Performances for School Groups Professional Learning for Teachers 2017/2018
Performances for School Groups Professional Learning for Teachers 2017/2018 40466_KC_SchoolBro_17_18.indd 1 7/27/17 4:34 PM Education at the Kennedy Center Dear Educator: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the Greetings from the Kennedy Center, your national center for the performing arts and thank you for national champion for arts learning and creativity. We are your interest in our educational opportunities. Whether online, on stage, or behind the scenes we have committed to increasing opportunities for all people to performances, events, and professional learning programs designed for you and your students to explore participate in, learn about, and understand the arts. To fulfill and embrace the arts. We strive to provide accessible, firsthand experiences in the arts for all children, that mission, the Kennedy Center offers programs and events students, and adults. Throughout 2017 we’ve been celebrating President Kennedy’s 100th birthday and his that strive to reflect our nation and communities and that are words continue to provide us with inspiration and direction, “To further the appreciation of culture among accessible and inclusive for all. all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art—this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.” Education at the Kennedy Center is charged to serve Every Age, Every Art Form, Everywhere. From performances and exhibits on our stages and in your community, to classroom and Within these pages, you can find performances to attend, workshops where you can engage with world- community partnerships, to online resources accessible nearly class performers, as well as options for study within and across art forms, including dance, music, anywhere, we serve the burgeoning artist, the exploring student opera, theater, hip hop, and other multi-disciplinary art forms at the Kennedy Center.
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