TPA Convention Keynote Session Entertainment Auditions

We are excited to announce the entertainment auditions for the 2012 TPA Convention Keynote Sessions!  TPA invites home educated students & families to perform during the Keynote Sessions.  We have openings for three specials (vocal, instrumental, dance, speech, or drama) and three prelude positions (instrumentalists only).  Generally, sacred, classical, folk, or patriotic music fit our needs the best.  Soloists or groups are welcome to audition. 


Deadline for submissions will be February 15, 2012.


All students must be homeschooled; exceptions may be made for accompanists.  Family groups are welcome. There is no minimum age requirement, but be aware that those selected will perform on a stage for a large audience.  All content should be sensitive to the Christian environment of the conference; this includes clothing worn by performers.  The judges’ decision will be final regarding subject matter and style of performance.


We can accept audition tapes in the following formats: CD, DVD, or video cassette (VHS), MP3 or electronic file.  Selections for specials and preludes should be close, but not more than ten minutes all together.  Record your selection just as you intend to perform it if selected to perform at the conference (including accompaniment, props, costumes, etc.). 


Please FILL OUT and mail or email the Entertainment Audition Form -  Entertainment Audition Form


You may mail audition selections to:

TPA Entertainment Auditions
c/o David Maness
Teaching Parents Association
PO Box 3968
Wichita, Kansas 67201-3968

OR email links of performance recordings to:  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Keynote Speaker and Featured Speaker

2012 TPA Convention
June 1 – 2
Keynote and Featured Speakers
Keynote – Todd Wilson
Featured – Dianne Craft

 

 

image Todd Wilson

Todd is the author of Lies Homeschooling Moms Believe, Help! I’m Married to a Homeschooling Mom and The Official Book of Homeschooling Cartoons, is a dad, writer, conference speaker, and former pastor. Todd’s humor and gut-honest realness have made him a favorite speaker at homeschool conventions across the country and a guest on Focus on the Family.

As founder of Familyman Ministries, his passion and mission are to remind dads and moms of what’s most important through a weekly e-mail for dads, seminars, and books that encourage parents.

Todd, and his wife Debbie, homeschool their eight children in northern Indiana and travel around America in the Familyman Mobile. You can visit his website here - Family Man Ministries
image Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP

Dianne Craft is a former homeschool mom who has a Master’s degree in Elementary and Special Education.  She has 25 years’ experience teaching bright, hardworking children who have to work too hard to learn.  She teaches parents across the country how to help their child learn faster and easier, using therapies and strategies that are very effective while being very inexpensive. Dianne is passionate about training parents to make learning easier for their homeschooled children.  Her workshops are very informative and often entertaining.  She is a Certified Natural Health Professional specializing in natural treatments for children with attention, learning, and behavioral issues.  Dianne is president of the educational consulting firm, Child Diagnostics, Inc., in Littleton, Colorado.  www.diannecraft.org