OZ School Days: Columbus Day

Monday, October 10, 2016, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Theme: Choice

Centennial Performing Arts Studios
(211 27th Avenue North)

This daylong multi-arts program engages 5 to 15 year-old students at Centennial Arts and Activities Center on days when Metro Nashville Public Schools are out of session on public holidays. Metro Parks’ Centennial Performing Arts Studios are located in the 27th Avenue North and Poston Street corner of Nashville, Tennessee’s beautiful Centennial Park.

Each date has a unique, contemporary theme which inspire the workshops in visual art, theater, music and movement the students will rotate through led by a Nashville based teaching artists working in each of their respective disciplines.

5-8 year olds • 9-11 year olds • 12-15 year olds

The 2016-2017 academic school year is OZ Art’s third year of OZ School Days programming.

SCHEDULE:

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.           Registration + Drop off

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.           Group Activity #1

9:30 – 9:35 a.m.            BELL
9:35 – 10:35 a.m.          Session # 1

10:35 – 10:40 a.m.        BELL
10:40 – 10:50 a.m.       Restroom Break + Snack*
10:50 – 11:50 a.m.       Session #2

11:50 – 11:55 p.m.        BELL
11:55 – 12:55 p.m.        Lunch* & Playground

12:55 – 1:00 p.m.          BELL
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.           Group Activity #2
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.           Session # 3

2:30 – 2:35 p.m.           BELL
2:35 – 2:45 p.m.           Restroom Break + Snack*
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.           Session # 4

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.           Pick-Up

*Please provide your child with a nut-free lunch & snack for breaks*

 Tickets:

 

TEACHING ARTISTS

Theater – Rachel Hamilton

In Theater, students will explore choice through a series of individual and group decision-making and story-building exercises.  Students will tap into their inquisitive nature and weigh their own thoughts, feelings and ideas in relation to those of the group.  They will be asked to make persuasive arguments and use active listening skills while pursuing the goal of storytelling.  Ultimately, students will be responsible for the course of action taken throughout the class and outcomes cannot fully be predicted.  Get excited about this choose-your-own-adventure style class that will leave your young person in wonder at the power of choice!

Rachel Hamilton is an arts administrator, teaching artist and lover of all fun things.  She currently works for Metro Parks at the Theater Supervisor and previously worked as the Associate Director of Education at Nashville Children’s Theater.  Learning is a passion she pursues fervently and she loves nothing more than learning from the young people with whom she works.

Music – Taylor Chew

In this workshop, students will go on a historical journey of Choice, inspired by songs and artists who have written about their freedom to choose, and their freedom to be who they wanted to be. 

The younger classes will have a structured song writing session where we write a short song together, and the older students will have time on their own to write their own song about what having a Choice means to them. 

Marking her second year with the OZ School Days program, Taylor is a music and theatre teaching artist that loves to share her passion with Nashville scholars. She’s currently working on developing Valor Collegiate’s first afterschool theatre program for 5th – 8th grade, in addition to her own performances – you can see Taylor this winter singing professionally with the Goode Time Carolers. She spends her free time face painting, baking, and playing with her kitties. Check out lots of fun stuff at www.taylorchew.com

Movement – Amanda Cantrell Roche

The structure of both Shakespeare’s “Measure by Measure” and the immersive theater experience, “Since I Suppose,” serves as a springboard for investigating Choice, Leading and Following, Redirection and Changing Places in this dance workshop. Students will explore movement and learn building blocks of choreography through a guided warm up. Movement exercises and games such as Awareness Tag, Flocking, and Action/Reaction will playfully engage students as both leaders and followers as we discover how personal choice, and also redirection through outside forces, impacts outcome. The culmination is the creation of a short dance that expresses the impact of choice on our individual and/or collective paths. 

Amanda Cantrell Roche divides her time between dance, writing, parenting, volunteering and working as a teaching artist.  She has been a dance teaching artist for TPAC Education since 2000, conducting aesthetic education residencies for grades Pre-K through twelve. Independently and in collaboration with a team of lead teaching artists, she designs and facilitates professional development for teachers and other teaching artists. Community and service-centered, Amanda has collaborated as an organizer, choreographer or teaching artist with organizations such as Global Education Center, Nashville CARES, Poverty & the Arts and Vanderbilt University, and is a frequent workshop facilitator at Art & Soul Studio. A mother of two, she also birthed and has nurtured Blue Moves Modern Dance Company since 1989 with co-founder Lee Anne Carmack. Her choreography often blends her background in journalism with her passion for social justice by telling stories through movement and recorded words, and in the past two years Amanda has started exploring film as an artistic medium.  Her alchemy is most powerful when she combines a trilogy of her deepest passions:  dance, writing, and social justice. www.amandacroche.com

Visual Art – Courtney Adair Johnson

The Choice Map 

Creating a map of our lives, students will look at key choices they have made and will get to imagine the paths to come.   Designing a visual layout in a foldable brochure form of good choices and bad choices, we will use techniques like stippling and simple origami to create pattern and texture. Starting with inventing the map key then adding drawn and text elements on as we discuss how to make the most informed choices in six easy steps and look at the paths choices take us on. Students will use tools such as an awl and bone folder to produce a finished pocket size map. All material in the workshop will be recycled material.

Courtney Adair Johnson is an artist, environmentalist and community organizer. Her art practice centers around creating sustainable community through reuse awareness. She is interested in building ideas with art to generate awareness of our waste and consumption habits. Courtney has led reuse projects with Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Tennessee Craft and most recently participated in Hinge Arts Residency in Fergus Falls, MN.   Working with non-profits and community organizations to gain insight on how to create sustainable solutions in art is what fascinates her.