Performance Centers
Northwestern College is excited to host this year's District Contest!
Our performance centers are all over campus. So to help you plan and to prepare your students, see all of our centers here.
Checking In
The competition's main office will be located in the theatre arts center - in our office suite. Please come check in on arrival and inform us of any changes from your students.
Changes
If you have any adjustments or changes, please complete this form.
Adjustments on the day of the contest should be made in the Contest Main Office
found in the Theatre Arts Center
AS WELL AS on the form.
Drop Off and Parking
Please use the main drop-off location behind the music building. You can enter from Albany Ave. on the east side, deposit students and then the bus can exit through the admissions lot and then to the north onto 6th St. This is the most central location your bus can get. (See map below)
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We will also have a waiting zone blocked off with cones along Albany, in front of Hospers and Colenbrander Dorms (Buildings # 16 and 17 on the Campus Map). You may pull off Albany here to wait to unload, or you may unload in this zone. This puts you right in between the theatre building, the music building, and Van Peursem Hall (VPH), where most of the performance centers are located. After dropping off students, buses should park in the maintenance lot east of the football field for the remainder of the day.
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Buses cannot make the loop between the Chapel and the Learning Commons, but vans and other vehicles can. Non-bus vehicles may park in the lot south of campus next to the Bultman Center.
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Weapons Policy
As you may notice, many schools in the state have a weapons policy, and it seems each school mas a different policy. After conferring with our legal counsel, the IHSSA has come up with a method of dealing with the weapons issue in IHSSA contest series. It will be the duty of an individual school to write their particular contest site manager if they have a look-alike weapon in their contest selection. Then the local contest site will make the decision if they will allow the look-alike on stage or in the classroom according to their own district rules. An example would be: school b is doing a choral reading of the old west. They will be wearing toy sixshooters for each individual in the choral reading. School b must then write their local contest site manager and ask permission to use this look-alike weapon at that site. The contest site manager will then inform school b that it will be 1) allowed with no specifications, 2) Allowed with specifications, or 3) will not be allowed. As of the 1996 contest season, each district in the state will have a weapons policy. If you have questions on this please call the state office.
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Tobacco/Alcohol Policy
No real tobacco, vapor products or alcohol will ever be used in IHSSA contest entries. This includes live productions at contest as well as short film/tv newscasting productions that are filmed offsite. Look alike alcohol, vapor products, or tobacco that are necessary for IHSSA productions at contest or in filmed events should be provided by the participating school and secured by the IHSSA coach. All such "look alikes" will be facsimiles or non-functioning props. The IHSSA coach is responsible for storing the prop "look alike" in a locked room or secure, concealed storage area. Students will check out these props when needed and will be supervised at all times. Real alcohol, vapor products or tobacco should never be used in an IHSSA production. Use of real products is a violation of state law for the students) and the school.
Students should not be asked to bring a 'look alike' alcohol, vapor product, or tobacco prop to school or an IHSSA contest. All props (empty cans, bottles, fake tobacco products, vapor products) should be provided by the participating school and secured by the IHSSA coach. The prop should be wrapped whenever it is moved from one area of the school contest site to another. This moving should be done only by the teacher/coach. Students should never carry these props through the halls of a school/contest site. If the look alike prop is used in a rehearsal, at a filming, or at contest all administrators of participating schools should be notified of the use of that item.
All contest managers should be alerted if a "look alike" tobacco, vapor product, or alcohol prop is being used in the IHSSA contest series.
