2018 SETC Convention

Cost: $30 | Includes OSHA Training Booklet & Membership Card | Pre-Registration Required | www.setc.org/osha-training

The OSHA Outreach Training Program provides training for workers and employers on the recognition, avoidance, abatement and prevention of safety and health hazards in workplaces. The program also provides information regarding workers’ rights, employer responsibilities, and how to file a complaint. The modules taught in this class have been formatted to fit the live entertainment industry by members of the ICAP (IATSE Craft Advancement Committee) as a part of the OSHA/USITT/IATSE Alliance. This is part one of a two-day training course. This is part one of a two-day training course. See Day 2.

ROOM CHANGE: Please note, today's event was originally scheduled to take place in Battle House - Tree House. It will now take place in Battle House - Moonlight Ballroom Salon D. We apologize for any inconvenience this change in scheduling may cause.   

This is part two of a two-day training course. See Day One for more details.

Registration Cost: $85 | Includes Lunch | www.setc.org/teachers-institute 

Check-in and hospitality begins at 8:30am.

The SETC Teachers Institute is an all-day seminar designed for middle and high school teachers who use or integrate theatre techniques into their classroom, directors of theatre arts programs, teaching artists, and students studying to be theatre educators.

A DAY OF CREATIVE RENEWAL Embracing Your Creative Being: Suzan Zeder will start the day sharing insights about her own plays and writing processes. That discussion will give way to a general conversation about creativity, which will ultimately focus on the need for teachers to nourish their own creative selves.
Melding Body and Mind: The day-long session will move back and forth between talking, moving, drawing, visualizing, writing and more.

• Jim Hancock will draw upon movement disciplines such as The Form, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais,  Tai Chi, Qi Gong and Tensegrity.
• Suzan Zeder will follow up with writing activities of clustering, analog drawing, metaphor, paradox and structural story building.
• All activities will be participational in nature, but everyone should feel welcome to enter each experience at their own comfort level.

Transcending Subject Matter: The work is equally applicable to teachers of acting, movement, design, and — of course — writing. The exercises and activities truly transcend subject matter, as the real focus will be on the teacher as a creative being. “This will be an Institute FOR them, not merely for their students,” says Zeder.

Active Assailant in Your Theatre: What Do You Do?

Free to Convention Attendees  |  Maximum 100 Participants | Pre-Registration Required | www.setc.org/active-assailant
Ensuring a safe and secure environment for patrons and staff is a vital part of any theatre’s work. This four-hour session is designed to help theatre managers and leaders plan for and respond to potential acts of violence.
Jeffrey A. Slotnick, a board-certified security management professional, will help attendees complete a vulnerability self-assessment tool; provide a theatre-specific emergency response/active assailant plan; and assist you in tailoring the plan to your venue.
As Slotnick so succinctly said in “Active Shooter: Is Your Theatre Prepared for the Unthinkable?,” a recent article in Southern Theatre magazine, “You would never consider sending an actor onstage without proper rehearsals. Why would you treat the safety of your audiences and staff any differently?”

High school students! Join Chris Chalk on the opening night of the convention for a special workshop just for you. Sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University.

RSVP Required. Please contact SETC Educational Services at claire@setc.org to reserve for your high school group.

Free to Convention Attendees | www.setc.org/conquering-theatrical-style
What factors make you “the most powerful actor on the stage?” What are “the two most fundamental responsibilities of the actor?” Why do actors love eye contact “more than people do?” Is it possible to increase your accessibility by 75%? And what is the “three second rule?” In short: How can you improve your “presence?”
Through a series of live, hands-on exercises, Tim Mooney (drawing from his popular book, Acting at the Speed of Life, Conquering Theatrical Style) explores the fundamental nature of language and bridges the gap between the classics and our modern sense of realism, demonstrating the distinction between “realism” and “believability,” while finding the modern connection to theatrical conventions that bring them alive.  Exercises from The Misanthrope, Hamlet, Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman help knock down the “wall of words” that stand between ourselves and classical drama. “Your asides will never be the same!”

Cost: $40  |  Maximum 40 Participants  |  Pre-Registration Required | www.setc.org/give-and-take



We give and receive feedback all the time as teachers, artists and human beings. Whether it’s in the classroom, the rehearsal hall, with an audience after a performance, or in a private conversation over a cup of coffee, we are constantly exchanging opinions and assessments about our work or the work of others. Sometime this feedback is excellent: catalytic to change, confirming of our creative spirit. Sometimes it’s not; and even a casual word at the wrong time from the wrong mouth can do irreparable harm to a tender creative plant.

In this hands-on, participational masterclass, we will examine positive and negative feedback. We’ll explore four distinctly different kinds of feedback — Evaluative, Perceptual, Analytical and Generative — and discuss how each form works and where it is most appropriate and helpful. We will practice each form by responding to a scene from a play, which we will imagine is brand new, even though it’s not. We’ll also explore strategies for posing open-ended questions, creative listening and self-preservation (how not to give away your own power; how not to lose your own voice). If time permits, we’ll look at structures for post-play discussions in the classroom, in the theatre and in informal settings.

As teachers and artists, we probably spend more time giving and receiving feedback than we do making the actual work itself. Yet this ubiquitous part of the creative process is often overlooked and under-examined. Come share your ideas and learn some new strategies.

Free to Convention Attendees  | www.setc.org/mural-in-mobile

Leave your mark on Mobile with this two-part masterclass that will culminate in a unique mural in the convention center’s parking garage! Scenic artist Scott Bradley will take participants through the process of gridding a wall, blowing up the design, and putting paint brush to wall. Come to paint or just observe! Don't miss Day 2.

Free to Convention Attendees  | www.setc.org/mural-in-mobile

Leave your mark on Mobile with this two-part masterclass that will culminate in a unique mural in the convention center’s parking garage! Scenic artist Scott Bradley will take participants through the process of gridding a wall, blowing up the design, and putting paint brush to wall. Come to paint or just observe! Don't miss Day 1.