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We overshot.

Last year at TAM we pledged to raise $10,000 by Dec 1 for an orphanage in Nigeria. Then a student proposed that we raise $50,000 by TAM '06. On The first night they raised $1818.96. By Dec 1 they raised over $11,000. The students used all sorts of methods and events. By June it broke $26,000. Their ...

Today four students shared international experiences they've had this summer.

Between them they've visited Chenai, India, San Luis and La Paz, Bolivia, the two cities I visited on my first Compassion trip, and the last students taught choreodrama in Kibera, Kenya, and Ghana. Choreodrama uses movement...

I'm teaching at a week-long theatre (and other performaning arts) conservatory for the Salvation Army (theTAMjam.com). We're signing up so that every hour that we're here (24/7) is covered in prayer. I have great expectations that the Lord is going to do some really cool things while we're here. App...

Fear and laziness are the two greatest enemies of art.
--Rex Daugherty
MasterWorks student

One day, an anonymous student wrote, "I will be good during rehearsal," on our white board (she later revealed her identity: Shell). Soon it was filled with all sorts of silliness.

I filled the last space on the board. There, in the lower left corner I wrote, "I will not tolerate the p...

Our second master class instructor, John Kirby, gave more than asked. He worked with each actor on a monologue, which took about three times more than the classes he committed to do. This is quite a gift coming from one of the best acting coaches in Hollywood. We discovered that one of the only film...

Dr. Kavanaugh, founder and director of MasterWorks sent us back into the real world by challenging us to build an altar of rememberance for all that He's taught us this month and all that we've pledged to do. We each put one stone in an overturned conductor's platform. John Kirby coached one of our ...

Our friend, John Kasica, preached on holiness this morning. He shared how, nine months ago, the Lord called him to walk in holiness and share the message at MasterWorks. Today that message was born, powerfully. He pointed out the pattern of confession that has been boldly shared in faculty devotions...

...Jimmy thought he should make sure it works.

Seriously, he did have to file it down because the ironwood was so sharp.

Phenomenal!
--Charmaine Hunter
Choreographer, Celine Dion's dance troupe
former principle, Dance Theatre of Harlem
Cirque du Soleil

This morning Dr. Kavanaugh, artistic director of the MasterWorks Festival, spoke on bold humility. He challenged us to be the best artists we can be not so we can be at high places and live a little better those around us, but so that we can have a platform to share the Hope which lives within us. A...

The 1812 Overture sends us off to fireworks. Oh! There's an encore: Stars & Stripes Forever.