On the Town: Oklahoma Arts Institute offers fall workshops

If you ever wanted to explore your inner creative self, consider attending the Oklahoma Arts Institute’s fall weekend workshops for adults in southwest Oklahoma at the Quartz Mountain State Park Lodge. Even better? The institute offers full scholarships and discounts for educators, and many of the workshops are geared to those who teach.

Over a series of weekends in October, the Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute is offering classes in visual, literary and performing arts. Applications for educator scholarships and online registration open on Thursday [a1].

Specific subjects include fiction writing, drawing, film education (with deadCenter Film Festival), Native American beadwork, felted wool, monotype printmaking, photography, watercolor, woodcut print and stencil, planning and executing the choral vacation (for teachers), dance education, Orff-Afrique for music educators, inclusive art, yoga and integrating folk arts and local culture into the curriculum.

I attended a Fall Arts Institute photography workshop years ago and loved it I learned a lot, enjoyed the beautiful setting against Lake Altus-Lugert and the Quartz Mountains and highly recommend checking out all the magic that goes on at the mountain, as people associated with the arts institute often call it.

A full schedule and details about workshops geared specifically toward educators are available on the website at oaiquartz.org .

‘Dance Nation’

The Southern Plains Productions theater company has announced the cast for its upcoming production “Dance Nation,” which will be from Aug. 15-17 in the Civic Center Music Hall’s Little Theatre in Oklahoma City.

“Dance Nation,” whose playwright Clare Barron was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2019, spotlights a troupe of pre-teen competitive dancers who are plotting to take over the world, according to the description of the show on the website.

Cast members are Ronn Burton as the dance teacher Pat; Becca Carter Freeman as Anna; Grace Woosley as Zuzu; MacKenzie Holley as Ashlee; Trevyn Wong as Luke; Ashley J. Mandanas as Connie; Cristela Carrizales as Maeve; Mariah Warren as The Moms and Vanessa; and Gianna Hoffman as Sofia.

For information and tickets, go to southernplainsproductions.org

Concert choir gala

The Ambassadors’ Concert Choir is opening its 45 ^th anniversary season on Aug. 24 with a gala at 6 p.m. at Will Rogers Theatre, 4322 N Western Ave., in Oklahoma City.

Cindy Williams, a Dallas jazz and gospel singer from Oklahoma City, will provide the evening’s entertainment, accompanied by the G20 Funk band led by Rick Adams of Oklahoma City, a news release stated.

Master of ceremonies for the event, which includes a formal dinner, is KWTV News Channel 9’s Mike Glover. A cash bar is available.

The evening also will honor charter choir members, former board member and composer Glenn Burleigh. Kenneth Kilgore founded the choir in 1979 and led it until 2010. Sandra Thompson has been artistic director since 2011. The group also has included the Ambassadors’ Children and Youth Choir since 1995.

For tickets or more information, go to ambassadorschoir.com . Auditions for new members are coming up on Aug. 11 and 18.

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