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. Boogie Chillun takes students and faculty on a musical journey through American history, exploring diverse genres like Blues, Jazz, Rock, and Hip-Hop. Audiences engage through singing, dancing, and clapping to iconic songs and cultural contributions. Students explore drawing from observation and imagination, learning two techniques: "mooji" (doodle-based) and contour drawing. The class emphasizes play and practice, with students using pencils, paper, or digital tablets. 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. Make flapping birds, chomping dragons, and more! Students explore vertical-to-rotational motion using everyday materials. A playful STEAM workshop with take-home creations. Explore scissor, reverse motion, and parallel linkages using simple materials. Students create their own mechanism-driven artworks, learning hands-on engineering and design. 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 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. Sounds of April & Randall Led by jazz duo Sounds of A&R, this hands-on songwriting workshop guides students through music creation with creativity, skill, and joy. 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. 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 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. | |
