Flargh and more flargh
Job Update:
I rang Monsoon today to find out whether any positions had become available (since I knew there was supposed to be one, theoretically). Unfortunately, it turns out the only vacancy they had in store was in admin, and I was told that you needed an interest in the field to fulfil the requirements of the job... having no interest whatsoever in admin, I kindly thanked them for their help and ended the call. So, that seems to be it for Monsoon up here, anyway. I'm still going to try ringing the home branch in about November to see whether they're recruiting extras for the Christmas period, but I get the feeling this is going to be another academic year of unemployment.
Uni work Update:
Today I went to the most pointless lecture I have encountered in my course so far. Ok, so the lecture conducted entirely in a faux-Swiss accent by a man dressed in "Okea" overalls was strange, but at least it had a kind of focus, and it fitted in with the lecture schedule for the module. Today's lecture for POP3 was completely useless. It was useless to the point where I don't actually know what it had to to with anything anyone was doing, let alone Theatre in Education students. We were presented with...
...pictures like the one above, from a recent production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha, and snippets from a video of the same opera but a different production. The lecturer then went on to compare and contrast the two productions, talking over the problems with performances drawing on foreign cultures. All very interesting, but all material covered in a series of lectures in our first year. So yes, I think I have real reason to resent a 4 hour session this afternoon instead of a 3 hour one.
In Theatre in Education news, we now have an additional member to our group. Today, we put together a "mission statement", which all sounds rather posh:
"We intend to immerse young students in a stimulating and above all entertaining learning environment in which they are subtly presented with the opportunity to learn in a variety of styles. We aim to both acknowledge their age and respect the fact that they have their own ideas, opinions and experience, whilst seeking to further these using challenging material."
We also came up with ideas for a company policy which encompassed many a discussion about types of biscuit to bring to rehearsals and Sunday dinners round people's houses (all good stuff, although I'm not sure there are those kinds of things in PROPER ones, but meh). We also decided to ban swearing in rehearsals, and decided anyone caught swearing would have to pay 20p per word. We already have £2.80 in the jar.
Although we don't need to have fixed on a particular topic as of yet, our new member brought to the group an idea she wanted to use with her original Key Stage 2 group. We've decided to use the basics of it for a minute of material we were required to produce for our session tomorrow, but I don't think we actually agreed to use it for the final project. However, I'm not sure that the girl knows this, and seems to have presumed that we're taking the idea and running with it. :s
In a selfish sense, I really don't want to carry on with the idea, since the notion of producing a whole TiE piece on the workings of the human body as someone who hates biology isn't the friendliest one. There's also the matter of it not being on the curriculum for our target age group, but maybe that's something we can tackle later. I'm currently waiting to hear back from a contact at the school to find out what the focus of the second term will be so that maybe we can draw on that to find a topic.. so there's hope for this scienceophobe yet..
Oh, did I mention half our group was comprised of guys? Guess what our group is going to be called...
Theatre In Education... TiE... Tie...
See what they've done there?
*groans*
I rang Monsoon today to find out whether any positions had become available (since I knew there was supposed to be one, theoretically). Unfortunately, it turns out the only vacancy they had in store was in admin, and I was told that you needed an interest in the field to fulfil the requirements of the job... having no interest whatsoever in admin, I kindly thanked them for their help and ended the call. So, that seems to be it for Monsoon up here, anyway. I'm still going to try ringing the home branch in about November to see whether they're recruiting extras for the Christmas period, but I get the feeling this is going to be another academic year of unemployment.
Uni work Update:
Today I went to the most pointless lecture I have encountered in my course so far. Ok, so the lecture conducted entirely in a faux-Swiss accent by a man dressed in "Okea" overalls was strange, but at least it had a kind of focus, and it fitted in with the lecture schedule for the module. Today's lecture for POP3 was completely useless. It was useless to the point where I don't actually know what it had to to with anything anyone was doing, let alone Theatre in Education students. We were presented with...
...pictures like the one above, from a recent production of Philip Glass' Satyagraha, and snippets from a video of the same opera but a different production. The lecturer then went on to compare and contrast the two productions, talking over the problems with performances drawing on foreign cultures. All very interesting, but all material covered in a series of lectures in our first year. So yes, I think I have real reason to resent a 4 hour session this afternoon instead of a 3 hour one.
In Theatre in Education news, we now have an additional member to our group. Today, we put together a "mission statement", which all sounds rather posh:
"We intend to immerse young students in a stimulating and above all entertaining learning environment in which they are subtly presented with the opportunity to learn in a variety of styles. We aim to both acknowledge their age and respect the fact that they have their own ideas, opinions and experience, whilst seeking to further these using challenging material."
We also came up with ideas for a company policy which encompassed many a discussion about types of biscuit to bring to rehearsals and Sunday dinners round people's houses (all good stuff, although I'm not sure there are those kinds of things in PROPER ones, but meh). We also decided to ban swearing in rehearsals, and decided anyone caught swearing would have to pay 20p per word. We already have £2.80 in the jar.
Although we don't need to have fixed on a particular topic as of yet, our new member brought to the group an idea she wanted to use with her original Key Stage 2 group. We've decided to use the basics of it for a minute of material we were required to produce for our session tomorrow, but I don't think we actually agreed to use it for the final project. However, I'm not sure that the girl knows this, and seems to have presumed that we're taking the idea and running with it. :s
In a selfish sense, I really don't want to carry on with the idea, since the notion of producing a whole TiE piece on the workings of the human body as someone who hates biology isn't the friendliest one. There's also the matter of it not being on the curriculum for our target age group, but maybe that's something we can tackle later. I'm currently waiting to hear back from a contact at the school to find out what the focus of the second term will be so that maybe we can draw on that to find a topic.. so there's hope for this scienceophobe yet..
Oh, did I mention half our group was comprised of guys? Guess what our group is going to be called...
Theatre In Education... TiE... Tie...
See what they've done there?
*groans*
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I like the Star Wars reference, but don't tell anyone that you've personally not seen the films :D
what does Tie mean?? (in Star Wars i mean?)
Monsoon in Norwich are recruiting now - if you want to get ahead of the game, you may want to contact them now.
Hope it works out for you xx
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