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Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Children. Show all posts
Friday, March 19, 2021
STREAMING CHILDREN'S SHOWS @ THE STATE THEATRE
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Friday, January 22, 2021
Virtual Theater Courses Start Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Chatham Community Players
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Luna Stage Announces Winter Classes: Now open for enrollment
West Orange-based professional theatre Luna Stage is now
enrolling for virtual winter classes for youth and adults, including
scene study, on-camera acting, voiceover, screenwriting, musical theatre,
audition technique, playwriting, improv and more. All programs are
pay-what-you-wish to support creativity in this time of pandemic, and taught by
professional theatre artists. Space is limited, and classes start January 4.
In addition to a full slate of after school and weekend classes, Luna also offers the unique Play-In-Your-Pod program, featuring custom-designed workshops and classes for existing small groups. Information about all classes and programs is available at www.lunastage.org/winterclasses.
“Being in Luna
Stage classes has been a bright spot in the pandemic, opening up new creative
opportunities,” said one student. “The classes become a community.”
Classes for
elementary schoolers include Improv, Musical Theatre, Undersea Adventure and
Space Odyssey.
Teen programs
include Improv, Musical Theatre, On-Camera Acting, Playwriting, Scene-Study,
Voiceover Technique, Audition Workshop, Shakespeare, Solo-Show Workshop, and
Filmmaking.
Adult options
include Musical Theatre, Scene Study, Audition Workshop, and Writers’ Workshop:
The 10-Minute Play.
“We are
grateful to be able to create ongoing opportunities for creativity and
connection, to provide what one student described as the 'brightest spot in the
pandemic,' and to serve our local community while reaching students from as far
away as California and Panama," said Luna Stage Artistic Director Ari
Laura Kreith. "Our students are creating such extraordinary work and
our teaching artists amaze me every day with their ability to inspire, engage,
and build community in the virtual world.”
Some Luna
classes offer participants the opportunity for public performance of their work
as well as online community and learning. Luna’s recent Shortest of
Plays for the Shortest of Days festival features work created in the
10-Minute Playwriting and Voices Across America Solo Show workshops.
“I feel indebted to Luna and your 10-minute play
classes,” wrote one student. “They have been a light through the pandemic
darkness.” 10-Minute Playwriting will be among the courses offered for
adults this winter.
Since Spring of 2020, Luna has offered more than 700
hours of classes across 32 different content areas. As part of Luna’s
commitment to accessibility and equity, all programs are pay-what-you-wish.
Families can donate what feels comfortable, full scholarships are available,
and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All tuition directly supports
the artists teaching these innovative programs.
For
class information and registration: https:/www.lunastage.org/winterclasses
For
more information visit http://www.lunastage.org or
email info@lunastage.org
Luna
Stage | 555 Valley Road, West Orange, NJ 07052
http://www.facebook.com/LunaStage | Instagram @luna.stage
Friday, December 18, 2020
Live Show This Weekend, New Winter Classes and More News from MPAC
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
D&R G releases new video, Fields of Dreams, with Babe Ruth's Granddaughter
Fields of Dreams
Grandparents and parents seeking holiday gifts for their Little Leaguers will be inspired by watching D&R Greenway’s latest video, Fields of Dreams, featuring sports and the outdoors in the starring role.
Linda Ruth Tosetti (left), granddaughter of legendary home-run hitter Babe Ruth, tells personal stories about the Babe’s early life and how he became motivated to become a baseball player.
“My grandfather looked up to Father Mathais, a mountain of a man, and Babe stood head and shoulders over the other kids,” says Linda Ruth Tosetti about her grandfather’s mentor at a Catholic school. Viewers are treated to historic photos of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor from Babe Ruth’s youth. Sports fans will be fascinated to hear the story of how he learned to throw.
The video begins with D&R Greenway trustee James
Fiorentino (right), an artist who has painted many of baseball’s legendary
players. Fiorentino was the youngest artist
ever to have his art featured in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, NY, when he was only 15 years of age. Having begun his sports art
career with Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, James became a college baseball
player himself. He talks about the
connection he feels to the land while outdoors in the field, and how important
this is in forming a lifelong love of nature.
Since 1989, D&R Greenway has permanently protected over 21,000 acres of land in central New Jersey. Fiorentino became Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the land trust in 2019. He generously shares his talents, connections and love of the outdoors to ensure it is accessible to all.
Farm View Fields and Greenway Meadows parks in Princeton were both saved from housing developments and preserved in 2001 through the leadership of D&R Greenway. These parks provide baseball and soccer fields, as well as places to walk and experience the outdoors. In the video, D&R Greenway’s President and CEO Linda Mead shares that being outdoors in nature cultivates creativity and calm in children who are known to have ADHD. The viewer learns that, in fact, Babe Ruth may have had “nature-deficit disorder,” a term coined by author Richard Louv in his book Last Child in the Woods published in 2005. Linda Ruth Tosetti insists that, throughout his legendary life, her grandfather was sustained by nature. “He was a fisherman and huntsman. That’s where he got his solace.”
In his books
about connecting children with nature, Louv says he is convinced that “The
future will belong to the nature-smart...to those who balance the virtual with
the real...achieving natural balance.” He encourages taking children to parks
regularly, close to home. His words ring true during this COVID-era: “Near is the new far.”
During the past year, D&R Greenway partnered with the
Trenton Thunder baseball team at Waterfront Park in Trenton where parts of the
video were filmed. Mead says, “The
way many, many people connect with nature and the outdoors is through the
sports their children play when they are young.”
The benefit of
spending time in the outdoors has been proven in many academic studies. The University
of Michigan demonstrated that participant’s memory performance and attention
spans improved by 20 percent after just an hour of interacting with nature.
University of Illinois researchers discovered that children show a significant
reduction in the symptoms of attention-deficit disorder when they engage with
nature. Professionally led field trips with city children
have proven that so-called at-risk students who have not had much experience in
nature show a marked improvement of 27% in test scores related to
mastery of science, when they learn in weeklong residential outdoor education
programs.
Ending on a happy note, high school students from the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s FUTURO program share how they feel when they are out in nature. These students have worked in partnership with D&R Greenway over the past year, learning about nature’s benefits, clean water and open spaces. In contrast to being indoors during the pandemic, these students’ words about “a good lost” while outside on a wide, open field will stick with the viewer for a long time.
A visit to a local park, and a bat and ball, could be the perfect gifts for children who have felt cooped up this year. The lands preserved by D&R Greenway provide many opportunities.
Information on where to go and the new 7-minute video Fields of Dreams can be found on D&R Greenway Land Trust’s website, www.drgreenway.org.
Friday, November 13, 2020
TRY SOME NEW VIRTUAL ACTIVITIES IN MORRIS COUNTY PARKS
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VIRTUAL PARANORMAL EVENINGS:
HOW TO BE A GHOST HUNTER
Friday, November 20 – 7 pm - 8 pm
Do haunted
houses call to you? Are ghost stories your favorite? Join the Morris County
Park Commission and Specter Seekers Paranormal Society founder, Frank Rigillo,
for a virtual lecture on how to become a paranormal investigator!
Click here to register.
COST: $20
per person.
VIRTUAL AWESOME ANIMAL ARTISTS
Wednesday, November 18. 4 pm - 4:45 pm
Ages 5 & Up.
In this LIVE, virtual program, learn to draw a New Jersey native animal and create your own masterpiece in this live, virtual program! Guess the animal of the month with clues, then learn all the facts about this animal's life before learning to draw it using simple shapes and lines, guided by Miss Jenny. You'll be amazed at what you can do!
Click here
for more information.
COST: $6 per child. Preregistration is required.
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VIRTUAL HOME SCHOOL DAYS
December Classes
1 pm - 2 pm • Ages 5 - 12
Tuesday, December 1 –
Owl Pellet Exploration
After an introduction to the
amazing adaptations of New Jersey’s owls using feathers, taxidermy mounts, and
other artifacts, pairs dissect owl pellets to reconstruct the skeletons of
their prey. Participants must pick up their materials at the GSOEC before
class.
Cost: $12 per child.
Tuesday, December 8 –
Winter on the Homefront
Join the March Sisters as they
celebrate the winter holidays during the Civil War as we take a tour through
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. In this literary quest, use the themes
from the book to learn how life would have been on the home front during the
war between the states.
Cost: $10 per household.
Tuesday, December 15 –
Water, Water, Everywhere!
Every living thing on earth needs
water to survive – animals and plants. Explore the power of water, the way
plants get water into their system, and how animals (like us) need plants to
get the water we need, too.
Cost: $10 per person.
Preregistration is required. Click here for
more class information and to register!
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