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30 people are interested
Castillo Theatre Intern/Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: All Stars Project, Inc.
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30 people are interested
For more than 25 years, The Castillo Theatre has produced cutting-edge political theatre that challenges as it entertains. Castillo has staged over 120 productions by many of the world's leading political playwrights, often highlighting the theatrical works of retired Artistic Director Fred Newman and German avant-gardist Heiner Müller. Independent of government funding, Castillo produces developmental culture that builds and strengthens communities. A long -time center of performance activism, the Castillo Theatre includes people of all ages and backgrounds and showcases the work of playwrights from Germany and Martinique as well as Bed- Stuy and the Bronx .
Castillo is a program of the non-profit All Stars Project, Inc. (ASP), a non-traditional theatrical production house which promotes human development through performance. Now, from its four newly renovated theatres on 42 nd Street, a wide array of performance experiences are created by and for all of New York's diverse communities
Other programs of the All Stars Project include: Youth Onstage!, offering young people, aged 14 to 21, the opportunity to perform on stage in plays that have something to say about the world and its future; All Stars Talent Show Network, involving thousands of young artists in creating developmental culture in talent shows in inner-city neighborhoods.
Volunteers will receive tickets to theatre performances.
Available Positions Include :
SOUND Board Operators - operate the professional sound equipment: playback on tape, mini disc, and cd. Volume control, fades, cross fades, setting up mics. Musicality is helpful.
LIGHTING Board Operators - Operate the professional lighting equipment. This includes learning how to cue up and do a dimmer check.
VIDEO Camera and Board Operators - Operate the professional video deck, mixer, and various playback media decks. Cuing, fast forwarding, rewinding, pausing, fades, and cross fades. This job may also involve working with video screens and monitors.
PRODUCTION Assistant - Setting up and striking set pieces and props, preparing props, stage up-keep, cuing actors before/during the show, etc.
STAGE MANAGER - Organize the production, communication across different disciplines, seamless management of production and cast, recording blocking, and time checks. To make sure that the director's artistic choices are realized in actual performance.
THEATER OUTREACH - posting media on you tube and other sites and applying marketing approaches in new technologies.
COSTUME Design and Wardrobe - costume construction, wardrobe, costume design and maintenance.
MARKETING - audience development projects including email campaigns, phones and targeted marketing base projects and unique community outreach approaches
BOX OFFICE - database training on box office technology includes interacting with the public and customer service.
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About All Stars Project, Inc.
Location:
543 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, US
Mission Statement
The All Stars Project, Inc. (ASP) is dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance and development based model. The ASP creates outside of school, educational and performing arts activities for tens of thousands of poor and minority young people. It sponsors community and experimental theatre, develops leadership training and pursues volunteer initiatives that build and strengthen communities.
Description
The ASP sponsors the following programs:
All Stars Talent Show Network, now in its 30th year, uses a "performance-learning" approach to foster the emotional and social development of young people. Each year, thousands of urban youth between the ages of 5 and 25 participate in several dozen All Stars events including auditions, rehearsals, talent shows and development workshops.
The Joseph A. Forgione Development School for Youth is a leadership training and career education program for young people ages 16-21. It is at the forefront of a new trend in education, known as supplemental education, that recognizes non-school-based learning opportunities as critical to children's success in school and in life.
The Castillo Theatre is an independently-funded experimental off-off Broadway theatre on 42nd Street that produces postmodern political theatre, exploring contemporary topics in ways that are both thought-provoking and entertaining. It offers our diverse audiences new ways of seeing social issues, historical events, and contemporary life.
Youth Onstage! is developing the city' s new generation of political theatre artists. YO! involves young people who want to create theatre that has something to say about the world.
Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids is a partnership with the New York City Police Department. It brings young people from poor communities together with police officers in performance workshops where they learn to listen to one another and create a new kind of relationship.
UX is a free, university-style school of continuing development. It has classes workshops and field trips that are open to people of all ages.
CAUSE AREAS
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WHERE
543 W. 42 StreetNew York, NY 10036
DATE POSTED
October 26, 2018
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GOOD FOR
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REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16