Creative Arts Rules – November 2024
Creative Art Directions for Students and Judges (updated 2023)
2025 Creative Arts Contests:
- Costume: Oracles and Their Prophecies
- Dramatic Interpretation: 2025 Passages
- Monologue: Cloelia and Lars Porsenna
- English Oratory
- Latin Recitation: 2025 Passages
- Latin Sight Reading
2024 Creative Arts Contests:
- Costume: Mythology in the Stars: Constellations of the Zodiac
- Dramatic Interpretation: Passages
- Monologue: Circe and Odysseus
- English Oratory
- Latin Recitation: Passages
- Latin Sight Reading
2023 Creative Arts Directions for Students and Judges
Creative Arts Contests:
- Costume
- Dramatic Interpretation
- Monologue
- English Oratory
- Latin Recitation
- Latin Sight Reading
2023 Topics for the State Convention!
- Monologue: Orpheus and Eurydice
- Comic Panel Story Telling: Asclepius
- Costume: A Journey to the Underworld: The Sixth Book of Virgil’s Aeneid (N.B. Contestant(s) must choose a character from ancient Latin or Greek literature that relates to the theme above. If students compete as a pair, the two characters they choose must have a connection to the theme and to each other)
- Passages for Creative Arts Contests:
This year most contests will be in person however, pre-convention contest remain unchanged as to how they will be submitted. For Creative Art, Monologue and English Oratory will take place before convention online similar to last year; all other creatives will be in person. Graphic Arts will be my judged in person. (11/16/22)
Creative Arts Documents 2022
OJCL Dramatic Interpretation 2022
Creative Arts Topics 2022
Monologue: Phaethon and Helios
Costume: The Ancient Sea (N.B. Contestant(s) must choose a character from ancient Latin or Greek literature that relates to the theme above. If students compete as a pair, the two characters they choose must have a connection to the theme and to each other)
The deadline for registration for Creative Arts contests is March TBA, 2020.
Creative Arts Documents 2020
OJCL Dramatic_Interpretation 2020
Creative Arts Topics 2020
Costume:
Polyphemus
Cumaean Sibyl
Couples – Apollo and Artemis (N.B. this does not align with NJCL!)
Monologue: Nero and Agrippina
Creative Arts Documents 2019
Creative Arts Topics 2019
Costume:
Boys – Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
Girls – Tullia (Minor)
Couples – Numa Pompilius and Egeria
N.B. NJCL has another Costume Character that OJCL will not be offering this year. Please see NJCL.org for more information on this.
Monologue: Diana and Actaeon
Creative Arts Documents 2018:
Creative Arts Topics 2018:
Costume:
Boys – Ixion
Girls – Danaid
Couples – Hades and Persephone
Monologue: Julia (daughter of Caesar) and Pompey the Great
Creative Arts Documents 2017:
Creative Arts Topics 2017:
Costume:
Boys – Laocoon
Girls – Iphigenia
Couples – Priam and Hecuba
Monologue: Baucis and Philemon
Creative Arts Documents 2016:
Creative Arts Topics 2016:
Costume:
Boys – Odysseus
Girls – Calypso
Couples – Scylla & Charybdis
Monologue: Paris and Helen
Creative Arts Topics 2015:
Costume:
Boys – Phaethon
Girls – Circe
Couples – Aphrodite and Hephaestus
Monologue: Apollo and Daphne
Here are the 2015 Creative Arts Passages for Latin Recitation and Dramatic Interpretation: Creative Contests 2015
Here are the 2014 Creative Arts Passages for Latin Recitation and Dramatic Interpretation: Creative Arts Contests 2014