STARS Offers Yoga Workshop Saturday Feb 24

Soo Theatre Arts Resource Studios (STARS) will offer a workshop entitled “Introduction to Yoga Basics” Saturday, February 24, 2007, 1:00-4:00pm at STARS, 534 Ashmun Street. The fee is $20.00 per person and $15.00 for each additional family member of the same household. The workshop will be led by Lee Carlson, STARS yoga instructor. Students will learn or review basic introductory yoga techniques including body awareness, progressive muscle relaxation; simple yoga breathing for relaxation, stress management and improved concentration and universal principles alignment. This workshop will offer simple techniques that anyone can use in almost any situation to help relieve stress and stiffness.

Registration is being taken now at the STARS office, 534 Ashmun Street. Advanced registration is required. Office hours are weekdays 10:00am to 6:00pm and Saturday 9:30 am to 1:30 pm.

For more information call the office, 632-1930.

Eat at Frank's Thursday Feb 22 and Help Us Heat the Soo Theatre!

Soo Theatre Project needs your help to heat up the stage!

Eat dinner at Frank's Place, 123 W. Portage Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, on Thursday, February 22, between 4 pm and 8 pm and ten percent of the proceeds will go to raise funds for getting a new heating system installed.

Questions? Please call (906) 632-1930.

STARS Announces Additional Winter 2007 Classes

Friday, February 2, 2007, 6-7 p.m. Ballroom Dancing Club.
The classes started 1/26/07 with approximately 2 dozen dancers in attendance. Fee for the club is $5.00 a month

Saturday, February 3, 2007, 10:30-12:00 p.m., Monet and Me.
A parent/child workshop for grades 1-5. Fee is $12.00 each. Explore the world of visual art using reproductions of the great masters. Led by Linda Whitetree Warrington. Advance registration is required.

Monday, February 5, 2007, 6-7 p.m., Youth Chorus begins
Middle and High School Singers, Directed by Karen Hughes. $40.00 Membership fee. Register today.

Soo Theatre Project Receives 2006 Community Spirit Award

SAULT STE. MARIE, January 31, 2007—One of several Eastern Upper Peninsula organizations and agencies to be recognized by the Old Mission Bank through its 2006 Community Spirit and Community Pride Award program, Soo Theatre Project recently received a Community Spirit Award, which included a gift of $1000 to help fund its endowment program. Said David E. Firack, President/CEO of Old Mission Bank, “These awards are in recognition of each group’s dedication to the preservation of community, our safety and enjoyment of life which relies so heavily on the Spirit of our area volunteers who give unselfishly of themselves."

Reward recipients pictured above are (from left): Dianna George and Colleen Arbic for the Soo Theatre Project Endowment; Sarah Morrison for Pickford Community Wellspring; Sue Atkins-Wagner for Chippewa County Community Foundation; David E. Firack, President/CEO Old Mission Bank; and Rick Shapero for, Les Cheneaux Community Foundation's Community Library and Cultural Resource Center Endowment.

STP Presents a STARS Candlelight Christmas December 16

The Soo Theatre Project presents a STARS Candlelight Christmas, Saturday, December 16 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary's Church, 320 E. Portage Ave, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Featured will be Singers United, the Youth Orchestra, the Youth Chorus, the Cello Choir, the Flute Choir and Flute Club, the Recorder Consort, and the “Not Quite Ready for Prime Time” Players (adult string ensemble). Suggested donation: adults $5, children $3, family $12.

Photos from the Performance