Clackamas High’s Jasmin Johnson organizes master classes to benefit North Clackamas arts programs
Ellie Adcock on July 24, 2011 in School Stuff
Clackamas High School Senior Jasmin Johnson is never content to hold the regular bake sale or carwash as a fundraiser.
As a way to raise money for her school’s drama, choir, band and orchestra program, Johnson is putting together musical theater classes taught by both young professionals and veteran theater instructors.
Students will be taught in voice, acting, and dance, Johnson said.
It’s not the first time Johnson has galvanized the arts community to help a cause: in 2009, she helped organize a concert to help pay the medical costs of Lake Oswego student Emme Ek, who was undergoing cancer treatment. Though Johnson didn’t know Ek personally, at the time she said she needed to help — echoing similar sentiments that helped spur the theater classes.
“I wanted to do something that could help somebody, but that I could also have fun with,” Johnson said.
The musical theater classes begin during the week of August 22 to 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Classes will be limited to 35 students and open to students in middle school and older. Limited scholarships will be available for the $250 fee for each class. The proceeds will go toward the arts program at Clackamas High.
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