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¡Percusion Latina!
Performed by: The Roberto Ocasio Foundation
From the meshing of African, Spanish, Indian, and Caribbean cultures, Hispanic music has its own unique sound. Sparked by pulsating Latin rhythm, this multi-faceted program traces the world of jazz...


A Buckeye Campfire
Performed by: Susan Weber
Follow A Buckeye Picnic performance with A Buckeye Campfire workshop or residency, where Susan works with individual classes of students gathered around her glowing campfire. Susan teaches...


A Glimpse of Classical Indian Dance: Bharathanatyam
Performed by: Sujatha Srinivasan
In this interactive program, Sujatha combines storytelling and dance through Bharathanatyam. An accomplished performer, Sujatha brings stories to life through rhythm, music, hand gestures and facial...


A Pan-Tastic Experience
Performed by: 7 Mile Isle
This program for the classroom takes a look at the people, places and events that created the steel-pan and its role in the modern day Carnival in Trinidad. One or two members of the group teach...


A Pocketful of Music
Performed by: Hal Walker
Join “Steam Engine Hal” on a playful journey through the world of unique musical instruments that fit in your pocket. Just wait ‘til you see the traditional African...


NEWAction Painting
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
This workshop is a hands-on, fun and challenging creative adventure that starts with students painting blindfolded. From there, it takes them to the limit of their imagination. The program urges...


ACTive Listening: Drama Activities to Enhance Listening Comprehension
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Develop student listening skills and comprehension. Teachers explore and model drama activities, ideas and techniques to improve student focus, attention and responses to oral presentations....


NEWAlice in Wonderland
Performed by: Dancing Wheels
This two to five day residency brings to life the classic children\'s tale, Alice In Wonderland…like it has never been seen, and provides a contemporary look at literature\'s most beloved character...


America, Many Crayons, One Box: Diversity in Our Society
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Solve a mystery and sing along to find out America is just like different crayons all in one box. Students discover the many gifts of immigrants to realize what makes us all Americans and enjoy...


NEWArab Music, Dance, & Culture
Performed by: Karim Nagi-Mohammed
In this comprehensive cultural showcase, Karim defines the term Arab and Arab-American. By equating it to African-Americans, Latino-Americans, etc., he illustrates what it means to be bi-cultural. ...


NEWAre We Trees? Mural
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
Students will create a mural based on the amazing physical and metaphorical similarities between people and trees. Diagrams of trees and charts of the nervous and circulatory systems will provide...


Arithmetic and Rhythm Sticks
Performed by: Baba Jubal Harris
Students replicate and create rhythms of increasing complexity while learning to play rhythm sticks. Exploration of addition and subtraction, patterns, collecting data, and making predictions is...


Artist At Work
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
This flexible program illustrates the process of creating a piece of art from easel painting to murals. This is a hands-on step-by-step guide full of professional tricks and tips to help students...


Asia FantAsia!
Performed by: Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo
Master storyteller Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo of Eth-Noh-Tec delights his audience with folk tales and myths from Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Afghanistan and other Asian cultures. His engaging...


Balloonetics
Performed by: VERB Ballets
This program carries students along on a playful journey in search of moving lines, shapes and angles. Six dancers wearing clown-like black and white costumes are required to do vigorous lifts,...


Batik!
Performed by: Wendy Mahon
Students learn the history and process behind this ancient Indonesian dying process which uses hot wax, permanent dyes and natural fabric. Students will gain an understanding of the physical changes...


Bloom: Creating a Ceramic Garden
Performed by: Kristen Cliffel
Students create a personal garden with clay. Students use different techniques to create each part of the garden—dirt, stems, leaves, and blooms—as they discover the unique qualities of clay and the...


Bookbinding
Performed by: Valerie Van Sice
Bookbinding can fill a wide range of needs and supports a broad range of approaches. Historically, every culture that has a written language has developed a unique way to contain and preserve its...


Books Alive!
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Promote literacy during this 45-minute theatrical assembly program. With props and a “bag of tricks” Mr. G! acts out popular first readers such as Frog and Toad are Friends, Amazing Grace, The Wizard...


Capoeira
Performed by: SAFMOD
Through this program, students learn about capoeira, a martial art/dance form brought from Africa in the 16th century and developed by slaves in Brazil. This program blends movement with the history...


Caribbean Carnival
Performed by: Wendy Mahon
Take a trip to the warm tropics through geography, science, art and music and be inspired by this beautiful “carnival” world of color. Wendy illustrates the diversity and cultures of the world...


NEWCelebrating Movement
Performed by: Sujatha Srinivasan
Storytelling and communicating ideas through dance is the focus of this program. Using a wide range of symbols and gestures, mime and music, students will make connections between the written word...


NEWCeramic Quilt
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
Students create a ceramic quilt using mixed media techniques as an awareness and self-discovery tool of individual roots and classroom diversity and richness. The theme of the mural is unique to...


NEWCeramics Sculpture
Performed by: Kristen Cliffel
Create fabulous ceramic sculpture in this introductory hands-on workshop for students at any grade level. Kristen teaches basic building processes that are low-tech yet successful. Using common...


Chano-Yu: The Essence of the Japanese Tea Ceremony
Performed by: George Woideck
Westerners have long been fascinated by the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In Japan, the act of drinking tea is lifted to high art. In this three-day workshop, students will craft their personal tea bowl...


Character, Setting, Plot: Stories Alive!
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Students bring stories to life and create new stories as a class, using dramatic activities and writing narrative accounts that develop character, setting and plot. Students explore drama, music and...


Children of the Eagle and The Quetzal
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
Art and Ecology studies are combined as students create a mural that represents and celebrates the interconnectedness of birds, trees, and plant life from North and Central America. Migratory bird...


NEWClave: The Key
Performed by: The Roberto Ocasio Foundation
Clave: The Key is an amazing and entertaining stage program by Bobby Sanabria, a recognized international leader in Afro-Cuban and jazz performance and education. Against the on-going beat of the...


Clay and Culture in Ohio
Performed by: George Woideck
Students discover the unique place pottery held in the cultures of Native Americans and European settlers in Ohio in this standards-based program. Through potter’s wheel demonstrations, hands-on...


Clay Can Do It
Performed by: Kristen Cliffel
Teachers revise ideas of what clay can and cannot do by breaking down the tentative or artificial boundaries that have been passed on for generations in the ceramics studio. Discover basic building...


Clay Tile Mural Residency
Performed by: George Woideck
Students work with George to design and create a colorful, permanent clay tile mural based on a theme chosen by the school community. A lasting work of art that communicates and inspires. Murals...


Clay Time
Performed by: George Woideck
Pre-Schoolers and Kindergartners create their very own clay art. George inspires young fingers to feel, pinch and mold clay into a wonderful variety of shapes. 20 children maximum. $10 materials fee...


Communication: Oral Interpretation
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Discover the theatrical vocal techniques of diction, pitch, tempo, expression, and volume that enable students to read aloud a work of literature in order to communicate its’ intellectual and...


Create a Group Fiber Sculpture
Performed by: Carol Adams
Explore the magic of the interlocking of fibers. The history and many interpretations of the ways fiber can be used to create art are endless and fascinating. Fiber can be used as anything from...


Create Your Own Monologue: The Seedfolks Project
Performed by: Jimmie Woody
\"Seedfolks\" (by Newberry Award winning author Paul Fleischman) tells the inspirational story of how a young girl transforms a sad and lonely Cleveland neighborhood into a wonderful community ...


NEWCreating Tessellations in Math, Geometry, and Art
Performed by: George Woideck
Students deepen their knowledge of tessellations by connecting math, geometry, and art. Creating both geometric tessellations and artistic tessellations (in the style of M. C. Escher) young people...


Creative Movement
Performed by: SAFMOD
Express your own creativity through movement! This class offers students the chance to explore and create movement of their own through basic improvisational exercises. This promotes self expression...


Creative Movement
Performed by: Jenita McGowan
Pre-kindergarten students express their own creativity through movement. This 30-minute class is the perfect length for little ones to explore dance. This pre-dance class promotes self-expression and...


D.E.A.F. (Dedicated to the Elimination of Assumptions and Fallacies)
Performed by: Sign Stage on Tour
Updated each year and specifically designed for both hearing and deaf audiences, this program teaches non-verbal communication and conflict resolution between a hearing world and deaf individuals....


Dance Around the World
Performed by: Shenee King
Students travel the world on this musical journey filled with movement and excitement. Explore dances, rhythms, and cultural traditions from West Africa, Jamaica, and Georgia while building gross...


Dance for Peace
Performed by: Kenya Woods
Students develop non-verbal communication and problem-solving skills through the medium of dance. Working with partners or in small groups, students observe and understand the role that body...


Dancing Pioneers
Performed by: Shenee King
Students will learn about dance pioneers who traveled to places outside of the U.S. to create dance. Ruth St. Denis, Katherine Dunham, and Pearl Primus were pioneers as early as 1920\'s who use...


NEWDaVinci's Anatomy
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
Learning about human anatomy has never been this fun. In this interactive workshop the secrets of Renaissance history and mystery are unlocked. Although Leonardo Da Vinci used cadavers to study the...


Deepening the Understanding of Symmetry with Mosaics
Performed by: George Woideck
This hands-on workshop uses creating mosaics to reinforce the teaching of Symmetry. Symmetry is a component of Math and Geometry and also relates to Science through crystalline structures in minerals...


Dinosaur Fables
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
This workshop is an interactive combination of storytelling and real-time illustration that will keep students laughing and learning from the beginning to end. Dinosaur Fables will help to explain...


NEWDiscover West African Rhythm Through Drumming and Dance Performance
Performed by: Sogbety Diomande
In this high-energy performance, students will experience the rhythms, dances, and songs of West Africa. Treat your students to a program that is both educational and fun! A question and answer...


NEWDiscover West African Rhythm Through Drumming and Dance Workshop
Performed by: Sogbety Diomande
In this workshop, students will learn the three basic sounds of the African djembe. They will also learn basic techniques of hand drumming, focusing on the styles found in the Ivory Coast. A...


NEWDiscovering Me: Dance and Diversity
Performed by: Desmond Davis
This energetic, interactive dance lecture/demonstration makes connections between the diverse styles of dance and the diverse natures of individuals and cultures encountered in everyday living. ...


NEWDiversity, Accessibility, and Dance
Performed by: Dancing Wheels
This performance provides an introduction to modern dance through a focus on disability and accessibility awareness and communication concepts of sign language and audio description. The residency...


Dividing Time/Dividing Space
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
Discover how music and movement deepens student understanding of increment, ratio and proportion. This workshop will explore and model music and rhythm activities related to numbers and shapes and...


Dramaphonics
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
K-1 students will love an alpha-party at Mr. G’s! house, a totally interactive theater experience. This workshop program uses all the phonemes in a kinetic, auditory, and visual way. Teachers marvel...


EarthSongs
Performed by: Dance/Theater Collective
Set to an exciting percussion score, this performance educates students about respecting the environment through diverse sources such as stories of the Netsilik Eskimos to writings of René Descartes....


Ecology and the Arts: Where is Away?
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Have your students ever thought about what it means to throw something \"away\"? During this residency, students will explore pollution, recycling and personal responsibility through creati...


NEWEnameling on Free Form Shapes
Performed by: Carol Adams
Through learning the process of copper enameling, this program will enable students to work with tools at a level beyond what they have before. They will achieve a new confidence in their ability to...


Encounter the Culture: Latin America
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Explore Mayan Amate paper or the Quipu knot messages of the Incas, speak Spanish words and play Latino games in this interactive workshop that enhances the social studies...


Encounter the Culture: Native America
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Create pictographs, discover the four directions, learn some Mohawk words, play Native American games and appreciate Mother Earth in this interactive workshop that enhances the social studies...


Eric Carle Picture Writer
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
During this program, students get hands-on experiences exploring the techniques of author and illustrator Eric Carle. Students learn about the life and work of Eric Carle and create works of visual...


Escape! An Underground Railroad Experience
Performed by: Women in History
A role-playing adventure for students in fifth through eighth grade. It\'s a dark night in the forest and you can hear barking hounds. You and your team must meet the right conductors and escape t...


Exploring Afro-Beat
Performed by: Mifune
This performance teaches the history of Afro-Beat music, while giving students a chance to participate as part of the percussion section. After learning about and identifying different instruments...


Fiddlin
Performed by: Paul Kovac
Lewis and Kovac introduce students to Appalachian music and dance, exploring the region’s European and African roots. In their performance, Kovac plays a multitude of traditional instruments...


NEWFixing a Shadow: Beginning Photography with Pinhole Cameras
Performed by: Donald Black, Jr.
Your students won\'t need a camera for this workshop-they\'ll be making one! By studying the earliest camera (camera obscura) students will learn the relationship between the camera and the hum...


NEWFormal & Informal Letters About Arts and Culture
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Explore some of the diverse cultures of our country with story, music, dance, and other activities, then write informal letters to family and friends to share what you have learned or formal letters...


Frida!
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
Students explore the life and work of Mexican visual artist Frida Kahlo. Activities including story writing, journaling and the visual art technique of folk art immerse social studies or Spanish...


NEWFrom Books Into Art: Reinforcing Early Childhood Literacy
Performed by: George Woideck
A custom designed program utilizing visual arts to help make better early readers. Children create art projects based on books they\'re reading as a strategy to improve comprehension, wor...


NEWFrom Sketch to Three-Dimensional
Performed by: Carol Adams
Students will learn the exciting process of taking an idea for creating a work of art and transforming it into a three-dimensional creation. Students will first create a drawing to transpose and cut...


FUNction of 4
Performed by: Tri-C Jazzfest
Enjoy this fun-filled, hip introduction to the elements of jazz as musicians demonstrate melody, rhythm, harmony, the blues, improvisation, and swing. Sprinkled with a lively mix of familiar and...


NEWGaia: A Tribute to Mother Earth
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
Students will create a mural that is a tribute to our planet. Gaia is the Earth Goddess in Greek Mythology. As our consciousness re-awakens to the importance of respecting and helping our planet,...


NEWGreen Eggs and Ham, A Children's Opera
Performed by: Lara Troyer
The wonderful world of Dr. Suess is brought to musical life through this interactive performance, which includes beautiful singing, zany acting, and crazy props. Soprano, Lara Troyer, and her...


Groove! History of Jazz Dance from the Cakewalk to Hip-Hop
Performed by: Jenita McGowan
Students will experience the history of jazz dance, a uniquely American form of dance. They will research and experience the history of this dance form from its roots in African dance through the...


Hallelujah! Blues!
Performed by: Tri-C Jazzfest
Music sung in spiritual praise, the syncopated call and response rhythms of field cries and work songs of the African-American slave gave rise to Gospel and the Blues. Vocalist John Morton chronicles...


NEWHelen Keller: A Tribute to Her Teacher
Performed by: Dancing Wheels
In this three to five day residency, students explore the adult life of Helen Keller and her accomplishments as a pioneer for women\'s rights, civil rights, and the rights of person\'s wi...


NEWHeritage
Performed by: Women in History
An interactive four-part journey designed to supplement Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum for students in seventh and eighth grades. This engaging experience is based on the award-winning...


Heroes and Scoundrels
Performed by: Candace Wolf
Middle and high school students are introduced to larger-than-life, admirable heroes and despicable villains as Candace spins riveting and suspenseful legends, adventure quests, tales of the...


Hip Hop Dance/Breakdancing
Performed by: SAFMOD
Students and teachers learn that there is much more to hip-hop than meets the eye! This program offers students the opportunity to learn about the history and culture of this popular American dance...


NEWHip Hop History
Performed by: Shenee King
Follow the beat using rhythm and rhyme of the hip hop genre.  Learn some \"old school\" dances from early rap thru the new moves of today.  This workshop will expose students to the roots of hip h...


Home in Ohio
Performed by: Hal Walker
This interactive performance is a musical celebration of our state, Ohio. Through original songs and movement, this program addresses topics such as kindness, cooperation and community. Singing...


NEWImagimachination: Art in Motion
Performed by: Carol Lynn Mitchell
Blurring the lines between art and machine, students will explore the history of simple machines and the ways artists incorporate technical concepts into creative process. Both past and present...


Imaginative Illustrations
Performed by: Jim Gill
Through this program, students explore the history, mystery and fun of cartooning. Jim enables younger students to help bring drawings to life after starting with a simple line or shape. Older...


Improve with Improv!
Performed by: Marc Moritz
Through improvisational games and exercises, this twenty-day residency works to develop students’ character, focus, and self-control. Broken into four sections, the residency begins by introducing...


NEWJapanese Festival Drums
Performed by: Taikoza
In this performance, Taikoza introduces children to various Japanese musical instruments, including the Taiko drum and bamboo flute, and explains some of the history and culture of festivals that...


Japanese Raku Pottery
Performed by: George Woideck
Add the exciting world of Japanese Raku pottery to your curriculum with this hands-on residency. Students make individual pieces of lustrous Japanese Tea Ceremony pottery, formulate glazes from...


Kente Cloth Collage
Performed by: Joann Giordano
Colorful African Kente cloth is made from narrow patterned strips that are sewn together. Students will first be introduced to African art and culture by studying African textiles and the symbolic...


Krazee Kwilt
Performed by: Bob Henry Baber
In Krazee Kwilt, Dr. Baber uses a rich and stunningly beautiful Civil War era krazee kwilt that has been handed down through his family as a metaphor for literature and life. He shares his own krazee...


Ladybugs!
Performed by: Susan Weber
Susan Weber brings story, puppets, guitar, songs and fingerplay to celebrate nature and the smallest of creatures, the ladybug. This program features concepts of big-bigger-biggest, naming body...


Last Fugitive Slave: It Happened in Ohio
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Learn about the experiences of African-Americans under the institution of slavery in this re-enactment of the true story of Lucy Bagby, a runaway slave captured in Cleveland amid the protests of...


Let It Snow!
Performed by: Susan Weber
The excitement and wonder of a snowy day brought to life by storyteller Susan Weber with guitar, puppets, finger play, movement and the magical story of a wise grandmother and a sweet kitten. A...


Let’s Fly a Kite
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
During this program, students get hands-on experiences exploring the making and flying of kites! Students learn about the history of kites, their significance in historical events, kite components,...


Letters to Harriet Tubman
Performed by: Jonathan Graham and Robin Echols Cooper
This two-character play, starring Robin Echols Cooper and Jonathan Graham, is set on the porch of Tubman’s home in Auburn, New York in 1902. The audience is regarded as a group of visitors who have...


Life is Not a Fairytale
Performed by: Magical Theatre Company
What if Pinocchio hadn’t listened to the Cat & the Fox? What if Cinderella’s stepsisters had actually been kind to her? And what if Snow White hadn’t bitten into that luscious apple? When students...


NEWLife Lessons Through Dance
Performed by: Kenya Woods
Much of communication is conveyed through gestures or movements of the body. Through dance, Kenya shares with your students some of her life lessons- from using problem solving skills to conveying...


NEWLincoln: A Man for the Ages
Performed by: Magical Theatre Company
Abraham Lincoln: a name that evokes images of The Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Gettysburg Address. Celebrate his 200th birthday with Lincoln: A Man for the Ages, a play that...


Little Songs
Performed by: Vicki McCrone
Little Songs are light, original pop (in the style of Disney animated films) songs that provide an opportunity for students to play and sing along. Students learn to use small percussion instruments,...


NEWLook Who's Talking: Using Character and Point of View
Performed by: LaVora Perry
Children\'s author M. LaVora Perry will combine reading, writing, and the dramatic presentation of literature to develop students abilities to identify and create characters with distinct points o...


Majestic Manding Kingdoms
Performed by: Baba Jubal Harris
Through music and storytelling, Baba Jubal takes students on an adventure to the Manding African Empire. This participatory program combines history, geography and language while engaging students...


Majolica Pottery and Tiles for the Classroom
Performed by: George Woideck
Students love Mediterranean Majolica pottery for its colorful decorative glazes. Since the style uses low-fire earthenware clay, it can be easily fired in any kiln. George takes the students and...


Making a Difference
Performed by: Dancing Wheels
This program is a 45-minute to an hour long lecture performance in a school or community setting. The lecture performance includes integrated dancing, an exploration of disability and accessibility...


Many Dances/One World
Performed by: Dance/Theater Collective
Take your students on a multicultural dance exploration where they discover various traditional dances from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. During a performance program, three artists...


Masks!
Performed by: Wendy Mahon
All cultures have a history of mask making. In this workshop students learn to make masks using a variety of materials and techniques. Wendy teaches the value of masks as they are used by different...


Mathematical Concepts in Public Art
Performed by: Carol Adams
Carol introduces students to the possibilities of large-scale installations through a variety of materials and techniques. Carol and your students choose a location at the school to install the...


Memory Jug
Performed by: Bob Henry Baber
Using a folk art memory jug he found in the mountains of eastern Kentucky as an inspiration for students’ imaginations, Dr. Bob Henry Baber leads students in writing workshops. The jug, covered with...


Monoprints
Performed by: Bonnie Dolin
This printmaking program explores a wealth of unexpected materials to produce vibrant prints. By creating monoprints, students learn how to develop a composition using a variety of lines, shapes and...


Moving and Feeling
Performed by: Colleen Clark
Unlock students’ creativity and enhance their anger management skills through the power of dance. Colleen teaches that when emotion is experienced, the energy of the body changes. As students learn...


NEWMoving Through Conflict: Getting Unstuck and Dealing with Bullying
Performed by: Colleen Clark
In this workshop or residency, students will learn three steps for dealing with bullies, how to change their physical posture and attitudes in conflict and the four elements of movement: body,...


Mr. G!
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Mr. G mixes up stories, finger plays, songs and perhaps a little ballet and pantomime to simply delight and entertain children. ...


Music That Fits In Your Pocket
Performed by: Hal Walker
In this world of television and video games, music as a form of play has become an endangered species. In this program, we will explore a world of music that has been passed down from generation to...


My Writer
Performed by: Bob Henry Baber
What is a writer? How do writers write? What happens when you get stuck and can’t think of a thing to write? These are just some of the questions addressed by creative writing specialist Dr. Bob...


Narrative Quilts
Performed by: Joann Giordano
Students will design and make individual thematic paintings on fabric which will be incorporated into a collaborative quilt. Students first will be introduced to the art form through the traditions...


NEWOff the Page- Scared Scriptless
Performed by: Marc Moritz
This workshop is designed to bring characters from the page to the stage! Whether a fictional character from a novel, poem, or an historical figure, Marc works with students- through improv and...


Open the Book
Performed by: Beacon Street
Beacon Street subscribes to the idea that if children regarded each book as an adventure, perhaps they would feel more inclined to read! Susan Weber and Bob Kloos advocate reading as an entertaining...


Papermaking
Performed by: Valerie Van Sice
This program explores the history, tradition, and techniques involved in papermaking while linking the process to the core curriculum. History students gain a greater understanding of the traditions...


NEWPassage to India
Performed by: Sujatha Srinivasan
Using \"natyam\" or dance, which is closely associated with the arts of music, sculpture and painting in India, this program gives students a sense of history and culture. A workshop or a performan...


Percussion Composition
Performed by: SAFMOD
Use simple percussion instruments to explore call-and-response, rhythm, tempo, and improvisation and enrich student fluency and comprehension. Teachers create patterns and sequences of rhythms and...


Percussion: The World
Performed by: Battu
The exciting sounds and sights of Battu draw students into a world of different cultures to the beat of a drum (or surdo, xylophone...). Battu provides a multicultural, historical learning experience...


Pictures of My Days: An Art and Writing Workshop
Performed by: LaVora Perry
Students will engage with literature, writing and drawing to support the process of consciously exploring their own thoughts, words, and deeds toward developing the habit of choosing those that lead...


Piece by Piece: A Mosaic Workshop
Performed by: George Woideck
Using materials as diverse as broken ceramic tiles, found objects, toys and costume jewelry, George and your students create a memorable mosaic for your school. Location? Tables, benches, table tops...


Planet Soup
Performed by: VERB Ballets
This program guides students along a cultural journey exploring how others live and dance. Traveling to different parts of the world, students experience African, South Pacific and Celtic movements...


PLAY, then WRITE
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Dramatic Activities to Facilitate the Pre-Writing Process: This workshop provides theatrical tools to help all kinds of learners write. Examine ways to physicalize literary structure, bring it to...


Playful Poetry
Performed by: Ray McNiece
Follow a Poetry Journey program with Playful Poetry, a residency or workshop that allows students to learn presentation and speech skills through theater games and writing activities. At the end of...


Poetic Expressions
Performed by: Ray McNiece
During a Poetic Expressions residency or workshop, students build on the ideas of a We Ain’t Afraid of No Poems performance as they script and score poems to set into motion. This leads to a deeper...


Poetic Pictures: Illustrating Poems and Verse Using Mixed Media
Performed by: Carol Lynn Mitchell
A poem often uses highly descriptive words and phrases to create layers of interpretation or meaning that can be complicated or confusing. Using the visual arts to illustrate these ideas allows...


NEWPoetic Pictures: Illustrating Poems and Verse Using Mixed Media
Performed by: Carol Lynn Mitchell
We are all naturally poetic, even if we don’t believe it. We live our lives through sequential events just like stories, every single day. Writing a story is one way of creating imagery. But words...


Poetry FUNdamentals
Performed by: Michael Salinger
Descriptive and figurative language, fluency, language arts and content area comprehension exercises presented in an energetic and enjoyable fashion. Students learn to “show not tell” comparison and...


Poetry Journey
Performed by: Ray McNiece
Ray performs a program of original children’s poetry enlivened with his blend of interactive theater, call and response, and sing-along. Students journey with Ray to the Land of Poetry where they act...


Poetry Slam
Performed by: Michael Salinger
Learn Slamming from one of the originals. Salinger brings over fifteen-years of experience, both as a participant and an organizer of the art form. This presentation integrates the fun and creativity...


Poetry Writing and Concepts
Performed by: Michael Salinger
Build literacy, comprehension and fluency through the use of writing exercises that look and feel like games. Imagery, metaphor, rhythm, structure and editing, students come to understanding by...


NEWPut the Story First: Writing Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
Performed by: LaVora Perry
Students will choose a message they want to convey through a fiction or creative non-fiction piece and learn strategies for making their writing real, relevant, exciting, and interesting.  They will...


Puzzle Mural
Performed by: Wendy Mahon
In this workshop, students will explore art elements, principles, and images as they create a thematic mural that relates to the curriculum theme of your choice. In this program, each student...


Puzzle Murals
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
Students develop separate puzzle parts to create a mural that makes a statement about their school, community, or the environment. Students experience the various aspects of making public art—from...


NEWQuilting With Paint
Performed by: Carol Adams
In this residency each students will interpret the theme of the project to put their personal \"stamp\" on part of the whole, through making a two-dimensional quilt. Being part of a larger proje...


Radio Drama Without Trauma
Performed by: Magical Theatre Company
Could there be a more fun way to improve literacy, explore social studies, engage in language arts and music, build confidence, and strengthen speaking skills—doubtful! Your students will do all...


Rap it Out! Poetry and Creative Writing put to Music
Performed by: Dave Young
Creative writing and Poetry can be a powerful way to express one’s self. Are you looking for a way to motivate students to put their thoughts on paper? To let their voices be heard? Musician Dave...


RazzamaBrass
Performed by: Metropolitan Brass Quintet
Fill your classroom or auditorium with the sounds of brass. During this program, these musicians share their artistry and demonstrate the capabilities and characteristics of each of their instruments...


Read It, Record It!
Performed by: Dave Young
Students build fluency skills by reading aloud a book or story to create a collaborative “book on tape.” Dave brings a computer and microphone to record each student reading a sentence or paragraph...


Reader’s Theater
Performed by: Jimmie Woody
A few chairs, a couple of music stands and you have Reader’s Theater. This workshop promotes literacy using popular children’s classics such as Mufaro’s \"Beautiful Daughters\", \"The People Co...


Recipe for Writing
Performed by: Magical Theatre Company
Hungry for some good writing? Well, the students can fill your belly. Magical Theatre Company’s unique approach with young writers will initiate and strengthen creative thinking, help students...


Remember to be Nice - Recuerdo Ser Simpatico
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Do your students forget to be nice to each other? In this Central American tale, a mean turtle learns the value of friendship and remembers to be nice while students participate in Spanish language...


Remember to be Nice and Listen with No Talking
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Do your students forget to be nice to each other? Do they forget to listen? In these tales from Central and North America, a mean turtle learns the value of friendship and a frog learns to listen...


NEWRhythm and Mime
Performed by: Sujatha Srinivasan
Communication comes in many forms. When animals and birds spring out of your hands, when bees hover over blooming flowers and, when mere glances of the eye express a dissapointment… communication is...


Rhythms Abounding and Sounding: Lively Languages
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
Literature and Language Arts form the basis for this residency that also teaches students to follow directions, improvise, use their imaginations and play with phonemes and rhyme schemes. Students...


Rhythms Abounding and Sounding: Math in Motion
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
Terry uses a varied repertoire of music and movement in this fast-paced residency that teaches listening skills, problem solving, team work and kinesthetic awareness. Students estimate, measure and...


Rhythms Abounding and Sounding: Passages
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
Ethnomusicologist Terry Boyarsky will lead students in the songs, dances and games of other cultures. Students learn to listen and express, while celebrating the commonality and diversity of others....


Rhythms All Around Us
Performed by: Janet Pemberton
With percussionist Janet Pemberton as a guide, this residency takes students on a multicultural exploration of the world through rhythm. Students discover ways of producing sounds with items not...


Roots of African Dance
Performed by: Shenee King
This program explores how contact between different cultures impacts the diffusion of belief systems, art, science, technology, language, and forms of government. When Africans were brought to Brazil...


NEWRussia and Beyond
Performed by: Russian Duo
A concert of Russian folk music played on balalaika, piano, and jaleika with singing and traditional percussion instruments, drawing from the over 160 ethnic groups living in Russia...


Sacajawea and the Usage of Plants Yesterday and Today
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Meet Sacajawea, a Shoshone Indian who not only traveled with Lewis and Clark carrying her baby across dangerous terrain, but also helped provide the expedition with native fruits and vegetables that...


Sadie the Cello Lady
Performed by: Gayle Klaber
Share the gift of music and fun in this delightful program. With traditional cello music and nursery tunes, Gayle uses animal sounds and movement to illustrate how the cello works. (Three or more...


Self Portraits on Aluminum
Performed by: Wendy Mahon
Using the Mexican tradition of metalworking, students create self portraits using a common metal. Wendy will introduce students to the possibilities and versatility of aluminum. Students use line...


Self-Esteem in the Classroom
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Mr. G implements the C.U.M.P. (Connectiveness, Uniqueness, Models, Power) model for building self-esteem. With a dramatic flair, Mr. G leads the students in a discovery of what self-esteem is and how...


Seuss-a-rama
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
With a wild array of hats and props, Mr. G! pulls out all of the stops as he acts out stories near and dear to your students’ hearts and turns them all into performance art. Stories include The Cat...


Shades of Diversity
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
This multimedia project uses traditional collage techniques as an awareness and self-discovery tool of individual roots and classroom diversity and richness. The paper tiles designs of this...


Shadow Puppet Theatre
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Visually exciting scenery becomes the backdrop for this hands-on workshop. Mr. G and the students collaborate to produce and perform one of ten Tall Tales or Fables (chosen by the teacher). Students...


NEWSignStage Skills
Performed by: Sign Stage on Tour
The SignStage workshop or residency combines Sign Language Education and theatre exercises that teach the importance of body language and gesture in everyday communication and to an actor on the...


Silk Painting
Performed by: Joann Giordano
Silk Painting explores an ancient Chinese and Japanese textile tradition. A design is drawn on silk fabric with a resist to contain the color and the paint is then applied with the brush. Students...


Sounds and Songs from the Synthesizer
Performed by: Dave Young
In this program, Dave Young engages students in how computer technology has changed the way we create sounds and music. Using the synthesizer, Dave invites students to participate by identifying...


NEWSpanish Dance
Performed by: Dance/Theater Collective
This program encourages students to discover Flamenco and Spanish culture through discussion and physical exploration of Flamenco dance and music. Students learn about two contrasting versions of...


Star Light, Star Bright
Performed by: Susan Weber
Children shine brightly as they help Susan and her puppets Timothy Timberwolf and Forgets-to-Twinkle sprinkle stardust, create shooting stars with their fingers, enjoy a star song, a star dance, and...


Steel Drums: A New Sound for a New World
Performed by: 7 Mile Isle
This amusing and engaging assembly program transports students to another place and period as they learn the fascinating details of steel drums. The full band introduces the cultures of Trinidad,...


Step Up & Sing Out
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
Using music, movement, body percussion, song and chant students will embark on a study of rhythm by exploring rhythms found in classical, world, folk, contemporary and popular music. Students will...


Stilt Walking
Performed by: SAFMOD
Students are invited to have fun as they build self-confidence and see the world from a new perspective. They will learn the basics of stilt safety and master this simple yet rewarding style of...


Stop, Look and Listen! An Exploration of Maps using Music and Movement
Performed by: Terry Boyarsky
How many times a day do you call for “following directions?” Map reading also depends on the ability to attend, track, sequence, measure and draw symbols. Teachers will engage in movement and music...


Stories Without Borders
Performed by: Candace Wolf
A high-energy, motivational show that highlights Word Power! Candace demonstrates the poetic and dramatic use of oral language as she spins amazing tales collected from cultures around the world....


Story Mapping
Performed by: Michael Salinger
A fun and informative pen-to-page exercise-based workshop that is guaranteed to give your student a new perspective on narrative while meeting standards-based curriculum requirements. Plot structure,...


Storyboard! A Dramatic Graphic Organizer for the Writing Process
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Investigate different styles of stories as students discover dramatic structure and cinematic ways to retell and sequence stories using the graphic organizer called “STORYBOARD!” Students will write...


Storytellers
Performed by: Dance/Theater Collective
This performance explores dancers’ personal stories and histories in an exhilarating exploration of dance as an art form. Dance, dialogue, comedy and music unite as students discover the narrative...


Stretch A Tuba
Performed by: Metropolitan Brass Quintet
Can a garden hose and a funnel sound like a tuba? Gary Adams of Metropolitan Brass introduces the science of sound and provides a first exposure to brass instruments in this engaging program for...


NEWSweet Radio Radicals
Performed by: Dancing Wheels
In this two to five day residency, students journey through history and music and discover what was happening in the world from the 1920s to the 1980s, through the songs and idea of female...


Symmetry, Patterns and Geometry Meet the Mosaic
Performed by: George Woideck
Your students will reinforce the learning of Math and Geometry by designing and creating a colorful Symmetrical Mosaic. Each student takes home an individual ceramic mosaic as well as a Chinese...


Tableau: A Dramatic Strategy for Language Arts
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
A tableau is a frozen picture created physically through the gestures, poses and expressions of the participants. Teachers discover techniques for creating human sculptures, B-M-E tableau, and...


Take Me Down From the Word Wall!
Performed by: Michael Salinger
Vocabulary acquisition that is fun! Hands on exercises devised by a professional wordsmith help students acquire new vocabulary in a much more memorable way than the list - define – use in a...


The Artist as Messenger: Encouraging Awareness Through Public Art
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
Student artists become agents for positive change through the creation of public art. Themes of substance that include social awareness and our interconnectedness with nature as a great healing...


The Drum Lady
Performed by: Janet Pemberton
Explore the sounds and rhythms of a variety of percussion instruments with the drum lady. During this program, Janet shares her knowledge and love of percussion instruments. (Three or more programs...


The Four Directions
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Meet a \"real Indian,\" learn some Mohawk language, sing a chant, do a dance, and participate in a story with Hegeota, as you explore the earliest of times when people and animals first lived ...


The Four Directions: Native American Perspective, Practice and History
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Meet Hegeota a ‘real Indian’, learn some Mohawk language, sing a chant, and participate in a story as you explore the four directions of the compass rose to discover character education qualities,...


The Growing Time
Performed by: Shenee King
This workshop will teach students Triba, a West African harvest dance from the Baga people of Guinea. Triba is an example of the West African belief that people must understand and respect the...


The Moon in a Tortilla
Performed by: Candace Wolf
“You taste the moon when you eat a tortilla, and you swallow sun and fire when you eat a bowl of hot chili.” (Chicano poet Victor Valle) Candace draws upon her experience living with people in...


The Mouse with the Musical Ear
Performed by: Susan Weber
Sylvester, the mouse with the musical ear, joins other night friends (dark wing bat, long tail cat, scurry skunk) and Cowboy Tex in celebration of listening and friendship. Susan uses puppets, finger...


The Musical Computer: Technology and the Arts
Performed by: Dave Young
This workshop or residency expands the Sounds and Songs from the Synthesizer program and leads students in many different directions of the technology curriculum. Using a PC, see how a sound wave...


NEWThe Princess and the Pea
Performed by: Magical Theatre Company
That little pip of a princess doesn’t want to marry anyone! But everyone wants to marry her. And why not? She’s a real princess. Or is she? See what happens when she has to prove herself. A very...


The Stick Dance Math Cooperative
Performed by: Hal Walker
Create community in your classroom through music, math and movement! Teachers learn how to use rhythm sticks to create increasingly complex rhythms independently and as a group. This collaborative...


The Stringband Man
Performed by: Paul Kovac
Children clap, yodel, sing along, and do a rousing “sit-down square dance” as they laugh and learn about American traditional music and acoustic string instruments with bluegrass musician Paul Kovac....


NEWThe Test of The Diamond River Queen
Performed by: Hi Lyfe With Shenee King
This lively story uses West African dance and music to lead students on a learning journey. The twins Sprout and Spring and their Mother Earth will sing and dance their way through a life lesson put...


The Tree of Life
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
The Tree of Life is a hands-on clay project based on a Mexican folk-art form. The program not only reinforces students’ understanding of nature and the importance of preserving trees and animals as a...


The Vault of Secret Dreams
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
The process of building and casting this three-dimensional mosaic and cement sculpture itself is a mathematical and engineering challenge to students. This unique experience will certainly create a...


NEWThe Wizard of Tuskegee: A Tribute to George Washington Carver
Performed by: Wayne Sheppard
A visual montage that is an homage to George Washington Carver’s profound contributions to the world. Known to many only as the “peanut man” students will create a work of art that will reveal so...


The Writer
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
Students learn to “read” visual images by applying art criticism strategies to describe, analyze and interpret selected works of art in the medium of photography. Students are given a 35 mm one time...


The Writer
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
In this program, students learn that writers and visual artists share important tools for creating their work. Students are engaged in creative, stimulating and challenging discussions and...


The Writer
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
In this program, participants learn that writers and visual artists share important tools for creating their work. They are engaged in creative, stimulating and challenging discussions and...


The Writer
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
In this program, students learn that both writers and visual artists have various tools that they use to create literary and visual works of art. This program focuses on the tools of sensory,...


NEWThe Writer's and Visual Artist's Toolbox: All About Our Senses
Performed by: Anitra Redlefsen
How lucky we are to have five wonderful senses with which to explore our world! In this workshop, students use their senses to explore poetry and visual images, and then students create a visual...


Theater Basics in a Suitcase
Performed by: Jimmie Woody
Theater Basics in a Suitcase is an exciting workshop that allows students to create their very own performance using items from an ordinary suitcase. In this workshop Jimmie Woody teaches the...


Theater Electric!
Performed by: Jonathan Graham
Once upon a time, Mr. G! was a licensed electrician. Now he uses theater, rap, dance, and electrical props to teach what electricity is all about through conductors, circuits, switches and more....


Thinking on Your Feet: The Art of Improvisation
Performed by: Colleen Clark
In this workshop/residency, students will learn about the basic elements of movement: Body, Energy, Space, and Time (BEST) and then utilize them to express their thoughts, feelings, creativity and...


NEWThomas Jefferson
Performed by: Ray McNiece
Thomas Jefferson, in addition to being the third President of the United States, was also very interested in plants for practical and aesthetic purposes. He addresses the idea of plant diversity,...


To Be An American
Performed by: Women in History
How did some of the most influential women in American history make their impact? Experience being in the presence of important American women in this program. Actors present historical...


Tunes for Cartoons
Performed by: Jim Gill
Students learn about the interrelationships between the visual and musical arts as they collaborate as a class to create an action-filled storyboard and twenty second musical score. Cartoonist Jim...


Tunes for Cartoons
Performed by: Dave Young
Students learn about the interrelationships between the visual and musical arts as they collaborate as a class to create an action-filled storyboard and twenty second musical score. Cartoonist Jim...


NEWTV Commercials: Dramatic Activities to Communicate Scientific Inquiry
Performed by: Kulture Kids' Robin Pease
Students will gather facts and information from Earth or Life Science (such as:  food chain, effects of weathering on the landscape, clouds, etc.), then write a script using details and examples to...


Two Sides to Every Story: The Three Little Pigs
Performed by: Bonnie Dolin
Students use this familiar story to understand how context clues tell us about characters, plot, and setting. Bonnie explores elements of visual art, including line, shape, and color, as students use...


Understanding Cultural Symbols and Print Making
Performed by: Bonnie Dolin
In this exciting and hands-on print making workshop or residency, students explore cultural symbols as Bonnie assists students in creating their own prints. Symbols from any culture can be...


Unity and Diversity
Performed by: SAFMOD
Masked dancers on stilts, live percussion, flamboyant costumes and stunning visual effects combine to amaze and inspire students during this dynamic assembly program. Reflecting Asian, European,...


Voices in Black History
Performed by: Jimmie Woody
Griot is an old African term for storyteller. Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, W.E.B. Dubois, Sojourner Truth, Muhammad Ali and many other prominent voices in African-American history were griots. This...


Voices in Black History: Workshop
Performed by: Jimmie Woody
Pair a performance of Voices in Black History with this two day workshop. Students will be inspired to further explore the people and stories that Jimmie brings to life. Through writing exercises...


We Ain't Afraid of No Poems
Performed by: Ray McNiece
We Ain’t Afraid of No Poems provides older students with a lively and grammatically correct program emphasizing audience participation, adolescent issues and multicultural themes. Students...


NEWWest African Drumming Residency
Performed by: Sogbety Diomande
This is a great way for students to be immersed in the culture of West Africa. They will learn about the rhythms, songs, and languages found in the villages of the Ivory Coast. Residencies will be...


What's in a Name?
Performed by: Shenee King
The children will learn about the naming celebration that takes place seven days after the birth of a child. They will learn the dance and song to Cou Cou a Guinea rhythm performed during...


When a Word Becomes a Song
Performed by: Hal Walker
What is the difference between singing and speaking? At what moment does a poem become a song? How can we bring power and expressions to the spoken word? This workshop explores creative writing...


Wiggle Words
Performed by: VERB Ballets
The amazingly simply Wiggle Words program utilizes basic movements set to the letters of the alphabet to enhance a wide range of your student’s literacy skills, including: spelling, phonics rules,...


Written and Illustrated
Performed by: Augusto Bordelois
This dynamic program starts with a recorded storytelling circle to create a collective story, followed up by basic traditional and digital illustration lessons and culminates with the creation of an...