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Summer Arts Brings One Of A Kind Experience To CSU StudentsA first-of-its-kind workshop offered in June 2005 promises to be a unique opportunity for California State University students. Aboriginal Australian, Native American, and Canadian First Nations’ theatre artists come together at Griffith University, Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia, for a once-in-a-lifetime course. The CSU’s Summer Arts program has offered workshops since it began in 1986 in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, creative writing, new media, and arts education. All workshops carry three units of transferable undergraduate or graduate university credit. What will be unique about this experience is how it will draw on ancient traditions and stories to shed light on current issues of governance, and family and social concerns. Throughout the course students will explore their personal and cultural heritage to create new theatre pieces. This new program will start with a two-week session that will begin with a presentation of Marie Clements’ critically acclaimed one-woman show Urban Tattoo, which will be part of the multidisciplinary system-wide program offering academic credit plus a festival in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jean Bruce Scott, Ruth Ghee, Fiona Doyle, Lafe Charlton, Roxanne McDonald, and Drew Hayden Taylor are guest artists who will heighten the experience that will be acquired through Summer Arts. Student actors, performance artists, storytellers, dancers, writers, and directors will join indigenous theater artists and storytellers to explore cultural themes, traditions, and physicality in the creation of the theater. “We want students to learn more about their own cultures and how Indigenous people use their traditions to inform their art,” said Randy Reinholz, artistic director of Native Voices at the Autry museum and a professor at San Diego State University. Students who want to learn how to create theatre using their cultural heritage should apply. Cultural literacy will be the key to acceptance into the course, which offers 30 positions available in the class. In order to apply, students will be required to send a one-to-three page statement that contains some of the student’s knowledge of his or her own culture. Registration and scholarship information may be downloaded by visiting the Summer Arts website at www.csusummerarts.org. Send all the materials and a completed registration form to the Summer Arts office by March 14, 2005. Students will be notified of their acceptance status by March 23, 2005. Scholarship assistance for Indigenous Theatre in Brisbane will be available for enrollment fees only. Travel and housing assistance is not available. Scholarship awards will range from $100 to $839. The completed housing application and a non-refundable $200 should be submitted to the Summer Arts registration office and students should make their own flight arrangements by March 23, 2005. For more information about traveling plans, Manzoor Saiyed at Travel Cuts, USA, can be reached at 1-800-467-5032 or GROUP-USA@travelcuts.com. Randy Reinholz from SDSU, a Native American from the Choctaw tribe, will coordinate the course. He has 20 years of experience in theatre, film and television in the United States and Canada as an actor, director, producer, and script developer. Inquiries about Summer Arts may be addressed to Reinholz at reinholz@mail.sdsu.edu or at (619) 594-0229. # # #
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