FSPA Master Class with Nikki Wyndham scheduled for Aug 15

Get whipped into shape with Broadway’s original Brooke Wyndham @nikkisnelsonaugh! 

Nikki will be teaching a Legally Blonde themed dance master class on August 15th! 

Additionally, audience members can meet Nikki at the Saturday, August 14th performances of @franklin.performing.arts.co’s Legally Blonde!

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FSPA Master Class with Nikki Wyndham scheduled for Aug 15

   

Last "Monday Night Masterclass" of the season!

Join us Monday, April 26th at 7:30 for a masterclass on the life and works of Katharina Grosse presented by artist, Jacqueline Volpe.

View this email in your browser Join Us! Free Monday Night Masterclass with local artist, Jacqueline Volpe Our LAST class of the season will focus on the life and works of Katharina Grosse, a German artist who uses her surroundings (natural and man-made) to create pieces which are colorful and large-scale often running from ceiling to floor or the length of a building. Jacqueline Volpe, noted local artist and founder of "The Creativity Curator" will be giving a hands-on, one hour masterclass of Katharina's works. Registration is required and, as always, free to our community. Monday, April 12th, 7:30-8:30pm. Register on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCulturalCouncil/) or through our email address: franklinculturalcouncil02038@gmail.com. A Zoom link is sent to participants via private email before the event.

Masterclass: The Life & Artwork of William Wegman!! - Mon, April 19

Register on the Franklin Cultural Council Facebook page for their upcoming Monday Night April 19^th, 7:30-9 PM Masterclass.  

You won't want to miss this one!  It's Free to the public (on and off Facebook) via Eventbrite!

 

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MONDAY AT 7:30 PM EDT – 9 PM EDT

FCC Masterclass: The Life and Artwork of William Wegman

Masterclass: The Life & Artwork of William Wegman!! - Mon, April 19

This class will provide information on the artist, his personality, style and technique. With this as background, each participant will have the opportunity to create his/her own do-it-yourself art project at home with materials easily found in your home or in the local supermarket, or local art/general stores. A list of necessary supplies will be posted on Ms. Volpe's website: https://www.thecreativitycurator.com. No special skills or art experience is required!

William Wegman is a photographer and painter, whose unique compositions feature dogs, most notably his own Weimaraners, in costumes and poses.

Free! Monday Night Masterclass with Jacqueline Volpe - Apr 12

Join us for our Monday Night Masterclass Series with Jacqueline Volpe throughout April

View this email in your browser https://mailchi.mp/6b77e7b45204/free-monday-night-masterclass-withjacqueline-volpe?e=58f391b158  Join Us! Free Monday Night Masterclass with local artist, Jacqueline Volpe The Franklin Cultural Council is getting ready for next week's "Monday Night Masterclass" on ELIZABETH MURRAY. Don't know who she is yet? Learn all about her on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCulturalCouncil/) this week! Jacqueline Volpe, noted local artist and founder of "The Creativity Curator" will be giving a hands-on, one hour masterclass of Elizabeth's works. Registration is required and, as always, free to our community. Monday, April 12th, 7:30-8:30pm. Register on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCulturalCouncil/) or through our email address: franklinculturalcouncil02038@gmail.com. A Zoom link is sent to participants via private email before the event. Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) was an American painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases.

Franklin Cultural Council Presents “The Creativity Curator”, Jacqueline Volpe

Explore the medium and techniques of a featured artist and create your own piece in each one-hour session. These are free to the public.

Join Jacqueline Volpe, noted Franklin artist, each Monday in April as she leads us on a journey to explore the creative process of four very different artists:

• April 5—El Anatsui, a Nigerian based artist whose sculptures are flexible and can be reshaped. His work is done in clay, wood, metal and most recently discarded bottle caps.

• April 12—Elizabeth Murray, a painter and sculpture who bridged the Cubist movement and Pop Surrealism. She used color, mosaics and twisting and warping her canvases to create vibrant art, with a bit of whimsy. 

• April 19—William Wegman, photographer and painter, whose unique compositions feature dogs, most notably his own Weimaraners, in costumes and poses

• April 26—Katharina Grosse, a German artist, who uses her surroundings (natural and man-made) to create pieces which are colorful and large-scale often running from ceiling to floor or the length of a building.

Each class will provide information on the artist, his/her personality, style and technique.  With this as background, each participant will have the opportunity to create his/her own do-it-yourself art project at home with materials easily found in your home or in the local supermarket, or local art/general stores. A list of necessary supplies will be posted on Ms. Volpe’s website: https://www.thecreativitycurator.com.   No special skills or art experience is required.

This series of Monday Night Masterclasses are geared to young adults and adults. Each Monday night session will begin at 7:30 PM and are conducted via Zoom. 

Participants must pre-register on the Franklin Cultural Council’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FranklinCulturalCouncil) and will receive the link in a follow-up email.

 

Franklin Cultural Council Presents “The Creativity Curator”, Jacqueline Volpe

S.W.A.N Paint Night; Strength, Wellness & Networking with Amy Adams

Join us for a free community PAINT NIGHT with Amy Adams for our next "Monday Night Masterclass"! No experience necessary!

Need materials? We've got you covered! Free materials for the first 25 participants to register. One ticket per family/computer please! 

Registration is open via Eventbrite:

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S.W.A.N Paint Night; Strength, Wellness & Networking with Amy Adams

Monday Night Masterclass: Pranayama and Meditation Demo - Jan 11, 2021

Please join the Franklin Cultural Council next Monday evening to kick off our first January "Monday Night Masterclass". This is a FREE class, but must be registered is required. 

 We could ALL use some help breathing these days! The Vihika Foundation is an internationally recognized meditation community.  https://www.vishistayoga.org/

Register here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pranayama-and-meditation-demo-tickets-135330480109

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Monday Night Masterclass: Pranayama and Meditation Demo - Jan 11, 2021

FPAC to Host Dance Master Class with Broadway’s Clay Thomson - Aug 29

The Franklin Performing Arts Company (FPAC) is excited to host a Matilda-themed Dance Master Class with original Broadway cast member Clay Thomson on Thursday, August 29 at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts at 38 Main Street in Franklin, MA. Thomson will be returning to Franklin in the fall to choreograph FPAC’s production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical.

There will be a Beginning/Intermediate level class (minimum age 9) from 4:00-5:30 pm and an Intermediate/Advanced level class from 6:00-8:00 pm. Students will learn choreography from the Broadway production with Clay Thomson. The Beginning/Intermediate class is $25, the Intermediate/Advanced class is $30, and both classes together are $40.

Clay Thomson

Currently appearing in KING KONG on Broadway, Clay Thomson started out as a competitive gymnast at the age of four, which eventually led him into the performing arts. At age twelve, Clay joined the Cameron Mackintosh/NETworks tour of Oliver!.

After Clay completed his freshman year at Pennsylvania State University studying Musical Theatre, Clay toured the U.S, Canada, and Japan with the Broadway First National Tour of West Side Story as A-rab. Soon after returning from tour, he made his Broadway debut in Disney's Newsies, playing Spot Conlon. After that, he was cast in the Original Broadway cast of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical.

In 2014, Clay left Matilda to perform in New York City Center Encores' productions of Little Me and The Most Happy Fella. Clay has also made numerous television appearances, performing on shows such as Dancing with the Stars, The 2013 TONY Awards, The 2012 and 2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, Good Morning America, Good Afternoon America, and more.

Clay has taught master classes around the U.S, including classes at Broadway Dance Center, Broadway Artists Alliance NYC, Camp Broadway, Broadway Workshop, Broadway Classroom, and dozens of high schools, dance studios and universities all around the country. He is featured in the viral YouTube video #CupsTapDance as well as his most recent appearance in The Happy Tap Dance #TAPPY.

To reserve a spot in the Master Class, call 508-528-8668. Follow Franklin Performing Arts Company on Facebook, Instagram (@franklin.performing.arts.co), Twitter (@fpac_online), and YouTube.

FSPA Students Learn from Broadway Stars in NYC

Over MLK Weekend, students from the Franklin School for the Performing Arts (FSPA) traveled to New York City to study with Broadway professionals. FSPA Musical Theater students of all ages took Song Interpretation, Monologue, and Theater Dance classes with Broadway stars, casting directors, and agents, while FSPA Dance students took classes at the world-renowned Broadway Dance Center. This trip has been an annual offering for FSPA students since 2008.

The instructors for this year’s master class weekend included Tony Award nominees Jenn Colella (Come From Away, If/Then, Chaplin) and Alexander Gemignani (Carousel, Hamilton, Chicago, Violet, Sweeney Todd, etc.), Broadway performers Darlesia Cearcy (Once on This Island, Shuffle Along, The Color Purple, The Book of Mormon, Ragtime), Christopher Rice (The Book of Mormon, Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies with the Franklin Performing Arts Company), Clay Thomson (Wicked, Disney’s Newsies, King Kong, Matilda), Tyler Haynes (Cats, Hairspray, Oklahoma, The Boy from Oz), Tyrick Wiltez Jones (Hairspray, Finian’s Rainbow), Andi Hopkins (Nat’l Tour of Dreamgirls), and NY Casting Director Bob Cline. 

The weekend concluded with a showcase for a panel of staff from Broadway Artists Alliance as well as agent Greg Uliasz. From this showcase, some FSPA students will be selected to return to NYC in February to study at the Broadway Artists Alliance Winter Workshop.

The students also attended the Broadway show The Prom starring Tony Award winner, and frequent FSPA guest instructor, Beth Leavel. After the show, they were treated to a private question and answer session with Ms. Leavel. "I wish I had a Franklin School for the Performing Arts in my life when I was growing up,” says the Tony Award winner. “It's invaluable."

In addition to classes and shows, a tradition of FSPA’s annual New York City weekend is a dinner with FSPA alumni living and working in New York City. FSPA currently has alumni working on Broadway, off-Broadway, in National Tours, on film, TV, professional opera, and regional theater across the country.

For more information on programs at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts, visit www.fspaonline.com, call 508-528-8668, or stop by 38 Main Street in Franklin, MA. FSPA is currently offering an “All Access Pass” to new students which includes a free trial class as well as tickets to an upcoming performance.

FSPA students taking a theater dance class with Broadway's Clay Thomson
(Newsies, Wicked, Matilda, King Kong) and Christopher Rice (The Book of Mormon).