Oakland Tech Dancers Performing with Oakland East Bay Symphony

Gorgeous shots of our super talented dancers dancing with The Oakland East Bay Symphony. What a great experience for them!

   

LotsaHelpingHands Tutorial

How do I use the LotsaHelpingHands site?

Step One: log on to the website:

https://www.lotsahelpinghands.com/c/655271/ 

The group name is OakTechArts and you can search for it that way as well as with the number at the end of the url.

Once you are there use the screen caps below to help you if you get stuck

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That is it! Now you are a fully fledged member of the group and will get to personally experience the gratitude of our awesome students when you drop off a meal!

Cheers, 

Yvette Bass
 

Auditorium Work Day is not all work, it's also lots of fun!

Great start to the year for Tech Techies!

What a start!

We had 30 people attend the first unofficial Techies meeting this year.

 Most of those people have continued showing up and are starting to really find their places in the Tech Shop.

We had some big shoes to fill as many of our long time
Techies graduated last year. 

Our oldest experienced Techies are Juniors, with some great Sophomores that joined in their Freshman year, so to have so many new Freshman and Sophomores join is fantastic.

It will give them time to really build some solid skills before they graduate from Tech. How exciting is that?

So we now have an infusion of new energy with students from the Freshman and Sophomore classes joining the crew.

Hope you have enjoyed these pictures from our first day this year.

We will try to post more frequently!

Welcome to Oak Tech Arts!

As the 2013-14 School year gets under way, we are doing some new things.
Starting with this blog.

We have new staff in the Arts at Tech this year...

Ena Dallas has joined the Drama Department as the Beginning Drama teacher.
Some of you will know her from either her work with OakTechRep helping with Choreography or from her after school Acrobatics class.

Helena Moss-Jack has taken the role of Band teacher. She is working with A Session students with both Jazz Band and Orchestra backgrounds. Then she does 1st and 2nd period Jazz Band classes. She is an inspiration and honestly you should just google her to be awed!

We are awaiting final confirmation from OUSD HR that our Orchestra teacher can start, so stay tuned for more info.

Our fabulous team still has the following wonderful teachers:

Sonja Travek for Dance, so look forward to some amazing showcases this year, including Dance week.

Jessa Berkner for Advanced Drama and OakTechRep. She is back during the day for 6th period Advanced Drama and after school with the Production class. She has already held auditions for the upcoming show In the Red and Brown Water by Tarrell Alvin McCraney.
The First Rehearsal is Sept. 11th. 

Tech Week Starts Nov.8th.

Opening is Nov. 14th. 

Closing Nov.16

It is a short run, only 4 shows, Thursday and Friday night, then a matinee and evening show on the Saturday.

Casey Fern is still in the Shop as our Technical Director with his awesome Techies. 

If you don't know about the Tech Techies you are really missing out! They design and build sets and props (amongst other things), and run the shows.
They meet after school on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday regularly with a "work day" the first Saturday of each month (come join the fun) and then when the production gets close they never go home!!! Well it certainly seems that way!

Katita Johnson is our fashion guru!

She is mainly on the Upper Campus or Far West at it is still called, but the great thing is she is now on the main campus in the basement at least two afternoons a week and hopefully that will increase to more days. This is really to give the kids that can not fit Fashion Academy into their schedule an opportunity to get a taste.

Renita Pines is continuing on with Ceramics. So many beautiful creations come out of their classes. I am looking forward to the next ceramics show and sale.

So there you have it!

We are so excited for this year.

We will post images and updates as frequently as possible, so follow our blog!