OZ School Days: Spring Break
Monday, March 28, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Centennial Performing Arts Studios
(27th Avenue North and Poston Street)
Theme: Love
This daylong multi-arts program engages 5 to 15 year-old students at Centennial Performing Arts Studios on days when Metro Nashville Public Schools are out of session on public holidays. Metro Parks’ Centennial Performing Arts Studios are located in the 27th Avenue North and Poston Street corner of Nashville, Tennessee’s beautiful Centennial Park.
Each date has a unique, contemporary theme which inspire the workshops in visual art, theater, music and movement the students will rotate through led by a Nashville based teaching artists working in each of their respective disciplines.
5-8 year olds • 9-11 year olds • 12-15 year olds
The 2015-2016 academic school year is OZ Art’s second year of OZ School Days programming.
Our Schedule
8:30-9:00 Welcome Orientation + Introductions
9:00-10:15 Session # 1 (1 hour 15 minutes)
10:15-10:30 Restroom Break + Snack* (15 minutes)
10:30-11:45 Session #2 (1 hour 15 minutes)
11:45-12:45 Lunch* & Playground (1 hour)
12:45-2:00 Session # 3 (1 hour 15 minutes)
2:00-2:15 Restroom Break + Snack* (15 minutes)
2:15-3:30 Session # 4 (1 hour 15 minutes)
3:30-4:00 Group Reflection + Wrap Up
4:00 Pick-Up
Tickets:
Workshops
Visual Arts
INSTRUCTOR – MARY MOONEY
Mary Mooney is a Nashville-based visual artist who creates colorful, glossy, abstract paintings. She works in a range of sizes, from large format paintings that dominate walls to miniature pieces of wearable art. With a BFA from Denison University in Ohio, her formal education as an artist plays as much a role as her intuition. Mary’s been a maker all her life but became enamored with creating abstract works when she realized the power it had to connect with viewers without literal or figurative content.
VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP
Students will show some love to what would be throw away objects by providing new beauty and purpose to jars by “up-cycling” and creating artwork to wrap around these vessels to create little lanterns that will be illuminated with an LED light.
Movement
INSTRUCTOR – GABRIELLE SALIBA
Gabrielle is the dance director for Global Education Center. She grew up in the Nashville area where she trained at the Nashville School of Ballet. After studying at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, she lived and worked as a professional dancer in Chicago. Since moving back to Nashville, Gabrielle has worked with Act Like A Grrrl, Theater Bug, Actor’s Bridge, CMT and many more. She believes that if you have a body, you are a dancer. It is her mission to present dance and other forms of movement in a way that is inclusive of all people while instilling a life long love of movement in her students.
MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Students will discuss love as a feeling, as an action and as a legacy. The idea of love for others and for ourselves will also be explored through creating choreography that collaboratively will be pieced together for an original composition performed as a group followed by a relaxation session that focuses on mindfulness and self-care.
Music
INSTRUCTOR – AMY LILLEGARD WILSON
Amy Lillegard Wilson holds a Bachelor’s of Music Education (emphasis in strings) from the University of Arkansas and a Graduate Degree in Violin Performance (emphasis in Suzuki Pedagogy) from the Hartt School of Music in Hartford, Conn. She has been an active teacher and performer in the classical, rock and Americana genres in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Connecticuit and Washington. Amy moved to Nashville this year and is so excited to share her love of music and teaching with the students of the Oz School Days Workshop.
MUSIC WORKSHOP
In this workshop, students will break down the song “All You Need Is Love” by The Beatles into four equal parts to be learned and performed within each class through guided instruction to record the song. The process emphasizes teamwork, respect, listening to others, and love of expressing ones feelings through music.
Theatre
INSTRUCTOR –TAYLOR CHEW
This is Taylor’s second OZ School Day, and she’s more thrilled than ever to be teaching the arts. Taylor works as a performance artist and educator throughout the greater Nashville area. In 2015, Taylor performed in the Act 1 One Acts, Pulp Friction Playfest, Memphis with Street Theatre, and Myth with Blackbird Theatre. This will mark the fourth year that Taylor will travel to North Carolina to produce and direct youth theatre camps. She also face paints and enjoys various crafts in her spare time. For more info, visit www.taylorchew.com.
THEATER WORKSHOP
Each theater workshop session will be catered to the age group of the students participating as they explore how love is presented in American musical theatre. Students will focus on their own passions and dreams, identifying how they can use those goals to become more expressive through singing, dancing, and acting. Students will also have the opportunity to write and self-create scenes based around the day’s theme of love.