Monday
We begin with a creative activity that helps us all get to know each other. Laughter for all! Then you will rotate through workshops in art, writing, music, theater, and creative dance. At the end of the day, you’ll sign up for the 4 art forms that you want to participate in Tuesday-Friday.

Tuesday-Friday
Each day you will participate in the 4 art forms that you selected on Monday.

Theater
We will explore the many branches around us and the choices we come upon when we branch out. Through mime, puppetry, and improvisation, we will look at family trees, rivers and roadways, and literal trees as they appear in poetry and folklore. We’ll create a short play inspired by the story “The Giving Tree.”

Art
Your ideas will build, branch, and transform into a sculpture that can have multiple purposes. With cardboard, colorful papers, and fabrics, you will create sculptures that have parts that can be removed to become a mask, a hat, a stool, or anything your mind imagines.

Poetry Plus
We’ll go on a word scavenger hunt. Then, using the words you have found, you will create poetry or prose. If you were a river, where might your next tributary form? If you were a tree, would your branches reach toward the sky or bend toward the earth? Let’s explore these ideas and others that you think up. Combine your creative writing with illustrations into your own hardcover book.

Songwriting
Discover how the musical seed you plant puts down roots and grows into an original song. From the John Gorka folksong “Branching Out,” we will learn how a song sprouts from an idea. With traditional instruments, found objects, and singing, you will branch out with your new friends into your own worlds of song and sound.

Creative Dance
You supply the seeds (your own unique stories and creative ideas). We’ll supply the water and sunlight (exercises and activities to help you get started and nourish your creations). Mixing both choreographed and improvised movement with a healthy dose of fun, we will help you plant an original dance and then feed and care for it. Together we will witness how our ideas branch out and eventually flower, filling the space with art that’s alive.

Registration Form
To receive the Foothills Summer Arts registration form and brochure, please contact Director Anne Geller Foothills Arts Center, The Bass-Wilson Building, 284 Main Street, Suite 190, Wilton, ME 04294, (207) 645-7117; info@foothillsarts.org; www.foothillsarts.org.Or sign up to be on our mailing list (below).

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