[Kan-ed_members] Fwd: Virtual Coffee House Project - Please Join Us!

[Christina Madden]

Virtual Coffee House

Date: May 17, 2007
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. EDT 
Target Audience: Middle/Intermediate Schools and High Schools; Community Groups

Connection: H.323 Videoconference (Internet2 Connectivity Required for this event)

Description: 
To celebrate youth and community art, MAGPI and Plymouth Whitemarsh High School invite your school to participate in a virtual coffee house for student artists! This is a great way to engage your school's extracurricular groups, families, friends and community in videoconferencing! 

We are currently looking for schools that would like to participate in a pilot version of this project in May. (We hope to offer more of these next year!) Interested schools will be required to do the following: Host an on-site audience for the live videoconference event on May 17, 2007 from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. EDT. Sites may want to charge nominal ticket prices for their location in order to cover refreshments, etc. This is entirely up to individual host schools! 
Put together one or two different 3 minute "acts" for the show. Acts could be poetry recitals, songs, band performances, dances, dramatic pieces, visual art showcases/explanations, etc. There are no restrictions on the types of acts schools perform; however, we ask schools to recognize that the content of an act reflects their school and community. Participating schools may want to host 'auditions' for their two performance slots. Schools may ask a community arts group to perform in one of their two allotted performance slots, should they choose.
Participate in videoconference testing and a dress rehearsal. Schools will be able to choose their testing and rehearsal dates when they register for the project.
Generate Questions: Each school will be assigned one or more acts for which they will be responsible to watch critically and ask questions of the artist(s). After each act, we will go 'live' to the school responsible for critically viewing the act for their question. Since schools will be viewing their assigned act for the first time during the live performance, audiences will need to be particularly attuned.

Project Outline:
Call for Participants/Registration: Now until Friday, April 20, 2007
Videoconference Testing: April 30th - May 4th
Final Act Descriptions/Titles Due: Friday, May 4, 2007
Dress Rehearsals: May 7th - May 15, 2007
Event: May 17, 2007

Registration:
Interested sites must register online for the event by Friday, April 20, 2007. Online registration can be found at http://www.magpi.net/programs/coffeehouses.html. 
 ( http://www.magpi.net/programs/alexslemonade.html )

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Heather Weisse
MAGPI, Applications Coordinator
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 233A
Philadelphia, PA 19104
email: hweisse at magpi.net 
phone: 215-573-6417

Chrisy Madden
Membership Services Coordinator
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 520
Topeka KS  66612
785-296-2238
www.kan-ed.org