Please join us for the event of the year

for theatre educators in California!

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD THIS FALL!

Looking to renew your passion and get some real “tools” for teaching theatre in these difficult economic times? Then join your fellow theatre educators at the 65th Annual “STAR SAPPHIRE” CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION TEACHER’S CONFERENCE this October in Long Beach, CA.
 
Join us for an amazing weekend of informative and interactive workshops, enlightening seminars, passionate keynote speakers and great networking among some of the best theatre educators in California.

Conference rates include your CETA membership, workshops, speakers, exhibitors and two sit-down luncheons as we honor the best in California Theatre Education. Also included in your conference price is a wonderful sunset harbor cruise dinner on our final night, celebrating our 65th Anniversary!
 
On Thursday we are offering two master class intensives, prior to the start of the conference on Friday and there ARE academic credits available for each day of the conference.
 
Consider making this a family getaway! Long Beach has wonderful activities for the entire family, from the amazing Long Beach Aquarium to the Queen Mary.  We'll be on the harbor with great restaurants, shopping, amusement rides and bicycling. In addition, Catalina Island and Disneyland are just a short distance away. Bring the kids and make it a real vacation.
 
We look forward to seeing you this fall. You owe it to yourself, you owe it to your students, and most important, we need your voice as theatre education in California enters this next decade. See you in Long Beach!

Hotel Reservations: We'll be staying at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach

200 South Pine Ave,
in Long Beach, CA 90802

Click here for on-line Hotel Registration

If you are en exhibitor, register here for exhibitor registration.

Thursday

• Master Class with Jon Kellam from The Actors’ Gang

Mr. Kellam is the resident theatre director and member of the Actors' Gang in Culver City. His most recent Actors’ Gang directing credit was The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. He is currently developing/directing a solo performance piece based on the writings of the late 19th century actress, Helena Modjeska to be performed in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco. Mr. Kellam also serves as Co-Artistic Director and Founding Member at Zoo District Theatre in Los Angeles. At The Actors’ Gang, other directing credits include: Drums in the Night; Tartuffe, adapted by David Ball (Theatre de la Jeune Lune); and the national tour of The Exonerated. He assisted Simon Abkarian (Theatre du Soleil) on William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost. For Zoo District, he co-developed and directed Nosferatu and was co-director of Home, written by Steven Haworth. At the Los Angeles Theatre Center, he directed The Ass by Parviz Sayyad. Mr. Kellam directed the Imaginary Invalid at California State University at Los Angeles; served as fight director on John Patrick Shanley’s Beggars in the House of Plenty (directed by Larry Moss); and was movement consultant for Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth, produced by the Ruskin Group in Los Angeles.
 
The Actors’ Gang
The mission of the Actors’ Gang is to present new, unconventional and uncompromising plays and dynamic reinterpretations of the classics; to restore the ancient sense of the stage as a shared sacred space; to introduce theatre to children and help them find their own creative voices; to bring the freedom of self-expression to the incarcerated. The history: Over the past 28 years, The Actors’ Gang has produced work of the highest quality here in Los Angeles, in 40 U.S. states, and on 4 continents. The company was founded in 1981 by a group of young theatre artists looking for a theatre that would present entertaining, meaningful, socially relevant plays. Fueled by the vision of Founding Artistic Director, Tim Robbins, the company provides a supportive environment for a diverse ensemble of artists and the development of their innovative work. A signature of The Actors’ Gang is its acting method: The Style. This is a unique fusion of the broad physicality of commedia dell'arte, California cinema, and the intense discipline of heightened emotional reality. Using this art form, the ensemble develops plays that address the world through a prism of satire, popular culture and imaginative stagecraft.

• Master Class with Brent Blair Director of M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts at USC

Mr. Blair is the Founding Director of the Applied Theatre Arts program at USC; he holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Depth Psychology with an emphasis on Liberation Arts and Community Engagement, a core focus of the new MA program. A Fulbright fellow with a focus on indigenous community-based theatre in Eastern Nigeria, he trained as a voice teacher with Kristin Linklater in the late 1980s and has taught directing, acting, voice and/or applied theatre arts courses at Emerson College, Boston University, Naropa University, UCLA, CSULA, The Center for Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro, The University of Rwanda, Butare and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.  Mr. Blair has worked and trained with the late Augusto Boal, founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, and has been invited to work as a TO Joker (practitioner) all over the world. He founded the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts, Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA), which hosted Boal four times in Los Angeles from 2001 – 2005. He has led workshops in partnership with global and local grass-roots organizations on issues of juvenile justice, labor exploitation and collective trauma, including: work with Rwandan genocide survivors and trauma counselors; workshops for prisoners and cultural fieldworkers in Brisbane, Australia; and, most recently, a series of workshops with Muslim youth, Imams and community organizers in partnership with Cambridge University in London to explore issues of religious radicalization and social marginalization. Mr. Blair has received the USC Teaching Has No Boundaries Award, the USC Good Neighbor Volunteer Award, as well as two School of Theatre Bill White Faculty Recognition Awards, and was selected by a student survey as one of the Ten Most Recommended Professors at USC.
 
Applied Theatre Arts Program at USC
The newly launched M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts invites cultural fieldworkers – community-based artists, educators, therapists, social workers and political activists – to explore how theatre can be applied to non-traditional theatrical settings through a rigorous one year and one summer course of study. A central role in the curriculum is based off of the work done by the late Augusto Boal known as “Theatre of the Oppressed.” Students learn the theory and practice of Forum Theatre, Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theatre techniques. In addition, students are expected to maintain a continual partnership with local Los Angeles grass roots organizations towards the development of community-based theatre projects in the interests of liberatory education and social, political or therapeutic change. Within this program the course of study culminate with a four-week thesis focused foreign externship where the students will observe an overseas Applied Theatre Arts organization of their choice.

Also Thursday:

PETER PAN 360

CETA has a limited block of terrific seats to one of the most talked about new productions! A smash hit in London, and direct from the U.S. premiere in San Francisco, this spectacular new stage production of J.M. Barrie's classic story is performed totally in the round within a state-of-the-art 1350-seat theatre pavilion. 

Conceived by an award-winning creative team, the production features twenty-two actors, stunning puppets, epic music, and dazzling flying sequences surrounded by breathtaking video!  The world's first 360-degree video projection for live theatre flies both cast and audience over Edwardian London.

For more information on Peter Pan 360, click here.

The all-inclusive price of $90 includes bus transportation and great seats.  Be sure to add on this special evening when completing your registration and join your fellow theatre colleagues for night in Neverland as you've never seen it before!

Friday

• Full day of workshops

• Advocacy

• Division meetings

• Guest Artists

• Exhibitors and reception

• Theatre on the town 
 

Saturday

• Full day of workshops

• CETA business meeting and elections

• Opportunities for educators

•  CETA Awards Luncheon

• Prize drawings

plus

• 65th Anniversay Celebration Dinner Cruise

Also on Saturday:

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY THEATRE ED THINK TANK

The California Educational Theatre Association will be hosting the California State University Theatre Education Think Tank—A Plenary Session at its upcoming 2010 state conference.

The afternoon session, facilitated by a CSU theatre instructor and CETA member, will be strictly devoted to CSUs coming together to discuss/brainstorm, articulate, and focus on strengthening theatre education programs for your teacher credential training.

For more info, visit the CETA website conference section.

Sunday

• Two intensive workshops to complete your weekend experience!

Past Guest Artists and Speakers

have included Jason Alexander, Garry Marshall, Joe Montegna, John Lithgow, Carrie Snodgress, Marlee Matlin,Mare Winningham, Dan Lauria, Betty Garrett, Senator Sheila Kuehl, Dakin Mathews and more.

CONFERENCE INCLUSIONS/EXCLUSIONS

REGISTRATION INCLUDES ALL WORKSHOPS, EVENTS, LUNCHES THURS - SAT, GALA DINNER CRUISE (SAT).

Theatre tickets for Thursday or Friday evening (shows to be announced soon) and additional meals for spouses/guests must be purchased separately. 

Hotel registration is not included. See information above.

All registrations include free membership (2010 - 2011).

Meals included:

Thursday: lunch.

Friday: lunch.

Saturday: Awards luncheon and Gala Banquet Dinner Cruise.

Sunday:  No meals included on Sunday.

Additional information on pricing:

Cost is per person. Registration and membership are not transferrable and may not be shared or split.

Attention Students and Emeritus members: Enter discount code of "Student" or "Emeritus" to receive a $25 discount on registration.

Prices are good until October 1, 2010. After October 1, prices will increase by $25.

$25 cancellation fee for all cancellations or changes. No cancellations or refunds after September 13, 2010.