Hello everyone,


The workshop is called "The Joy of Sets". Dr. Jane Coryell is facilitating it. To learn a bit about our instructor, please read her bio below.

Jane is a nine-time winner and six-time nominee of THEA design awards. In 2002, the Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts honoured her contributions to local theatre with their prestigious annual Award of Special Appreciation. The Town of Oakville awarded her the 2006 Community Spirit Award for Volunteerism in the Arts. Since 1979, she has
designed set and consulted on scene painting for over eighty productions in schools and community theatre. She gives presentations and workshops to theatre groups, high schools, conferences, and festivals. Jane has also been set design consultant for novice designers and experienced companies. She knows the challenges of working
conditions, staging venues, and budgets in local theatre. Having taught high school Art, Drama, English and French for 30 years in 7 schools, Jane is well versed in teaching.

Here is a description of what the Set Design workshop will entail...

The set designer creates a visual evocation of time and place, themes and moods. The set also expresses characters in and interpretations of the script. This workshop teaches you to meet those responsibilities through analyzing the script, sketching out ideas, making a scale model, with construction diagrams, floor plans, and elevations. It also
teaches how to use colour, texture, detail, and visual metaphor to give vision to both text and sub-text.

If you are interested in attending this workshop, please contact me no later than Monday, December 12. Theatre Ontario’s Perry Short Award is sponsoring this workshop; therefore there is no registration fee necessary.

~PICTURES FROM WORKSHOP~