San Antonio Kids’s Theatre Provides New Alternatives for Budding Performers
San Antonio Kids’s Theatre, Magik Theatre, steps up alternatives for budding performers with after faculty lessons, minicamps, and in-school performances.
Since its founding 30 years in the past, Magik Theatre has impressed younger audiences to dream huge onstage and off. This yr, at the side of Magik’s 2024-25 season, the San Antonio performing arts establishment is including enjoyable new methods to achieve native youngsters past their famend youngsters’s theatre productions. For the primary time, Magik will open its doorways to college students for month-to-month after faculty lessons that discover behind-the-scenes creativity, audition professional ideas, and performing strategies. Constructing on their lauded summer season camps, Magik is proud to supply a fall break minicamp excellent for occupying elementary-aged college students. On this enjoyable and fast-paced Devising and Design Mini-Camp, college students will learn The Velveteen Rabbit and take part in workshops that use the story as a springboard. Campers will find out about improvisation, characterization, devising, advertising and marketing a play, and theatrical design to incorporate set, prop, and costume design. These expanded efforts increase the theatre firm’s dedication to training, which already gives specifically priced scholar matinees, neighborhood residencies with companions comparable to Haven for Hope and the Cindi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Remedy Heart, faculty touring productions with TEKS-aligned workshops and guidebooks, and educator appreciation performances.
Lissette Belmontes, Magik’s Director of Training, says, “Our imaginative and prescient for lessons, camps, and all our instructional programming actually, is to create one thing for everybody, from younger youngsters to excessive schoolers,” and deliberately integrates practices comparable to Mindfulness, Artistry, Grit, Creativeness, and Kindness in its theatre curriculum and studying environments. Whereas lessons, taught by Magik Theatre educating artists, illuminate the pathway for skilled alternatives with loads of recommendation and techniques from profession actors and theatre technicians, youthful youngsters and those that are merely inquisitive about performing profit by boosting their confidence and public talking skills in addition to constructing neighborhood via creativity. “We’re making our new instructional choices accessible, inclusive, and consciously in alignment with state requirements so college students will be capable to train their inventive expertise,” says Belmontes.
Under is a snapshot of Magik’s new and expanded training initiatives. For extra particulars, go to
MAGIK MONDAY FALL CLASSES
New this yr, Magik Theatre will open its doorways to younger theatre lovers who dream of being onstage, or backstage, on opening evening. The month-to-month sequence of 90 minute-long fall lessons guarantees a peek behind the scenes actually, as Magik Mondays happen at Magik’s theatre in iconic Hemisfair Park, and figuratively as Magik Instructing Artists supply their wealth of information about totally different elements of making theatre. Lessons are small, which means extra individualized consideration, however households ought to register quickly to make sure their spot. Every class is $35, with scholarships out there.
November 18 — Dance Audition Excessive schoolers hoping for a spot within the subsequent faculty musical received’t wish to miss this deep dive into the dance audition course of. Members of Magik’s skilled casting group will give tips about surviving the nerve-wracking course of with confidence and pleasure, and contributors may even be taught methods for rapidly mastering new choreography.
December 16 — Improv Center schoolers via highschool seniors can showcase their fast wit with new strategies for creating crowd-pleasing collaborative scenes. By the tip of the category, they are going to have a chance to carry out their very own improvised scenes with a number of companions.
MINICAMPS
November 25-27 — Fall Mini-Camp Impressed by Magik’s in style summer season camps, minicamps happen throughout these awkward faculty breaks when days are lengthy and childcare could also be scarce. Whereas elementary faculty college students are off for fall break, Magik will host a morning camp from November 25-27. The enjoyable and fast-paced Devising and Designing curriculum begins college students off by studying The Velveteen Rabbit (Magik’s manufacturing of the beloved youngsters’s basic opens November 23), utilizing the story as a springboard to show their very own artistic imaginative and prescient right into a mini-masterpiece. Campers will find out about improvisation, characterization, theatrical design and theatre advertising and marketing.
WORKSHOPS
Magik within the Classroom Workshops meet college students the place they’re to create theatrical magic with a TEKS-aligned cross-curricular artistic drama workshop led by Magik Theatre Instructing Artists! Every workshop runs 45 minutes to at least one hour and may be scheduled as an add-on to a discipline journey, earlier than or after a touring efficiency, or as an impartial expertise. This fall, the workshop is co-produced with Have fun Dyslexia and aligns with the touring manufacturing Eddie & Vinnie (extra beneath) and helps mother and father/educators perceive how some college students expertise the frustration of dyslexia within the classroom, equipping them with instruments to assist college students’ studying wants.
MAGIK ON THE ROAD
Magik on the Street excursions present enjoyable, stay performances of top quality to younger audiences in colleges and different instructional settings. By seeing and taking part in stay performances, youngsters be taught to determine with others, construct shallowness, and develop confidence in their very own skills. For fall and early spring, Magik on the Street presents Eddie and Vinnie, a couple of younger boy with dyslexia and his quick-witted gecko, Vinnie. In 2025, the touring manufacturing might be Tomás and the Library Girl, impressed by the touching, true story of Dr. Tomás Rivera. The bilingual manufacturing follows younger Tomás as he encounters a sort librarian who introduces him to the love of studying and units him on a path of empowerment and lifelong studying.
Exterior of those particular initiatives, Magik continues to assist training and educators with discounted scholar matinees designed for discipline journeys that reinforce classroom curriculum whereas fostering an understanding of, and appreciation for, the performing arts and the world round them. Magik’s digital useful resource guides are a helpful approach to offer cross-curricular, TEKS-aligned actions impressed by themes in touring reveals and scholar matinees. And at last, faculty school and employees are at all times appreciated at Magik, the place they’ll obtain one FREE ticket to pick Educator Appreciation Performances, discounted $20 tickets for all performances in addition to Educator Open Home Mixers to combine, mingle, and discover every new season’s training programming over mild bites, drinks and loads of enjoyable. Educators and public librarians received’t wish to miss the brand new 2024-2025 season’s open home on October 18 from 5:30 – 7:30pm. To register, click on right here.
MAGIK THEATRE
A skilled theatre for younger audiences established in 1994, Magik Theatre’s mission is to make use of the facility of theatre to create Magikal storytelling for kids that Prompts creativeness, Grows younger minds, and Evokes creativity and a love of studying that’s the Key to a extra literate future for our neighborhood. For extra info, go to magiktheatre.org, or Fb, Instagram and Twitter @TheMagikTheatre.
