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. Students create stories using social media-inspired formats, such as memes, GIFs, and videos. They explore characters from literature or self-expression through digital storytelling tools like Canva or Google Slides, culminating in a presentation. 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. 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. 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. | |
