JO ANN CATEDRILLA BAUTISTA is one of the most creative persons I've ever met. I fondly call her my cuzin Juana! aka Cate in the theater circle, has been based in HK for 11 years. She is a theater practitioner, with an MA in Theater Arts from UP Diliman; taught, directed and produced theater in UP Baguio for ten years. On the side, she has been designing modules and facilitating creative workshops for specific needs.

She’ll be coming over to the HUB to do a really, really, really cool Theater Workshop entitled:

SSSH… Syncing Scriptures to the Stage @ the HUB
Using the Bible as Text for Theater Rendition

This workshop presents creative options for church workers and teachers who are constantly looking for fresh approaches to church presentations and teaching strategies. By creatively using the Bible as text, we are making the language of God’s world live as it interacts both with an audience and the actors/students as well.

Dates: April 5-7 , 2012 (Holy Thursday to Black Saturday)
 

Workshop Fee:
P3,200/person (Inclusive of food and accommodations and workshop fees).

For Baguio Residents and others attending but not staying at the HUB,
Workshop fee is P2,400 (Inclusive of Lunch and Snacks) +P125 if you want to add dinner.
 

Early Bird Discount:
Get a 10% Discount when you register together for two people or more.
 

Pastors, Churchworkers, Layworkers, get an additional 5% discount

Discount applies when you register and pay 50% of Workshop Fee by March 20, 2012
We have partial scholarships for 4 people who are staying in the HUB and partial scholarships for 4 Baguio Residents. For application forms, email me at bingronces@yahoo.com. Deadline to submit application forms is on March 5, 2012.

“…the Bible is given to us in the first place simply to invite us to make ourselves at home in the world of God, God’sword and world, and become familiar with the way God speaks and the ways in which we answer him with our lives…”-- Eugene H. Peterson

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”–Shakespeare, As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143

Objective: Participants learn how to creatively appropriate the Bible as text for Presentational Theater Renditions

Time Frame: 3 days

Number of Participants: 6-10
To Bring: 3 or more Bible versions; laptop.
Output: A Working Theater Concept Script

Outline:
I. Introducing the language of the Bible and language of Theater
1. Getting to know other Bible Versions/Translations
2. Getting to know Presentational versus Representational Theater
II. Picking Out the Text
1. Sticking to the Bible Text
2. Appropriating the Bible Text
III. Choosing the Presentational Form (focusing on the following four)
1. Interactive Theater
2. Reader’s Theater
3. Choral Reading
4. Prayer Reading/Theater
IV. Writing the Theater Concept Script
1. Writing/Incorporating Text into the Concept Script
2. Making it Work