OZ School Days: MLK Jr. Day

Monday, January 16, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Centennial Performing Arts Studios
(211 27th Avenue North)

Theme: Respect

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 2016-2017 academic school year is OZ Art’s third year of OZ School Days programming.

SCHEDULE:

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.           Registration + Drop off

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.           Group Activity #1

9:30 – 9:35 a.m.           BELL
9:35 – 10:35 a.m.         Session # 1

10:35 – 10:40 a.m.       BELL
10:40 – 10:50 a.m.       Restroom Break + Snack*
10:50 – 11:50 a.m.       Session #2

11:50 – 11:55 p.m.       BELL
11:55 – 12:55 p.m.       Lunch* & Playground

12:55 – 1:00 p.m.         BELL
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.           Group Activity #2
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.           Session # 3

2:30 – 2:35 p.m.           BELL
2:35 – 2:45 p.m.           Restroom Break + Snack*
2:45 – 3:45 p.m.           Session # 4

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.           Pick-Up

*Please provide your child with a nut-free lunch & snack for breaks*

 Tickets:

 

WORKSHOPS

Movement

INSTRUCTOR- MALLORY MUNDY

Mallory Mundy is a local, theatre professional and educator. With a degree in Musical Theatre from Belmont University, Mallory has worked as an actress, vocalist, and dancer all over the world. Locally, she has performed and choreographed with such companies as Studio Tenn, Nashville Rep, Blackbird Theatre, Music City Theatre Collective, Chaffin’s Barn, Street Theatre, Actors Bridge, Roxy Regional, and Audience of Once Productions. Mallory has worked as a teaching artist for OZ Arts Nashville, Street Theatre Company, Acting Up, LLC, and is currently the Middle School Theatre Director at Franklin Road Academy. Mallory and her husband live with their fur baby, Mavis, in the Donelson area.

MOVEMENT WORKSHOP

With the inspiration of fun songs that convey a message of RESPECT, students will explore the dynamics of being respected and respectful with their bodies through movement. By the end of the workshop, we will have a movement garden of each student dancing one of the following ideas: what it looks to move as being respected, as being respectful, and how the community around us could look if everyone is respecting each other and things.

 

Music

INSTRUCTOR – MISTY RAE CARSON

Misty Rae Carson is a professional singer/songwriter from Nashville, TN. Misty is a vocal coach and she also teaches songwriting at the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2013, Misty started Carson Creative, an artist development company with her husband, Jason. When Misty’s not making music or training artists in Nashville you’ll likely find her hiking the Rocky Mountains looking for her next song idea.

MUSIC WORKSHOP

In a one-hour workshop, students learn songwriting basics, express creativity, and write a song with a professional writer. This program introduces song form and reveals secrets behind the creative process through an authentic co-writing experience. The class will work together to create original song lyrics, discussing writing fundamentals and tips throughout the session and the session will conclude with a group performance of the song.

 

Theater

INSTRUCTOR- JON ROYAL

Jon Royal (Teaching Artist) is a local actor, director, and teacher who got his start with students in the summer of 1990 working for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee’s childcare department and has been instructing youth ever since.  He is the co founder of the Voices Arts Institute for Youth in Murfreesboro, and served as its Artistic Director from 2000-2002.  He is a teaching artist for numerous arts educational programs in Middle Tennessee including TPAC education’s Artsmart and Wolftrap programs, Nashville Children’s Theatre, Stageworks, and The Nashville Shakespeare Festival.  Jon has also taught master classes for youth and teens in Russia, Finland, and Latvia.  He has appeared as an actor in productions by Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Children’s Theatre, MTSU Theatre, People’s Branch Theatre, Mockingbird Theatre, Actor’s Bridge, and The Nashville Opera Association.

THEATER WORKSHOP

Details coming soon!

 

Visual Arts 

INSTRUCTOR – BRIAN SOMERVILLE 

Brian Somerville is a local sculptor that uses a variety of materials to convert his ideas into reality.  Brian earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Evansville in Indiana and a Masters of Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University. He has a studio in Burns, TN and works for Noble Building Group in Nashville.

VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP

Personal Respect Monuments – Students will design, fabricate and paint their own personal monuments, dedicated to someone or something in their life that they respect.  This could include, but is not limited to: a family member, a public servant, a favorite sport or superhero.  As long as the student has a genuine respect for their choice, nothing is off limits. In this class, we’ll show images of historical and artistic monuments and provide cardboard tubes in various sizes to give them a place to start.