VOICES in the CITY! workshops – Spring 2012

City High School and VOICES are pleased to offer some totally rockin’-awesome-fabulous workshops for the students of City High School as part of our Extended Day Learning program. More workshops will be announced, so please check back often to see what new options are available for students!

NEW WORKSHOPS FOR APRIL!!!     NEW WORKSHOPS FOR APRIL!!!

CREATE-A-NARWHAL:

Days & Hours:

• Tuesdays & Thursdays (April 4 – 26)
• 3:30 – 5:30pm

Instructor:  Karyn Light and Kari Imoro
Email:  KarynL@cityhighschool.org

Join the totally awesome arts mentors Karyn and Kari to create some school spirit that celebrates our glorious school mascot, the Narwhal. We’ll sculpt an UpCycled Narwhal with recycled materials and our Narwhal will be on display in our front windows for all to see and celebrate during the Pennington Street Block Party on April 20th! This workshop also celebrates Earth Day, Global Youth Service Day.
*SIP requirements can be met through this project*

GATEWAY WORKSHOP:

Days & Hours:

• Wednesdays & Thursdays (April 4 – 26)
• 3:30 – 5:30pm

Instructor:  Anabelle Baggs
Email:  albaggs@gmail.com

Struggling with your upcoming Gateway presentation? Don’t know how to build a PowerPoint presentation? For help, head over to the Gateway workshop with mentor Anabelle and create a presentation that will “Wow!” your instructors, classmates and your family.

CULINARY ARTS:

Days & Hours:

• Tuesdays & Wednesdays (January 10 – May 16, 2012)
• 3:30 – 5:30pm

Instructor:  Chris Alvarez
Email:  chrisa@cityhighschool.org

Limit:  20 students

The goal of Culinary VOICES goal is to enrich the participant’s skills and attitudes of food and food issues. By teaching the fundamentals of cookery and preparing the students to apply concepts of English, math and science to daily life skills. To be a community resource that caters to the needs of the individual and engages in service learning projects. To nourish the hearts and minds by teaching the art of service. Click here to sign up!

PORTAL 2 -  LAB RATS:

Days & Hours:

• Mondays & Wednesdays (January 16 – May 16, 2012)
• 3:30 – 5:30pm

Instructor:  Ben Truman
Email:  bent@cityhighschool.org

Limit:  6 students

Design and build maps for Portal 2 using the same development kit as Valve software – using Portal 2. Participants will create fun and interactive 3D puzzles while learning all about game design and game development. Portal 2 is a hilariously mind-bending adventure that challenges you to use wits over weaponry in a funhouse of diabolical science. Using a highly experimental portal device, you’ll once again face off against a lethally inventive, power-mad A.I. named GLaDOS. And this time you won’t be alone. Meet an expanded cast of characters as you think your way through dangerous, never-before-seen areas of Aperture Laboratories. Break the laws of spatial physics in ways you never thought possible, with a wider variety of portal puzzles and an expansive story that spans a single player and co-operative game mode. Click here to sign up!

CITY HIGH URBAN FARMERS:

Days & Hours:

• Fridays (January 9 – May 18, 2012)
• 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Instructor:  Megan Valanidas
Email:  meganv@cityhighschool.org

Every Friday join Megan V. for gardening at the Southside Farm off of 29th St right next to the Santa Cruz River.  City High is collaborating with the Tucson Community Food Bank who is managing the site. Students/participants will bus to the site with Megan to plant, weed, water, and otherwise tend to City High’s very own garden plot!  Participants will gain a knowledge of organic gardening by growing vegetables, herbs, and medicinals.  We will cover plot fertilization, seasonal planting, companion planting, organic pest control, and water conservation in a desert garden!  (Irrigation is provided by the Food Bank.) Click here to sign up!

DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY:

Days & Hours:

• Fridays (January 9 – May 18, 2012)
• 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Instructor:  Tucson Community Darkroom – Jasper Ludwig and Julia DeConcini
Email:  tucsoncommunitydarkroom@gmail.com

Limit:  12 students

This Darkroom Photography Intensive will allow participants to explore documentary photography throughout history. Students will learn the origins of documentary photography while learning to use film and alternative processes. We will critique the work of well-known documentary photographers, helping us to understand visual literacy and composition. Exercises in perspective, time, framing, portraiture and critique will help students mature as artists (documentary and otherwise). From Anna Atkin’s botanical cyanotypes to Milton Rogovin’s striking social documentation to Robert Frank’s secretive critique of the American people, we will discuss and explore photography from historical, ethical, political, artistic and humanitarian perspectives. Using provided cameras, students will become competent and proficient in the use of film and film processing, darkroom chemistry, photographic enlargement & mural printing, cyanotype alternative process, and critique – all the while having ridiculous amounts of fun – we promise! Note:  All equipment and supplies will be provided. Click here to sign up!

PENNINGTON POST:

Days & Hours:

• Tuesdays & Thursdays (August  6 – December 14, 2011)
• 3:15 – 4:30pm

Instructor:  Megan Valanidas
Email:  meganv@cityhighschool.org

This elective is being offered Tuesdays and Thursdays during the 7th hour and continuing after school to the 8th hour.  This is your opportunity to be a part of City High’s student newspaper! Through group collaboration we will spearhead and invent this new semi-quarterly publication.  Students will be trained as editors and journalists.  We will write news stories, editorials, music/movie/food reviews and whatever else we decide should be included in this new publication! As a member of the publication course you will get experience in layout, interviewing, headline writing, print/pre-press and much more.  As always, plan on meeting dynamic journalists and photo-journalists from Tucson and taking the occasional field trip.  Expect hands-on work-shopping and creative time to occur during the 8th hour portion of this course.  The group will discuss and decide the physical representation of the publication. Click here to sign up!

NEWSPAPER & COFFEE:

Days & Hours:

• Mondays & Wednesdays (September 7 – December 14)
• 7:45 – 8:45am

Instructor:  Megan Valanidas
Email:  meganv@cityhighschool.org

Early risers, early drop-offs, or people with funky bus schedules can relax in the VOICES lounge reading the paper with a cup of coffee.  This is time for you to get caught up on the news; local, national, and abroad. VOICES will be providing coffee to enhance your experience.  There will be quiet discussion and mostly time to read and caffeinate to prepare for the day.  You will be able to choose from the New York Times, the Arizona Daily Star, the Daily Wildcat and other publications – or bring your own! Don’t be an “ugly American,” read the news, know your issues.  Please bring your own coffee mug. Click here to sign up!