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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Classes Start in ONE MONTH!!<br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center">
<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Register
Your Favorite Young Artist for <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Talespinner Children's Theatre </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>






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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Talespinner
 Children's Theatre (TCT)  Fall Youth Theatre Arts Classes start in one month!  Give your favorite young artist the gift of wings for 
their imagination!   TCT,
whose recent production of THE FLOATING DOLLS was critically, audience
and kid acclaimed, is a Cleveland theatre company that develops and 
produces
highly imaginative, original, collaborative and interactive professional
 works
for children, as well as providing a full range of theatre-arts based 
in-house and outreach programming.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TCT will offer eight classes developed for pre-schoolers
(ages 3-5), kids (6-10) and early teens (11-14). Fall session starts</span>September 6th<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
and runs through November 1st.* Pre-school classes will be held on
Saturdays from 10:00am – 11:00am; programming for kids and early teens will be
held on Saturdays from 10:00am – 1:00pm.  All classes will be held at
Talespinner Children's Theatre at the Reinberger Auditorium, 5209 Detroit Ave,
Cleveland, <span>Ohio</span>.  (*<i>Please note that
there is no class on Saturday, </i></span><i>October 18th</i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.)</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>





<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The cost of an eight-week session
for pre-schoolers is $75. Kids and early teens will be enrolled in three
classes at a total cost of $200.  Ask about our “sibling discount!” 
Interested parents or students may register online at </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">www.talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> or via phone at </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span><span><a href="tel:216.264.9680" value="+12162649680" target="_blank">216.264.9680</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span>


</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Class Descriptions:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>












<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pre-school Classes (Ages 3-5):</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>












<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">10:00am-11:00am</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Young
Tale Spinners</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">In this session, students will learn a classic children's story. Through
 team exercises, creative play, story exploration, and song, students 
will create their own version of the story and build it into a special 
presentation for family and friends. Along the way, they learn 
confidence, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, cooperation, 
self-awareness, and just plain have fun! Each student receives a copy of
 the original story book to keep and share with their parents, siblings,
 and friends!</p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kids  (Ages 6-10); </span></u></i></b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>












<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">10:00am-1:00pm</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ensemble
Play Creation</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In this class, students
create a story of their own making and explore different ways in which to
present it.<span>  </span>Over the eight-week period,
student collaboration and cooperation will refine and bring to life a presentation
wholly created and built by them, limited only by their imaginations.</span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Body
and Voice in Character</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Students use their
bodies and voices to develop and define themselves and bring acting and
story-telling alive for an audience.<span>  </span>They
learn how verbal and non-verbal communication work can bring a story and a
character alive in different, colorful, and compatible ways.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Acting
through Mask and Puppet</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Students learn to take
different characters and develop and find the magic in them, learning puppeting
and mask-work as alternative ways to bring story-telling and play-making to their
most imaginative height.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Early Teens (Ages 11-14):</span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">10:00am – 1:00pm</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">See descriptions above.</span> (<i>Please note:  the Early Teen classes are separate from the Kids classes.</i>)<br>








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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In
this eight-week session, kids and early teens will attend three separate, but inter-related
classes for young artists each day.<span>  </span>Working
in support of each other, the classes teach varying aspects of how to use the
tools of a theatre artist, and to celebrate the art of creation and sharing
through theatrical production.<span>  </span>From
developing their own story, to finding their own script, to filling it with
imaginative and individual characters and creatures of their own creation, all
students will be involved in a theatrical story-telling experience that
culminates in a very special presentation for family and friends.<span>   </span>Along the way, they will develop confidence,
a strong sense of self, communication skills, a willingness to “think outside
the box,” and experience the fullness of working as an artistic team.</span></p>

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<b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ABOUT TALESPINNER CHILDREN'S
THEATRE:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> TCT is a Cleveland-based company that develops and produces
highly imaginative, original, collaborative and interactive professional works
for children that also stimulate creative growth in its artists. At any time,
these pieces may involve acting, dance, music, puppetry, tumbling, drumming,
and numerous other artistic disciplines as imagined by the artistic teams
working with and for TCT, and are open to all creative possibility. TCT
presents its third season with <i>Aesop’s Pirate Adventure</i>, April 5^th
through April 27^th, <i>The Floating Dolls</i>, June 14^th
through July 6^th, <i>Loki &
Lucy</i>, September 20^th through October 12^th, and <i>Clara
& the Nutcracker</i> November 29^th through December 21^st.
TCT's aim is to bring theatre to the community in its fullest form providing
excitement, growth and joy for all who are involved in and/or touched by its
work.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TCT strives to reach across socio-economic, cultural and
traditional boundaries to help awaken and bring better understanding by opening
eyes, ears, hearts and imaginations in the young people (and artists) of
Cleveland and its surrounds.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">TCT creates work that remembers that
children are smaller people, not lesser people.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""></span></p>

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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information email </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:info@talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">info@talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org
</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">or call </span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><a href="tel:216.264.9680" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span><span>216.264.9680</span><span dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span><span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span><br>
<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Alison Garrigan<br>
<i>Executive Artistic Director</i>, <b>Talespinner Children's Theatre</b><br><br></div><b>NEXT UP FOR TCT:<br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>NEXT ON THE TCT STAGE:<br></b></div><div><b>LOKI & LUCY (a Norse Mythology Tale)</b><br>
</div><div>Adapted by Michael Geither<br></div><div>September 20 through October 12<br><br></div><div><b>EDUCATION:</b><br></div><div>Registration for Fall Youth Theatre Arts classes now open!<br><br></div><div>Don't miss TCT's 2014 Harlequinade, October 18th & 19th!!<br>
</div><div><br>For more information, or to make reservations, visit TCT's website<br></div><i></i><div><div><a href="http://talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org" target="_blank">talespinnerchildrenstheatre.org</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block">
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