Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on K one, the one you trust in. Today we
Speaker 1: got a whole lot more community that I was bargained for,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, because we've got folks from far and wide,
Speaker 1: but all right.
Speaker 2: Here in the same room today.
Speaker 1: We have Hardy bla Blacker, Professor of Film and the Photography,
Speaker 1: and Markel Porter, professor of music at Oklahoma Wesley and University.
Speaker 1: And we all found out that we're from just we're
Speaker 1: a bunch of line jumpers here between Kansas and Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: But we're all here today to pretty much celebrate Oklahoma
Speaker 1: Wesley and University. It's some great camps that are coming
Speaker 1: up this summer. You know, it never stops out there
Speaker 1: on campus.
Speaker 3: Doesn't party, No, it does not. We're very excited about
Speaker 3: the upcoming things.
Speaker 2: In fact, you've got something going on tonight.
Speaker 4: Yes, in fact, it's opening night for our theater department.
Speaker 4: We're putting on a little show that we've entitled An
Speaker 4: Evening of Monologues and one act plays. Essentially, our acting
Speaker 4: class is putting on this production and it's going to
Speaker 4: be running tonight tomorrow night and also Saturday night, all
Speaker 4: at seven o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 2: Oh righty, how do we get tickets?
Speaker 3: Basically it's a free show, so you just walk right
Speaker 3: on in. I'm blown away and it's Lion Hall.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's in Line Hall, right, which is in the
Speaker 4: Fine Arts building where the Chapel building. You just have
Speaker 4: to go upstairs and to the left in Lion Hall
Speaker 4: is right there.
Speaker 2: I know. We got the camp.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about some of the stuff that's
Speaker 1: happening right now so that folks can go out and visit.
Speaker 1: You see what's going on, Nancy, Okay, that camp there
Speaker 1: you go. It's on my radar now, Markel, you've got
Speaker 1: coming up on the twenty six, the big competition.
Speaker 2: Tell us about that we do.
Speaker 5: We are going to be having a vocal competition on
Speaker 5: the twenty six that's going to start at nine o'clock.
Speaker 5: We are looking for college age students to participate, so
Speaker 5: it's going to be from ages seventeen to twenty two.
Speaker 5: There is an entry fee which is thirty dollars. They
Speaker 5: can register and pay online, and there is also a
Speaker 5: spectator fee five dollars cash at the door, So anybody
Speaker 5: in the community can come and watch. This is the
Speaker 5: first time I have ever organized anything like this before,
Speaker 5: so it's really exciting on my end as well. We
Speaker 5: are going to have cash prizes as well as giveaway scholarships.
Speaker 5: So not only are.
Speaker 2: It goes to school, yes, yes.
Speaker 5: So the scholarships are going to go towards the Oakwood
Speaker 5: Music Business Program, which is the degree program that we offer,
Speaker 5: and that's where students can come in and learn the
Speaker 5: basics of the music industry and the areas that we
Speaker 5: cover our artistry, you know, performing as well as management
Speaker 5: as well as the behind the scenes the av So
Speaker 5: this is the program that we are developing and we're
Speaker 5: really excited about it. Hardy we'll be teaching some of
Speaker 5: those classes as well. Oh my goodness, in his tech classes.
Speaker 2: Where were you two?
Speaker 1: And where was this class in nineteen seventy something we
Speaker 1: really needed it.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell you where I was got
Speaker 5: me neither think you got.
Speaker 2: Youa think you got you there?
Speaker 1: But anyway, this is a very good work out. You've
Speaker 1: got a camp it's coming up for using.
Speaker 5: Yes, we are going to be doing a worship choir camp. Now.
Speaker 5: These are for students who have just finished eighth grade
Speaker 5: through twelfth grade, so they could have just graduated and
Speaker 5: still come and participate. We're just going to get together
Speaker 5: on June thirtieth through July second, right before the fourth
Speaker 5: of July, and give an opportunity to sing. Not only
Speaker 5: are we just going to sing together, but we're going
Speaker 5: to have some theory boot camps, you know, kind of
Speaker 5: learn the basics of some reading music. And we're gonna
Speaker 5: have breakout sessions with site reading piano class and a
Speaker 5: voice class which Hardy's daughter is actually going to be
Speaker 5: doing the vocal class for us.
Speaker 1: Like getting the stage. This is something else. And how
Speaker 1: do we sign up for this class?
Speaker 3: Well, you can go camp.
Speaker 5: Yes, you can go to our ok WU dot edu
Speaker 5: slash summer dash camps or you can just go and
Speaker 5: Google search the summer camps at ok WU and this
Speaker 5: one's the Worship Choir camp.
Speaker 2: Very good. Now, Hardy, you've got your plate full over here.
Speaker 1: Now you've got the big thing going on tonight here,
Speaker 1: but you've got a camp of your own and it
Speaker 1: involves a lot of moving parts.
Speaker 3: Yes it does.
Speaker 4: In fact, our summer camp is called the Children's Theater
Speaker 4: Summer Camp, and we're going to be featuring the production
Speaker 4: Peter Pan Junior, which is produced or it's by MTI
Speaker 4: Music Theater International, and it's a two week camp, so
Speaker 4: it starts June third and runs through Saturday the seventh,
Speaker 4: and then we come back the next week and run
Speaker 4: from the ninth through the fourteenth, and the performances are
Speaker 4: the last two so it be Friday and Saturday performances
Speaker 4: on the camp.
Speaker 3: But during that week it's going to be very intense.
Speaker 4: The camp runs from nine in the morning till four
Speaker 4: in the afternoon, and we're going to have auditions here
Speaker 4: very soon, which is going to actually start. The last
Speaker 4: day to sign up for the camps is the twenty
Speaker 4: fourth of this month, so April twenty fourth, and then
Speaker 4: immediately the very next day, the twenty fifth, we're going
Speaker 4: to have auditions and that evening as well as auditions
Speaker 4: Saturday morning. That's all on the website. You can go
Speaker 4: there and find all information. And so once we have
Speaker 4: auditions completed, then essentially we're going to cast the parts
Speaker 4: and once we've done that, then we'll send notifications out
Speaker 4: for students to pick up the scripts because they need
Speaker 4: to start memorizing their lines right right away because because
Speaker 4: once the camp gets started, we can't really get snagged
Speaker 4: up in in in line memorization. So anyway, as they're
Speaker 4: doing that, we're the camp is all about essentially teaching
Speaker 4: them acting skills and and you know, uh, choreography, and
Speaker 4: there's gound be you know, lots of music and singing
Speaker 4: and things like that, and and the students typically will experience,
Speaker 4: you know, just a wonderful way of camaraderie and and
Speaker 4: and really experience the thing together.
Speaker 3: And of course, because it's done in oak WRU, we're.
Speaker 4: Also going to integrate a lot of biblical themes, especially
Speaker 4: as we meet with the students throughout the day, not
Speaker 4: just in rehearsal and in music, but we're also going
Speaker 4: to have some short devotionals and things like that to
Speaker 4: really make the students understand that understand that all truth
Speaker 4: is God's truth, and that essentially God created beauty, God
Speaker 4: created the arts, and so we were going to celebrate
Speaker 4: that in in a theatrical setting.
Speaker 1: You know, that comes in handy because you know, even
Speaker 1: though it sounds like it's a lot of fun acting, choreography,
Speaker 1: music singing sometimes can produce a little bit of stress.
Speaker 1: And when we preach the good word. It kind of
Speaker 1: reminds us that we're working together indeed, and we need
Speaker 1: to rely on one another. It's not all about I
Speaker 1: me my absolutely, Oh, I see what you guys are
Speaker 1: up to.
Speaker 5: It's so good to collaborate with each other, you know.
Speaker 5: And in the music industry in general, we see, especially
Speaker 5: like in the opera world things, it's a doggy dog world.
Speaker 5: But then when we come into this Christian atmosphere, we
Speaker 5: can see how God brings us together and how we
Speaker 5: can benefit one to each other and edify one another.
Speaker 2: This is great.
Speaker 1: And we can find out the camps right there on
Speaker 1: the website. That's right, Oklahoma Wesleyan University. Yes, yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: in ours.
Speaker 4: Once you land on the landing page, you'll see all
Speaker 4: the camps listed there and you just scroll down a
Speaker 4: little bit to get to the theater camp and the
Speaker 4: music camps are listed there's well, along with sports camps
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know that coach down he's going to
Speaker 1: try to make it and he's been everybody's been after
Speaker 1: him lately, so but yeah, there's gonna be some sports
Speaker 1: camps out there too. And I was telling both.
Speaker 2: Of you, you're so lucky.
Speaker 1: You get to go out to probably one of the
Speaker 1: prettiest campuses I've ever seen, and you get to go
Speaker 1: out there every day.
Speaker 5: So it is very beautiful, beautiful campus. But more than that,
Speaker 5: it's a beautiful spirit.
Speaker 3: It's also a campus that's filmed a lot.
Speaker 4: So I mean, it's it's it's it's not just for
Speaker 4: us that are you know that we're so enamored with
Speaker 4: the beauty of it, but other folks have have come
Speaker 4: there throughout the years and you know and filmed and yeah,
Speaker 4: there was a film back in the fall of a
Speaker 4: Hollywood studio that came out and they filmed some some
Speaker 4: some things there at the campus because it was very
Speaker 4: similar to University in California. And so I don't know
Speaker 4: that many details about it, but I just know that
Speaker 4: that occasionally, we, uh, we allow folks to come in
Speaker 4: and you know, enjoy the beauty.
Speaker 1: You know, those Hollywood people been just kind of sneaking
Speaker 1: around here lately.
Speaker 2: This is true.
Speaker 3: That's great, they're.
Speaker 2: Shooting a movie. That's the famous person. That's nice. Welcome
Speaker 2: to Marblesville. That's right now, Come on inad Coach Donnie grabbing,
Speaker 2: grabbing Sea grab one there and pull up, pull up.
Speaker 2: We'll get you everybody into the into the picture. Here.
Speaker 1: Everybody kind of snug together here. I act like we
Speaker 1: know one another, and we get everybody here here. We
Speaker 1: are all right. We've been talking about the different camps.
Speaker 2: Uh coach. First of all, congratulations out a very good.
Speaker 1: Year in basketball, and you got a sports camp coming
Speaker 1: up at Oklahoma Westley in too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we've been doing basketball camps here for you know,
Speaker 6: since I came in seven and just grown. I also
Speaker 6: do camps all over the country with Nike and some
Speaker 6: other things. So we're able to do that here, same
Speaker 6: level of quality at a much cheaper price. And to
Speaker 6: do this so June first through the fourth is our
Speaker 6: first camp. We have an overnight option, extended day option,
Speaker 6: or actually a day option where kids can either go overnight.
Speaker 6: They can go nine to nine or then go nine
Speaker 6: to four. It's for ages eight to eighteen, guys or girls.
Speaker 6: Boys or girls, and we you know, we.
Speaker 3: Learned both off the floor.
Speaker 2: On the floor.
Speaker 6: We spend time learning about how to be successful in
Speaker 6: life as well. And it's a faith based camp. Obviously
Speaker 6: with our campus, we're able to share our faith as
Speaker 6: well and learn basketball and that's our first camp. Our
Speaker 6: second camp is for little kids age four to eight.
Speaker 6: I'm called diaper Dandy. Of course, the kids do like
Speaker 6: what I call it diaper. They're like, we're not wearing diapers,
Speaker 6: you know, but parents seem to like it, and it's
Speaker 6: been a lot of fun. We lower the goals and
Speaker 6: when we do everything from bloom basketball to you.
Speaker 2: Know, hokey pokey. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6: I started whenever I had kids that age and I'm like,
Speaker 6: it's easy to play soccer that age, but they can't
Speaker 6: make a goal.
Speaker 2: I'm a ten foot goals.
Speaker 6: So we're bringing the goals down. We have a lot
Speaker 6: of fun, really try to hook them in basketball, and
Speaker 6: you know, I think, uh, most of the times its
Speaker 6: cost wise as cheap is finding a babysitter. So parents
Speaker 6: love it whenever they, you know, are able to bring
Speaker 6: their kids for you know, it's it's not as long.
Speaker 6: It's it's a nice's a three hour camp nine tonoon
Speaker 6: for for smaller kids for two days and that'll be
Speaker 6: on that Uh, that'll be the sixth and seventh of June,
Speaker 6: and then we come back at the end of July
Speaker 6: and have another camp as well. We have one camp
Speaker 6: it's a prospect camp of juniors and seniors in the
Speaker 6: area that would like to come and get gonna be
Speaker 6: going to be seniors that we could take a look
Speaker 6: at for for the next few years. UH, to get
Speaker 6: an early start on our recruiting. And that's like the
Speaker 6: last week of July. Then we have one more day
Speaker 6: camp where we don't have the overnight option, but we
Speaker 6: have another day camp for our kids locally if they
Speaker 6: can't make that first camp.
Speaker 1: Wowy, one thing that I've noticed with the three of you,
Speaker 1: you've got the common thread.
Speaker 2: Here, glory goes to God. Amen. Amen.
Speaker 1: And once that's established, you know, you've got a whole
Speaker 1: different way of looking at what we're learning, looking at
Speaker 1: how we learn and learn what to do with the gifts.
Speaker 2: That's really amazing. Absolutely, you know we're.
Speaker 6: Able to teach biblical principles like you know, fear says,
Speaker 6: do not fear, like three hundred and sixty five times
Speaker 6: in a Bible, and fear blocks more suits than anything else.
Speaker 6: So when we can you know, so that love motivates
Speaker 6: better than fear, and and tell kids how to enjoy
Speaker 6: contact for the first time and not get angry or
Speaker 6: be timid.
Speaker 3: You know that's just going to set them up for
Speaker 3: success later on.
Speaker 4: The same thing is true the performing arts the fear
Speaker 4: of going on stage right and having stage right for sure.
Speaker 4: So absolutely scripture helps with that as we concentrate on
Speaker 4: that and as we pray with them before they go
Speaker 4: on stage, and and that that's very significant.
Speaker 1: And Markel, no one with a beautiful voice was ever
Speaker 1: ever afraid to crack open on stage and make that
Speaker 1: first noise.
Speaker 6: Yes, I wish every.
Speaker 2: One of them.
Speaker 5: We all get at times and stage five and we're
Speaker 5: fearful of what our voice is going to do at
Speaker 5: any time.
Speaker 1: But I like that you can conquer peer, You can
Speaker 1: can conquer a lot of things, and you can learn
Speaker 1: a lot too. Like I was just telling h everyone
Speaker 1: here that you all are so blessed to be at
Speaker 1: a wonderful campus. You know. The thing is, it's small
Speaker 1: but mighty indeed in so many different ways. One thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to get with you is that not only
Speaker 1: do you have a theater, but you also do the
Speaker 1: production as if it were filmed like Hollywood movies, you know,
Speaker 1: minus the Hollywood.
Speaker 4: Right right, Yeah, that's what that's all sure, Absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 4: So I also teach film and photography there.
Speaker 3: So we have a digital.
Speaker 4: Cinema department Digital uh huh, and we have digital cinema
Speaker 4: students that come right and digital of course, meaning that
Speaker 4: we're not no longer using film stock like you you
Speaker 4: would have in the olden days with you know, technic
Speaker 4: color and all the rest of it. But with digital,
Speaker 4: of course, you have a huge world of things of
Speaker 4: instantaneous so you can edit immediately, you know, because everything
Speaker 4: goes on computer, right like our digital film or digital cameras.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, the problem that we have is we
Speaker 4: literally teach students everything from from the very beginning how
Speaker 4: to how to get used to a photograph or a
Speaker 4: DSLR camera and in introduction to photography, and then we
Speaker 4: as a cinema student in particular, then we go to
Speaker 4: the film cameras and we teach them everything from writing
Speaker 4: a script to casting actors to produce you know, producing
Speaker 4: the short student film, so everything from A to A
Speaker 4: A through Z really and so the students will be
Speaker 4: prepared to go on a set on really on any set,
Speaker 4: independent film or Hollywood and kind of know what's going
Speaker 4: on and be able to help as a production assistant
Speaker 4: and hopefully beyond very good.
Speaker 2: I want to take all people for coming in today. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sell this some more time.
Speaker 6: I've had both players and even my daughter is a
Speaker 6: videographer now in DFW doing really well. Came through this degree.
Speaker 6: My other daughter's a ministry major, but she uses her talent.
Speaker 6: She actually works with children's theater here in town and
Speaker 6: heart matters and she uses that in her gifts for
Speaker 6: work with.
Speaker 2: Kids and stuff.
Speaker 6: That it always through Oaklobe lesson and what they were
Speaker 6: able to do in the theater department and everything in
Speaker 6: the videographer on the digital side stuff. So I highly
Speaker 6: sell that program as well. My players have loved it.
Speaker 6: My daughters have also loved it.
Speaker 1: That's so great, My goodness sakes. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you all for being here with you today. I'm glad
Speaker 1: we could all fit and I'm glad we got this
Speaker 1: out so that parents can make some really good choices.
Speaker 1: As far as some activities for the kids. We've got
Speaker 1: the big to do tonight with the actors. We've got
Speaker 1: the music program coming up on the twenty sixth, straying
Speaker 1: it night bright early at nine o'clock. Well, I kid,
Speaker 1: because I get up at three thirty in the morning.
Speaker 1: People get up at nine. Come on, come on, and
Speaker 1: a coach. We've got kids bouncing around all over the
Speaker 1: place all summer long.
Speaker 2: Definitely, thank you for being with us here. Thank you
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