How to reach us:
Snail mail or packages to:
Jewell Performing Arts Center
10457 Ambassador Drive
Rancho Cordova, Ca 95670
It's scary what happens to kids at The Jewell Performing Arts Center. It's a place where boys
wear makeup and the girls use power tools!
We'll be looking for participants and volunteers for our 2004 Scary U program starting in early 2004.
We need volunteers ages 10 and up to help with construction, lighting, sound, costumes, fund raising and to staff the haunted house.
Call us at (916) 799 3833 if you'd like to volunteer or make a donation.
Our 2003 Halloween Haunted House was a great success. We built a new building from scratch inside the scale train yard in Hagan Park. Victims rode the scale trains through the haunted tunnels and graveyards to the mad scientist's laboratory where a staff of 18 teens put on a terrifying show.
We also held a VIP Dinner show that included private tours and dinner with the Scary U staff followed by award presentations from Don Nottli, County Supervisor and Linda Budge, City Council Person to 3 of our staff members that have spent 8 years volunteering to give other kids the opportunity to learn and perform in our productions.
Improvements in 2003 included:
- Partnership with:
- The Cordova Recreation and Parks District
- The Sacramento Valley Live Steamers
- Cordova High School
- Mills Middle School STARS program
- New costumes
- New permanent stage flats
- New props, lights and fog machines
- Purchase of a 40' storage container to house all the Scary U props, costumes and sets.
The 2003 Scary U Sponsors and Supporters were:
- City Council Members David Sander and Linda Budge
- County Supervisor Don Nottoli
- The Grapevine Independent
- Infomania Printing and Design Center
- Art of Marketing
- WebDudes, Inc.
- Raley's
- Jasper's On Coloma
- The James Ackerman Family
- Janet and Jerry Jewell
- Jo and Rod Stoddard
- John and Mary Schardt
- Robert and Christine Pauly
- Charlie Rice
- Bill and Fritz Maasberg
- LED Effects
- The Sacramento Valley Live Steamers
- The Cordova Recreation and Parks District
- The Sacramento Area Theater Alliance (SARTA)
- Ken Mace
We've found the haunted house to be the perfect educational opportunity for a very broad range of skills, including mask making, makeup, costumes, lighting, sound effects, acting, dancing, production management, set and prop construction.
Each year the project gets bigger, involves more kids and requires more donations. Of course we can always use more costumes, wigs, and other halloween props. We also need cash to purchase all the miscellaneous supplies.
Volunteers are needed for construction, tear down and actually running the haunted house. Preferences go to teens but we do try to keep a ratio of 1 adult per 4 teens on the projects.
Makeup session!
