Design a custom zine cover, exploring creativity and recycling. Students start with a cover and can continue creating a full zine during a residency. Explore the world of manga with comic artist Matthew Loux! Students will learn about manga’s history, influences, and global impact, then experiment with manga-inspired techniques and styles to create their own original drawings and comics. An interactive 40-minute circus show with comedy, juggling, unicycles, acro-dance, and audience participation—energizing schools, festivals, and libraries. Students explore Mexican culture through art projects like piñatas, paper flowers, or Ojo de Dios. Each session includes cultural context and hands-on creativity. Ms. Luna leads dance and culture workshops tied to Mexican holidays like Day of the Dead and Children's Day. Students learn history, steps, and traditions through joyful movement. This workshop teaches breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques to help youth manage stress, build self-awareness, and promote wellness in body, mind, and spirit. Inspired by the children's book Here and Now, students practice mindfulness by illustrating a present-moment scene. Students create mini scrapbooks using Polaroid photos and customizable materials like stickers and markers, blending creativity with personal reflection. This high-energy, play-based workshop uses Hoopla hoops to promote physical literacy and social-emotional learning. Go on a magical journey through myths, folklore, and storytelling with masks, music, dance, and improvisation. Combining poetry and science, students observe nature closely and write descriptive poems. Activities build writing, vocabulary, and environmental awareness in or outside the classroom. This program engages students with lifting their voices through action and planning. This multi-day residency deepens skills in movement and teamwork through daily creative challenges. Ends with a student-led showcase celebrating empathy, trust, and imagination. Blending research, poetry, and drama, students explore animal adaptations and habitats. Activities include "Habitat Theater" and poetic storytelling rooted in science facts. Students explore identity and culture by writing original “I Am From” poems, then create mixed-media collages using images, colors, and symbols to bring their words and personal histories to life. An energetic poetry-writing residency that includes warmups, original poems, and classroom performance. Engages multiple learning styles and builds confidence through expressive arts. A poetry, puppetry and creative drama workshop, customized for various ages and curriculum needs. Take students on a multicultural musical journey through global songs, rhythm, dance, and creative leadership. This engaging program builds teamwork, communication, cultural awareness, and connects music to SEL, literacy, math, science, and more. Sova Dance & Puppet Theatre Hands-on puppet-making workshops use storytelling, movement, and visual arts to build SEL and environmental awareness. Creative fun with themes like pollinators, oceans, emotions, and woodland life. Quill'n & Spill'n blends storytelling and social-emotional learning. Students write poems, narratives, and raps that foster empathy, expression, and self-awareness. Students explore the values and uniqueness of their communities, then create art out of recycled materials reflecting those discussions. | |
