Education

MIFA Education Program/EP

Through MIFA/EP students attend and participate in performances, workshops, master classes and interact with major national and international artists and arts companies. MIFA/EOP utilizes visiting artists as instructors and teachers and devises age appropriate experiences/lessons for students in conjunction with regional public and private school systems and various organizations and social recreational services such as the Holyoke Connections After School Program, Five College, Inc., Project-13, Nuestras Raices, Girls Inc., The Boys and Girls Club, Project Jumpstart and the Holyoke YMCA.

The goal of MIFA/EP is to:
1. Promote cultural literacy through introduction to major arts events and
disciplines.
2. Stimulate and advance student skills in these forms

MIFA/EP is devising an educational program at the Victory Theatre that will utilize the theatre as a training site instructing students in all aspects of Performance ranging from front house to back of house jobs…(Arts administration, box office and front of house management, technical direction, stage management, sets, lighting, and costuming skills.)

The MIFA/EP Victory Theatre program is being planned in conjunction with Holyoke’s Dean Technical High School, a local vocational high school and Holyoke Community College.

MIFA/EP is also anticipating a hotel training apprentice program at the former Holyoke House Hotel adjacent to the Victory Theatre. This program would focus on training in hospitality and culinary jobs also to be offered through the above Holyoke institutions. Both programs will feature a formal curriculum that meets state and federal requirements.

Holyoke high school students rave about Russian movie 'Alexander Nevsky' accompanied by choir, organist, soprano
- Mike Plaisance, The Republican November 15, 2012. Photo by Mark M.Murray



• Film & Music Extravaganza Alexander Nevsky

Film by Sergei Eisenstein
Original score by Sergei Prokofiev
Performed live on the Skinner Organ by Peter Krasinski
with Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, mezzo-soprano and chorus sung
by the Holyoke High School Choir under the direction of Mark Todd
November 15, 2012 at 12:15pm
School Performance
United Congregational Church of Holyoke
Corner of Appleton & Maple Street Holyoke, MA
300 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA 01040
Free Parking

Fall/Winter 2011:

• Hal Holbrook in his legendary one-man show ‘Mark Twain Tonight’
132 Subsidized Tickets
November 19, 2011 8 pm
Sears Auditorium
Holyoke High School
500 Beech Street Holyoke, MA
VIP Gala $125 Preferred Seating $60.00 General Seating $35.00
FREE PARKING
All Proceeds Benefit MIFA Victory Theatre

• Hal Holbrook Holyoke High School After School Program Special Event
30 Students
The program will feature one of the world’s foremost actors Hal Holbrook who will meet and talk with Holyoke High School students about his career as an actor.

(The Republican | Mark M. Murray)