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Fall into Fun with Trust Arts Education Workshops and Events!

September 29, 2022

Try something new and make your own unique works of art! Write, paint, sew and more during Saturday workshops at the Trust Arts Education Center. We offer programs for art enthusiasts of all ages, skill levels, and interests.

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Building Up Abstract Art
For families and students 11+
October 8 | 2 - 5 pm

In this workshop, participants will explore different techniques – such as scribbles, picture references, tessellation, stencils, and collage – to create unique abstract art using a variety of media, including watercolor, crayon, pencil, and markers.
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A Beginner's Guide to Blood and GoreFor Adults and Students 14+
October 8 | 4 - 6 pm

Learn all about creating cuts, bruises, and blood just in time for Spooky Season! This workshop will cover both stage effects as well as practical costume use that you can use to scare your friends. Participants will try their hand at creating gruesome gore, and even take home their own homemade jar of blood!
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Image, photo of albumHex Bug STEAM Challenge
For Adults with Children 3+
November 12 | 10 am - 12 pm

Uh-oh! The Hexbugs are at it again! This is a STEAM challenge- to build a maze or set of obstacles for their Hexbugs using straws, tape, and other scrap items on poster board. Did the bugs make it through your maze? Why or why not? Work together with your family to see if you can make a maze these robotic creepy crawlies can solve!
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Introduction to Musical Theatre Auditioning
For Ages 11-18
November 12 |  2 - 5 pm  
Learn tips and techniques for a stellar musical theatre audition! Students will work on acting, singing, and dancing with one-on-one guidance from our teaching artists to get them audition ready. No prior experience is necessary.
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Resonant Bodies
For Adults and Students 14+
November 12 |  5:30 - 7:30 pm  
In a time when people are losing contact with their embodied experience as they upload more and more of their daily life into the digital realm, challenge yourself to rediscover and reinhabit your own body as a place of sonic beauty and creativity. Using only the human body as a sound source, in this workshop participants will compose and perform original collaborative sonic pieces using only our voices and body percussion. No prior musical training is required.
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Engage with the professional artists and learn more about Broadway before or after you attend a performance. Budding artists can learn something new in one of our special programs.
Get the inside scoop on the PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh performances with Creative Conversations presented by the Trust Arts Education Department. Join us as we chat with company members, production team members or other theater professionals for a special conversation that will help you prepare for the show. Creative Conversations are held one hour before select performances. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Can’t make it? No worries! Creative Conversations will be filmed and available for those attending on a different night!
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Creative Conversations - Frozen
For All Ages
Thursday, October 6 | 6:30 - 7 pm

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Creative Conversations - Hadestown
For All Ages
Wednesday, November 16 | 6:30 - 7 pm

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Creative Conversations - Les Miserables
For All Ages
Wednesday, November 23 | 6:30 - 7 pm

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Find our full list of workshops and events at TrustArts.org/Education. See you soon!