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Four Centre College students were tasked with answering the question, "are video games art?" for a prompt ahead of the Norton Center for the Arts' Fifth House Ensemble: Journey LIVE performance. The four students were the highlight of the Norton Center's pre-show pop-up party. To explore this theme, each student chose to feature a [...]
Steven A. Hoffman Executive Director From January thru May, 2018, the Norton Center, along with other Centre College and community partners will present a series of programs that address difficult humanitarian issues that are at the forefront of most, if not all, of our daily conversations and lives. Within the series, EXPLORING CONFLICT: AN ARTISTIC [...]
AFTERNOON TEA IN HONOR OF MISS EMILY BRONTË Tuesday, March 3, 2015 2:00 PM Norton Center Board Room | Centre College Featuring Special Guest Bruce Richardson of Elmwood Inn Fine Teas $55 Per Person (Price Includes one (1) tickets to Wuthering Heights at the Norton Center on Friday, March 6) Click HERE to view the reply [...]
At its essence, Kyogen is both comedic and satirical in nature. It pokes fun at the wealthy and powerful in feudal Japan. At the same time, it gets at the heart of what makes people tick and acknowledges, even relishes, our follies and foolishness. For the past six centuries, Kyogen playwrights and actors have shown [...]
American’s for the Arts, a national arts service organization, recently published the following facts around arts education… A student who has taken an arts education class at least once a school year is: • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office [...]
The DBCHS is YOUR Humane Society The Mission of the Danville-Boyle County Humane Society (DBCHS) is to promote the humane treatment of companion animals through sheltering, adoptions, community education, and spay/neuter programs. We are a stand-alone, local non-profit entity. We do not receive funding from national animal organizations and are dependent upon individuals and businesses [...]
Each season, the Norton Center for the Arts has the opportunity to collaborate with professional guest artists. This past March (2011), we worked with performers from the Diavolo Dance Company and local educators to teach a workshop at the Kentucky School for the Deaf. Following the hands-on workshop, a teacher from KSD who participated with [...]
Bringing you the latest news and information on arts-education from around the web! 1. The Top Ten Skills Children Learn from the Arts *** 2. Public Schools to Become Creativity Engines in 2013 *** 3. How Vincent van Gogh Can Help You Teach to the Common Core Standards *** 4. Young singers gain confidence, skills [...]
Kentucky public and private schools, grades pre-K through 12, may now apply for a Kentucky Arts Council TranspARTation Grant to help subsidize transportation costs when attending Norton Center student matinees. Much of the feedback we have received from teachers interested in bringing their students to Norton Center K-12 Programs, centers around the cost of transportation. [...]
Two awards from South Arts and one from the New England Foundation for the Arts will help to underwrite Norton Center programming in 2013. The Norton Center is pleased to announce three recent grant awards, which will support performances, student activities, and life-long learning programs during the upcoming season: - The New England Foundation for [...]
