LEGACY

For Youth

LEGACY (Lifelong Education and Growth for Artists, Community and Youth)

That $10 Ticket Thing

That $10 Ticket Thing allows any student with a valid Student ID card the opportunity to come see live theatre for only $10. In addition to seeing great theatre, there will be a prize draw for a cool gift at the end of the season and other free and cheap stuff. If you or someone you know might benefit from this program, let them know.

Tickets may be booked in advance by emailing Anna Lake at alake@ATPlive.com or calling (403)294-7433 ext.1098, or purchased at the Martha Cohen Theatre Box Office on the night of performance. VALID STUDENT ID must be presented when picking up tickets.

That $10 Ticket Thing dates for the 10/11 season are:
The Penelopiad - September 28 (7:30pm)
The Last Dog of War - October 26 (7:30pm)
Seussical™ The Musical - November 25 (7:30pm)

The Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays
Join us for the Emerging Artist Assembly Feb 18 - 20
Nisei Blue - February 18 (7:30pm)
The Romeo Initiative - February 19 (7:30pm)
Heartbreaker - February 19 (2:00pm)
300 Tapes - February 20 (2:00pm)

The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan - April 5
Mump & Smoot Cracked - May 3

Backstage Tours

Alberta Theatre Projects gives groups of students of any age an information-packed, interactive guided tour of ATP's state of the art theatre facility, including the fly gallery, the lighting grid, the under-stage, the dressing rooms and of course the unique Martha Cohen Theatre itself.

Tours are provided free of charge.

If you are interested in booking your group for a backstage tour, complete the Backstage Tour Booking Form and fax it to Anna Lake at 403-294-7493.

Job Shadowing

The Job Shadowing program is a unique and productive way for students to spend time in the life of theatre. ATP is happy to create a job shadowing program which fits your schedule, whether you are available for a day, week or month. You will be offered multiple opportunities to shadow an ATP professional offering a wide variety of experience and tools. Areas available to shadow are:

Artistic Direction
Play Development
Directing
Design
Stage Management
Acting
Production Management
Technical Direction
Business Management/ Fundraising

Recommended for individuals in Junior or Senior High School.

For more information on Job Shadowing, please see the brochure
To apply to Job Shadow, please fill out the application form
ATP’s LEGACY program also offers Job Shadowing for Teachers.
For more information please contact the LEGACY program at alake@ATPlive.com

Internship

The University of Calgary Drama Department offers this program in cooperation with several professional theatre companies, of which ATP is proud to be one of. Under the supervision of a faculty member, one qualified fourth-year Drama student spends a full season at ATP gaining varied practical fieldwork experience.

For more information please contact the University of Calgary Drama Department.

Junior Apprenticeship

The Junior Apprentice Program provides a 35 week long opportunity for graduating students to spend their first year out of high school learning by doing. The program combines training in the field with supplemental instruction by professionals.

Learn everything you ever wanted to learn about theatre but were afraid to ask.
Free hands-on training in the theatre arts!

What is an apprentice?

An apprentice is "a person learning a trade or craft by working at it under skilled supervision for a given length of time" (Gage Canadian Dictionary). Positions are available for graduating Grade 12 students for an 8-9 month, full-time Junior Apprenticeship with Alberta Theatre Projects.

Concentrations are in the following areas:

Technical/ production
Stage Management
Resource Development/ Fundraising
Marketing and Communications
Play Development

"I truly believe that this year has been the best year of my life to this point, for many reasons. Most prominently, I have learned a lot about myself, as a person and an artist. I began my term not having a clue what I wanted to do for a career, and I was determined to find and utilize my talents, including finding a few that I didn’t know I had. I feel that I took a new skill away from each of the disciplines I met, and I hope to be able to use those skills in the future. Now, at the end of my term at ATP, I feel that I have found my passion, which I believe is a very positive thing.”

Kelley Cheetham, 08-09 Junior Apprentice

For more information on the Junior Apprentice Program, see the brochure
To apply, please fill out the Junior Apprentice Application Form
The Junior Apprentice Program is made possible through the generous support of the following:

Harry & Martha Cohen Foundation

Student Writers Group

From October through March, the Student Writers Group meets every Saturday morning for two hours, to learn about playwriting, engage in fun writing exercises, and share and workshop their own work in progress. The course is facilitated by playwright/composer Ethan Cole, and culminates in Fresh Prints, a workshop and staged reading, by professional actors featured as part of the Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays.

For more information, or to register, please contact Ethan at 403-891-4041, or ethancole@shaw.ca. Please register promptly, as participants are generally selected on a first-come, first-serve basis.

This group is recommended for High School students. The cost is $100, including Fresh Prints.

Ethan Cole’s Biography

Ethan Cole is a playwright, composer, performer, director and lyricist. Recent projects include Transit UnRomantic (Enbridge playRites Festival 2008), The Astonishing Adventures of Awesome Girl and Radical Boy (Lunchbox Theatre), Intervention (Theatreboom’s Fall Bill Vol. 2), and the on-line live-action comedy Cerealized (cerealized.com).