SUMMER Performance Workshop
PLANS FOR THE SUMMER 2025 PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY. PLEASE CHECK BACK THEN.
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BAYFEST/Chief Sealth Drama Company
We continue to grow and strengthen our Chief Sealth International High School-based programs, after a terrific year that included three productions, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street, “Scenes About Teens: A Musical Extravaganza!” and a wild and exciting production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the spring. We also conducted a three-day a week Drama and Improv class and several performance workshops. We worked very hard putting the two theatre spaces into tip-top shape and training a student tech crew to run and maintain both of them.
This coming year, we will be doing even more productions, a regular Improv and Theatre Games class, a Theatre Tech training class, and frequent workshops, including Makeup for the Stage, Sewing and Costume Design and Movement for the Theatre.
SCHOOL YEAR
STUDENT
PROGRAMS
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Our school year work with students happens during and after school, from in-class sessions (getting students to engage with fun and active movement, drama and imagination-building exercises, or on a particular topic from science and math to ELA to social studies) to months-long after school programs culminating in performances. BAYFEST is a member of the Seattle Public Schools Creative Advantage initiative, and many programs are also supported by BAYFEST funders
K-12 EDUCATOR
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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BAYFEST offers K-12 educator professional development sessions (for teachers in separate grade-band cohorts and in all-staff workshops) on “Activating Your Class with Active Arts.” Workshops are focused on skills that can be incorporated on a regular basis in classes, often in short and easy-to-manage ways – as curriculum enhancements, “brain-breaks”, and as imagination- building ways to keep students engaged and thinking creatively together
BAYFEST’s mission
Since our founding in New York City in 1990, our mission has been to “Develop the Extraordinary Potential of Youth through Dramatic and Active Arts.” Our K-12 Student programs have been offered through in- and after-school, and summer programs all over the US andUK, and we are currently based in Seattle, WA.
The over-arching goal of all our programs is to help young people build empathy and stay alive to all that is inside them, exploring and sharing their own unique “I Am!” as well as the ensemble “We Are!” — drama, dance, movement, rhythm, performance poetry and prose, and kinesthetic learning. All our teaching artists are theatre professionals and educators with years of experience working with young people of all ages. Our K-12 educator professional development programs give teachers the skills to bring the active arts into their classrooms to extend lessons, reduce stress and increase student engagement.
We strongly believe that the arts can and must be a force for building social responsibility, connectedness and empathy, and the ideas of social justice and equity are embedded in all the work we do.
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SUMMER YOUTH THEATRE CAMPS
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PLANS FOR THE SUMMER 2025 PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY. PLEASE CHECK BACK THEN!!!
You can see general Information, Application and Scholarship Info for Summer Programs here
SPONSORS
BAYFEST is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation – Federal Tax ID #: 13-3570285. We couldn’t do the work we do without all our wonderful individual donors (too numerous to list here…) and especially our major corporate and governmental sponsors, below. THANKS to ALL!
