Integrated Arts Conference

GodspellElementary and secondary school teachers are invited to participate in the annual ETC Integrated Arts Conference.

This one-day event offers professional development and continuing education workshops. Arts educators and artists learn how to integrate visual art, music, drama and writing into their curriculum, based on the theme of this year’s production.

Join us for the 15th Annual Integrated Arts Conference

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Silver Center for the Arts, Plymouth State University
8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Presented in association with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire.

Staff development and graduate credit are available. For information about graduate study in integrated arts at PSU contact Dr. Trish Lindberg, M.Ed. in Integrated Arts program coordinator and ETC artistic director (603) 535-2647.

Conference Schedule 

  • 8 a.m. Registration and refreshments
  • 8:20 a.m. Welcome

    Catherine O’Brian, coordinator, Arts in Education, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

    Marianne True, associate professor of Education and coordinator of the Educational Leadership Program, PSU Department of Education

    Keynote Address: In the Center Ring: The Power of Arts in the Classroom. Nancy Meyer, master teaching artist, Wolf Trap Institute; teaching artist, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, Ga.
  • 8:45–9:30 a.m. Performance of Green TIGER, PSU’s newest educational theatre production that teachers children the importance of not being a bully to their environment.
  •  9:30–10:45 a.m. Workshop Session One
  •  10:45–11 a.m. Break
  •  11 a.m–12:15 p.m. Workshop Session Two
  •  12:15–12:30 p.m. Break
  •  12:30–1:30 p.m. Luncheon, Newfound Room, Prospect Dining Hall

    During lunch there will be an opportunity to network with other educators and artists. Entertainment will be provided by Willy Rodriguez Jazz Trio, Berklee College of Music.
  •  2 p.m. Godspell, Hanaway Theatre, Silver Center for the Arts

Workshops will be:

  • Under the Big Top: Arts Education in the Center Ring
  • Clowns of All Kinds, Coming Together
  • Take a Ringside Seat: Arts Integration at the High School Level
  • The Ringmaster and Introducing Action
  • Balancing Act: Science and the Arts in Curriculum
  • Surprise! The Impact of Improvisation and Read Alouds in the Classroom
  • Hanging from the High Wire: Puppetry in the Classroom
  • Circus in the Classroom

Additional Godspell performances January 27–31, 2010, Hanaway Theatre, Silver Center, Plymouth State University. (603) 535-ARTS.

Registration is $125, which includes admission to all conference workshops and events, staff development certificate, lunch, refreshments, and a teacher resource book. For information or to register by telephone, call Deb Stalnaker at (603) 535-2933.

Educational Theatre Collaborative (ETC), MSC 38, Plymouth State University
plindber@plymouth.edu (603) 535-2647.