Hansen Foundation
LOGAN - High school students with an interest in the creative arts, music or performance have the unique opportunity to gather with other students and spend a week in June composing, choreographing, and performing an original musical theater production.
Openings are still available for incoming high school freshmen to outgoing college freshmen who want to participate in Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts workshops in Hays, Phillipsburg, or Concordia. Students from surrounding communities are encouraged to participate in a workshop closest to them.
To register, visit www.lovewell.org, and click on Apply, and then Kansas.
In just five days, students write, choreograph, compose, design, rehearse and perform an original piece of musical theater in collaboration with Lovewell’s professional artists. No previous music or theater experience is required, and students from all different creative backgrounds are encouraged to participate.
From June 5-9, a residential camp will be held at Fort Hays State University. Students arrive on Sunday evening, June 4, and stay in the residence hall on campus. The performance will be Friday evening, June 9, at the Felten Theater in Malloy Hall, followed by checkout.
From June 12-16, a daytime workshop will be held at Concordia’s Brown Grand Theatre. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 12, 13 and 14; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. June 15; 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. June 16; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 17 — Performance at 1 p.m.
From June 19–23, a daytime workshop will be held at the Phillipsburg Huck Boyd Center. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 19, 20 and 21; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. June 22; and 9 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. June 23— Performance at 7 p.m.
The Dane G. Hansen Foundation is underwriting the cost of workshops.
For students who live in the Foundation’s 26-county service area, the participation fee is significantly discounted to $50 for daytime workshops. Students who wish to participate in the Hays workshop without staying in the dorms may register as daytime workshop participants, or $90 would cover five lunches in addition to the participation fee. Room, board and participation fee for a double-occupancy dorm room is $250 for the week. Total cost in a single room is $325.
No student in the Hansen Foundation service area who wants to participate will be denied the opportunity due to inability to pay. Scholarships are available.
This is the sixth summer the Lovewell workshops have been offered in Kansas. The response to Lovewell, a nonprofit that started in Kansas and is now based in Florida, from students and faculty involved has been overwhelmingly positive.
Learn more about Lovewell at www.lovewell.org