DESIGN/TECHNOLOGY

ONLINE REGISTRATION FOR THE DESIGN/TECH COMPETITIONS HAS CLOSED.

QUESTIONS?
Ron Keller rkeller@vcu.edu
Paul Favini favinip@ufl.edu

Greetings!

We are excited about all of the design and technology opportunities that are available to you through Region IV of KCACTF! We are in the middle of planning a wonderful festival for 2010 and we look forward to seeing you there. Even more than a festival it is a celebration of student achievement!!! Our region has long been known for the strength of Design and Technology and consistently one of the largest festivals in terms of the numbers of student designers, artisans, craftspeople and technicians. Vice-Chair Paul Favini and I are working to make our next festival better than ever and that is a hard act to follow! We have already invited talented and respected respondents who will talk with you about your work and select the winners of the design competitions. We are continuing all of your favorite aspects of the festival and adding more events to fill out the rest of your Region IV experience.

If you are new to KCACTF we welcome you and want to tell you a bit more about the opportunities that will be waiting for you.

• The National Design competitions are open to students who have actualized their designs in Participating and Associate productions. Students are nominated for inclusion by either the production respondents who saw your work or by their design faculty. First place winners in these competitions go on to represent our region at the Kennedy center. Come see all of the amazing work of your fellow students.
  
  
• The Regional Design Competitions are open too all registered students. These may be some of the wonderful work done as class projects in addition to work on realized productions. In order to give everyone the same advantage production photos are not allowed and designs are reviewed solely on the artistic merit of the designs.
  
  
• Craft competitions celebrate the creative talents and problem solving abilities of our technicians in any area.
  
  
• Stage Managers are honored in festival long programming that not only looks at what they have done on productions in their home theatres but also gives them a chance to work with actors and directors in all new productions created at the festival.
  
  
• A design mixer gives students a chance to meet and talk to fellow designers. Here the emphasis is on meeting networking and finding out what your peers are doing at other colleges and universities. See old friends from previous festivals and make new friends all at one event!
  
  
• Workshops in all areas are presented by talented guests from around the country and faculty in the region. There is so much amazing opportunity for you here and that you won't be able to do it all!
  
  
• You get to see the actual work of your fellow design students on stage in the productions that have been invited to the festival.