Do YOU want to win a free Drama Kids t-shirt? Our Halloween Photo Contest is BACK, and this year we will have FOUR winners! #IMAGINE... the scariest Halloween costume, the most dramatic, the cutest, and... the most #IMAGINATIVE! Yes, it's our biggest contest EVER, so keep reading for more details! This year you can submit to one of FOUR categories!
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All you have to do to submit a photo to our Halloween contest is to post a photo of your Drama Kid on YOUR Facebook page, and tag us @ Drama Kids of the Capital Region so we can see it! (Be sure to make this photo "public" so it's not hidden from us!) You can also email us a photo the old fashioned way if you would prefer at [email protected]) The deadline to submit a photo to our contest is Friday October 26th. Remember to specify which category you would like to be considered for!!! Once we have received all of the submissions, we will post albums of the submissions on our official Facebook page. Whichever picture in our album gets the most LIKES and reactions wins! The contest ends at 12 AM on Halloween - October 31st! The winners will be announced on our FB page Halloween morning, and will receive a NEW Drama Kids tshirt! Don't miss out! Enter today!
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Our Drama Kids have proven time and again that a mere spark of imagination can ignite into something brilliant. That if we imagine with all our mind, believe with all our hearts and achieve with all our might, the possibilities are endless. That's why this year we are encouraging our students to think big and tap into their imaginations full force! You may be asking yourself, "Isn't imagination just synonymous with 'playtime'? What is my Drama Kid actually learning?" Well, studies show that an active imagination is a true key to success in life - beyond our childhood years! How so...? Enhance problem solving skills...
If you can tap into your imagination, you have the capability of looking at obstacles in a different way! Instead of giving up when a problem arises, you can come up with multiple creative solutions. Strengthens social skills and empathy... When we can imagine ourselves in someone else's shoes, it makes us a more understanding and open-minded individual. Empathy enables you to be more observant, be more collaborative, and encourages respect in an ever-growing digitalized world. Improves memories... Did you know, according to recent studies, that having an active imagination creates more neurons in your brain? If you continue to utilize your imagination throughout adulthood, then you are 73% less likely to develop memory problems later in life! Promotes ambition... As Walt Disney once said, "If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." While daydreaming may seem like a waste of time, it's not something you want to stifle! Daydreaming can inspire us to do great things - and developing these aspirations in our mind, judgement-free, can lead to serious success! At Drama Kids we are giving our student's a safe place to develop their imaginations in a way that is so often discouraged in schools today. While self-expression may take a backseat in other programs, at Drama Kids we're ALL about tapping into our student's creativity! We never direct our students with an iron-fist, because we know their ideas are just as important as our own! There is never one right answer in our classroom; which is why class to class, and year to year, our program is never the same. Seriously! You could sit in on the same lesson multiple times and always discover something new! No two children's imaginations are the same - so why should their characters be? As we gear up for Project Silver Screen, we are so excited to see our students turn their imagination and ideas into a reality. There will be more information to come next month (we can't give away all of our secrets just yet!) but we can say that our Acting Academy students will be taking control, and creating a piece of art and imagination that they can truly be proud of! After all, imagining something is one thing, but actually taking an idea and making it a reality is all the more rewarding! Stay tuned :)
On the first day of class we asked our students to think big and #IMAGINE a world where ANYTHING is possible! Their ideas were hilarious, silly, thoughtful, inspiring... and dare we say... IMAGINATIVE! Zoom in on the graphic below to read their ideas, and try to find some familiar faces in this year's mosaic!
October is National Bullying Prevention Awareness month, and this Thursday (October 18th!) is Spirit day. We ask that all of our Drama Kids wear purple on Thursday and join the fight against bullying! Go to https://www.glaad.org/spiritday to learn more. Our Acting Academy students tackled the tough issue of bullying through drama, and we want to keep the conversation going. Did you know...
Our children don't have to be powerless. We can EMPOWER them to believe in themselves, to show compassion, to have the strength to walk away, to have the conviction to stand up for what is right, and to not let others define who we are. Our Acting Academy students learned that we have a choice when facing a bully. Sharing real life tips on combating instances of bullying can help people who are currently being bullied to get out of a difficult situation. Share your ideas at DoSomething.org! Keep the conversation going at home. Visit StopBullying.gov for tips on how to talk about bullying with your child. Remember - choose kindness! |
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