Oasis Arts & Social Change Program: Life isn’t a rehearsal……. it’s the real thing: A play about teen relationships

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Life isn’t a rehearsal……. it’s the real thing: A play about teen relationships

Happy new Year!

Dear friends, colleagues and community members,

We would like to invite you to a very important event coming up for Oasis Alternative School for Arts and Social Change!

This semester's drama production class has been working on a new play about teen relationships and a staged reading by Oasis students in collaboration with guest Toronto actors is going to happen at Theatre Passe Muraille on Thursday January 13th at 2:00pm. The play is comprised of student writing and discussion around the topic of relationships and includes statements, poems, songs and scenes. Guest Toronto Actors will be joining the students for the play reading as well as sharing some of their own work related to the topic. It's going to be a thought provoking and community building afternoon. Please join us!

Please pass this information on to anyone you know who might be interested in attending. Admission is free. Our priority is to get a supportive audience for the youth who will be presenting. If you know of a University class, student group, community or arts group who might be interested in attending, please do let us know.

If you have any questions or comments, contact Jocelyn at 416-393-9830 or jocelyn.wickett@tdsb.on.ca. Thank you so much, and hope to see you there! Sincerely, Jocelyn

Life isn’t a rehearsal……. it’s the real thing
A show about teen relationships

Written and Performed by: Oasis Alternative Drama Students
Featuring: Guest Toronto Actors

Thursday Jan 13th @ 2:00pm
Theatre Passe Muraille
16 Ryerson Avenue, just north of Queen
St. West, east of Bathurst Street.
Free admission and open to the public

To learn more about our program, please visit our blog at http://www.artsandsocialchangeprogram2010-2011.blogspot.com/

ASC Staff: A Small but MIghty Team

Anita Court is our fabulolus Office Administrator. She knows a lot about a lot and it's her job to know. Students and staff alike look to Anita as a confidante and problem solver for anything from getting the bathroom key from a locked bathroom to finding a band-aid for a cut to taking care of a busted printer to putting together the Superintentdent's package and tracking attendance. Anita is the glue that binds the three satellite locations of Oasis.
Jane Fonseca is the Guidance/Phys Ed and Science teacher. She has been working at Oasis for the last six years. She went to school at York University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in the Specialized Honours degree in Kinesiology and Health Science. She also received her Massage Therapy Diploma and at one time was a Registered Massage Therapist (no jokes or massages please). She completed her initial teacher education at York University, Parkdale campus with a focus on Equity and Social Justice. She is always up for a friendly challenge…game on!
Joseph Ghassibe is our fearless leader, CL of Oasis. He has worked in mainstream schools in Australia and Canada. He has worked in alternative programs and other alternative schools. Oasis is, by far, his favourite :-) We are a community, a family and a home. He is proud to be here!
Martin Van de Ven - Our Music and Math Guru has a Masters in composition from U of T and took calculus for entertainment during his undergrad. He has spent much of his adult life as a freelance clarinettist, composer and musical director. Working for local theatre companies such as Jumblies Theatre he has created many works for mixed ensembles composed of amateur, professional and untrained musicians. Recent compositions include a 5 part work for the Toronto Children's Chorus. He performs with Toronto based Balkan/Klezmer band “Beyond the Pale”. He loves helping people find their inner musician, as an added bonus, at OASIS he gets to do the same with Math. Before signing up with OASIS Martin was the Jazz teacher at Earl Haig secondary.