Engage students with songs and discussions about friendship, respect, and fitting in, while developing strategies for building a safe, respectful school community. Young artists build vocabulary, creativity, and drawing skills by inventing and illustrating monsters! Fun and engaging for all ages and abilities- no prior art or reading skills needed. 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. Empower students to turn ideas into finished products by exploring the design process, from fashion to business, with age-appropriate projects that focus on creativity and production. With videos, projects, and live elements, students create characters and plots while learning writing skills at their own pace. 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. 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. 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. Students explore drums, shakers, puppets, and Toobaloos across four rotating pods. They experiment with sound, movement, and voice while sharing tools. This workshop helps participants discover their comedic voice through mindfulness, using vulnerability as strength. Students build SEL skills through theater games, movement, and play. The workshop fosters leadership, collaboration, and emotional awareness through joyful, reflective activities. Students create 60-second videos about their environment, using smartphones or tablets. The process includes shooting, editing, and sharing the videos, with a class-wide video project compilation. | |
