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Dynamic Duo Producing Another Musical Extravaganza.
The incredible energy of teens Frances Hughes and Megan Fitzgerald is once again focused on producing the charity event “By the Kids, For the Kids” which takes place on October 3.
The musical extravaganza is completely student produced and performed with CAE’s staff of professional arts administrators/performers offering guidance. Students, ages 8 – 18, are given an opportunity to perform and/or direct numbers from popular musicals. Hughes, a senior at Las Lomas High School, and Fitzgerald, a senior at Northgate High School, coordinate all aspects of the show from fundraising to marketing to production.
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Create Your Own Unique Style.
Are you ready to create signature fabrics showing off your personal style? If so, Civic Arts Education has the workshop for you. Accomplished weaver and teacher Janice Sullivan will offer a Drafting for Weavers workshop on October 23 and 24 from 10 am – 4 pm.
Sullivan, who graduated in textiles from Boston University and received her Masters in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art, has been teaching classes and exhibiting her work locally since she moved to the Bay Area in 1982. She says that understanding drafting and designing your own weaving drafts is the first step to creating a personal style. “We’ll start by working on graph paper with lead and colored pencils,” says Sullivan. “This process encourages students to use weaving as a design medium for self expression.”
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An Old Take on a New Medium.
Gene Farley has been an active photographer since the age of 14. He has worked with all the various formats and cameras that came along, become a pro in the darkroom, and embraced the digital age. But, now he is turning back the clock.
As Civic Arts Education’s digital arts coordinator, Farley puts together classes and instructors that local residents are interested in, and he’s found something he thinks will be a big hit – toy cameras. “These are very inexpensive, medium format cameras that use film,” he explains. “Students will take their photos and then develop them in our darkroom. It’s sort of like re-introducing film to people.”
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Nurturing the First Five Years of Life.
What could be more important than the first five years of a child’s life? The answer for Civic Arts education is simple -- nothing. With a firm commitment to nurturing this very important period in everyone’s life, CAE prepares for the fall session of First Five. A joint program of CAE’s Fine Arts Preschool and First Five Contra Costa, this hands-on interactive program focuses on the visual arts, music and movement. Parents are an important component, as they become creative collaborators with their children.
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CAE’s Own Guitar Hero.
David Duenas, Civic Arts Education guitar teacher, knows how to get young people’s attention – video games! “So many kids play the video game Guitar Hero where they mimic many of the techniques of real guitar players. I take that premise and show them how to really play. For some of these gamers, it’s a rude awakening but they love it.”
A versatile performer and teacher, Duenas began playing at the age of 12 at the Guam Academy of Music and Arts under virtuoso flamenco guitarist Adelo Alcaraz. He went on to form his own rock band at Sacred Heart high school in San Francisco before attending the University of Santa Clara, where he is on the music faculty. He’s a founding member of the San Francisco Guitar Quartet and a sought-after classical and jazz guitarist, whose many performance gigs include the Orchestra de Lyon in France and Centro Universitario Marianum in Rome, Italy plus numerous performances throughout the United States.
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Dynamic Duo Producing Another Musical Extravaganza.