This program engages students with lifting their voices through action and planning. Join Perseus on a mythological adventure with handcrafted marionettes, rich visuals, and epic storytelling. 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. Professor Bones and his crew lead a fun, anti-bullying assembly, teaching empathy, courage, and strategies to stand up against bullying. Learn how winds and currents work, why cannonballs fly, and the math behind navigation, all through a swashbuckling, hands-on pirate adventure. 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. Poetry in Motion is an award-winning performance that brings children's poetry to life through acting, mime, humor, and audience participation. Featuring works by A.A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Langston Hughes, and more, it's a captivating 30-year tradition. Poet and painter Shanna Melton shares powerful performances rooted in culture, love, and identity. Her shows may include her vibrant paintings as a backdrop. 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. Participants use finely tuned marionettes in this hands-on workshop led by award-winning puppeteers. 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. Students make hand or rod puppets and retell folktales using their creations. They take their puppets home after the session. 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. Choose from 3 environmental plays highlighting ocean health, energy use, and climate change through music, masks, and storytelling. Middle and high schoolers explore science concepts through dance, connecting movement to topics in the Next Generation Science Standards. A lecture-demo using dance to explore science topics like quantum mechanics, sparking curiosity and collaborative learning. New England Ballet Theatre Through books, dance, and creative movement, students learn SEL skills like confidence, teamwork, and expressing emotions. Each class begins with a story and continues with a themed dance activity using fun, engaging props. | |
