WHAT is the Student-Alumni Arts @Howard Community College?

What IS SAArts REALLY?

BACK

SAArts Offers WHAT, Exactly?

• AUDITIONS
  Auditions are held for productions, our improv group, and special projects.  They are open to all current and past students, staff, and, from time to time, local artists.  Notices are posted via our website, mailing lists, and around campus.
   
  Q:  HOW CAN I FIND OUT ABOUT SAArts AUDITIONS: 
  Join our E-Mailing List by writing to:  studentarts@howardcc.edu or check our fabulous WEBSITE:  www.howardcc.edu/studentarts
   

• PRODUCTIONS
  Two major productions are mounted each year, usually in HCC's black box theatre space.  SAArts productions feature professional and student directors, designers, stage managers, technicians, run crew, carpenters, electricians, etc., and many, many outrageously gifted student and alumni performers!  (See HOW MANY PRODUCTIONS?   below for more info)!

   

• NEW: Dance Company
  Jenny Male, HCC's Director of Dance & Movement heads up SAArts first-ever Student Dance Company!  This group will blend together all artistic elements in unexpected, cutting-edge, and EXCITING performances... featuring the work of Dancers, Choreographers (students & professionals), actors, vocalists, musicians, and visual artists!  SAArts Dance Company will hold its first auditions during the fall of 2006 in preparation for its premiere in March, 2007!
   

• ACTORS' STUDIO; WORKS IN PROGRESS
  An SAArts entity that develops and performs original productions over the span of one semester… usually every other year.  This group began as a touring troupe, but now makes its home in HCC's new Black Box Theatre.

   

• ORIGINAL PLAY READING SERIES
  One bare stage.  Words.  Voices.  A branch-off of SAArts' Actors' Studio; Works In Progress.  Student, Alumni, Staff, and Local Playwrights are invited from time to time to submit original works.  Those chosen in the past have received readings in front of a live audience over several consecutive weekends.  The directors are comprised of students and guest artists.  The actors featured are our most gifted students and alumni.  Certainly an entity that continues to grow, offering more opportunities for writers, directors and actors... and audiences yearning for fresh voices.
   

• IMPROV GROUP
  YO' MAMA'S COOKIN' is SAArts' extremely successful (and hilariously fun) 7 year-old performance group co-directed by Bruce Nelson and Jenny Male.  YMC auditions new improv talent at the top of each spring semester.  YMC's Seasons are scheduled each Spring, with various Friday Night performances in HCC's new Black Box Theatre.

   

• OPEN-MIC'S
  SAArts Open-Mic's are open to all who wish to share brief artistic pieces including movement, dance, poetry, theatre, music, etc.  Past Open-Mic's have also featured visual art, and have been presented in venues in and outside of HCC's campus.
   

• FREE WORKSHOP SERIES
  SAArts' "friend raiser," offering 1.5 hours of free training in dance, movement, audition techniques, etc.  Open to students, alumni, staff AND the community!  Hugely popular!
   

• TECHNICAL OPPORTUNITIES
  The beauty of offering opportunities in theatre within a community college; HANDS ON EXPERIENCE in the World of Technical Theatre!  We recruit folks with and without previous experience throughout the year!  We are always looking for good, committed folks interested in carpentry, lights, sound, props, costumes, run crew, etc… year 'round! Training provided.  Some positions are paid!

BACK

    HOW can I get the LoW-DoWn?

• SAArts WEBSITE:  www.howardcc.edu/studentarts
• Mailing List: 
     -  Includes a host of individuals, theatres, colleges, high schools, etc., etc., etc.!   
     -  Folks can join our U.S. Mail and E-Mail Lists using our Web Form!
• SAArts LoW-DoWn via E-Mail, per month.
• Postcards & Posters... Hardcopies... Posted everywhere!
• Press Releases, (Baltimore Sun, Baltimore CityPaper, Washington Post, etc.)
• Office Drop-By:  Folks are invited to stop by our Production Office anytime:  Rm. A160!
• For SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, folk are invited to E-Mail STUDENTARTS@HOWARDCC.EDU

  
SAArts' SEASON INFO on the WEB!
 
Fall & Spring Seasons are listed on our
up-dated, multi-layered, fabulous WEBSITE:
 

www.howardcc.edu/studentarts
    

 find everything you ever wanted to know about SAArts including:
 

• Pages per Artistic Entity:   Productions, Workshops, Improv, & More!

• SEASON-AT-A-GLANCE:  SAArts' entire Season, per month... We've Linked you up!

• Event Details:   Dates, Times, Ticket Info, & Tons of Specifics!
         

• On-Line Tickets
  & Box Office Sales

• Cast, Designer, & Production Staff Lists
     (Sample Link)

• Bios & Headshots
     (Sample Link)

• Project Histories
     - Production
     - Original Works

• SAArts Staff & Resident Designers  
     Bios & Contact Info
                        

• Mailing List Info
  Join Today!

• Directions, Parking

• Great Links (HCC Classes, Friends, Etc.)!

• Photos & Graphic
     (Sample Link)
   

 
BACK

• AUDITION:
  Productions, Dance Company & Improv Group, (& the occasional special Showcase/ Project):  Entrance into each Student-Alumni Arts Production and Improv Group Season follows an Audition or interview process.  Participants consist of current and past HCC Students and Staff Members.  (In other words, in order to perform on stage, you need to have taken a class at HCC or be on staff).  However, our projects have featured Guest Artists… we love these folks!

• OPEN-MIC's: 
  These SAArts showcases operate on a case by case basis… however, 99% of these events are open to Students, Alumni, Staff, and Guest Artists... folks from the community, via a SIGN-UP process prior to the start of the evening.  Auditions or pre-Sign-Up However, we have been known to audition folks for Local Band Concerts (i.e. MUSIC UNDER THE MOON).  It all depends on the event scheduled.
    
• FREE WORKSHOP SERIES: 
  Open to EVERYONE and ANYONE.  We mean it:  student or non-students, with or without experience.

• See "TECHNICAL OPPORTUNITIES" above or Click Here!  It says it all!

 
BACK

 
   For now, we offer two major productions a year; one in the fall, one in the spring. 
      
   SAArts' Priority:  Choosing literature from the inside-out.  It is important to us that we  offer smart,   
   inspiring, interesting, edgy pieces to bring to the stage each year. 
       
   SAArts celebrates the eclectic productions we've mounted each season... over the past 10 Years!  ...
   from Contemporary and Classical Comedies and Dramas... from Shakespeare to Original Works,
   from Theatre of the Absurd to Musicals, & more!
   

Visit our PRODUCTION HISTORY PAGE...
Enjoy the LINKS to PAST PRODUCTIONS!
   

• THEATRE PRACITCUM CREDITS For...
  PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE & TECHNICAL THEATRE WORK:
  If you are involved in a SAArts Production or other long-term SAArts project, folks can receive up to two "Practicum" Credits, per project/ semester, etc.  Each Practicum equals
  1 Credit.  (Some SAArts projects require longer hours, hence, the 2 Practicum option).

• ORIGINAL Productions (Actors' Studio; Works In Progress I & II):
  This is a 3 Credit course, for those who wish register post the casting process.  For descriptions of these projects visit our ORIGINAL WORKS HISTORY WebWorld!

• YO' MAMA'S COOKIN' (Comedy Improv Group).
  Also a 3 Credit course, for those who wish to register post the casting process!
   

 
BACK

 
BACK

• The new Black Box Theatre, (98% of our events will take place in this space).

• The Smith Theatre.

• The Dreier Stage, (an outdoor space, located on the back lawns of HCC, lakeside).

 BACK

• SAARTS E-MAIL:  STUDENTARTS@HOWARDCC.EDU

• SAARTS GENERAL PHONE NUMBER:  410-772-4515

• SAARTS WEBWORLD:  WWW.HOWARDCC.EDU/STUDENTARTS

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST
IN STUDENTS IN THE ARTS @HCC

BACK