SMAWG - Social Media in the Arts Work Group

• Topic: SMAWG-in-a-Box! Local groups share Best Practices
• Coffee, pastries provided

Lunch & Learn (box lunch optional or bring your own)

Beth Chaplin, author of The Acting Biz: A Career Guide to the Twin Cities discusses the biz – bring your questions

Voice & Speech for Performers

• Cheryl Moore Brinkley
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

Savage Umbrella - Open Rehearsal for Leaves

America through the eyes of Whitman and the ensemble - directed by Laura Leffler-McCabe & Bryan Grosso. Savage Umbrella is proud to present their newest company-collaborated show, Leaves. Leaves is an exploration of the contemporary American spirit. Using prolific American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass as source material, the ensemble will define, destroy, scrutinize and applaud who Americans are at this moment in history. The script is being created currently in workshops with actors, writers and composers. A world-premiere new work!  

Lunch & Learn (box lunch optional or bring your own)

• Springboard for the Arts - Incubator and Fiscal Sponsorship Program
• Come hear more about fiscal sponsorship and how it can help you apply for grants and accept tax deductible donations. Learn more about Springboard’s nationally recognized Fiscal Sponsorship and Incubator program. We’ll discuss the application process, fundraising options and other help available.

Understanding Agents: Relationship Building and Therapy!

• Beth Chaplin
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

Playwrights’ Center/The Unit Collective

• One part mini-Madness (short play working session culminating in cold-read performance) and a sneak preview of EWOCs do it in 10 Minutes, the Unit's Fringe show.  

Lunch & Learn (box lunch optional or bring your own)

• MN Theater Alliance
• Free info meeting about the new MN Theater Alliance.

• MN Theater Alliance
• Free info meeting about Free Night of Theater 2010.

Theatre Pro Rata - Open Rehearsal for The Taming of The Shrew

Join Theatre Pro Rata around the table! We're in our first week of rehearsals for The Taming of the Shrew, and digging into the script with our dramaturg/text coach Kit Gordon. Take a peek and listen in on the discussion as we break down the text, figure out how it works, and start to put it back together again. Be sure to join us in September to see the finished product!  

The Will Builder

• Chrissy Fornier
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

Basic Principles of Performing Power

• Ben Krywosz of Nautilus Music-Theater
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

On-Camera Talent Business "Acting from Stage to Screen"

• Bill Cooper
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

Live Action Set - BRANT-improvi-PLAYtion-Creation

• Brant Miller, from Live Action Set & The Happy Show
• $10/$5 for Players Club Members  

Some Fast Fringe...just a taste...

• There's no better time to catch some teasers for upcoming Fringe Festival shows. See selections from Entwined, Waiting for Biffy, Pants on Fire, The Anton Kissbougel Technique, Can Michael Come Out To Play? and MANY MORE! Totally free! Totally fun!

10 Minute Plays/Open Mic Night

• Wanted: actors to read new 10 minute plays
• Playwrights: sign up, bring enough copies and get your 10 minute play or up to 10 minutes of a longer work read (bring an extra copy for someone to read stage directions, too!)  
• Interested? Email Kelly for to sign up!

Dreamland Arts brings us some FAMILY FRIENDLY FUN FOR THE KIDS!

• Leslye Orr: Storytelling, Workshop, Book Signing
• An Elephant Up a Tree! and more: Funny voices, sound effects and a hilarious storytelling performance of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hatches the Egg. Leslye will also lead a kids’ workshop and read from her book, The People on the Corner, which celebrates the possibilities of disabilities!
• Bring the kids!
• FREE Cookies & Lemonade!

Artist Career Consultation

• Springboard for the Arts offers individual artist career consultations for artists who are serious about developing the professional presentation of their work and finding new audiences. In a consultation, Artist Services professionals get to know you and your work, help you set goals for the coming year and develop realistic strategies to help you reach those goals. Through individual artist career consultations, hundreds of artists have advanced their careers: by polishing demo tapes, getting published in magazines, and having art galleries agree to present shows. Adjunct staff member, Zaraawar Mistry, of Dreamland Arts will offer a group career consulting session – bring your questions and prepare to take your career to the next level.

COMING SOON!

Sneak a Peek at upcoming shows and seasons around the Twin Cities: Local theatres will give you a glimpse at what they are planning for the upcoming season – stick around for our Closing Party and performances by Open Eye Figure Theatre’s 2 Wheel Tour

Theatre Companies - Find out how to participate HERE!

Open Eye Figure Theatre presents their 2 Wheel Tour

"Watch for Open Eye's shiny tandem bicycle with the "2-Wheel Tour" pulling the city's smallest theatre throughout urban neighborhoods presenting a "Parade of Oddities"! Impromtu 5 minute performances will brighten your day!" 

Space is limited, so sign up NOW!

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