Students experience a high-energy fusion of West African dance and Afrobeats, while building confidence, teamwork, and cultural appreciation in an inclusive, joyful space. Students explore creativity, collaboration, and communication through improvisation, games, and movement. Builds trust, empathy, and teamwork. Tailored by grade for 1st-12th. Arcari Flora offers nature-based programs that foster mindfulness, stewardship, and creativity. Through sensory engagement and storytelling, participants connect with nature and well-being. Explore social justice through Dr. King's Six Principles of Nonviolence and create art and writing inspired by students' personal reflections and hopes for change. A visual art and poetry lecture series exploring research, creative articulation, and how sharing art contributes to personal legacy and self-understanding. Explore creative writing and visual arts inspired by the life cycle of a butterfly, teaching students to adapt to change through artistic expression. Autism Drum Buddies pairs autistic and neurotypical students for sensory-friendly drumming that builds regulation, empathy, and connection. This program promotes inclusion, creativity, and social-emotional growth through music. Students use movement, sound, and spoken word poetry to explore personal freedom, creating powerful individual or group poems that express their true selves and visions of liberation. Students explore Capoeira through movement, music, and culture. They build coordination, confidence, and SEL skills while learning songs, rhythms, and instruments in a joyful, collaborative environment rooted in respect and connection. Students or teams write the most creative, descriptive prompts for AI-generated art. After inputting the prompts into an image creation program, the group discusses the results. Students create stories using social media-inspired formats, such as memes, GIFs, and videos. They explore characters from literature or self-expression through digital storytelling tools like Canva or Google Slides, culminating in a presentation. This improv workshop integrates SEL techniques to help students identify and express emotions while building collaboration skills. It concludes with a performance showcasing students' progress. This workshop helps participants discover their comedic voice through mindfulness, using vulnerability as strength. Creatures of New England is a lively puppet show introducing young children to local wildlife. Indoors or outdoors, this nature-based program inspires curiosity about animals in forests, skies, and sea. Students turn their doodles into custom stickers, learning about artistic entrepreneurship while creating fun, personalized products for themselves or others. Through performance, workshop, or residency, students experience Brazil's culture through dance styles like Samba, Afoxé, and Forró- learning geography, language, and tradition. Students learn to create their own music in this multi-session digital residency. Using DAWs and beat-making tools, they explore production from start to finish. A 50-minute demo shows how digital tools like Logic Pro and Soundation are used to produce music. Perfect for tech-savvy students or music lovers. innerAct Theatre Education Students rehearse and perform a play with Anthony DePoto, who directs and coordinates all theatrical elements. Participants learn acting, choreography, and history while connecting the play's themes to school curriculum. Students, educators, and families join together in upbeat, hands-on drumming. This inclusive program builds musical skills, confidence, and connection through rhythm and movement. Students build SEL skills through theater games, movement, and play. The workshop fosters leadership, collaboration, and emotional awareness through joyful, reflective activities. | |
