Acting School in Calgary area, Alberta

Rosebud School Of The Arts, Calgary:
Are you ready to discover your talents, risk a career in professional theatre, start your own theatre company, or serve in one of the many areas of drama ministry? Define your passions at Rosebud School of the Arts located in Rosebud, Alberta in Canada just 100 km northeast of Calgary. Rosebud develops honest, caring, and talented theatre artists who have the skills and desire to make a difference in the world – a world that desperately yearns to be transported in heart, mind, and soul. By exploring the intimate connection between your spiritual gifts and your creative gifts, you will discover greater authenticity in faith and on stage. Welcome to a school, a theatre, a place, where the secular meets the Divine, where the disenfranchised find their niche, and where theatre artists are born. Every year thousands of Rosebud Theatre patrons discover the artists who have trained at Rosebud School of Arts.

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* Every year students travel to New York City, London, England, or Canada’s West Coast to immerse themselves in theatre, workshops, and tours.
* Students apprentice in a resident theatre company.
* Rosebud is the only theatre school that offers one-on-one coaching for advanced students.
* Students train in a community of believing artists, each receiving personalized guidance, mentoring, and practical training to prepare them for a career in the performing arts.
* Rosebud is nestled in a tranquil river valley where inspiration abounds and students are challenged in their life-long journey of integrating faith and art.

The mission of Rosebud School of the Arts is to provide facilities, organization, education, and top-quality programmes in the realm of the arts to express God’s wonderful and universal gifts to His children in a spirit of hope, joy, forgiveness, and love.

Rosebud School of the Arts is a guild school that provides theatre training within a community of professional working artists. These artists recognize that their deepest source of inspiration springs from their relationship with Christ and have found the arts to be a powerful vehicle for expressing faith. It is through the arts that the Creativity of the Spirit can be revealed, becoming Light in a darkened world, serving as Salt of the earth.

Acting Classes and Programs; Certificate in Theatre Foundations; Mentorship Training; Music and Open Studies Internship Programs; Study acting, art, speech, movement, choir, dance, script analysis, music theory, spiritual formation, Christianity and the arts, drama ministry, and technical theatre with us. We also organise theatre study trips to major cities. We welcome international students.

Every year thousands of Rosebud Theatre patrons discover the artists who have trained at Rosebud School of Arts. (Almost 40,000 patrons in 2006!) Through productions on Rosebud’s Opera House and Studio Stage, through graduates creating their own work, through alumni breaking into the broader professional theatre world, budding artists are given the opportunity to discover and share their God-given gifts. Rosebud Theatre exists to uncover and polish the creative gifts that the Spirit has placed in each of us.

Located on the outskirts of town – only a 5 minute walk from main street – the Studio Stage is Rosebud’s “west end” theatre.

As a Mentorship student, you produce and perform a minimum of two fully-mounted productions on the Studio Stage. This flexible black-box theatre seats up to 70 people. It’s a great way to work with professional directors and designers and strut your stuff in front of a live audience.

Nestled in a cozy river valley, winding through wheat fields and magnificent badlands, Rosebud is a picturesque community with rural roots and country charm. But a closer look reveals Rosebud to be a vibrant arts community visited by over forty thousand people every year.

Located on Highway 840, Rosebud is situated 100 km northeast of Calgary, and 35 km southwest of Drumheller. The name Rosebud derives from the Blackfoot term Akokiniskway, which means “river of many roses.”