What makes you the interesting person that you are? (Be sure to include the qualities you like best about yourself.)
Theatre has been a part of my life for about as long as I can remember. It has helped me become the person I am today. In second grade, I had terrifying stage fright. I was paralyzed with fear when asked to present anything to my classmates. When I dropped out of the school talent show for the second time in a row, my mother enrolled me in a local children’s musical theatre class hoping that I would overcome this obstacle. During the camp, I learned to sing, dance, act, and project in front of an audience portraying characters with over-exaggerated emotions and movements that were much larger than myself. After this theatre camp,
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Please share a meaningful experience you have had as a member of a community. What made it meaningful, and what did you learn about the importance of community from that experience?
In fifth grade, The Squantum Elementary School’s Parent Teachers Organization wanted to build an outdoor learning space but had no funds. The outdoor classroom was planned to be a garden space where children could learn about growing nutritious food and using sustainable resources. It was a large undertaking requiring a landscape architect, private funding, the community’s support, and school board approval.
I was inspired to donate my birthday party to kick off the fundraiser. Instead of receiving gifts, I asked for donations for the outdoor classroom. I invited all of the girls in my grade to a party where we had hula-hooping competitions, bounce-house games, and cake, of course, in the school gym. It was heartwarming to see my friends donate their own hard-earned babysitting dollars as well as teachers stopping by to contribute. After the party was concluded, I had raised six hundred and twenty dollars for the outdoor classroom. I gave the funds to my principal who presented it to the school committee the next day as evidence that the elementary school community supported the construction of the outdoor classroom. My small initial contribution was supplemented by additional, more substantial, private donations as well as a community preservation grant. The plans were approved, construction began, and the classroom was finished the year after I
People have dreams of what they want to do or accomplish in life, but usually musical theatre is just pushed into the non-realistic void. It isn’t a dream for me. In the past four years, musical theatre has been clarified as my reality. Musical theatre has been the only thing I have seen myself wanting to do. My first love was The Phantom of the Opera, seeing how I watched it almost every day and it was one of the first shows I saw. Of course, I started doing all of those cute shows in middle school and making a huge deal about it to my family and friends, but I have never felt so passionate about something. The minute I get up on that stage I throw away Riley for two and a half hours and it’s the most amazing feeling! Being able to tell a story
What started out as a hobby transformed into a passion for an art form that allows me to use movements and expressions to tell a story. Whether I’m on stage in front of an audience of just friends and family, hundreds of strangers and a panel of judges, or the whole school, performing over thirty times, has helped me build lifelong
Performing or public speaking of any kind is difficult, but that difficulty can help to build confidence. Fine arts gives students the ability to perform and build confidence with their own support team of people who do and love the same thing. Not having to perform alone and knowing that everything possible has been done to ensure a good performance helps performers be confident in themselves and in their abilities. “Puneet Jacob, former choristers and current assistant conductor, says kids are often afraid to perform because of fear of failure.” (Lefebvre) The more a person faces their fear, especially when they do well and the fear is disproved, the less afraid he or she will become. When students work on music or a play for months on end, they become much more confident in themselves and what they can do than they were when they first began.
What I came up with was doing a fundraiser for an individual that was from Macomb, IL and had went to Kibera, Africa to serve the needs of the people. My vision was to raise money for the children of the community to provide them with housing, education, and food. I did not want this to be a me thing but to get the campus involved with something bigger then themselves. I got University Union Board, Inter-Hall Council, Resident Assistant Council, Western All Volunteer Effort, Kappa Alpha Psi, and Alpha Phi Omega to co-sponsor this fundraiser that raise over $1,400 that provide the children we sponsor for six months of education, housing, and food. I have truly spent my last three years serving and being a great leader to this campus due to me believing someone has to step up and lead the way for
Imagination plays a crucial role in creating communities and its identity. Fiction, in this case will cover both absolute fabrications and biases in the discourse of history's narration. History can be malleable in the hands of narrators, which they use to unite their audience into a common interpretation of their history. Alicia Barber, The author of the essay, Local Places, National Spaces: Public Memory, Community Identity and Landscape at Scotts Bluff National Monument, talks about two community's disagreement on a tourist spot's proper use and maintenance. Barber analyzes the community's relations to the landmark and how it affects the discourse of history's narration, the malleability of public memory, and how it all connects with community identity. Michael Ignatieff wrote about a civil struggle between two groups who identify themselves very differently from each other. In his analysis, he mixed his personal account of the situation, explaining the role of narcissism in the discourse of history's narration. His essay, The Warrior's Honor: Ethic War and the Modern Conscience, describes a more radical conflict from fabricated major differences. These two authors describe two very different approach to their conflicts, but their discourse to the narration of their history are similar. Their fabrications and biased narrations stem from their egocentric imaginations that support their identity.
One goal of the pilot phase was gaining clear ideas of how plants can be survived with low maintenance for the environment of school. A kit of parts was compiled, and that could be flexibly configured at any scale and does not hold back creativity. A primary category is to design a surround fence with a gate to define and protect the classroom with the plants. A second category of parts are including the materials teacher utilized for teaching. Such as natural matter to investigate, scientific tools, animal habitat, signage, raised planters etc. The BSI published the components of the two categories as the Outdoor Classroom Design
Lazarus, Joan. "On the Verge of Change: New Directions in Secondary Theatre Education." Applied Theatre Research 3.2 (July 2015): 149-161. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1386/atr.3.2.149_1.
“Theatre is like a gym for the empathy. It’s where we can go to build up the muscles of compassion, to practice listening and understanding and engaging with people that are not just like ourselves. We practice sitting down, paying attention and learning from other people’s actions. We practice caring.” (Bill English of the SF Playhouse). This quote accurately summarises the purpose of Children’s Theatre, to help the growth and understanding of children whilst also keeping them entertained through theatrical techniques. The National Theatre’s Cat in the Hat, along with our performance pieces of Cranky Bear and Possum Magic all showcased these techniques in a number of ways, whilst also subconsciously coinciding with the child development theories
The Pre-K and Kindergarten class studied habitats of various animals and insects. They were given examples and tough how the animals made their homes. The students built a bird house as their project and as something to take home to remind them of what they learned. Finally they went on a field trip to Legoland where they explored and built “habitats” for their families and the Lego people. The first and second grade class learned about marine life and the ocean. They built shoe box dioramas of coral reefs and created art projects depicting sea life as well as learning new facts about the ocean. The students got to go to the Aquarium for their field trip. Finally the third and fourth graders studied the rain forests and their ecosystems. The students built rainforest models and terrariums along with small group discussions on different ideas human intervention and conservation. They finished their week at the zoo where they studied different rainforest inhabitants in
Children gain vast benefits from learning outdoors. Being outdoors allows them to move around without many of the restrictions of being inside (Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), 2014). Gardening is an appropriate project to be carried out as an outdoor play. Children experienced the outdoor environment freely. Outside is a natural place for children to be and play and there is a freedom related with it. Bilton (2010: 4) states that outside is a natural environment for children and there is a freedom associated with the space that cannot be replicated inside. As in this project, I observed that children engage freely and experience the outside environment rather than inside the classroom. The outdoors boosts and excites children of all ages enabling them to explore and discover fascinating worlds and experiences offerings richly provided in the natural worlds.
Music has been a constant source of confidence from a young age, and I have received recognition for my talent I worked hard to achieve. From chorus member parts to earning principal roles in a high school environment, to being cast in a 4-person musical that qualified for a main stage spot at The International Thespian Festival. The root of theater, the sheer love of performing, sometimes gets lost amidst the competitive atmosphere. Ultimately, I'm pursuing
At an event called Arts in the Park, members get up before dawn to help vendors set up their tents and products to sell. It is physically-demanding work that many of the vendors are unable to accomplish individually. Many are very appreciative of our assistance and even go so far as to attempt to pay us; however, it is a universally accepted policy that volunteerism is unpaid work; therefore, our members respectfully decline their offers. One vendor, though, reached out to the Key Club sponsor and made a donation to the club on behalf of our service. This small incidence made me feel proud of my volunteers and their
Despite many obstacles in my life, my experience performing community service stands out as the most memorable. I was sixteen at the time, and just beginning my first job at a fast food restaurant. I had to learn how to balance between community service in the morning and my employment at the local Wendy’s. It was very stressful and influential at the same time.
I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of how theater is more than a mere performance, but rather an artform with nuance and depth. My knowledge on theatrical styles has expanded and some of my favorites we have studied in class are Brechtian and Chinese theatre styles. I grew up participating in musical theatre, but never had the opportunity to truly learn the history and details of the craft. After studying RENT, I am inspired by the various possibilities for theater beyond acting, singing, and dancing. Theater can be used for activism or as a form of commemoration. Theater is relevant by communicating issues to the world. Theater is so much more than a dramatic presentation. The theater that I have come to appreciate the most are the performances that relay a greater purposeful message about society amidst the theatricals on
A mere mention of the term theatre acts as a relief to many people. It is in this place that a m...