A free outpouring of entertainment will be offered April 5 from Red Deer College’s School of Creative Arts.
The Final Take Off is a showcase of music, visual arts, film/animation and theatre from RDC students and staff. It will be held at 7 p.m. at the Welikoklad Event Centre during a year of fewer live performances than usual from the college.
The show’s co-ordinator, Shannon Frizzell, said this is largely because the RDC theatre program is in transition. New theatre students won’t be admitted until September, when their program is wrapped into a new applied-degree film, theatre and live entertainment program.
As RDC prepares to launch this new program for about 50 students, it’s also saying goodbye to its music diploma program, which is being discontinued this spring.
Frizzell, a guitar instructor at RDC, said The Final Take Off was initially meant as a public forum for six music students who are finishing up classes. But since their cohort was so small, it was decided to widen the show’s parameters to encompass all of the other disciplines in the school of creative arts.
This means the eclectic show will now also spotlight film and digital animation students. Frizzell added the audience will see screenings of live-action films from students in the motion picture arts program, as well as some animation projects from the first year that the new digital animation program is being offered at RDC.
The Final Take Off will contain some skits and monologues, courtesy of RDC theatre instructors Thomas Usher and Tom Bradshaw. And art from visual arts students can also be viewed, along with an alumni show in the Welikoklad Event Centre gallery, which will be open later on April 5, along with the other First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer.
Frizzell said this evening of free entertainment is the school of creative arts’ gift to the public.
“It will be a rapid-fire show that everyone can enjoy.”
lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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