Festival 2025, Speech and Dramatic Arts: Presentations April 25th

Term Two
Instructor: Sandi McGinnis
Recommended Ages: 11-22 (as per Instructor)

January 8 – April 23, 2025
(Class continues: March 19 & 26, Includes $35 Drop-In for Adult Presenters)
Wednesdays  4:30 – 6:30pm
Granthams Hall, Gibsons

OR

January 9 – April 24, 2025
(Class continues: March 20 & 27, Includes $35 Drop-In for Adult Presenters)
Thursdays, 3:00 – 5:00pm

Term Two Class Fee: $340 (includes $40 annual admin fee)

The goal of this class is to prepare participants for presentation in the 2025 Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA).

The SCFPA is open to presenters of any age for professional adjudication. To qualify for consideration of adjudicator recommendation to the BC Provincial Arts Festival the presenter must be 11 – 22 years of age and prepare work in each of the three categories (Poetry, Drama and Prose) for the Speech and Dramatic Arts discipline.

The SC Festival of Performing Arts offers Awards in Junior, Intermediate and Senior categories.  The presenter must perform at least two pieces to qualify for these.

Term Two involves using our developed skills in an intensive preparation of the scripted and written works to be presented for adjudication at the Festival.

This is a two-term course

Term Two – January 19th – April 23/24, 2025
Term One – September 11/12 – December 11/12, 202

Description of Term One 

The class will begin by developing: warm-up techniques, ease on stage, reaction in the moment, observation and critique, gist (essence into gesture,) tone, rhythm, sound, movement and imagery through improvisation. 

We will learn to turn inward to discover story and to trust to wait for the impulse to come. 

Once we begin mastering these skills we will move into the scripted work to be presented for critique by the Speech and Dramatic Arts adjudicator on April 25, 2025