January 3rd, 2011 - Current Students
January 24th, 2011 - Open Registration for New Students
Current students are guaranteed their same day/time/teacher for Spring Semester. Some accommodations can be made with any requests, but requests are not guaranteed.
We need to have at least the first half of tuition, for continuing students, by January 29th to secure current placement. You can do this over the phone/e-mail or any other time during business hours or lesson times. You will not have to fill out any forms unless you are a new student or have any requests.
Please inquire with Rei about these requests.
KINDERMUSIK - NEW CLASS!
Forte Music School will now be offering "KINDERMUSIK"
for ages 18 months to 3 years!
Kindermusik's curriculum focuses on a child's healthy emotional and social development, at the same time recognizing their need for both independence and support. Parents participate for the full 45 minutes of class, which meets once a week.
Sign up now for a FREE PREVIEW CLASS!
PREVIEW CLASSES HELD:
January 21st and 28th, 2011
9:30 and 10:30 (must register ahead)
NEW SESSION BEGINS:
February 4th, 2011 (15 weeks)
$175, (including materials)
Is Spider getting too big for his own skin? Will Fly find her superhero powers in time to save her Aunt Rita from peril? Will Worm learn to stand on his own two feet…even though he doesn’t have feet? We invite you to take a look at the world from a bug’s perspective. Perhaps you’ll see that their lives are not all that different from yours.
This world premiere musical captures all of the droll humor and whimsy of the wildly popular books by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss. Best for all ages!
Saturdays at 2pm and 5pm*
Sundays at 2pm**
Newmark Theatre
1111 S.W. Broadway
Portland, OR 97201
For More InformationCLICK HERE!
STOLLER MIDDLE SCHOOL THEATRE PRESENTS:
"SEUSSICAL Jr."
January 21, 24, 25, 26, 2011
By: Kate Gilley and Mallory Ashcraft Music by: Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by: Lynn Ahrens Book by: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Co-conceived by: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, and Eric Idle Based on the works of Dr. Seuss Music Supervised, Adapted, and Produced by Bryan Louiselle
A delight for children to perform, Seussical is now one of the most-performed shows in America! In this fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza, Tony winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime," "Once On This Island") have lovingly brought to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination--Jojo. "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think" captures the show's spirit of imagination, as the colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.
The story centers around Horton the Elephant, who finds himself faced with a double challenge--not only must he protect his tiny friend Jojo (and all the invisible Whos) from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left to his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him, the only one who recognizes "his kind and his powerful heart." Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant, in a story that makes you laugh and cry.
MAIN STAGE
Stoller Middle School
14141 NW Laidlaw Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97229
FERTILE GROUND:
A CITY-WIDE FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
JANUARY 20 - 30, 2011
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Fertile Ground 2011 is a 10-day arts festival that will be held January 20 through 30 in Portland, Oregon. This city-wide festival is focused on new work in the Arts. It will feature up to 30 world premiere projects, staged readings and a myriad of other arts events from the Portland creative community. From fully staged world premieres in theatre, to ensemble and collaborative driven work, dance, comedy, visual art and film…this festival spans the spectrum of creative endeavor and seeds the next generation of creation through artist conversations, workshops, lunchtime readings and more.
Unlike a typical fringe festival, Fertile Ground features the finest new work of our LOCAL artists, performers and resident theater companies, ensuring that the artistic and financial benefits of the festival stay in Portland. Where other New Works Festivals are curated by one theater company and typically feature a string of staged readings, this festival is collaboratively shaped by variety of aesthetic voices. Fertile Ground features a full range of artistic experience, giving audiences a greater depth and breadth of work from which to choose in a concentrated time frame. From Portland’s oldest and largest producing institutions to its newest, smallest or self-produced companies, the Fertile Ground Festival offers the breadth of creation. For this reason we feel this festival is nationally unique, providing a new model for creating and sharing new work that will be of
substantive value to the national theater and arts.
Fertile Ground was launched by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theater artists and organizations) in 2009 to provide a platform for Portland theater companies to showcase their commitment to new work; and to invite regional and national artists, artistic leaders and arts aficionados to discover for themselves that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance. Fertile Ground has grown its scope of offerings to encompass the open field of arts creation to include dance, comedy and visual arts. Fertile Ground aspires to provide a forum where art lovers near and far will come to appreciate that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance.
JANUARY: 21st & 28th
Last two Recitals of Fall Semester.
Cost: $15
(includes a DVD of your performance)
Local Events
“The Sound of Music” - in Concert
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
Suggested by "The story of the Trapp Family Singers"
JAN. 7, 8 & 9, 2011
When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. The family's narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.
Chemeketa Comm College
Building 6 Auditorium
4000 Lancaster Drive NE
Salem, OR 97303
All the world’s a fart joke in Constance Congdon’s hilarious new take on Moliere’s skewering of a health care crisis from an entirely different century. To quell his growing pile of medical bills, Monsieur Argan, a chronic hypochondriac, will go to any length to marry his daughter off to a doctor. Of course, his daughter has other ideas. A narcotic cocktail of romantic triangles, double entendres and mistaken identities ensues, promising to leave you gasping, giggling and possibly… in stitches.
JAN. 11 - FEB 6, 2011
GERDING THEATER AT THE ARMORY
128 NW Eleventh Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
503-445-3700
Lisa Jones has been feeling a bit off. One hour off, in fact; the hour she lost when her flight to London crossed the Greenwich meridian at the exact moment daylight savings time ended. To retrieve her wandering hour, Lisa must take a journey…to Dissocia, where cars fly, bears sing, and the Black Dog King reigns. This wildly inventive, fearlessly smart, and relentlessly surprising play by the author of The Lying Kind will take you places you never expected and will never forget.
Single tickets $28-$32
Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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