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Grant Assistance Package

Tips for Filling in the Grant Application

Please note that when you go to the AFA website to access the Artist

and Education grant information you will see that there are fourdocuments: Artists and Education Project Grant Stream Guidelines,Arts Organizations Project Grant Application, Tips for Applying andFinal Report Package. You certainly can download all four if you wish,but the one of most immediate concern is the Arts OrganizationsProject Grant Application. When you open this application please makesure that on page 1 of 7, General Information, you check off the Artistsand Education box, doing this will take you to the specific Artist andEducation application.

If you cannot obtain them, please contact the AFA for guidance.

This grant is a juried grant. This means that a jury of artists andadministrators called together by the AFA will read your application,and approve it or not. It is essential that you follow the links on ourwebsite to the AFAs page for Artists in Education, look at their 'Tips forApplying and the Artists and Education Project Grant StreamGuidelines. Use them they will make it clear what the AFA wants tosee in your application. Whenever possible, use your own words todescribe our company, the project, its benefits to your students and soon applications that copy our documentation word-for-word, or whichare too general, are less likely to be successful in the eyes of the jury.

Filling in the application

Please note that these instructions assume your application is ONLY forassistance with our fees. If you are applying for multiple projects, westrongly suggest you seek guidance from the AFA.

A. The first page you fill in is the Artists and Education Project GrantApplication Form pg. 2 of 7. Fill in your details, and then on pg. 2 of 7Participating Artist(s) with Theatre Prospero.The Requested Grant Amount will be filled in once you have

completed Attachment xvi Artists and Education Grant CalculationB. pg. 4 of 7 will require the name of your school at the top and asignature of the Authorized Representative at the bottom and dated.C. The most involved part of the grant application is the DetailedDescription requested in 4.2 of the Grant Application Guidelinespg.2. Our enclosed Description of Artists in Residence Program isintended to help you out if your school hasnt participated in one of ourworkshop productions before. Do not attach this to your application!


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The jury may reject the application if the description is not tailored toyour situation and school You must use your own words. Write thisup (well check it for you if you want a second opinion) and make it thesecond page of your application.D. Grant Calculation pg 6 of 7 in the application gives you line-by-line

instructions for the template. It is extremely simple.E. Enclose a copy of our Company History and Mandate this is theRsum referred to in 4.3 of the guideline and on pg. 5 of 7 of theapplication checklist. This rsum can be found on our website in AboutUs (look in Current Company, Administration, Our Mandate and thedownloadable History) please use all of these documents.F. Attachment V, pg. 7 of 7 we can fill in for you and fax back to you foryour signature and then you attach it to the completed applicationform. We will also provide you with our own Letter of Agreement whichwill break down the fees and include the appropriate GST. Sign anddate the School Authorized Representative pg. 7 of 7.

G. Tick the boxes on the checklist on pg. 5 of 7.

Then send 3 copies (this does not include the original, which must alsobe submitted) of your entire application to the AFA, includingattachments, and youre done!

The AFA will notify you approximately two months later if yourapplication is successful.

PLEASE REMEMBER that we require your deposit as soon as possible preferably when you send your letter of agreement to us.

Remember that your deposit will be refunded if you do not qualify forthe grant.If youd like more assistance with the grant application, please email orphone Theatre Prosperos General Manager Mary-Ellen Perley [email protected] or 780-761-2773 or phone Paul Reich at TheAlberta Foundation for the Arts at (780) 415-0287 (or toll-free bydialing the same number proceeded by 310-0000).

DO NOT ATTACH THIS TO YOUR GRANT APPLICATION!Use it as a guide to developing a description unique to your school.

This Description is a general outline of what happens with a 1dayresidency. Longer residencies will have further details as these arebuilt to suit the school. Please look at the information we provideregarding Detailed Residencies and the specific length of residency onour website.However, much of the information in Activities below is about whatwe do and how it relates to curriculum, therefore it is useful for anylength of residency.


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Description Up to thirty student actors will work directly with the professionalactors of Theatre Prospero, and will explore their creative potential asthey take a vital role in the creative process. The school will cast the

student roles, download and distribute scripts and support materialsthree weeks before Theatre Prospero arrives. Students are taught themeaning and significance of their roles within the story of the play bytheir teachers, and learn their lines through the work their teacherdoes with the students over these three weeks. The morning Theatre Prospero arrives, the students will work withprofessional actors to bring the work they have done with their teacherto life - learning blocking and choreography, and exploring thepossibilities of the text through Theatre Prosperos interpretation of theplay. In the afternoon, they will perform with them for an audience oftheir peers.

In the afternoon, the student audience members will have theopportunity to enjoy the work of their peers and the five professionalactors in a lively performance of a Shakespearean play. The studentsperforming in the play will live the play through performance, givingthem a practical understanding of the value of the work they havedone in order to make the performance exciting and moving.Activities Participating students will work with professional actors, and performalongside those actors in a public staging of a Shakespearean play. Students will practice language arts skills as they rehearse, perform,and listen to the language of the play.

Professional actors will coach and rehearse with the participatingstudents, building on the work the students have done with theirteacher. Participating students will practice group work, interpersonalcommunication, and presentation skills. Students will learn about Shakespeare, his plays, and theatrical formin an active way. Objectives To have the student actors gain confidence and self esteem bylearning from and playing alongside professional actors who havean extensive understanding of the play and Shakespeare. To have the student audience see an engaging, imaginative version

of one of the worlds greatest plays. To give students an opportunity to practice language arts skills asthey learn and perform or listen to and enjoy Shakespeares poeticlanguage. To expose all the students at the school to a form of drama thatrelies upon collective imagination and creativity to create and dissolveillusions. To increase student awareness of their creative possibilities


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individually and collectively. To make Shakespeares work a living thing through the students,making them aware that they have a role in making culture live, andmaking it relevant by participating in it.Benefits

Students will learn that Shakespeare is exciting and lively, and thattheatre can be an enlightening way to strengthen their relationshipswith their peers and their community; students confidence in dealingwith poetic language will be boosted, and many are likely to becomemore open to literature they previously thought of as arcane orimpenetrable; students performance in English classes may bepositively impacted, which will benefit their academic and futurecareers; students will be more open to staging plays they are studyingin future, or even be encouraged to form their own drama group. Teachers will have the opportunity to explore a new avenue forgetting their students excited about literature and drama; they will be

able to work co- operatively with theatre professionals; they will havethe chance to re-energize their own creative resources through theirparticipation in a new way to approach subject material. The school community and the community at large may be morewilling to support students creative ventures. Community memberswho attend the performance will have the opportunity to experiencethe same benefits as the student audience members. Interest in dramawill be fostered across the board.

You will need to write your own Project Description for yourapplication! If you do not, the jury WILL know and WILLREJECT your application.Use what we have provided above to describe in your own words what inviting Theatre Prospero to your school will achieve, as well aswhat will happen during the day we are there. Feel free to expand onhow specific aspects of your plans for teaching the play dovetail withour workshop, or how our project will benefit your school inextracurricular ways (as many schools have us in to work with theirdrama club). Try to keep your description to one page, and definitelyno longer than two.

INSTRUCTIONS For Filling Out the Grant CalculationIf you have arranged to billet us please fill out the Grant Calculationas if you are paying the full fee. We will invoice you for the full fee, andyou will pay us the full fee minus the amount for billeting. We will issuea receipt indicating the amount you have paid in cash, and the amountyou have paid in kind (by billeting us).

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