There Are Games Afoot – Winter Break at East End Arts Council
 
Riverhead, NY – From February 17th through 20th, the East End Arts Council School of the Arts has arranged a week of play and games as seen through, in and about art. Join the fun for an hour, a day, or the whole week. Children 7-12 yrs can combine theatre and visual art classes for a Winter Break arts camp experience.
           
Shannon Tahir will run classes each day, starting with Lost and A-Mazed on Tuesday, where kids can learn the ancient art of the labyrinth to become a master maze creator.On Wednesday, It’s an Illusion, and kids can get dizzy from studying the many layers and meanings in optical illusions & tessellations and make their own. Game Saver Thursday is about putting those games and puzzles that are missing pieces to creative use! Kids can bring in their own, or use what we’ve gathered to make a positively puzzling 3-D game collage. On Friday, it’s time for Art Smart, where kids can improve their art knowledge through fun art-fact games. Then they’ll pick an artist, style or period, and paint their own masterpiece based on what they’ve learned. All classes are from 10-11 am for ages 4-6, and 11:30-12:30 for seven and older. Each class is $10 for EEAC members and $12 for nonmembers. Sign up for all four together, cost: $36 member EEAC/$43 nonmember.

Checkmate, a class that calls for students to make a giant chess piece together to display on the School of the Arts porch, as well as small, individual versions of a game piece to bring home is offered from Tuesday through Friday from 1-2 pm for 7-12 year-olds at the cost of $63/member or $79/ nonmember.

For the more musically inclined, there’s Winter Break Rock & Roll Workshop- for electric guitar players only! Stan Wright will teach the tricks of the trade on Tuesday and Wednesday from 12-1:30PM. Through hands-on instruction and demonstration, this workshop will teach the skills necessary for young rock guitarists to let go of the fears of playing solo jams and riffs in the rock-band setting and when they’re on stage. Participants must have had at least one year of lessons and have knowledge of basic chords. This cclass is for kids nine and up, and costs $30/current music student or member or $38/ nonmember.

Kids ages seven through twelve can also ‘get their theatre on’ Tuesday through Friday from 10-11 am at Master of Disguise with Laura Helms. Anything can happen in this class where kids don costumes, learn character creation by analyzing who or what their “character” might be, and then adding mannerisms and accents. They’ll learn hilarious and spontaneous improvisation skills and, before you know it, they’ll be turning table napkins into super-hero capes and rivaling those amazing guys from Whose Line Is It Anyway?. The cost is $40 member/$50 nonmember.

Don’t forget that this is also CONTACT week in Riverhead, where kids can collect stamps at area businesses to get free ice cream.  EEAC gallery will have a really cool scavenger hunt on fun words and phrases for their Idioms show!

For more information on any of these classes or to register, please call 631-369-2171.
 
 
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Arts for Everyone

Laura Helms
Communications Coordinator
East End Arts Council
133 East Main Street
Riverhead, NY 11901
631.727.0900