Creative Arts Contest Rules and Guidelines

Creative Art Directions for Students and Judges (updated 2023)

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

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2023 Creative Arts Directions for Students and Judges

Creative Arts Contests:

  • Costume
  • Dramatic Interpretation
  • Monologue
  • English Oratory
  • Latin Recitation
  • Latin Sight Reading

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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)

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Creative Arts Documents 2022

OJCL Latin Recitation 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)

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The deadline for registration for Creative Arts contests is March TBA, 2020.

Creative Arts Documents 2020

OJCL_Latin_Recitation_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

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Creative Arts Documents 2019

Latin Recitation 2019

Dramatic Interpretation 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

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Creative Arts Documents 2018:

Latin Recitation 2018

Dramatic Interpretation 2018

Creative Arts Topics 2018:

Costume: 

Boys – Ixion

Girls – Danaid

Couples – Hades and Persephone

Monologue: Julia (daughter of Caesar) and Pompey the Great

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Creative Arts Documents 2017:

Latin Recitation 2017

Dramatic Interpretation 2017

Creative Arts Topics 2017:

Costume:

Boys –  Laocoon

Girls – Iphigenia

Couples – Priam and Hecuba

Monologue: Baucis and Philemon

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Creative Arts Documents 2016:

Latin Recitation

Dramatic Interpretation

Creative Arts Topics 2016:

Costume:

Boys –  Odysseus

Girls – Calypso

Couples – Scylla & Charybdis

Monologue: Paris and Helen

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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

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Here are the 2014 Creative Arts Passages for Latin Recitation and Dramatic Interpretation: Creative Arts Contests 2014