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Friday, August 29, 2014

Announcement from Shoestring Productions

Greetings from Shoestrings,               With summer quickly coming to a end, and September approaching us faster and faster, this brings a wealth of changes: The weather gets cooler, school starts back up, and a new year of drama begins. With the new drama year there also comes with it, new changes. This letter is to inform everyone on the changes that are taking place here at Shoestrings.               The biggest change that is taking place is that the former director Jeannie, is stepping down as director. She will still be a part of Shoestrings as a consultant, and as an overall volunteer. The new director will be Stephen Camden along with his wife Ashley, who has been involved in Shoestrings for more than fifteen years. Over the past few years he has been assistant director to Jeannie as well as the technical director. This leads into the next biggest change, there will be NO fall production this term. As the new director of Shoestrings, Stephen wants to change things up a bit and focus on other parts of theater and not just acting. This fall term will consist of class time every week, where each week we will focus on different parts of theater. Everything from acting, sound and lighting, set design, as well as script writing and analysis. There will also be take home projects and homework. In the spring there will be a production so that the kids can put everything they have learned into practice, and put on a great production. Because there will be no production fall term there will not be a opportunity to sell ads. This brings us to the last change here at Shoestrings, the cost of tuition. We have new expenses that we have not had in the past. The newest would be the cost of storage and insurance. In the past we have had our storage paid for, but that is no longer the case. The new tuition for this term will be $190, with a shrinking rate for each child after the first. This cost will cover storage and all other overhead expenses we have. Payment arrangements can be made. The last change that will be taking place is that we will require a parent or family member of a student to be there every week and stay for the whole duration of class. There will be a sign up sheet on the first day of drama that you can sign up for any date you would like. Also all parents are always welcome to stay every week. If a parent is not signed up for a certain date, drama will not be happening on that day.   All parents, of both new and old students, are required to attend the first meeting on the ninth. This is a oration day, where will go over all changes in more detail, as well as answer any questions you might have. After orientation feel free to stay as the students play theater games and get to know each other.   Drama will be starting on Tuesday instead of Thursday, beginning September 9th at 1:30pm to 4:30pm every Tuesday at West Main Church. We hope to see you all there.   If you would like more info please feel free to contact Stephen at:   Cell: 541-621-0148   Email: shoestring_theatrical_troupe@yahoo.com  

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