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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>The Beck Center for the Arts is excited to announce that, <b><i>due to student demand</i></b>, we have added summer sessions of our increasingly popular adult classes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Come on, isn’t it time you got yourself back in the classroom and flexing those acting muscles again? Isn’t it time you took a moment for yourself – for your own artistry? Don’t make any more excuses. It is YOUR time now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Stop by the Beck Center or call 216-521-2540 x10 and sign up today!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Adult Acting: Back to Basics</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> (Ages 18 and up)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Instructor: </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Natalie Green<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>This course is designed for both the adult beginner who wants an introduction to the fundamental tools of acting as well as the experienced adult actor who desires a refresher. Utilizing theater exercises, monologues, and scenes, actors will explore and develop the fundamental tools needed to create full, honest, and compelling characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Monday</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>; 7:00-9:00 pm; 10 weeks; 5/9 – 7/18 (off 5/30 and 7/4); Tuition: $195<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Adults Only: Improvisation </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>(Ages 18 and up)</span><span class=A9><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span class=A9><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Instructors: </span></i></span><span class=A9><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Aaron Patterson & Russ Stich</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><br><span class=A3><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>This class will focus on the “yes and” principle and work through games and exercises to develop creativity and spontaneity. Study with two of the actors who helped make “Something Dada” the premiere Improv troupe in Cleveland! Warning: classmates may be funny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class=ecxmsonormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Thursday</span></b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>; 7:00 to 8:30 pm; 8 weeks; 5/5-6/23; Tuition: $120</span><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Here’s what one of our adult students says about studying with Natalie Green:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><em><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>“I am writing with the purpose of expressing my gratitude to you and the Beck Center for offering the Adult acting class this past spring … Natalie Green is incredibly professional and has a wealth of experience, but also is kind, humorous, understanding, reachable and, above all, inspiring. She has given us goals and ways to begin to achieve them. Each student had our own reason and desire for taking this class, and Natalie not only focused on those, but also helped us reach far beyond and see Theater as so much more than I could have ever imagined!” – Betsy Libens</span></em><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>So celebrate this summer and join the fun with one of these exciting offerings starting soon in May. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><i><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Theater: It isn’t just for kids!</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>* * * * * <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions on two stages, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring local and regional artists. For more information about the Beck Center, visit our website at</span><u> </u><u><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue'><a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>