Farm Arts Collective is hosting an ongoing winter series of creative performing arts workshops. The classes are held Thursdays at 6:00 PM at the Farm Arts Collective Agri-Cultural Center and will be led by teachers and experts from the collective and the local community.

ALL WORKSHOPS are PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN

Donations will $upport our teachers and the space costs.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6th   6-8 PM

VOCAL and GROUP SONG Workshop with Tannis Kowalchuk

Tannis will teach a battery of songs with amazing group harmonies and will introduce some exercises that look at the voice as a muscle. We will stretch our range and capacity and attempt some improvised song-making.  Everyone can sing is the philosophy. Singing is natural and good for us.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13th  6-8 PM

CLOWN Workshop with Clown Daddy

Finding your clown’s physicality and inner life is the goal with playful exercises that helps bring out the original and unique clown character from within each of us.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20th 6-8 PM

SONG-WRITING Workshop #1 with Doug Rogers

Introduction, philosophy, technique, with song-writer Doug Rogers who has created many incredible and memorable tunes for the Dream on the Farm series. Doug will give participants a song-writing assignmentwhich will be brought in the following week.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27th 6-8 PM

SONG-WRITING Workshop #2 with Doug Rogers

Participants will share their compositions with each other and receive detailed feedback and next-stepsadvise from the teacher.

THURSDAY, MARCH 6th 6-8 PM

STAGE FIGHTING Workshop with Jess Barkl
As we accumulate performance skills, to be able to create a massive bar brawl, a street fight, or family fisty-cuffs is a really great trick to have up our sleevesas devised theatre makers. And as we get close to starting rehearsals on this year’s DREAM, this workshop will come in handy!

Have fun finding your inner warrior! This stage combat workshop will give you some foundations and skills to perform convincing fight scenes safely. You will learn some basic terminology for stage combat, safety, consent/intimacy work, punches, kicks, falls, and weapons. This will class will prioritize safety and using this tool for optimum storytelling through movement.

Key focus points include:
Focus on safety: Emphasize that the workshop prioritizes safe techniques to prevent physical and emotional injuries.
Diverse skill levels: The workshop is suitable for beginners to experienced actors. 
Practical application: Hands-on training with exercises to learn fight choreography. 
Storytelling element: Stage combat can be used to enhance character development and excitement for the overall presentation aspect of theater.
Variety of techniques: Unarmed and weapon techniques will be covered.

NO CLASS MARCH 13 (we are in New Orleans with Decompositions)

THURSDAY, MARCH 20th 6-8 PM

PLAYWRIGHTING with Melissa Bell and Mark Dunau—

Writing exercises, structure and playwrighting principals will be explored.

THURSDAY, MARCH 27th 6-8 PM 

DEVISING PHYSICAL THEATRE with Tannis Kowalchuk

Focusing on how to create physical material with actors for the creation of collaborative devised theatre performances. The workshop is designed for both actors and directors.