National STAR Fest Central — Festival Opportunities 

Plus, the following programs:

• Tech Olympics Challenge – Sponsored by Prairie Theatre Exchange. This is a non-competitive event where schools can bring student delegates to work collaboratively with students from other schools. No experience is required for students to participate and learn about tech theatre at the beginner level. Sign up for this when you register.

• Student Workshops – Specific workshop information will be emailed to registered schools in April. Sign up will be done separately from initial registration.

• Scholarship Auditions (Grade 11 & 12 students) – We have scholarships offered by the TAEA and some of North America’s finest theatre and film programs at our festival we awarded over 175k in post secondary scholarships at our national festivals. These scholarships are awarded after scholarship auditions and are announced at closing ceremonies. ***REGISTER THROUGH THE BUTTON ABOVE

• Opening Ceremonies Advanced STAR Performance Auditions – performances that scored Advanced at a Regional STAR Festival are invited to audition for the honour of performing at Opening Ceremonies! Information on how this will work will be sent to registered schools in April.

• Honour Troupe Program Awards – Schools with an active STAR Troupe can apply to win a GOLD, SILVER, OR BRONZE Honour Troupe banner at Nationals. Once a school has applied they will be provided with a time slot and instructions for a student led presentation that will be judged and hopefully award. Here is the school assessment form to complete and bring with your students to the interview. HONOUR TROUPE ASSESSMENT FORM ***REGISTER THROUGH THE LINK ABOVE

• All Canada Musical Theatre Performance and Devised Theatre Performance – Each school can register up to 5 students in the Devised Theatre Intensive and 5 students in the Musical Theatre Intensive. Students in these intensives will focus all four of their workshops on this area with their intensive leader. Then they will work on and produce a Canadian Select Musical Number and Devised Theatre Number for Closing Ceremonies. Your students can be registered for these programs through our main registration system.

• Adjudicated Mainstage One-Act Play Performances with full tech – no qualification necessary, See STAR Fest Program Handbook for event rules and assessment rubrics.

• Adjudicated Mainstage Short Play & One-Act Play Performances with minimal tech – no qualification necessary, See STAR Fest Program Handbook for event rules and assessment rubrics.

• Qualified Regional STAR Fest Performances are invited to perform for national awards – from any of the 27 regional festivals across Canada or the online qualification event.

• Wildcard STAR Fest Performances – up to three STAR performances can be registered directly in the nationals without regional qualification

Festival Registration Cost:

STAR Fest Central – $35 per inducted STAR Guild student and $40 per non-inducted student for a two day experience. The festival registration includes a T-shirt and swag bag for all STAR Festival delegates

Honour Troupe Application costs: $50.00