Monterey Peninsula College Theatre Arts Department is pleased to host the Costume Society of America - Western Region "The Magic of Theatrical Costume" Workshop on Saturday, October 25. MPC faculty members will share the expertise in creating costumes and woven textiles, as well as information about MPC's instructional programs. This day-long program includes a half-day workshop on conveying character identity through costume. We'll learn aging, distressing and other techniques of the theatrical costumer by using non-toxic paints, dyes and household products such as hair gel and cinnamon. Constance Gamiere, Costume Designer and Drama instructor, will give a very unique tour of the MPC costume shop and scene shop, showing distressed costumes from MPC'S August 2008 production of URINETOWN, THE MUSICAL. Tour the Family and Consumer Sciences facilities along with a weaving demonstration with Naeda Robinson, weaving instructor and Lauren Michael, fashion instructor. The afternoon will feature a "Distressing Costumes" workshop taught by Tara Maginnis, who is best known for her creation of The Costumer's Manifesto, one of the World Wide Web's largest, and most eclectic, costume sites. For further information contact Jo Ann Stabb (jcstabb@ucdavis.edu), or Constance Gamiere (831-646-4029 or Constancegamiere@mac.com). When: Saturday October 25, 2008; Where: MPC Theatre. Fee: $35.00 students, $40.00 General.
Paper Wing Theatre Company in New Monterey is launching a Recycle for Art campaign. Give them your cans, bottles, and crv plastics. Please bring your donations to 320 Hoffman Avenue, New Monterey or call 675-0521 to arrange a pick up.
Pacific Repertory Theatre has announced a new fundraising program the California Dream Raffle, featuring multiple prizes including a Grand Prize for one lucky individual of up to $250,000! Formally a single-prize car raffle held at Brinton’s Home and Garden Store, PacRep has expanded the annual fundraiser and will now be offering 300 other prizes including the quarter-million dollar Grand Prize, an early bird prize of a new Honda Civic Hybrid, and hundreds of additional prizes. For complete details on the raffle, go to www.pacrep.org/Raffle. Raffle tickets can be purchased by phone or in person at the Golden Bough Playhouse box office: 622-0100; at the raffle call center 24/7 at 888-650-7334; or at Brinton s Home and Garden Store at the Mouth of Carmel Valley. Also, a downloadable order form has been made available at the PacRep website at www.pacrep.org.
MCTA member Lee Brady is offering two creative writing classes at MPC this fall semester - Creative Writing I (Eng 31) and Creative Writing for Personal Goals. She also suggests writers take Anita Johnson's Engl 11/Womn 11, Literature By and About Women. Check the MPC catalogue for more details or contact Lee Brady (415) 929-8654 or leebrady@aol.com.
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