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Arts study
aids youth
in Lincoln
By Mark Kjeldgaard
Students at Lincoln public schools
are studying the technical aspects of
theater under a University of Kansas
professor this week, as part of a new
program of instruction in drama,
music, dance and the visual arts. Dr.
Charles R. Lown is leading workshops
in lighting and set construction in
several Lincoln schools.
Lown's visit is sponsored by the
Year of the Arts, a program in which
artists will visit the Lincoln schools
throughout the 1973-74 school year to
teach elementary, junior high and high
school students about various artistic
techniques.
In a press conference Monday,
Lown said that he planned to teach
the basic skills of set production and
lighting. He expressed hope for a
relaxed question-answer format
allowing the students to ask about
problems.
"I've learned that if you go in with
a set formula you end up with a set
formula," he said. There is no one area
that students need to study to the
exclusion of others, he added.
"The way to get interest is to
involve students in all kinds of
theatrical activity," he said.
Year of the Arts drama coordinator
Louise McDonald, who is working
with Lown in the workshops, said that
essentials such as backdrops and paint
mixing would be emphasized.
Elements of set construction such as
the conventional techniques of
handling a brush will be as useful to
high school students as anything else,
Lown said. The workshops have
concentrated on the simple abilities
needed to build a broader theatrical
skill.
A beginning set designer usually will
be either too obvious or too subtle for
a play's purposes, Lown said. A sense
of creative proportion is one of the
first things that one must teach to
students, he added.
Playwrights often have an
inadequate technical sense and
misunderstand what a given scene
needs in background and lighting, he
said. As a remedy to that, Lown has
talked to students from the Lincoln
playwrighting academy, conducted by
playwright Royal Eckert through Year
of the Arts.
Lown is familiar with students in
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the Midwest, having lived in Lincoln
during his work with the UIML theater
department from 1957 to 1959. He
said he has never found that students
from rural areas or small towns were
deficient in theater sense, despite a
frequent lack of advanced facilities.
"The basic mechanics and the
discipline of theater can be taught
anywhere," he said. "The real
discipline of theater does not reside in
having lots of materials, but
somewhere else."
Lown's visit is only one part of a
program of instruction in drama which
will continue throughout the Year of
the Arts. Exit, a local creative theater
group, will be working with students
in Lincoln schools in October.
Later activities in drama include
directing workshops with former
G uthrie Theater director Edward
Payson Call, acting classes with actor
Cliff Goodwin and Royal Eckerts's
playwright academy. Nebraska's
Playhouse Puppeteers also will give
shows and demonstrations at
elementary schools.
In visual and plastic arts, five
professionals make up the year's
program. UNL glassblower Lloyd
Moore joins artists from throughout
the country who will teach ceramics,
mosaics, batik and cartoon art.
Fred Matthews, a member of
London's Royal Academy of Dancing,
will run a dance academy for Lincoln
students next summer. Throughout
the school year, UNL physical
education instructor Barbara Ball will
head an academy in modern dance
movements.
UNLs composer Robert Beadell
heads the Year of the Arts program in
music. He will teach composition on
both beginning and advanced levels,
work with students and staff on a
spring concert of original works and
compose an extended work for large
orchestra and chorus for a
performance in May. In addition, the
Lincoln Symphony will perform for
students on all educational levels.
Performances and exhibits of the
work done by students and instructors
in Year of the Arts will be presented
to the Lincoln community as well.
Original plays, compositions and art
works will Ik; featured in Pershing
Auditorium, the Lincoln Community
Playhouse and other places for
appreciation by the general public.
Special Films
Experimental and
avant-garde films again will be
screened this year as part of
the Union Specail Films new
season. The films are shown
nearly every other week on
Wednesdays at Sheldon Art
Gallery auditorium at 3, 7 and
9 p.m.
The Special Films
Committee has selected such
films as John Cassavettes'
Faces, Lionel Rogosin's Come
Back, Africa and the Genesis
IV and V series for this year.
Opening the new season this
evening will be Jean-Luc
Godard's Tout Va Bien,
starring Jane Fonda and Yves
Montand.
spores
torts
Tryouts for the UNL junior
varsity basketball team will be
Oct. 22 in the Coliseum at
4:30 p.m. Participants must
bring their own equipment.
For further information
contact assistant basketball
coach Lonnie Porter or Al
Nissen at 472-2265.
An organizational meeting
of the UNL women's swim
team will be Wednesday at
4:30 p.m. at the swimming
pool in the Women's Physic '
Education Bldg. All interested
women are welcome. For
further information contact
Elizabeth Gross at 477-3871.
Scholarships
Scholarships for study
andor research in African
countries under the
Fulbright-Hays Scholarship
Program for graduate students
and young professionals will be
available for the ' 1974-75
academic year. The campus
deadline to receive applications
in Nov. 1, 1973.
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An Open Letter
to All
Teachers College
Students:
As president of the Uni
versity of Nebraska Student
Education Association
(UNSEA), I would like to
personally invite you to at
tend our UNSEA organiza
tional meeting on Wednesday,
Ocotber 10th, (tonight!) at 7
p.m. in the Nebraska Union,
where the room will be post
ed. The meeting will feature
Sue Zabcl of Dana College,
current president of the Stu
dent Education Assn. of
Nebraska (SEAN), and Mr.
John Lynch, executive secre
tary of the Nebraska State
Education Assn. instead of
Mr. Eu'jene Geisler of NSEA
as previously scheduled. This
should be a very interesting
session concerning the topic,
"Education . . . projects and
resources", in which various
aspects of teacher profes
sional organisations will be
discussed, as well as the
UNSEA programs for the
corning year.
This year UNSEA will be
involved in the state SEAN
tutoring project, the South
east Regional Workshop on
Oct. 13 at Nebraska. Wesley
an, the Teachers College Ad
visory Board "Freshman
Orientation, and community
projects such as day care cen
ters, making reading tapes for
the blind, and sponsoring
workshops and panels on a
variety of educational topics.
UNSEA is affiliated with
the National Education Assn.
and the Nebraska State Edu
cation Assn., and members
are able to attend Nebraska
teachers' conventions, as well
as receive many free publica
tions and the benefits of
$300,000 liability insurance
while student teaching.
Don't wait until you're a
senior to join, because
UNSEA has a lot to offer
now ... in Ijoth projects and
resources.
Sincerely,
Mary (Say) Gold
President, UNSEA
State secretary, SEAN
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Wednesday, October 10, 1973
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