The DC Collaborative, in partnership with our members, advances access to learning opportunities in the arts and humanities for all DC public and public charter school students. Chancellor’s Letter Arts for Every Student Catalogue │ [email protected] 2 DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative Members FY16 100Reporters Kid Pan Alley Additional Partners and Collaborators Adventure Theatre The Kreeger Museum AEDC AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center Levine Music Arts Action DC African American Civil War Museum Joanna Lewton DC Collective Impact Group American Poetry Museum Library of Congress DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Anacostia Community Museum The Links, Incorporated DC Public Charter School Board Anacostia Diaspora Live It Learn It District of Learning Arena Stage Diane Macklin U.S. Department of Education Art Museum of the Americas- Madame Tussauds, DC Americans for the Arts Organization of American States Meridian Hill Pictures High Tea Society Atlas Performing Arts Center Musicianship National PTA Avalon Theater National Building Museum Office of the State Superintendent Karen Bernstein National Association of Black Storytellers of Education Karen O. Brown National Cherry Blossom Festival OMG Center for Collaborative Learning Carmen Boston National Gallery of Art (Philadelphia, PA) Cathedral Choral Society National Geographic Museum Arts Education Partnership - AEP Capitol Hill Arts Workshop National Museum of African Art (Washington, DC) Cameroon American Council National Museum of American History Arts Everyday (Baltimore, MD) Cathedral Choral Society National Museum of the American Indian Cleveland Integrated Arts Collaborative Center for Inspired Teaching National Museum of Natural History (Cleveland, OH) Children’s Art Studio National Museum of Women in the Arts Big Thought (Dallas, TX) Choral Arts Society of Washington National Postal Museum Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education Christylez Bacon National Symphony Orchestra (Chicago, IL) CityDance Ensemble Opera NOVA DC Public Library Class Acts Arts Phillips Collection DC Public Schools Cultural Capital President Lincoln’s Cottage National Guild for Community Arts Education Cultural Tourism DC Project Create Culture Shock Dance Troupe Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Dance Place Quest Visual Theatre Dancing Classrooms, DC Sitar Arts Center DAR Museum Shakespeare Theatre Company DC Fire & EMS Museum Shout Mouse Press DC International Filmfest Step Afrika! DC Jazz Festivals Textile Museum Discovery Theater Tonic Theatre Dumbarton Oaks Museum The Puppet Co. Environmental Film Festival in the The Washington Ballet Nation’s Capital THEARC Folger Shakespeare Library Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health Gandhi Memorial Center (TICAH-USA) George Washington’s Mount Vernon United States Holocaust Memorial Museum House Studio DC Virginia Chamber Orchestra Imagination Stage Washington Bach Consort In Series Washington National Opera Inner City, Inner Child Washington Performing Arts Jackson Family Art Show White House Historical Association Joy of Motion Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts KanKouran West African Dance Company Writopia Lab, DC The Kennedy Center Young Playwrights Theatre Arts for Every Student Catalogue │ www.dccollaborative.org 3 Welcome to the DC Collaborative’s Arts for Every Student Catalogue 2015–2016 Dear Principals and Teachers, We are pleased to provide you with a selection of high-quality arts and humanities experiences to benefit students from across Washington, DC. Throughout these pages, you can plan some of the highlights of the academic year, making a lasting impression on your students, some of whom will be experiencing professional theater and museum arts exhibitions for the very first time. We provide arts experiences to thousands of students each year with nearly half-a-million students taking field-trips through Arts for Every Student (AFES) since our founding. We are entering our 17th year of providing free transportation and tickets to DC Public School and Public Charter School students and are looking forward to growing our stellar roster of members; adding to our listing of arts experiences; and delivering services to more students. We invite you to explore our catalogue featuring a wide variety of arts opportunities for students of all ages. Explore the many wonderful arts institutions which offer spectacular arts experiences that will advance your curriculum and readily map to standards and to the Teaching and Learning Framework. Washington, DC, is home to some of the greatest arts institutions in the world. Each DC student studying Shakespeare should see it acted on the stage through a Shakespeare Theatre Company production at the Harman Center for the Arts; and each DC student studying U.S. History should have the chance to see the Star-Spangled Banner on display at the National Museum of American History. These are just two examples of how curriculum can become dynamic and engaging by connecting with the significant resources here in our backyard. We are committed to ensuring all students have access to the arts and humanities because we believe arts access leads to student success. Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe, Executive Director Arts for Every Student Catalogue │ www.dccollaborative.org 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 What is the DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative? 6 Arts for Every Student Participating School Responsibilities 7 How to Use this Preview Guide 8 Event Grid: Event Offerings and Curriculum Ties 14 Arts for Every Student Event Descriptions 50 Professional Development Event Descriptions 59 Kids Euro Festival 60 Acknowledgements Arts for Every Student Catalogue │ [email protected] 5 What is the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative? The DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative works to strengthen and promote the arts and humanities as basic and integral to a high-quality education for all students in DC public and public charter schools. Comprised of approximately 90 arts and humanities organizations, DC Collaborative initiatives include: Arts for Every Student and Professional Development Workshops for teachers. What is Arts for Every Student? Professional Development Workshops also are offered through the DC Collaborative AFES providers to teachers in the DC public education system. These workshops offer teachers the opportunity to learn innovative ways to invigorate classroom instruction by using arts and humanities techniques. Teachers work with experienced arts educators to learn to use dance, music, theater, visual arts, and the humanities to teach academic lessons and address the Common Core and local DC learning standards. The Professional Develop- ment Workshops can be submitted to OSSE for PLU credits towards relicensure. Please see page 11 for Professional Development Workshops. Arts for Every Student (AFES) provides increased access for all students in the DC public education system to attend arts and humanities education AFES School Partner Responsibilities events offered by AFES providers. Through this Participation in theAFES program is easy! program, DC public and public charter schools Here’s a quick snapshot of what is expected are eligible for free tickets and transportation from partner schools: to local cultural events, supported by the DC • Designate a Key Communicator to serve as Collaborative. Schools may select in-school the main contact for the school for the performance as an alternative to a field-trip AFES program. to a cultural venue. • Attend theAFES School Orientation at the Arts for Every Student Catalogue │ www.dccollaborative.org 6 beginning of the school year. listed alphabetically by organization after the grid, • Familiarize yourself with the AFES followed by in-school opportunities. Each event opportunities on the DC Collaborative will consist of a brief description of the event, website www.dccollaborative.org. date(s) offered, time(s), location, and curriculum • Select AFES events during registration ties. week (week of September 14th) with your colleagues. Once choices have been made for all grade • AttendAFES events. groupings, the Key Communicator should visit • Complete event evaluations. www.dccollaborative.org to reserve tickets. The • Encourage colleagues to integrate the arts AFES School Handbook includes step-by-step and humanities into their classrooms instructions on registering tickets for your school. and schools! If you have not yet received your copy of the AFES School Handbook, please contact the DC For more information about theArts for Every Collaborative [email protected] . Student program, please refer to the AFES School Handbook, visit our website, Please contact our office with any questions www.dccollaborative.org, or about the Arts for Every Student program, Profes- contact our office,[email protected] . sional Development Workshops for teachers, or for information about the DC Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative. Our team can be reached Introduction to Arts for Every at, [email protected]. Student (AFES) Catalogue To make your experience with the AFES Online Registration system easier, we’ve created this preview guide of event offerings at cultural organizations. If you are the Key Communicator TRIP CANCELLATION POLICY for your school, please feel free to distribute the catalogues to colleagues in your school building. Trips must be cancelled 30 days in advance This will help your colleagues select a trip that IN WRITING. If the school must cancel within best fits their