lights, camera, action...

Here's our crew! Got some good practice in today and we will have one more run through before the performance on Monday night! We're looking forward to it!

This coming Monday July 11th you have two chances to see our fairy tale. At 6:00pm and 7:00pm the kids will be performing at First Free Methodist Church, and in between those times, you can join us across the street at the LYN House for the photography and art shows as well as cookies and refreshments prepared by our kid's cooking class. See ya Monday!

One Day More...

Question: Where would a monster, a clown, and a wiener dog hang out together?
Answer: The LYN House. In our fairy tale play. Come check out one of our two performances on Monday night at 6 and 7!

Here's some pictures from today:

Everybody loves snack time

Building a monster

Helping advertise

Lovely mustache :)

The rest of the set and costumes came together quite nicely today. Rehearsal tomorrow!!

Set Design

This group of kids looks pretty calm and collected in this picture here. But don't let them fool you. We got messy yesterday. Some people drew backdrops and some cut cardboard and glued and painted to create our life size puppets.

These girls hard hard at work painting. It's incredible that these kids can put an entire production together in a week, but it's happening!

Helping with the sketching stages. Next time you need a set put together, you should hire our little set design professionals.

Tall Tales

Today marked the beginning of our final Express Yourself camp for the summer. We had seven kids show up for the first day of Performing Arts Camp. 

A couple of Know No Stranger members are helping teach our kids the techniques of performing arts. Today we learned the elements of putting together a story and who all is involved in a production. And the kids got to try their hand at script writing as we put together our fairy tale of the neighborhood. Before that we practiced by together telling a rather ridiculous tall tale of Sammy with long ears and squirrels and flamingos and security guards after him. Tomorrow we will see what its like to make some props.