Historical June 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
A totally new arts experience for children ages 4 to 7 is available this summer, co-sponsored by CASA University City School for the Arts and Craft Alliance. Exploring experiences in music, clay, weaving, drawing and color, and including “wonder walks” between CASA, 560 Trinity at Delmar, and Craft Alliance, 6640 Delmar, will be offered in two three-week sessions.
The program covers halfday periods three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Four- and five-year-olds will be scheduled in the morning program and six- and sevenyear-olds in the afternoons.
Each daily session will include an hour’s program at CASA, “Music and movement,” and two hours at Craft Alliance, “Exploring Media.” At CASA, children will learn simple rhythm and coordination skills based on Orff and Kodaly techniques.
The teacher is Susan Wells, member of the CASA faculty and theory curriculum coordinator for all four CASA Schools for the Arts: Midtown, University City, Webster Groves and West County. Craft Alliance will involve the children in working with clay, weaving, drawing, experimenting with color, print-making and other creative arts. Susan Bostwick, children’s art teacher in schools here and in England, will instruct. “Wonder walks” to and from CASA and Craft Alliance will treat the children to cultural byways in University City, parades and new ways of seeing. Two sessions will be offered: Session one from June 16 to July 3, and session two from July 7 to July 25. Tuition is $75.
For further information and registration dates, call CASA, 863-3033.
A children’s class in ceramics will be offered in the summer session, June 16 to July 26, at CASA Midtown School for the Arts, 3207 Washington Avenue, taught by potter Jim Abrams.
The class, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, covers instruction in hand building and use of the potter’s wheel. Firing is also included. Also at CASA Midtown, children’s classes in modern dance will be taught on Saturdays from 9 to 10 a.m. for children ages 7 to 14 years old. Instructor is Bonnie Fisher.
A music and movement class for younger children teaches simple rhythm and coordination skills, according to Orff and Kodaly Methods. Music and movement, taught by Susan Wells and Bonnie Fisher, is also offered on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to noon. Children’s art classes are scheduled on Saturdays: From 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., 5 to 9 year-olds, and from 10:10 a.m. to noon, 10 to 14 year-olds. Teacher is Roz Flax.
For information on CASA Midtown summer classes, call 535-7576 from noon to 7 p.m. daily except Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.
A specialized part of the summer program at CASA Midtown School for the Arts, 3207 Washington Avenue, will be theater classes for children, taught by Irma Shira Tucker. Mrs. Tucker is director of the established theater group, City Players, which stages its productions in CASA Midtown’s lobby theater-in-theround. Children’s Theater classes involve work in creative dramatics, voice, diction and basic stage techniques.
Students perform in works they have created themselves and have an opportunity to learn stagecraft by assisting the production crews of City Players. Depending on age and experience, children work in groups on formal plays, readers theater and/or on characterizations from repertory drama.
In the CASA summer session, June 16 to July 26, drama classes for children, ages 6 to 10, will be held on Saturday mornings, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Drama classes for junior and senior high school students will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., also on Saturdays.
For further information and brochure, call CASA Midtown, 535-7576. Registration dates and times are as follows: CASA Midtown, Monday, June 9, 2-7 p.m.; Wednesday, June 11, 2-7 p.m.; Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. CASA University City, June 9, 2-7 p.m.; June 11, 2-7 p.m.; June 14, 9 a.m. 1 p.m.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1980.
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