« If you are interested in using the arts with community,  in applying for a 4Cs projects, or in applying to the Art Bikers program, we strongly recommend you join this opportunity to develop the essential skills and attitude for creative, community-based work.

ONLY 8 spaces remaining. Register by calling or emailing Terri at 422-54805 info@4csfoundation.com

Using the Creative Arts in Community Training Intensive  June 13 – 17, 2011

In this week long training intensive participants will explore the principles and practices involved in using the creative arts in community.

If you are an arts worker, educator, community worker or activist who wants to develop advanced skills in working in community settings using the arts, then this program is for you.

Areas covered will include:
– design and facilitation of creative art programs
– participatory experiences of different art forms (including theatre, dance, music and visual arts)
– approaches to personal and social transformation
– using an anti-oppressive framework to work with issues of diversity, inclusivity and identity in different communities

Participants will have the opportunity to practice designing and facilitating creative arts experiences in a supportive, reflective context.
Training Facilitator: Tessa Mendel (see bio below).
Dates: June 13 to 17, 2011 inclusive. You must be able to attend each day for the entire week.
Time: 10 am to 4 pm.
Fee: $275.00 (This fee has been subsidized by the 4Cs Foundation to offer the training at an accessible cost of $55/day.)
Location: The Bloomfield Centre at Agricola and Almon Streets: Seniors Resource Room.
*The training is limited to 16 participants. Early registration is encouraged.

Please note: Lunch is not included in the fee.

Tessa Mendel is a popular theatre facilitator, theatre director and educator who focuses on using the creative arts for transformational learning. She has developed and facilitated numerous community-based theatre projects throughout much of Canada and internationally (Ethiopia, Jamaica). Tessa has taught courses on popular theatre, developmental theatre and theatre as a tool for critical literacy at Memorial, Acadia and Dalhousie Universities and in the Graduate Education program at Mount Saint Vincent University. Tessa has facilitated programs on Creative Arts Facilitation and Educational Design in multiple contexts including the Tatamagouche Centre and the Maritime School of Social Work. She was the founding director of a company that worked with youth to create plays about their issues in Toronto’s public housing communities and the founding director of the Women’s Theatre and Creativity Centre of Nova Scotia, with a mandate of connecting women and community, creativity and social change. Tessa Mendel has directed over 25 productions at theatres and universities in Ontario, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and is currently the co-Artistic Director of a new professional company, Halifax Theatre for Young People.

Hope to see you there,
Terri »

submitted by Terri Whetstone, Executive Director, 4Cs Foundation
www.4csfoundation.com, Suite 204, 5663 Cornwallis Street
Halifax, NS B3K 1B6, (902)422-4805

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