The Ages project will involve over 100 Santa Barbara area students from fourth grade through high school who will interview some of our community’s valued senior citizens about their life stories.

Under the guidance of Boxtales Theatre Company, the students will use these elders’ life stories as the basis for creating original theater sketches to be performed in school assemblies and in a special performance at the Lobero Theatre on December 13, 2008.

This program is funded by in part by the Santa Barbara Foundation, Karuna Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Venoco Foundation, High Tide Foundation, Bower Foundation.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Our day on Tuesday

Last Tuesday we did some fun exercises that helped us act. Our teacher made us do a pattern with a tennis ball and remember it. Then he added another ball to our game with a different pattern. It was hard, but it was fun trying. Then he set three balls on the floor. He told us that wen we stepped near the first ball we would act like we were stepping in mud. The next ball was cement, and the third ball was through toilet paper. So we walked through the balls until we reached first ball. That's when the acting began. We slowly got to the finish, when our teacher told us to do three more. The first was walking through marshmallows. The second ball was walking through jello, then walking through ice cream. So again we started walking normally until we reached the first ball. When we once again ended up at the other side he gave us more things to act up on with the balls. The first was being mad. The second was being depressed, then the last was falling in love. Once again we made it slowly across the room, where we got another set. Being crazy, being happy, and being lazy. Once we made it through, our teacher told us to create a story using all the emotions we just did. After that it was time to go home, so we packed our bags and left the building. We had so much fun!
Olivia Seoane

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