Program Directory

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.

Comic book writer and artist Matthew Loux shares how his childhood passions became a career in comics. He’ll show how comics are made from idea to page, then lead a live-drawing activity that helps students begin creating their own stories.

Professional comic artist and educator Matthew Loux teaches the basics of comic making from start to finish. Students will create original characters and draw their own “micro comic,” discovering how their ideas can become stories.

Discover Connecticut's history through stories and songs about regional legends like the Charter Oak and the Leatherman. A visual and interactive celebration of local history.

Teachers explore puppet creation, script development, and performance to enrich classroom learning and storytelling.

Led by jazz duo Sounds of A&R, this hands-on songwriting workshop guides students through music creation with creativity, skill, and joy.

Engage students with songs and discussions about friendship, respect, and fitting in, while developing strategies for building a safe, respectful school community.

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.

A culturally enriching storytelling experience featuring diverse tales from around the world, enhanced with unique voices and sound effects to teach about cultural diversity.

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.

Explore the dictionary as an object and learn about the multiple ways artists use text in their artworks. Students will "meet" old dictionaries, draw, and write.

A fun, interactive performance of Top 40 hits using digital instruments. Students explore music tech while dancing and learning about modern music production.

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.

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.

The Queen's Cartoonists perform live music and sound effects alongside cartoons, revealing the deep roots of jazz and classical in animation. Includes student participation!

This program is a journey into the world of Native American Stories. The oral history, natural observations, and culture of the First Americans is shared by Leland Faulkner, a member of the Bad River Band of Chippewa.

Students play bucket drums and Latin percussion in this high-energy, fully participatory music workshop. With songs in Spanish, English, and Yoruba, they build creativity, teamwork, leadership, and confidence.

Students, educators, and families join together in upbeat, hands-on drumming. This inclusive program builds musical skills, confidence, and connection through rhythm and movement.