Arts Experience From Your Classroom
Distance Learning (DL) utilizes web-based (Internet Protocol) technology to connect students in the classroom to artists and educators at Clowes Memorial Hall. Our mission is to help you, the educator, meet Indiana Academic Standards and curriculum goals through interactive sessions to enhance and engage your students to think creatively, to imagine and to experience learning through the arts.
To Schedule
1) Contact the Technology or Distance Learning Coordinator of your school district to check availability of your DL room and equipment.
2) Contact Donna Rund at the Clowes Education Department at (317) 940-8052 or (800) 732-0804 or drund@butler.edu to check availability in the Clowes’ schedule.
3) When contacting us please provide contact name(s), school/district name and address, phone numbers of school and DL room, age/grade of students, number of student/teacher participants and desired program title.
4) Verification of the date and time of the DL session will be sent by email.
All sessions are Indianapolis Time.
Type of Hook-Up Offered
Point to Point: 2-way interactive communication between Clowes and your site only; no other sites connected. This is the preferred way to connect.
Interactive: 2-way communication between Clowes and your site along with other sites; usually limited to 4 sites per event.
View Only: Broadcast of event with no interaction; unlimited availability.
For More Info
Contact 317.940.8052 for more details
Distance Learning
Getting Ready for the Performance
So you're coming to Clowes Memorial Hall to see a school matinee performance? What better way to prepare your students for the theatre experience and the content of the performance than to connect with Clowes prior to your visit! This fun and interactive pre-performance session will share ways students and teachers can get ready for the performance by learning the expectations of the audience before, during and after a performance. Also, discover how actors, stage managers, stage technicians and the people who work in the theatre prepare for a performance. Enrich your students' experience with this session before coming to Clowes!
Price: $100 per session
Grades K-5
Be the Critic! Looking Inside the Performance
Would you like your students to say more than just "I liked that performance I saw at Clowes Hall?" This session offered after attending the matinee performances gives students the opportunity to explore aspects of a production with a member of the Clowes Staff. Through interactive strategies, students analyze the theatrical process including characterization, costuming, sets, lighting and sound design. This post-performance session helps students understand their role as audience members and increases their appreciation of future theatrical performances.
Price: $100 per session
Grades 3-8
Turning a Novel Into a Play
Would you like your students to learn how to think and work together as theatrical collaborators (playwrights, directors, designers, and actors)? This program explores that process by encouraging students to take on some artistic roles of how a story or novel becomes play or musical. With guidance from a member of the Clowes Staff before the session, you can be a "director" of your classroom process in playmaking or you can allow the Clowes Staff member to guide your students through the process. The session introduces the roles of the theatre collaborators by allowing them to take on and discuss the importance of each of their jobs in the process of creating and developing a play or musical.
Price: $100 for project assistance and session
Grades 3-8
An Overview of Careers in the Arts
Do your students realize there are over 300 arts-related careers and that most every job requires you to have creativity and problem solving skills that the arts provide? During this session, students interact verbally and nonverbally, respond to an art form in an interview, have an opportunity to discover several arts-related careers, and then try their hand at a job responsibility for a particular art career. This session helps students realize they can be involved in the arts without being an artist or performer. It also offers ideas of what subject areas should be studied for various art-related careers.
Price: $100 per session
Grades 6-10
Performing Arts Careers: An In-Depth Look with Professionals
Do you and your students want to delve more deeply into a particular performing arts-related career? Let the professionals at Clowes and Butler University's Jordan College of Fine Arts assist you. In this session, let us share a one-on-one perspective of the education, training, and experience necessary to pursue a specific career in the arts.
Choose 1 or 2 of the following for the focus of this session:
** Performance - bringing an art form to life on stage including acting, singing, dancing, or playing an instrument as solo or ensemble.
* Teaching - passing the elements of an art form to students.
* Stage Technicians and Designers - coordinating all the behind the scenes work including light, sound, set designs and costumes.
* Arts Administration - working the "business" side of the arts including marketing/advertising, house management, box office and other departments in a performing arts organization.
* Telecommunications - working with electronic media, including radio, television, film, and the recording industry.
Price: $100 per session
Grades 6-10
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