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MENTOR “MONTH” 2023


Welcome to the mentor month page where ELAC faculty, staff and its partners, in collaboration with Center Theatre Group, bring you a month of interviews, workshops and other events geared to help you grow and transition into your career as a theater major. 

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MARCH MENTOR “MONTH” 2023 


We have been partnering with Center Theatre Group to offer free workshops, dialogues, interviews, theater tours and other thrilling events every year for the Month of March. Over the years, we have worked on many more partnerships with multiple organizations, and what used to be a month of workshops now extends to the whole Spring Semester. We believe that connecting you, our students, to professionals in the industry and other various organizations is one of the best way to launch you into your future career. 

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BRUCE LEE WELLNESS & ART PART 1

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The Empty Cup: Quieting the Mind and Creating Space
The first workshop in our series, The  Empty Cup, focuses on Bruce Lee’s methods for creating healthy mental space, observing our thoughts and feelings, and exploring techniques to quiet the mind and create perspective around the mind’s purpose. Light meditation will be offered, group discussion, active listening and journaling exercises.
 
In-Person: Wednesday February 22nd 
2pm-3:30pm
Proscenium Theater
Please contact Professor Jessica Hansen to RSVP & for more information: hansenjl@elac.edu

INTERNSHIP AT CTG COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

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Center Theater Group Paid Community Programs Apprenticeship Info Session
CTg Community Partnerships Director Jesus A. Reyes comes to ELAC campus to host a 1-hr session for students to learn more about this hands-on rtaining opportunity. Come and apply right here on campus!

Thursday, February 23rd, 12-1pm
ELAC Campus, P2-Proscenium Theater,
RSVP to apprenticeships@ctgla.org

How to apply: 
  1. Register for the Feb 23rd info session
  2. Bring a copy of your resume to the Info Session
  3. Stay and fill out an application and questions

What will you learn? 
  1. Ways to engage a community using immersive & interactive theater-based experiences
  2. Budget best practices
  3. Draft and execute contracts
  4. Reserach and pitch workshops and programming ideas
    Program p[lanning and implementation

More Info
  1. 7-week, 90hr apprenticeship (Applicants must have general availability from March 8th to April 21st, 2023; we will work with students around scheduling)
  2. $1400 stipend
  3. Applicants must have reliable transportation (private or public transportation)



Film and TV Intensive #3 "Producing with Linda Morel"

Three-time nominee and one time Emmy Award winner for Best Variety Sketch Show for Key & Peele.
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Linda, film producer, was born and raised in Eagle Rock, CA. She’s a three-time nominee and one time Emmy Award winner for Best Variety Sketch Show for Key & Peele.
She’s produced shows for Nickleodeon, Comedy Central, USA, TV Land, Paramount TV, NBC, HBO, and Amazon.  She’s Executive Produced shows for YouTube Originals and HBO.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2-3pm ELAC THEATER DEPT: Room 205

Internship Application Workshop with CTG Staff

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Learn best practices as you start to think about internship and job applications – from what questions you need to ask yourself to do’s and don’ts on your resume and cover letter.

After the session, take it a step further, and sign-up to meet one-on-one with a CTG staff to review your materials and get direct feedback to be ready for the CTG summer internship applications that open early April.

Monday, March 6 from 2-3:30pm P2-Proscenium Theatre


ELAC Theater/Film/TV Intensive #4 Voice Over with Douglas Carrigan

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Douglas Carrigan will discuss how he used his skills in theater to transition to voice over directing, producing, and starting his own voice over company VoiceWorks Productions, Inc. 
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March 7, 10:35-12pm. P2 room 205
No RSVP needed


Adobe Ecosystem Part 1 of 2: Layers, Resolution and Other Essential Features of Photoshop

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Join designer François-Pierre Couture to this introduction to digital image manipulation. You will learn how to get the best out of your digital images while using essential features of Adobe’s Photoshop.

You will get the chance to follow along on a computer with Photoshop and practice the concepts presented in the workshop. 

Saturday March 11th, 2pm-5pm at ELAC, Vicky Chang Building, E7, in the basement
ROOM B010


Internship Application Workshop with CTG Staff
Join us for Pt 2!

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Sign up for one-on-one sessions with CTG’s Aurora Ilog and Nico Rosario to review your resume and cover letter in advance of the CTG summer internship applications that open in early April!

Sign-ups will take place on Part 1’s March 6 workshop; if you’re unable to attend Pt. 1, email Internships@CTGLA.org to see if there are any open sign-ups.

Wednesday, March 15
20 min slots from 12:30pm - 3:10pm
P2-Room 205




Adobe Ecosystem Part 2 of 2: Photo Editing 2, Photoshop Advanced Features, InDesign & Adobe Express. 

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In this second part of the workshop, we will explore more  sophisticated  concepts & tools  like raw files editing, smart objects,  compositing and composition with other software like InDesign and Adobe Express.
 
You will get the chance to follow along on a computer with Photoshop and practice the concepts presented in the workshop.

Saturday March 18th, 2pm-5pm at ELAC, Vicky Chang Building, E7, in the basement
ROOM B010



Casting and Latinx Representation

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Join us for a roundtable conversation between a Latino actor and veteran Casting Directors, as we discuss the current state of Latinx presence in the entertainment industry. Carla Hool (Coco, Gentefied, Narcos) and Nicole Arbusto (Room 104, CTG, Steppenwolf) are hosted by LACCD Professor Christian Barillas (Modern Family, The Handmaid’s Tale, CTG) as we examine topics such as authenticity in casting, emerging out of COVID and launching a career in entertainment!

Location: Hybrid (ZOOM & in Proscenium Theater @ELAC)
RSVP for ZOOM link to: jreyes@ctgla.org

FROM PARIS TO DOHA : TOURING THE WORLD THROUGH DESIGN AND DANCE

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Come to a discussion with scenic & lighting designer François-Pierre Couture & members of L.A. Dance project on the challenges and rewards of touring theater & dance. Learn about the different career paths that lead these people to LADP and their experience both in L.A. and internationally. 

L.A. Dance Project (LADP), is an L.A. based dance company with resident artists and dancers from all around the US & the world, and has multiple dance pieces touring the world, notably “Romeo & Juliet”.

“LADP expands the boundaries of dance as an art form and redefines how we interact and relate with movement in the modern world. Informed by collaborative partnerships with traditional and emerging artists, performance work, commissions, residencies, and community programming, our mission is to inspire, create, educate and change perspectives through the accessible and transformative power of dance in Los Angeles and around the world.”

BRUCE LEE WELLNESS & ART PART 2: The Tools: Creating Healthy Strategies for Growth and Wellness with Shannon Lee

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The second workshop in our series, The Tools, focuses on the creation of mind, body, spirit tools to help with personal growth and mental emotional wellness. Engage in Bruce Lee’s practices through breathwork, qi gong, journaling, and perspective shifting along with personal tool creation to help fill up our tool kit of beneficial personal practices.

RESERVED FOR ELAC STUDENTS ONLY.
Please contact hansenJL@elac.edu for date, time and location.


BRUCE LEE WELLNESS & ART PART 3: The Water Way: Removing the Obstacles to Flow

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The final workshop in our series, The Water Way, will walk you through Bruce Lee’s formula for dealing with personal obstacles. You will get a roadmap and exercises for understanding and dissolving obstacles and integrating them into your being

RESERVED FOR ELAC STUDENTS ONLY.
Please contact hansenJL@elac.edu for date, time and location.































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