Join ArtsBridge this season for an amazing arts adventure!
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Gas South Broadway Series Presents Blast!
January 20, 11 am
Grades 4-12 • $8
BLAST!, winner of the 2001 Tony Award for “Best Special Theatrical Event” and the 2001 Emmy Award for “Best Choreography,” is comprised of 35 brass, percussion and visual performers brought together in a unique explosion of music and theatre. Born on athletic fields across the nation, BLAST! is a novel art form evolved from the showmanship of outdoor pageantry. According to Bruce McCabe of the Boston Globe: “Blast! is an exuberant show that doesn’t falter while bridging the categories of classical, blues, jazz, rock n roll, and techno-pop music. Blast! stands, blows, pounds, marches, and whirls with panache. It sent a full house into repeated bursts of cheering and applause.”
Georgia Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
February 2, 11 am & 4 pm
Grades 6-12 • $7
Shakespeare never said it was Athens, Greece! Georgia Shakespeare’s 2012 Will Power Ensemble brings the Bard’s classic comedy of mistaken love and comic shenanigans a little closer to home with a setting of Athens, Georgia! Shakespeare’s text remains intact (without southern accents)! The court of Duke Theseus becomes the University of Georgia and the music of REM and the B-52’s will help to tell the story in a version that is sure to be popular with students and teachers alike!
Atlanta Ballet Kids In Step
Snow White
February 16 @ 11 am AVAILABLE
February 17, 10 am SOLD OUT
Grades K-6 • $7
See the magic unfold in this one-hour performance of the classic fairytale Snow White. This enchanting fantasy stars all of your favorites – Prince Charming, the wicked Queen, and of course, Snow White. It’s the perfect way to begin
a lifelong love of the arts – an event your whole class will remember happily ever after!
Kennesaw State University College of the Arts
Synergy
March 28, 11 am
Grades 6-12 • FREE
Experience a truly comprehensive artistic fusion of DANCE, MUSIC, THEATRE and VISUAL ART in an educational outreach performance. Synergy will feature the Kennesaw State University Dance Company, Orchestra, Storytellers, Musical Theatre Ensemble and Visual Artists collaborating to give school students a unique art experience. The content of this program is best suited for middle school and high school students. Packed with energy, creativity and technical virtuosity, this FREE event will provide a cross-disciplinary understanding of the arts.
ArtsBridge Presents
Shuler Hensley Awards
The Georgia High School Musical Theater Awards
Celebrating Excellence in High School Musical Theater
April 17, 7:30 pm
Featuring Grades 9-12
K-12 Appropriate • $15
Fashioned after Broadway’s Tony Awards, The Shuler Hensley Awards celebrate Georgia’s high school musical theater programs with a glorious, high profile awards ceremony. The evening begins with a glamorous red carpet event, followed by dazzling production numbers featuring Georgia’s high school musical theater stars, and ends with the now famously anticipated phrase, “and the Shuler goes to….”
www.shulerawards.org
The Georgia Ballet
Dance through the Ages
May 9, 11 am
Grades K-12 • $5
A visual history of the stunning and athletic art of ballet from its origins in the courts of France and Italy, through the Romantic and Classical periods that defined the well-known story ballets such as Giselle, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, and on to the contemporary ballets of today that fuse traditional vocabulary with thoroughly modern movement and music.
The Atlanta Opera
The Golden Ticket
March 6, 7:30 pm; March 9, 8 pm
Don Giovanni
May 1, 7:30 pm; May 4, 8 pm
$15 Student Ticket
The Atlanta Opera is pleased to partner with your school by offering discounted student tickets! The price is $15 per ticket, with $10 going to the opera and $5 going straight to your school. These specially priced tickets are available for all Tuesday and Friday performances of the 2011-2012 season, with a minimum of 25 and a limit of 100 student tickets per school. Quantities are limited, so place your order early! Call 404-881-8736 to reserve (10% deposit required).