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Level Up! Fest 2024: Our Modern World Through Shakespeare's Eyes

When
12 Nov 2024
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
LASALLE College of the Arts

Registration

NAFA/LASALLE Student & Alumni Discount - $20
All NIE, LASALLE, NAFA students and alumni enjoy 20% off the original price.
SDEA Member - $20
All SDEA Members enjoy 20% off the original price.
Standard - $25

Crack open Shakespeare's language to reveal the beauty and insights within his plays. Discover the loves, jealousies and social transactions that shine a spotlight on our modern world. Explore the experiences that transcend time and culture, enriching and enlightening our understanding of what it means to be human. Trainers Jeffrey Guyton and Matt Grey will take you on a refreshing journey through Shakespeare's work and will unpack the gifts he presented to future generations.

About the Facilitators

Jeffrey Guyton, began his acting career at the storied Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada as movement coach and apprentice actor. In his first season he won the Chalmer's Award for Apprenticeship and became a full company actor, also winning a Guthrie Award to study stage combat in London. He choreographed, assistant directed, and acted at the Festival for four seasons, playing in 15 productions. He has enjoyed a long, fruitful career, playing in many Theatres in the US and the Watford Palace Theater in England.

Matt Grey is an award-winning actor and educator with over forty years of industry experience. He has acted, directed and taught acting internationally in Australia, Britain, France, India, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. He acts regularly for Singapore's leading theatre companies. In 2013, he was awarded 'Best Actor' in the 13th Life Theatre awards for his portrayal of Sigmund Freud in Freud's Last Session.

Over the last twenty-five years as an educator, Matt has assimilated established pedagogies into a process that promotes the actor's authenticity and credibility in realistic and stylised acting. Working in a multi-cultural context, his research enables his students to work across different modalities and develop a wide and flexible range of artistic responses in their work.

Discounts

SDEA Member's Discount

All SDEA Members enjoy 20% off the original price.
*This discount is not stackable with the NIE/LASALLE/NAFA Student & Alumni Discount

NAFA/LASALLE Student & Alumni Discount

All NAFA and LASALLE students and alumni enjoy 20% off the original price.
*This discount is not stackable with the SDEA Member's Discount.

Level Up! Fest 2024

Level Up! Fest 2024 is a learning festival specially curated for the Drama CCA Instructors and Teachers-in-charge. It will address some of the sector’s competency gaps, advance capabilities of educators and encourage the development of holistic Drama CCA experiences for students in today's world.

This year, Level Up! Fest is presented in partnership with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and LASALLE College of the Arts (LASALLE).

Gain new knowledge and strategies from 2 workshops designed and facilitated by faculty members from NAFA School of Arts Management, Dance & Theatre and LASALLE School of Dance and Theatre.

SDEA is a Registered Charity from 20 February 2020 and is a recipient of the National Arts Council’s Major Company Scheme
for the period from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2025.

Singapore Drama Educators Association is a registered charity (UEN: T02SS0123G)
90 Goodman Road, Blk B #04-02 Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore 439053
Phone: +65 6345 6997