2011 Projects

After School Workshops

For Ages:
5-8yrs
9-12yrs
13-17yrs
13yrs + & 18yrs +

Workshop Terms:
Term 1 Feb7th - April 1st
Term 2 May 9th - July 1st
Term 3 August 1st - Sept 23rd
Term 4 Oct 24th - Dec 9th

Where:  Renmark, Loxton, Barmera, Beri & Waikerie

Each Workshop presents a short performance at the end of term showcase KAPOW. This allows participants to show a 'Window into the workshop' and to provide them the performing experience to an audiance of friends and family. .

Street Ensemble The Riverland is an outdoor activities region. Our Social calander are spotted with markets, field days, parades and sporting events. The Street Ensemble is a chance to take arts into the streets and community events with fun, ironic, quirly and satirical performances.  The Incursions into the community activitys of the Riverland prove that the arts and creativity are essential to the culture of our reigon. Street performance is not just an event - it is an art form. Visiting professional guest artists, the award winning Born in a Taxi will take intensive workshops in street theatre techniques. The Street Ensemble will develop the skills to push this art form to new levels using the Riverland's unique environment to inform its work. Ages: All Intense Holiday Workshop: Jan In school community workshops: avalible all year	Supermation Film Festival Create your own super hero tale! RYT members and primary schools around the Riverland are invited to attend a series of in-school and intensive holiday workshops in learning how to create their own short films using animation, claymation and mobile phone techniques. Films will be based on the idea of developing your own superhero character and tale. RYT is calling for short films to be submitted to the traveling Supermation Film Festival avalible for screenings at schools and community centres. Guest artist professional animator and film maker Fiona Perceval will lead intensive Autumn holiday workshops in editing, character and set model making, sound design and story boarding. Ages: 7 - 13years Intense Holiday workshops: April 18-21 Inschool and community workshops: avalible all year
Real Life Heroes - Documentry Film Festival Your superhero might be living right next door... RYT members and high school students from around the Riverland are invited to attend a documentry film making master class lead by award winning South Australian film makrer , Shalom Almond. (The Love Market, Chasing Shadows). The Intensive will teach skills such as story boarding, interviewing techniques, camera operation, editing and sound design. RYT invites schools and individuals to submit short documentaries to the traveling Real Life Heroes Film Festival, avalible for screenings at schoosl, community centres and online. Age:  13-26 years and community members Intesive winter Workshop:  July 11-15 In school and community workshops: Avalible all year	Superheroes in the Library: Riverland Book Week As part of the 2011 Children's Book Council of Australia's National Book Week Celebration, RYT and the Riverland Libraries celebrate the theme of superheros as part of the One World, Many Stories theme. Children are asked to attend book week activites dressed as their favourite hero as well as to choose a book of their favourite hero story. Children will read and share stories of their heroes through drawing, and junk puppet making. Artistic Personal: Olivia Allen, RYT tutors and Libray Staff. Ages: 2-13 years old When: August 20-26 Where: Riverland Libraries
Mono Myth "As you get odler, its harder to have heroes but its sort of nessersary" - Ernest Hemingway Everyone needs a hero? Do heroes still exist? In an age of intense media scrutiny of tradtional heroic figuires in sport, politics and the celebrity culture choosing heroes we can faithfully believe in has proven difficult. Many heros held up as role models have fallen from their lofty heights, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and even Peter Garrett to name a few. This production will dissect the way we construct our notion of a hero and how the hero ideal influences our lives. Age: 14-19years When: Oct - 26 Waikerie Matinee Oct  - 27 Loxton Matinee Oct - 28 Chaffey Theatre Matinee Oct - 29 Chaffery Theatre Evening	Superhero Confessions An old red phone box sits in a field, a lot like superman's change room, a bit like Maxwell Smart's elevator. Members of the Public are invited to a make phone booth confessions to a webcam about what superhero powers they would most like to have and what they would do with them. The results will be edited into a web video and shown on RYT's website as part of the Hero Projects online Presence. Ages:  from the ages that you start talking to the age that you stop! When:  various times at community events around the Riverland.