.G.E. Building
Dining Room
3701 Cedar St.
Austin, TX 78705
Come and enjoy the art and theater of Summer Apprentices from Session I.
VSA Texas offers Audio Description Training to FINE ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
VSA Texas is offering all Austin fine arts organization Audio Description training to make arts activities (plays, concerts, art exhibits, etc.) more accessible to people who are blind or of low vision by training individuals and arts organization representatives in the techniques of Audio Description. Training will be held on Friday, August 5, 2010, 9:00AM - 4:00PM at Access Gallery, 3701 Guadalupe St., Suite 103, Austin.
Over the past 10 years VSA arts has been offering audio description services that have been provided on a regular basis at Central Texas area theaters, museums and movie theaters, in addition to other requested events. Audio description is the verbal translation of visual information to make theater, television, films, museum exhibits, and events more understandable for people with low or no vision.
Celia Hughes, Executive Director of VSA Texas (www.vsatx.org), is a trained audio describer whose organization created a series of audio description training tapes. She has been active for many years with Audio Description International (www.adinternational.org), the Leaderships Exchange in Arts & Disability Conferences (www.kennedy-center.org/accessibility/education/lead/conference.html) and the Audio Description Coalition (www.AudioDescriptionCoalition.org).
Who Should Participate: The best candidates for audio describers will have good verbal and visual skills, a pleasant vocal quality, and interest in using your love for the arts to help patrons with vision loss experience a greater enjoyment of the arts. Knowledge of performing arts terminology and relationships with theatres or other performing arts organizations is encouraged but not necessary.
Participants will receive:
Evaluation: Trained Audio Describers will complete an evaluation form on the project and the trainer. The trainer will evaluate how her expectations for the training were met. VSA Texas staff will follow up with new describers to provide continuing support, description opportunities, publicity and patron feedback.
Cost: The one day training is only $30, and includes the items mentioned above. Advance registration is required (No later than August 3, 2010), and SPACE IS LIMITED – for more info or to register contact Lynn Johnson at 512-454-9912 or email lynn@vsatx.org. Download registration form here.
VSA arts of Texas and the Texas Commission on the Arts launched Artworks Network in Fall 2007. This series of networking meetings was designed to help artists with disabilities organize and structure informal networks in six regions: Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, and South Texas. The meetings give artists a chance to meet other artists with disabilities and learn about resources in their area. Meetings in each area are led by the artists themselves and may be used as open studio time, critique sessions, discussion groups, exhibition planning, or other ways of fostering mutual career support. The goal of Artworks Network is to create self-sustaining mutual support networks for artists with disabilities.
To learn more about upcoming meetings in your region of Texas, contact April Sullivan, Artworks Director at 512-323-6626.