April & May

Friday, April 4
10:15-10:45 Farmstead (2)
11:15-1:15 Curry (7)
2-2:30 Sipsey (2)
Wednesday, April 9
11:15-11:45 T.S. Boyd (1)
12:10-12:40 Parrish (2)
1:10-2:10 Cordova (4)
Thursday, April 10
9:15-10:45 Sumiton (5)
12:00-1:00 Lupton (4)
1:15-2:15 Carbon Hill (4)
Friday, April 18
Weather Day
Monday, April 21
10:25-11:25 Valley (3)
12:30-1:30 Oakman (4)
2:00-2:30 Townley (1)
Monday, May 5
11:15-11:45 T.S. Boyd (1)
12:10-12:40 Parrish (2)
1:10-2:10 Cordova (4)
Friday, May 9
10:25-11:25 Valley (3)
12:30-1:30 Oakman (4)
2:00-2:30 Townley (1)
Friday, May 23
Graduation
Monday, May 26
Memorial Day

ASC Arts Education

Summer Camps
Make your plans now to attend this great summer camp!

KIDS ON STAGE: Summer Drama CampThe Alys Stephens Center presents “Kids on Stage,” a summer drama camp for children ages 8-14, weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This year there will be two camp sessions. Cost is $325. Discount available for UAB Faculty & Staff.

Session 1: July 7-18, 2008, Alice in Wonderland

Session 2: July 21-August 1, 2008, School House Rock

The drama camp is a two-week experience that shares with children the wonder and detail of theater performance. Campers will be introduced to many aspects of theater with a variety of fun, intense classes. They can learn theater games, improvisation, warm-ups, concentration exercises, voice and diction, terminology, acting, and stage production.

Best of all, the children will get a chance to showcase their newly developed skills when the camp culminates in a production. The camp’s big show will be completely produced by campers and open to all parents and friends. Auditions will be required for casting.

All campers should bring their lunch and snack each day. Campers are asked to prepare and bring a 30-60 second comedy or drama monologue and a song to class the first day to prepare for auditions. Campers can bring a cassette tape or CD for the music audition. Sheet music is not acceptable, as an accompanist will not be provided.

Alicia Johnson-Reed will lead the camp. She is the founder, director, and producer of Make It Happen Theatre Co. in Birmingham. She has been involved in theater as an actress, director, writer, instructor, and producer. She has worked as a drama instructor for the Birmingham City School System, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and UAB’s Special Studies Program. She is an arts mentor at the Alys Stephens Center and the fine arts ministry coordinator for Sardis Missionary Baptist Church. Johnson-Reed works for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and is a consultant for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

For more information, call Kimberly Kirklin at (205) 934-0862 or e-mail kkirklin@uab.edu.

N.Y. Philharmonic plays concert in North Korea

Director says musicians just came ‘to make music’ in isolated kingdom

The New York Philharmonic brought musical diplomacy to the heart of communist North Korea in a historic concert Tuesday before the communist nation’s elite, playing a program highlighting American music in the nuclear-armed country that considers the United States its mortal enemy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23347082/
The Philharmonic began the concert with “Patriotic Song” — North Korea’s national anthem — followed by the U.S. anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The audience stood for both songs and applauded after.

February 2008 Schedule

Friday, February 15
11:15-1:15 Curry (7)
2-2:30 Farmstead (2)
Friday, February 22
10:25-11:25 Valley (3)
[10:15-11:15 VT]
12:30-1:00 Sipsey (2)
1:30-2:30 Cordova (4)
Monday, February 25
9:15-10:45 Sumiton (5)

11:30-12:30 Lupton (4)
1:15-2:15 Carbon Hill (4)
Friday, February 29
10:15-10:45 T.S. Boyd (1)

11:30-12 Townley (1)
12:30-1:30 Oakman (4)

2-2:30 Parrish (2)