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How to use the Directory: Look under major subject headings and then under grade levels to ﬁnd appropriate programming. Remember to look under “Adaptable to grade” for additional K-12 programs. 1. Contact the organization directly to schedule a program with possible dates and number of students. 2. Neither the SCFD nor SCC are responsible for errors. Copyright 2015 and 2016.

Questions about the Directory (not individual programs or bookings): SCC Coordinator, Charlotte D’Armond Talbert, 303-519-7772, [email protected] Photos on the cover provided by (clockwise from top left) Denver Art Museum (photo by Christina Jackson), WOW! Children’s Museum (photo by Daniel Hirsh/West End Photography) and Colorado Mountain Club (photo by Melanie Leggett). INDEX

GRADE LEVEL: SUBJECT: All = Adaptable to Grade M = Middle School LA=Language Arts, Humanities and Foreign Language L = Lower Elementary H = High School Arts=Performing and Visual Arts U = Upper Elementary PD = Professional Development SM=Science, Math and Nature for Adults SS=Social Science, History and World Culture

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE

A CHILD’S SONG – achildssong.com AURORA CULTURAL SERVICES DIVISION, CITY OF – auroragov.org Music & Movement For All Ages ...... All ...... Arts ...... 9 Art, Dance, Music Workshops ...... U, M ...... Arts ...... 20 Aurora Dance Arts – auroragov.org ART FROM ASHES – artfromashes.org Fairy Tales from Around the World ...... All ...... Arts ...... 9 Creative Expression - Writing, Poetry Aurora Fox Arts Center – aurorafoxartscenter.org and Spoken Word ...... All, PD ...... LA...... 6 Drama Residencies & Workshops ...... All ...... Arts, LA, SM, SS ....9 Aurora Fox Community Outreach Performances ..... All ...... Arts ...... 10 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER – asld.org Performance Previews ...... H, M, PD ...Arts, LA ...... 24 Art Students League of Denver ...... All ...... Arts ...... 9 Aurora History Museum – auroramuseum.org Art Students League of Denver Teen Council ...... H ...... Arts ...... 24 Delaney Farm Historic Site Tour ...... All ...... SS, LA...... 41 Coal Creek One-Room School House ...... L,U,M ...... SS ...... 44 ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES – arvadacenter.org Homesteading/Industrial Revolution Shakespeare’s Stage ...... U,M,H ...... LA ...... 7 Classroom Presentations ...... L,U,M ...... SS ...... 44 Arts Day ...... All ...... Arts ...... 9 Charlotte’s Web: Children’s Theater Performance ... L,U ...... Arts ...... 15 BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIES – birdconservancy.org Junie B. Jones: Children’s Musical Theater ...... L,U ...... Arts ...... 16 Custom Environmental & Career Programs...... All ...... SM, LA, Arts, SS ..28 Museum and Pioneer Arts Days Barr Lake Bird Watch ...... All ...... SM ...... 28 OR Cultural Arts Days ...... All ...... SS ...... 41 Barr Lake Banding Station ...... All ...... SM, LA ...... 28 Songs and Tales from Colorado Trails ...... L,U ...... SS ...... 43 Birds, Biology and Outdoor Exploration ...... All ...... SM ...... 28 Kusogea Nobi Drum Ensemble ...... L,M,U ...... SS ...... 43 1/2 Day Bird Festival at Your School ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 Avian Adaptations ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 32 AUDUBON SOCIETY OF GREATER DENVER – denveraudubon.org Beautiful Birds ...... L, U ...... SM, Arts ...... 32 Bird Banding: Scientists in Action ...... All ...... SM ...... 27 Migratory Mapping or Migratory Data ...... U, M ...... SM, SS ...... 37 Beaver Habitat Investigation ...... All ...... SM ...... 27 Night Ninjas: Owls...... All ...... SM ...... 27 BOULDER BALLET – boulderballet.org The Poetry of Motion Theatrical Dance Residency .. L,U ...... Arts ...... 16 Steps in Time: A History of Ballet ...... U, L ...... Arts ...... 20

BOULDER HISTORY MUSEUM – boulderhistory.org History Detectives ...... L,U ...... SS ...... 44 Native American Programs: The Buffalo, The Trading Game, Plains Indians Trunk ...... U ...... SS ...... 45 Faces of the Sand Creek Massacre ...... M,H ...... SS ...... 45

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 2 2015-2016 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS INDEX

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE

BOULDER PHILHARMONIC – boulderphil.org COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION – chautauqua.com Boulder Philharmonic Discovery Concert ...... U ...... Arts ...... 21 Guided Tour of Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark ...... M, H ...... SS, Arts...... 45 BUTTERFLY PAVILION – butterﬂies.org Class plus Self-guided Exhibit Exploration ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 COLORADO CHILDREN’S CHORALE – childrenschorale.org Bug Safari ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 In-School Choral Workshops/Master Class ...... All, PD ...... Arts ...... 11 Miss Muffet ...... L ...... SM, LA ...... 33 Kids Performing for Kids ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 17 Flutterby ...... L, U ...... SM, LA ...... 33 Kids Reaching and Teaching Kids ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 17 Radical Rainforests Assembly Program ...... U, M ...... SM ...... 37 School Partnerships ...... L, U, M .....Arts ...... 18 Bug Bites ...... U, M ...... SM ...... 37 Metamorphosis Moves ...... L ...... SM, Arts ...... 34 COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB – cmc.org/yep Teacher Workshops/Resources ...... PD ...... SM ...... 40 Navigation: Map, Compass and GPS ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 Slacklining: Balance and Movement ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 CENTRAL CITY OPERA – centralcityopera.org Science of Climbing ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 Opera Alive! Teaching Artists ...... All ...... Arts ...... 10 Bouldering Bus ...... All ...... SM ...... 29 Music! Words! Opera! Residency ...... All ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 10 Tomorrow’s Mountains: Climate, Culture and Mozart & Co...... L, U ...... Arts, LA ...... 16 Conservation in High Places ...... U, M, H .....SM, SS ...... 37 The Great Opera Mix-up ...... L, U ...... Arts, LA ...... 16 Colorado’s Geology- Mountains to Mesas ...... U, M, H .....SM ...... 37 Eureka Street ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 17 Mountain Safety ...... U ...... SM ...... 37 How the West was Sung ...... U, M ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 21 Colorado Weather: From the Mountains En Mis Palabras (In My Own Words): to the Plains ...... U ...... SM ...... 38 Bilingual Opera ...... M, H ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 22 Music! Words! Opera! Workshop for Educators ...... PD ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 26 COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS – COmusic.org CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL – cherryarts.org Eurhythmics: Music From the Inside Out ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 Mobile Art Gallery ...... All ...... Arts, LA ...... 10 Music Teaching Artist Outreach ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 Janus Student Art Buying Program ...... M, All...... Arts ...... 22 Musical Instrument Bank ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 3-D Digital Photography Workshop ...... M, H ...... Arts, SM...... 22 Meet the Instruments ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 Music Therapy Groups ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 CHICANO HUMANITIES AND ARTS COUNCIL – chacweb.org Celebrate Latino Culture ...... All ...... PA, SS...... 10 COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM – coloradorailroadmuseum.org Colorado Railroad History ...... All ...... SS ...... 41 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF DENVER – mychildsmuseum.org Artifact Trunk: Colorado Railroads–1869 The Gingerbread Man ...... L ...... Arts ...... 17 to Present ...... All ...... SS ...... 41 Earth Balloon ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 Circle of Life ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 COLORADO SYMPHONY – coloradosymphony.org Star Lab ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 Master Mentors – Work With Symphony Stuffee™ ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 Teaching Artists ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 Molar Expedition ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 Once Upon A Time - Storytelling With Music ...... L, U ...... Arts, LA ...... 18 Kinetic Engineers ...... L ...... SM ...... 33 Petite Musique – Music and Movement With World Dance and Drumming ...... L ...... SS ...... 44 Orchestra ...... L ...... Arts, LA ...... 18 Colorado Symphony Kids: Colorful Colorado CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM – clyffordstillmuseum.org Symphony - Illustrating with Sound ...... U, M ...... Arts ...... 21 inStill Gallery Experiences for Schools ...... H, U, M .....Arts, LA, SS ...... 25 Colorado Symphony Kids: Drums of the World ...... U, M ...... Arts, SS ...... 21 Colorado Symphony Kids: Open Rehearsals ...... M, H ...... Arts ...... 23 COLORADO BALLET – coloradoballet.com Music of Life - Integrated Life Science Words in Motion ...... All ...... LA...... 6 and Music Program ...... U,L ...... SM, Arts ...... 38 Student Matinees ...... All ...... Arts ...... 11 Mathnotes – Integrated Math and Music Program ..U, L ...... SM, Arts ...... 38 Day of Dance ...... All ...... Arts ...... 11 School Show: From the Page to the Stage ...... All ...... Arts, LA ...... 11 DENVER ART MUSEUM – denverartmuseum.org Integrated Workshops - Ask Us! ...... All ...... Arts, LA ...... 11 Artful Literacy ...... U ...... LA, Arts ...... 7 Creative Movement ...... L, U ...... Arts, LA ...... 17 Distance Learning Classes ...... All ...... Arts ...... 12 Metamorphosis Moves ...... L ...... SM, Arts ...... 34 Imagination Games & Skills ...... L ...... Arts, LA, SS, SM ..18 Balance and Motion ...... U, L ...... SM ...... 37 NEW: Pre-K Creative Explorers ...... PreK ...... Arts ...... 18 Denver Art Museum Exhibition Tours: 2015-2016 ...U, M, H .....Arts, LA, SS, SM ..21 COLORADO CHAMBER PLAYERS – coloradochamberplayers.org Perception Games & Skills ...... U ...... Arts, LA, SS, SM ..22 Shostakovich: Jump Through The Window: Denver Art Museum Highlights ...... M, H ...... Arts, SS, SM...... 23 Music of Shostakovich Within a Play ...... M, H ...... SS, PA...... 45 Art & Culture Tours ...... All ...... SS, LA, Arts ...... 42

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 2015-2016 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS 3 INDEX

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS – botanicgardens.org eTOWN – etown.org Science Labs ...... All ...... SM ...... 30 eTown: Live National Radio Program ...... H, PD...... Arts, SS ...... 25 Cultivation Cruiser ...... All ...... SM ...... 30 Handmade Song Series, High School Original Guided Garden Field Trips in Spring and Fall ...... L, U, M .....SM ...... 34 Song Writing Contest ...... H ...... Arts ...... 25 Journey to the Rainforest ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 34 Garden Discovery Days ...... L ...... SM ...... 34 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC - friendsofchambermusic.com Chatfield Field Trips...... L, U ...... SM ...... 34 “Can you Hear the Difference”: The Science Art and Nature Guided Program ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 34 of Music ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 19 Ecosystems of Chatfield ...... U ...... SM ...... 38 GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMS – goldenhistory.org DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS – denvercenter.org Building Colorado...... U ...... SS ...... 45 Dramatic Learning™: Language Arts ...... All ...... LA ...... 6 Dramatic Learning™: Master Classes THE HUDSON GARDENS & EVENT CENTER – hudsongardens.org in Theatre ...... All ...... Arts ...... 13 The Buzz About Bees ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Student Matinees ...... M, H ...... Arts, LA ...... 23 Let’s Get Growing! ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 35 Career Exploration Days ...... M, H ...... Arts ...... 23 Frog Hunt ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 35 Shakespeare in the Parking Lot ...... H ...... Arts ...... 25 Making Sense ...... L ...... SM ...... 35 Theatre Arts Integration for Teachers ...... PD ...... Arts, SS, LA, SM ..26 Woodland Wonders ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 35 Dramatic Learning™: Science, Math and Nature ... All ...... SM ...... 30 Leaf Lookout ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 35 Dramatic Learning™: Social Science and History .. All ...... SS ...... 42 Secret Spaces ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 36 Nature Hunt ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 36 DENVER FILM SOCIETY – denverfilm.com Sie Film Center ...... M, H ...... Arts, LA ...... 23 LAKEWOOD HERITAGE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS, CITY OF – lakewood.org Connect Film to Your Classroom ...... M, U, H .....Arts, LA ...... 24 Arts Outreach Experience ...... All ...... Arts, LA ...... 13 Young Filmmakers Workshop ...... H ...... Arts ...... 25 Red Riding Hood, The Musical Fairy Tale ...... L ...... Arts ,LA, SS ...... 19 Agriculture Museum Tour ...... All ...... SS, SM, LA ...... 42 DENVER FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM – denverfirefightersmuseum.org Commercial Growth Museum Tour ...... All ...... SS, SM, LA ...... 42 Fire Safety Outreach ...... All ...... SM ...... 30 Community Culture in the Home Museum Tour ...... All ...... SS ...... 42 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE – dmns.org/teachers Historical Decade Trunks ...... All ...... SS ...... 42 Museum Admission ...... All ...... SM ...... 30 Heritage Days ...... L, U ...... SS ...... 44 The Power of Poison ...... All ...... SM ...... 30 The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes ....All ...... SM ...... 30 LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP – lighthousewriters.org Field Trip Adventures ...... L, U, M .....SM ...... 35 Lighthouse Young Writers Program Classes/Labs/Assemblies ...... U, M ...... SM ...... 38 Creative Writing Workshops ...... M, U, H, PD.LA ...... 8 Scientists in Action ...... U, M ...... SM ...... 38 Virtual Classes ...... U, M ...... SM ...... 38 LITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER – townhallartscenter.org Teacher Programs ...... PD ...... SM ...... 40 Participation Plays and Acting Workshops ...... All ...... Arts ...... 13

DENVER ZOO – denverzoo.org LONE TREE ARTS CENTER – lonetreeartscenter.org/schools New – Field Trip with Zoo Ed Trek ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Reading! And Other Superpowers Assembly: Denver Zoo ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Theater Performance...... L ...... LA ...... 7 Zoo Class: Denver Zoo ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Lightning Thief – Theater Performance...... U ...... LA ...... 8 Bunk with the Beasts Zoo Overnight ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Cyrano – Theater Performance ...... M, H ...... LA ...... 8 Field Trip with Guided Tour ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Doktor Kaboom At Your Location with Zoo Service Live Wire: The Electricity Show ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 36 Learning Programs ...... U, H ...... SM ...... 38 National Geographic Live Field Trip with Career Workshop ...... M, H ...... SM ...... 40 Exploring the Red Planet ...... M, H ...... SM ...... 40 Zoo Science Labs: “Poop to Power! Gasiﬁcation National Geographic Live at Denver Zoo” ...... M, H ...... SM ...... 40 Passion 8000: Dream of a Lifetime ...... M, H ...... SM ...... 40 Yesterado – Theater Performance ...... L, U ...... SS, Arts...... 44 DINOSAUR RIDGE – dinoridge.org Outdoor Tour of Four Dinosaur Sites MACC AT THE ROBERT E. LOUP JCC – maccjcc.org on Dinosaur Ridge (the Hogback) ...... All ...... SM ...... 31 Devising Character: Playwriting ...... All ...... LA, Arts ...... 7 Out Loud: Poetry and Performance ...... All ...... LA ...... 7 ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS – elkkids.org No Joke: The Spirit of American Comic Books ...... All ...... Arts, LA ...... 13 Just Keep Swimming ...... U, M, H .....SM ...... 39 Theatre Workshops and Residencies ...... All ...... Arts ...... 13 Art Dog: The Denver Children’s Theatre ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 19 Polygon Patterns ...... U, L ...... SM, Arts ...... 39 So Solid ...... M ...... SM, Arts ...... 40

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ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE TITLE ...... GRADE .....SUBJECT ...... PAGE MCA DENVER (MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER) – mcadenver.org REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – redlineart.org Art Fitness Training Tour ...... All, PD ...... Arts ...... 13 Epic Arts ...... All ...... Arts ...... 14 MCA Denver’s Teen Program: Failure Lab ...... H ...... Arts, LA ...... 26 Teen Drop-In Night ...... H ...... Arts ...... 26 ROCKY MOUNTAIN QUILT MUSEUM – rmqm.org Historical Quilt Trunk Shows...... U, M, H .....SS, Arts...... 45 MIZEL MUSEUM – mizelmuseum.org THE CELL – thecell.org SWALLOW HILL MUSIC– swallowhillmusic.org Stories Rock! Hearing, Telling and Writing The Blues: A True American Art ...... All ...... Arts, SS ...... 14 About Cultural Identity ...... All ...... LA...... 7 The American Vernacular: The Art of Musical Globetrotters: Music from Jazz and Tap ...... All ...... Arts, SS ...... 14 Around the World ...... All ...... Arts ...... 13 Irish Music & Dance ...... L, All ...... Arts, SS ...... 15 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks: ...... All, PD ...... SS ...... 42 Bluegrass and Beyond ...... U ...... Arts ...... 15 Bridges of Cultural Understanding ...... All, PD ...... SS, LA...... 42 Sing Along, Move Along ...... L ...... Arts ...... 20 Holocaust Awareness Education...... M, H, PD ...SS ...... 46 Rhythm: A Multicultural Music Experience At the Table with Dr. King ...... M, H, PD ...SS ...... 46 and More! ...... All ...... SS, Arts...... 43 Finding Freedom: A New Life In America ...... M, H ...... SS ...... 46 Sound Ideas From Around The World ...... All ...... SS, Arts...... 43 Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (Cell)...... M, H, All ...SS ...... 46 Colorado History Through Music...... L, U ...... SS, Arts...... 44

MOLLY BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM – mollybrown.org TESORO CULTURAL CENTER – tesoroculturalcenter.org Interactive Museum Tours and Classroom Tesoro Cultural Center Tour ...... All ...... SS ...... 43 Programs ...... All ...... SS ...... 43 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING – think360arts.org OPERA COLORADO – operacolorado.org Artist Residencies and Performances ...... All, PD ...... Arts ...... 15 Backstage Workshops ...... All ...... Arts ...... 13 Opera in a Trunk ...... All ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 14 THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE – thornenature.org Opera on Tour – Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel .... All ...... Arts, LA, SS ...... 14 Hands on Fun in Nature for Kids ...... All ...... SM ...... 32 Student Matinee – Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter ....U, M, H .....Arts ...... 22 Student Dress Rehearsals ...... M, H ...... Arts ...... 24 VINTAGE THEATRE – vintagetheatre.com Arias and Ensembles ...... M, H, PD ...Arts, LA, SS ...... 24 21st Century Skill Workshops/Vintage Generation OC ...... M, H, PD ...Arts ...... 24 Theatre Youth Program ...... All ...... Arts ...... 15 Opera on Tour – Bizet’s Carmen ...... M, H ...... Arts ...... 24 WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM – wingsmuseum.org PARKER ARTS CULTURE AND EVENTS CENTER (PACE) – parkerarts.org/schools Self-Guided Museum Tour ...... All ...... SM, SS ...... 32 Mary Poppins: Children’s Musical Aviation Exploration ...... All ...... SM ...... 32 Theater Performance...... All ...... Arts ...... 14 Speakers Bureau ...... All ...... SM ...... 32 Cat In the Hat: Children’s Theater Performances .....L, U ...... Arts ...... 19 Flight Engineer ...... L, U ...... SM ...... 36 Fly Guy and Other Stories: Children’s Flight Adventure ...... U, M, H .....SM ...... 39 Theater Performance...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 20 Science with Wings ...... U, M, H .....SM ...... 39 Stuart Little: Children’s Theater Performance ...... L, U ...... Arts ...... 20 Wings Over the Rockies Teacher Flight Program .....PD ...... SM ...... 40 Working Group Theater’s Production of Wings Aerospace Science Program ...... PD ...... SM ...... 40 Out of Bounds: Anti-Bullying Program ...... PD ...... Arts, SS ...... 26 Teach the Teachers – Robotics Team WOW! CHILDREN’S MUSEUM – wowchildrensmuseum.org Development ...... PD ...... SM ...... 39 Romping Stomping Dinosaurs ...... L ...... SM ...... 36 Golden Dragon Acrobats: World Cultural Performance ...... All ...... SS ...... 43 Working Group Theater’s Production of Out of Bounds: Anti-Bullying Program ...... M, H, PD ...SS, Arts...... 46

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'(9,6,1*&+$5$&7(53/$<:5,7,1* 0,=(/086(80 UPPER ELEMENTARY 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade SHAKESPEARE’S STAGE A professional playwright guides students )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ through character creation by facilitating Grades: U, M, H collaborative theatre activities and writing “All the world’s a stage!” Participants explore H[HUFLVHV6WXGHQWVZLOOÁH[WKHLUFUHDWLYLW\ Shakespeare’s world in this acting workshop that UHÁHFWDQGGHYHORSFULWLFDOWKLQNLQJVNLOOV combines literature with performing arts. Fun Interested participants who go on to complete tongue twisters from Hamlet, fairy scenes from A a 10 minute play can submit their writing to Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, and acting games the National Young Playwrights for Change give participants a brief look at this famous FRPSHWLWLRQ3URJUDPWLPHLVÁH[LEOH playwright. Discover creative Shakespearean minutes or 2 hours. phrases and ease the understanding of Cost: $5/person (minimum fee/$100) Shakespeare’s dialogue through a trivia game Availability: Year-round and original comedic radio play based on six of 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& Shakespeare’s works. maccjcc.org Cost: $255 in house and outreach 303-316-6360 Availability: Outreach Year-round/Daily in- [email protected] house programs run 9am-4pm, Mon-Fri $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG 287/28'32(75<$1' +XPDQLWLHV 3(5)250$1&( arvadacenter.org 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ 720-898-7240 Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] Encourage your students to explore the power of words and their own voice! Students ARTFUL LITERACY create collaborative poetry, then experience )LHOG7ULS vocal and physical theatre exercises. This Grades: U ZRUNVKRSEXLOGVFRQÀGHQFHLQSUHVHQWDWLRQ This interactive tour encourages students to skills whether performing poetry, reading practice language arts skills and explore art aloud, or presenting projects. from around the world. Students practice oral Cost: $5/person (minimum fee/$100) language and descriptive writing while honing Availability: Year-round LOWER ELEMENTARY observation skills, building their vocabulary 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& to use precise and sensory language. maccjcc.org 5($',1*$1'27+(5683(532:(56 Addresses 21st Century Skills and 2009 CO 303-316-6360 7+($75(3(5)250$1&( Academic Standards. Optional 45-minute [email protected] )LHOG7ULS artmaking is also available. Grades: L Cost: FREE for students and adult STORIES ROCK! HEARING, TELLING This bilingual (Spanish/English) story follows chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 $1':5,7,1*$%287&8/785$/ Nicolas, a young superhero in search of students. Divide class into groups of 10. ,'(17,7< his inner strength. Along the way, he gets Bus transportation funding assistance 2QFDPSXV$FWLYLW\ help from a colorful and hilarious collection available for designated Title I schools to Grades: Adaptable to grade of superheroes. Will Nicolas hone his cover up to 50% of total costs. Understanding and appreciating other superpower in time to defeat his nemesis, the Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45 & 11am cultures has long been achieved through dreaded Captain Cliffnote? starting Sep 22, 2015. powerful storytelling. Stories enable students Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones Field trip reservations must be booked at to explore diverse cultures, experiences, and free) least three weeks in advance. To reserve, meaningful relationships. For this program, a Availability: Oct 27, 2015 call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ professional storyteller will introduce students Lone Tree Arts Center denverartmuseum.org. to the art of storytelling, including narrative LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP structure and poetic expression. Then, 720-509-1000 creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- students will apply what they’ve learned in $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP tours/ fun, interactive exercises. Costs: Classroom (up to 40 students) $10/ student; Assembly (over 40 students) $250 plus $1/student. Scholarships available Availability: Year –round 0L]HO0XVHXP mizelmuseum.org 303-749-5016 [email protected] Tell us you “found the program in the Directory!”

LIGHTNING THIEF – THEATRE MIDDLE SCHOOL &<5$127+($75(3(5)250$1&( 3(5)250$1&( LIGHTHOUSE YOUNG WRITERS )LHOG7ULS Grades: M, H )LHOG7ULS 352*5$0&5($7,9(:5,7,1* Grades: U WORKSHOPS Rich with swashbuckling swordplay and witty Adapted from the book The Lightning Thief by wordplay, this irresistible story of romance, )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Rick Riordan, this tale follows Percy Jackson passion, and panache has been adored by Grades: M, H, PD as he tries to prove his innocence to gods audiences for centuries. The timeless tale of Our creative writing workshops in poetry, and monsters alike. After being accused of Cyrano de Bergerac, the warrior-poet with the ÀFWLRQDQGQRQÀFWLRQDUHOHGE\ZRUNLQJ stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt, he has protuberant proboscis, gets a modern, intimate, published writers with a passion for sharing 10 days to retrieve the property and bring and thoroughly charming makeover, as he vies their craft. Instruction is intended to foster peace to the warring Mount Olympus. Full of for the love of Roxane against the handsome creativity, self-expression and excitement riddles, battles, treachery and bravery, this yet bumble-tongued Christian. Love, laughter, about writing, and to celebrate the strengths adventure will have young and old hanging and longing abound in this heroic comedy. of individual writers. Because we know that on the edge of their seats! Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones much of your curriculum is already in place, Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones free) we can customize 8-week workshops, hour- free) Availability: April 28, 2016 ORQJSUHVHQWDWLRQVRUÀHOGWULSVGHSHQGLQJRQ Availability: Feb 4, 2016 Lone Tree Arts Center the needs of your students. Lone Tree Arts Center LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools Cost: Email Roxanne@lighthousewriters. LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools 720-509-1000 org to discuss pricing on an individual 720-509-1000 $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP basis. $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP Availability: Sep through May, during school hours and some after-school hours /LJKWKRXVH:ULWHUV:RUNVKRS lighthousewriters.org 303-297-1185 [email protected]

Voters will be asked to renew the SCFD in 2016 to continue bringing arts, culture and science for all ages!

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Look for a special SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES listing of professional development for teachers and camps/class for kids. Available in February at sccollaborative.org!

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ADAPTABLE TO GRADE $576'$< )$,5<7$/(6)520$5281'7+( )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ :25/' Grades: Adaptable to grade 086,& 029(0(17)25$//$*(6 )LHOG7ULS ARTS DAY! Integrate the arts into your Grades: Adaptable to grade 5HVRXUFH2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ curriculum with workshops taught by Join Aurora Dance Arts for a show that Grades: Adaptable to grade professional artists! Focused, standards- will expand your students’ imaginations, A Child’s Song and THE Studio provides based workshops are available in music, Fairy Tales From Around the World. This music and movement education in group dance, visual arts, humanities and performing performance explores a variety of fairy or private lessons in order to fully develop arts. Arts Days can include children’s theater and folk tales from China, Australia, Africa, the brain in fun ways. Classes include production, and workshop(s) and a gallery Russia, Denmark & the United States retold Kindermusik, AussieROO Gym, Dance, Art as or museum tour. Outreaches are customized through dance. All of the stories are family well as instrumental lessons in piano, strings, and scheduled based on groups’ needs. friendly, teach important lessons, and explore winds, guitar/bass, voice, & drums. Ages birth For complete program listing & descriptions storytelling through dance. Teaching guides to adult. Adaptable to grade visit arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day. are provided. Cost: Call 303-460-7408 or visit website Discounts are available for Title 1 schools. Cost: $4/student (pre-schools), for pricing Cost: Student prices range from $9 to $6/student PK-12, 1 free chaperone per 10 Availability: Year-round. Length of program $12 Adult prices range from $9 to $12, students varies according to program Discounts for Title I. Assembly prices range $4 additional chaperones $&KLOGҋV6RQJDQG7KH6WXGLR from $250 to $500 Availability: Nov 4 & 5, 9:30am and 12N achildssong.com Availability: Outreach Year-round/Daily, In- Field Trip to a The Aurora Fox Arts Center 303-460-7408 [email protected] house programs run 10am-4pm, Mon-Fri $XURUD&XOWXUDO6HUYLFHV'LYLVLRQ² $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG $XURUD'DQFH$UWV $57678'(176/($*8(2)'(19(5 +XPDQLWLHV auroragov.org/dance )LHOGWULS arvadacenter.org 303-326-8308 Grade: Adaptable to grade 720-898-7240 [email protected] Integrate the visual arts into your curriculum [email protected] with a gallery tour of ASLD, an inclusive and '5$0$5(6,'(1&,(6 :25.6+236 inspiring art community. Visit our gallery to 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS enrich your student’s learning experiences Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD through art. Contact: Robin Whatley, Gallery Standard & custom designed workshops; Manager Native American & African Folk Tales, Story Cost: FREE for self-guided gallery visit Telling, Greek Mythology, Creative Dramatics, or a small fee may be charged for more Shakespeare, Improvisation, Reader’s customized programs Theatre, Self Esteem, Creative Thinking & Availability: Year-round Problem Solving, Poetry, Communication, $UW6WXGHQWV/HDJXHRI'HQYHU Stage Combat, Dialects, Public Speaking, 200 Grant Street Reading for Fluency, Writing & Adapting www.asld.org Plays. 303-778-6990 x1000 Cost: varies, call for details r [email protected] Availability: Year-round $XURUD)R[$UWV&HQWHU aurorafoxartscenter.org 303-739-6520 [email protected]

$8525$)2;&20081,7< 2875($&+3(5)250$1&(6 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS Grades: Adaptable to grade Interactive school assembly or classroom performances include; African, African- American and Native-American Story Tellers, Shakespeare’s Fools and Shakespeare’s Scoundrels, Stone Soup, The Three Wishes, A Cowboy’s Tail, The Princess and the Pea… nut and the Native American tale, The Four Wishes, told with puppets and masks. Cost: Performances, Varies, Call for details. Availability: Year-round $XURUD)R[$UWV&HQWHU aurorafoxartscenter.org 303-739-6520 CHERRY CREEK ARTS FESTIVAL [email protected]

OPERA ALIVE! TEACHING ARTISTS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Call on Central City Opera’s Teaching Artists to help augment your curriculum. Students JDLQFRQÀGHQFHDQGWHFKQLTXHLQZRUNVKRSV or master classes in singing, instrumental music, composition, stagecraft, movement or any other related activity. Master classes can include a short performance by artists followed by individual or group coaching. Other workshops include Cooking & Math (led by a CCO orchestra musician/chef) and Science & Singing (led by a Doctor of Voice Performance). Cost: Varies according to program Availability: Year-round, region-wide Length: varies according to program Central City Opera centralcityopera.org &2/25$'26<03+21< 303-331-7026 [email protected] 02%,/($57*$//(5< &(/(%5$7(/$7,12&8/785( 086,&:25'623(5$5(6,'(1&< 2Q&DPSXV([KLELW )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ A traveling gallery of original works of art in Vibrant and creative art workshops which Grades: Adaptable to grade a self contained exhibit for the whole school celebrate Latino culture for students pre Nothing jump-starts kids’ creative juices like to enjoy. The collection is very hands-on k- adult. Choose from a variety of programs the opportunity to write and perform their own for students with set-up, take down, docent such as Mexican sugar skull decorating, musical story. The process of researching/ training and a program guide of educational God’s Eye weavings, Painting on amate scripting a story and writing/composing tools to use with the exhibit. Exhibit on- paper, Juego de Loteria-Mexican bingo, Aztec lyrics and music develops problem-solving campus for two weeks. and Mayan masks and more. Workshops and and team skills while providing practical Cost: Grant funding available, please go tours at our Santa Fe Drive location or on applications of core disciplines like math, to: CherryArts.org/MAGgrant your campus. reading/writing, history and geography. Availability: Sep-April Cost $5 per student $60 minimum for 10 Experienced teaching artists are available Cherry Creek Arts Festival students or less. to assist in applying methods from Opera cherryarts.org Availability Year-round America’s Music! Words! Opera! curriculum. 303-355-2787 Cost: Varies. Call for details. &KLFDQR+XPDQLWLHVDQG$UWV&RXQFLO [email protected] CHAC Gallery and Cultural Center Availability: Year-round, region-wide 303 571-0440 Central City Opera [email protected] centralcityopera.org chacweb.org 303-331-7026 [email protected]

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6&+22/6+2: &2/25$'2&+,/'5(1ҋ6 )5207+(3$*(727+(67$*( CHORALE 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade Studio Company dancers perform excerpts from ballets based on Shakespeare and the Classics. The stories and how they were translated into dance, as well as pointe shoes, males roles in dance, etc. are addressed. Cost: $300 ($400 two shows) Availability: Inquire &RORUDGR%DOOHW coloradoballet.com 303-339-1632 [email protected]

,17(*5$7(':25.6+236$6.86 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade We are open to and excited about developing GDQFHLQWHJUDWHGZRUNVKRSVWKDWÀWZLWK 0&$'(19(5 your curriculum. Movement can be utilized in several core subject areas to better understand or explore a concept. Current integrated workshops include: Social Dances of Yesterday & Today; Moon Phases Moving; World Dances: West African, Hula & Bollywood; and Hip-hop Technique and History. Please feel free to ask us about a subject you’re interested in bringing movement to! Cost: $100-200 Availability: Inquire &RORUDGR%DOOHW coloradoballet.com 303-339-1619 [email protected]

IN-SCHOOL CHORAL WORKSHOPS/ 0$67(5&/$66 678'(170$7,1((6 '$<2)'$1&( 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Grades: Adaptable to grade, See below Grades: Adaptable to grade General Music teachers or Choral Directors Student matinees provide an authentic 'D\RI'DQFHLVDÀHOGWULSDYDLODEOHWR collaborate with a Children’s Chorale experience for your students to see the students at all grade levels. Bring up to 150 conductor to design a performance artistry of professional dancers at the Ellie students to Colorado Ballet’s studios for a workshop or master class for their students. Caulkins Opera House at the DPAC. La rotation of introductory classes in a variety Topics include all aspects of performance, Sylphide (all grades, Oct 1, 11am); Alice in of dance styles and tour Colorado Ballet’s including singing, dancing, acting and stage Wonderland (all grades, Feb 18, 10:30am). facilities, including the costume shop. movement. Study guides available. See details on our Classes may include: creative movement, Cost: $150/hour website. ballet, jazz, tap, African, hip hop, modern Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring Cost: $10/student dance, hula and Bollywood. Mon-Thurs during school hours &RORUDGR%DOOHW Cost: $7/student &RORUDGR&KLOGUHQҋV&KRUDOH coloradoballet.com Availability: Inquire childrenschorale.org 303-339-1632 &RORUDGR%DOOHW 303.892.5600, ext. 105 [email protected] coloradoballet.com [email protected] 303-339-1619 [email protected]

(85+<7+0,&6086,&)520 0((77+(,167580(176 0$67(50(17256³:25.:,7+ 7+(,16,'(287 )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ 6<03+21<7($&+,1*$57,676 )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade In-Class Grades: Adaptable to grade Explore wind, brass, percussion, string, and/ Grade Adaptable to grade Founded by Swiss composer & music or keyboard instruments with CMF&CMA +LJKO\ÁH[LEOHSURJUDPVXSSRUWLQJPXVLF educator, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, faculty members. Students will see it, hear it, students of any grade. Could include: Eurhythmics is a method of learning/ and have the opportunity to play it! coaching for band/orchestra students, career experiencing music through movement. Cost: Varies; negotiable path advice for students, general music Creative exploration of musical concepts, Availability: Year-round ZRUNVKRSVWKDWVXSSRUWVSHFLÀFXQLWVRI involving improvisation and nurturing &RORUDGR0XVLF)HVWLYDODQG&HQWHU study such as music of the Renaissance, imagination. Taught by highly-trained IRU0XVLFDO$UWV FRPSRVLWLRQLPSURYLVDWLRQRUDQRWKHUVSHFLÀF Dalcroze music educators from Center for COmusic.org request that a music teacher may have. Musical Arts. 303-665.0599 x102 Cost: $100 per 60 minute session per Cost: Varies; negotiable [email protected] musician Availability: Year-round Availability: Sep-May &RORUDGR0XVLF)HVWLYDODQG&HQWHU 086,&7+(5$3<*52836 &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ IRU0XVLFDO$UWV 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ coloradosymphony.org COmusic.org Grades: Adaptable to grade Shari Myers – 303-534-0732 303-665-0599 x100 Our professional music therapists will [email protected] [email protected] EXLOGJURXSFXUULFXOXPGHVLJQHGWRÀW your students’ needs. Our therapists have ',67$1&(/($51,1*&/$66(6 086,&7($&+,1*$57,672875($&+ experience with almost any population but 5HVRXUFH'LVWDQFHOHDUQLQJ )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ specialize in Autism Spectrum Disorders, Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Seniors, and At-Risk Youth. We can bring the museum to your K-12 Professional instrumental or vocal musician- Cost: Varies; negotiable classroom! Our interactive distance learning teachers from the Center for Musical Arts will Availability: Year-round classes will challenge students to think come to your school or you can come to us in &RORUDGR0XVLF)HVWLYDODQG&HQWHU critically, solve problems, and generate new Lafayette. Available to help band, orchestra, IRU0XVLFDO$UWV ideas. Classes address 21st Century Skills, or choral directors by providing clinics or COmusic.org 2009 Colorado Academic Standards, and sectional coachings, masterclasses, special 303-665.0599 x100 Common Core. theory/history topics, or provide solo or small [email protected] • Collaborate to Create: Artists Solving ensemble performances. We will customize Problems (K-5th) to suit your individual needs. • Upcycling: Collaborative Sculpting with Cost: Varies; negotiable Found Objects (4th-8th) Availability: Year-round • Project-Based Museum Learning: Art & &RORUDGR0XVLF)HVWLYDODQG&HQWHU Social Justice (9th-12th) IRU0XVLFDO$UWV ASK ABOUT Cost: $50, limited scholarships available COmusic.org FINANCIAL upon request. 303-665.0599 x100 Contact Kristina Mahoney at kmahoney@ [email protected] ASSISTANCE denverartmuseum.org at least a month in ?FOR advance to schedule a class. 086,&$/,167580(17%$1. PROGRAMS 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP 5HVRXUFHIRUVFKRROV creativity.denverartmuseum.org/ Grades: Adaptable to grade distance-learning/ Wind, brass, string, and percussion instrument rentals on a sliding scale as low as $5 a month for students who would otherwise not be able to participate in their school’s instrumental music programs. Cost: Varies; negotiable eTOWN Availability: Year-round &RORUDGR0XVLF)HVWLYDODQG&HQWHU IRU0XVLFDO$UWV COmusic.org 303-665.0599 x100 [email protected]

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'5$0$7,&/($51,1* 12-2.(7+(63,5,72)$0(5,&$1 086,&$/*/2%(75277(56086,& 0$67(5&/$66(6,17+($75( &20,&%22.6 )520$5281'7+(:25/' 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Tailored in-school theatre workshops are Explore the art of comic books from With ethnomusicologist, composer, teacher led by experienced teaching artists and superheroes to graphic novels and and recording artist Sheldon Sands, students theatre professionals who address multiple experience a hands-on workshop led by will delight in listening to and analyzing the learning styles and require full participation a professional cartoonist. Best suited for cross-cultural sounds of music from around from students and teachers. Past workshops JUDGHVSURJUDPWLPHLVÁH[LEOH the world. Students will actively learn about include: Short Form Improvisation, Long minutes or 2 hours. geography, cultural musical practices, and Form Improvisation, Character Development, Cost: $8/person (minimum fee/$160) WKHVLJQLÀFDQWUROHWKDWPXVLFSOD\VLQFRQÁLFW Shakespeare, Clowning, Storytelling, and Availability: Year-round resolution and repairing the world. many more. 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students) $10/ Cost: $75 per class maccjcc.org student; Assembly (over 40 students) $250 Availability: Sep-May 303-316-6360 plus $1/student. Scholarships available 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH [email protected] Availability: Year-round Performing Arts 0L]HO0XVHXP denvercenter.org 7+($75(:25.6+236$1' www.mizelmuseum.org 303-893-6006 5(6,'(1&,(6 303-749-5016 [email protected] 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade ARTS OUTREACH EXPERIENCE MACC’s Theatre Department offers )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ workshops and artists’ residencies. Cross %$&.67$*(:25.6+236 Grades: Adaptable to grade curricular residencies can be developed to )LHOG7ULS Experience fun and engaging workshops, integrate arts in to math, science, or history. Grades: Adaptable to grade residencies or performances with Workshops can also focus on theatre skills The Ellie Caulkins Opera House becomes professional artists. Workshops or such as Shakespeare, improvisation and a living classroom as students visit a variety UHVLGHQFLHVFDQEHFXVWRPL]HGWRÀW\RXU storydrama. of stations and learn about what it takes to class needs. We offer topics in painting, Cost: varies/negotiable produce opera. Explore the world behind mixed media, pottery, weaving, dance, Availability: Year-round the curtain with hands-on workshops on theater and more. Available at Washington 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& costuming, makeup, singing, stage combat, Heights Art Center, Lakewood Cultural Center maccjcc.org conducting and more. Opera Colorado’s or in your classroom! 303-316-6360 most popular educational programs, these Cost Varies, please call for details [email protected] workshops sell out quickly! Availability: Sep-May Cost: $10/Student, $15/Chaperone /DNHZRRG&XOWXUDO&HQWHU ART FITNESS TRAINING TOUR Availability: Nov 9, 10am-noon; Nov 11, lakewood.org )LHOG7ULS 10am-noon, Nov 12, 10am-noon; May 9, 303-987-7877 Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD 10am-noon, May 10, 10am-noon, May 11, [email protected] MCA Denver has created a unique, 10am-noon interactive school tour for K-12 students 2SHUD&RORUDGR 3$57,&,3$7,213/$<6$1' which focuses on careful looking of operacolorado.org ACTING WORKSHOPS contemporary art. The Art Fitness Training 303.778.0371 )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ tour addresses the goals of the 21st century [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade Skills and Readiness Competencies: critical Participation plays where the students help thinking and reasoning, information literacy, perform the show. Acting and literature collaboration, self-direction, and invention. workshops that can be tailored to your class. The tour is designed to support and reinforce Plays include: Snow White, Jack and the classroom curriculum and addresses skills Beanstalk, Alice in Wonderland. Workshops: and competencies students need to be Shakespeare, stage combat, improv, successful in the 21st century workforce. character creation, and more! Cost: $3 per student. Call for scholarship Look for a special Cost: $7/student info SUMMER Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round Littleton Town Hall Arts Center 0&$'HQYHU 0XVHXPRI OPPORTUNITIES townhallartscenter.org &RQWHPSRUDU\$UW'HQYHU listing of professional 303-794-2787 x 217 mcadenver.org [email protected] 720-236-1820 development for teachers [email protected] and camps/class for kids. Available in February at sccollaborative.org!

23(5$217285²+803(5',1&.ҋ6 EPIC ARTS AURORA CULTURAL +$16(/$1'*5(7(/ 5HVRXUFH2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ SERVICES Assembly Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Participate in this opportunity for Denver K-12 Follow the trail of breadcrumbs to Opera students to explore social issues through Colorado’s production of the beloved fairytale contemporary art! Each semester, unique – Hansel and Gretel. When they become collaborations take place between RedLine stranded in the Magic Forest, things look Resident Artists/community artists, students, Grimm for Gretel and her brother Hansel. The and educators, resulting in the creation of pair encounters everything from a magical bodies of artwork that are conceptual and Sandman to a Witch who has quite a sweet- student-generated. The project culminates in tooth and really likes kids - well-done that is! the EPIC Youth Exhibition. Sung in English and staged traditionally, this Cost: Free with priority to under-resourced enchanting performance is sure to entertain. schools Cost: $600 single or $700 for two back-to- Availability: Fall and Spring Semesters back performances 5HG/LQH&RQWHPSRUDU\$UW&HQWHU Availability: Oct-May, Tues- Sat redlineart.org 2SHUD&RORUDGR [email protected] Operacolorado.org 303-296-4448 303-778-0371 [email protected] 7+(%/8(6$758($0(5,&$1$57 )LHOG7ULSRU$VVHPEO\ 0$5<3233,16 Grades: Adaptable to grade &+,/'5(1ҋ6086,&$/7+($7(5 Class Description: Students will learn the 3(5)250$1&( important role that slaves as well as racial )LHOG7ULS and gender issues played in the development Grades: Adaptable to grade of blues and how they combined the folk %DVHGRQWKHSRSXODU:DOW'LVQH\ÀOP music of their African homeland with the Mary Poppins tells the tale of a nanny who musical traditions of North America to create magically appears at a household on Cherry a whole new form. 45-50 minutes in length. Tree Lane in England to care for two spoiled Cost: $400 base plus 10 cents per student. and unruly children, Jane and Michael Financial Assistance may be available Banks. Poppins takes her charges on fanciful Availability: Year-round adventures and she entertains them with 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF irresistible songs such as “A Spoonful of swallowhillmusic.org OPERA IN A TRUNK Sugar,” “Feed the Birds,” “Step in Time,” and 303-643-5820 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ ´6XSHUFDOLIUDJLOLVWLFH[SLDOLGRFLRXVµ$VXUHÀUH [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade hit with kids, the show is a spectacle that will Opera Colorado is offering three Opera get toes tapping and make for a great student 7+($0(5,&$19(51$&8/$5 in a Trunk programs: Hansel & Gretel, show. 7+($572)-$==$1'7$3 Carmen, and the Opera for Beginners trunk Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones )LHOG7ULSRU$VVHPEO\ which highlights the world’s most popular free) Grades: Adaptable to grade RSHUDV(DFKWUXQNLVÀOOHGZLWKLQVWUXFWLRQDO Availability: Jan 22, 10am Class Description: This assembly explores materials, costumes, props, and activities 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV the art of jazz music and tap dancing. that make opera come alive. A study guide &HQWHU 3$&( Though both forms are a fusion of European supplements learning and prepares students parkerarts.org/schools and African music and dance, each are for seeing a performance. The program 303-805-6800 considered to be integral and unique to the includes an interactive presentation by an NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ American experience. Performances will Opera Colorado Teaching Artist. include music, dance and will tell the story of Cost: $100 how both art forms evolved and eventually Availability: Sep-May, Tues-Fri came together in the 1940’s. 2SHUD&RORUDGR Cost: $400 base plus 10 cents per student. operacolorado.org Financial Assistance may be available 303.778.0371 Availability: Year-round [email protected] 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF swallowhillmusic.org 303-643-5820 [email protected]

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,5,6+086,& '$1&( $57,675(6,'(1&,(6$1' LOWER ELEMENTARY )LHOG7ULSRU$VVHPEO\ 3(5)250$1&(6 Grades: Adaptable to grade 5HVRXUFHV2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ &+$5/277(ҋ6:(% Showcasing music, dance & clothing from the Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD &+,/'5(1ҋ67+($7(53(5)250$1&( Irish tradition, this program will touch on the Choose from over 60 professional teaching )LHOG7ULS history of the dance & music and how it has artists in all disciplines: theatre, music, Grades: L, U LQÁXHQFHGWKHFXOWXUH DUWLQRXUFRXQWU\ dance, creative writing, visual arts, cultural Charlotte’s Web, a beloved children’s classic, 45-50 minutes in length. arts, and more! Think 360 Arts will help you spins the tale of a clever spider and her Cost: $400 base plus 10 cents per student. custom-design an educational performance, pig friend Wilbur. This play brings to life the Financial Assistance may be available. workshop, or artist residency to meet your friendships of Charlotte—the wise spider, Availability: Year-round curricular goals. Think 360 artists are trained her animals friends, and the young girl Fern. 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF in arts integration, blending art and core Using teamwork, the animals come together swallowhillmusic.org subjects together to engage students and to save Wilbur and make him “some pig” 303-643-5820 energize the classroom. indeed. Free online study guide available. [email protected] Cost: Check website or call for pricing Cost: Student & adult chaperone Availability: Year-round prices range from $4-$9. Teachers are %/8(*5$66$1'%(<21' Think 360 Arts for Learning complimentary. For an additional $2 per think360arts.org )LHOG7ULSRU$VVHPEO\ person add a hands-on, 1-hour workshop 720-904-8890 x102 Grades: Adaptable to grade and an interactive theater, museum or [email protected] This assembly will examine the ways in which gallery tour. Limited availability. cultural traditions combine and evolve into Theater Performance runs Oct 15th-Dec 21ST CENTURY SKILL WORKSHOPS/ something new. During the program, students 30th 2015 will be able to experience live performances 9,17$*(7+($75(<287+352*5$0 $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG of folk and bluegrass instruments including )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ +XPDQLWLHV harmonica, guitar, mandolin and banjo. Grades: Adaptable to grade arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day Through musical examples, students will see Vintage Theatre Youth Program offers 720-898-7245 how America’s melting pot of musical cultures an array of workshops and plays taught [email protected] combined together to create the unique and performed by professional artists and musical form that is bluegrass. 45 minutes in educators. All of our programming is focused length. on the 21st Century Skills set down by the Cost: $400 base plus 10 cents per student. Colorado Dept. of Education. Select from an Financial Assistance may be available assortment of presentations or work with our 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF (GXFDWLRQ&RRUGLQDWRUWRFUHDWHDVSHFLÀF swallowhillmusic.org workshop geared to support a particular unit 303-643-5820 of study. For a complete listing of programs [email protected] and descriptions visit: vintagetheatre.com/ vintage-youth-program/ Discounts are available for Title 1 Schools Cost: Workshop prices range from $100 to $200 per presentation. Assembly prices range from $150 - $500 per performance Availability: Year-round Vintage Theatre vintagetheatre.org 303-629-9115 [email protected]

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-81,(%-21(6&+,/'5(1ҋ6086,&$/ 7+(32(75<2)027,217+($75,&$/ 02=$57 &2 7+($7(53(5)250$1&( '$1&(5(6,'(1&< Assembly )LHOG7ULS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Mozart and fellow composers mined the Wowee, wow-wow! Guess what? Everyone’s This workshop is for students of all levels riches of great literature and fairy tales IDYRULWHÀUVWJUDGHU-XQH%-RQHVLVYLVLWLQJ WRGLVFRYHUMR\DQGFRQÀGHQFHWKURXJK to create some of the world’s comic the Arvada Center! Come watch Junie B. and dance utilizing games, music, and a play masterworks. Children are invited to all of her friends as they have outrageous to teach theatrical movement, dance and help bring to life scenes from hilarious adventures and learn lots too. Don’t miss choreography. Students work individually and stories originally envisioned by the likes of out on all of the fun! Free online study guide LQJURXSVWRHQKDQFHFUHDWLYLW\FRQÀGHQFH Shakespeare and the Brothers Grimm, and available. focus, and collaboration. Workshops provide to learn about the magic of telling stories Cost: Student & adult chaperone two lessons for each student. Lessons meet through song. Resources and related lesson prices range from $4-$9. Teachers are teaching standards in music and PE and can plans available online for this program. complimentary. For an additional $2 per be tailored for other disciplines. Supports Colorado Academic Standards for person add a hands-on, 1-hour workshop Cost: Call for costs – program could be music, reading, and writing. and an interactive theater, museum, or free depending on grants Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for gallery tour. Limited availability. Availability: Sep-May, during school hours. two back-to-back Theater Performance runs Feb 11th- April %RXOGHU%DOOHW Availability: Year-round 8th 2016 boulderballet.org Length of Program: 45 minutes +10 minute $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG 303-443-0028, ext 203 Q&A +XPDQLWLHV [email protected] Central City Opera arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day centralcityopera.org 720-898-7245 303-331-7026 [email protected] [email protected]

7+(*5($723(5$0,;83 Assembly %28/'(5 Grades: L, U 3+,/+$5021,& Singers, with help from students, sort out a series of operatic mix-ups to discover that opera is simply storytelling – with plot, FKDUDFWHUVFRQÁLFWUHVROXWLRQDQG086,& This is a great preparation for a story writing unit or simply as a reinforcement of literacy elements for all grades. Resources and related lesson plans available online for this program. Supports Colorado Academic Standards for music, reading, and writing. Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for two back-to-back Availability: Year-round Length of Program: 45 minutes +10 minute Q&A Central City Opera centralcityopera.org 303-331-7026 [email protected] CENTRAL CITY OPERA

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EUREKA STREET &5($7,9(029(0(17 .,'65($&+,1*$1'7($&+,1*.,'6 Assembly 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Workshop Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L, U With funny and fascinating opera characters Students will learn about a variety of dance Jump-start your students’ musical interests as your tour guides, discover Central City’s concepts, such as, size, balance, rhythm, by engaging them in a Colorado Children’s Eureka Street! You’ll meet prospectors, levels, shapes, and energy. The class will Chorale workshop. Led by Chorale staff lumberjacks, and divas from stories by develop spatial awareness, problem solving, and its young performers, a workshop Rossini, Shakespeare and other favorites. and strengthening the body and brain. includes all aspects of stage performance, Selected students join the cast and, with Cost: $50/class ($80/class for two including singing, dancing, acting and help from the audience, discover all kinds of teachers) stage movement. If paired with a Chorale golden nuggets about great stories, history, Availability: Inquire concert, the participants will have the unique music and rhythm. Supports Colorado &RORUDGR%DOOHW opportunity to perform on stage with the Academic Standards for music, reading, coloradoballet.com Chorale for their school. history and writing. 303-339-1619 Cost: $400 ($200 if paired with a school Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for [email protected] concert) two back-to-back Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring Availability: Year-round .,'63(5)250,1*)25.,'6 Mon-Fri during school hours Length of Program: 45 minutes + 10 Assembly &RORUDGR&KLOGUHQҋV&KRUDOH minutes of Q&A Grades: L, U childrenschorale.org Central City Opera Engage and inspire your students with a 303-892-5600, ext. 111 centralcityopera.org concert designed especially for elementary [email protected] 303-331-7026 audiences. Combine infectious enthusiasm [email protected] and performing energy of the Colorado Children’s Chorale with lots of audience 7+(*,1*(5%5($'0$1 participation to create an unforgettable )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV2XWUHDFK experience for your students. Grades: L Cost: $400 for one performance, $600 for This assembly-style performance is two performances back-to-back interactive theater at its best! Your students Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring will bring nursery rhymes and fairytales to Mon-Fri during school hours life as they act out the adventures of this &RORUDGR&KLOGUHQҋV&KRUDOH mischievous little cookie. Best for grades childrenschorale.org Pre-K to 1st. 303-892-5600, ext. 111 Cost: Outreach–$175 per session within [email protected] the seven-county region. Field Trip–$8 per child Availability: Year-round (M-F 9:30am- LITTLETON TOWN 3:30pm) HALL ARTS CENTER &KLOGUHQҋV0XVHXPRI'HQYHU mychildsmuseum.org 303-561-0113 [email protected]

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SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS 3(7,7(086,48(086,&$1' ,0$*,1$7,21*$0(6 6.,//6 2Q&DPSXV5HVLGHQF\ 029(0(17:,7+25&+(675$ )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U, M )LHOG7ULS Grades: L The Children’s Chorale is currently accepting Grades: L Look closely and imagine stories behind applications for their School Partnership Specially designed program introducing the works of art from various cultures. Students Program. This year-long residency pairs instruments of the orchestra to children ages hone creative thinking skills through a Children’s Chorale conductor with a 0-7 years old in venues throughout the metro collaboration. Activities range from using a music teacher on a weekly basis to provide area. 16 piece orchestra and narrator perform spinner to identify colors in a painting and assistance in the music classroom or school an interactive program incorporating storytelling a group story. English, Spanish, or choir. telling, singing and movement with music. All bilingual. Tour addresses 21st Century Skills Cost: Negotiable programs in April 2016. and 2009 CO Academic Standards. Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring Cost: $5 for students and adults. For Cost: FREE for students and adult Mon-Thurs during school hours student groups of 20 or more the chaperones; one chaperone for every 7-9 &RORUDGR&KLOGUHQҋV&KRUDOH coordinating teacher is free. Financial students. Divide class into groups of 7-9. childrenschorale.org assistance available. Bus transportation funding assistance 303.892.5600, ext. 105 Availability: April 5 at Aurora Fox Theater; available for designated Title I schools to [email protected] April 12 at Swallow Hill; April 19 at cover up to 50% of total costs. Colorado Mountain Club; April 26 at Mizel Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am 21&(8321$7,0(² Arts & Culture Center. starting Sep 22, 2015. 6725<7(//,1*:,7+086,& Two performances each day at 10am and Field trip reservations must be booked at Assembly 11:30am for approx. 45 minutes least three weeks in advance. To reserve, Grades: L, U &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ A Colorado Symphony small ensemble visits coloradosymphony.org denverartmuseum.org. your school with a music and storytelling Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP program supporting language arts instruction. [email protected] creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- Combine programs to reach all ages! tours Pre-K-2nd: Aesop’s Fables, Steadfast Tin Soldier, and Audrey & the Amazing Violin. 1(:35(.&5($7,9((;3/25(56 3rd-6th: Tunji & the Giant, Paul Bunyan, )LHOG7ULS Jack & the Beanstalk. Can also be combined Grades: PreK with integrated math and science programs Unleash the creative explorers in your MathNotes and Music of Life, designed for Pre-K classroom! Explore how artists make 3rd-6th. choices when creating to share their ideas, Cost: $800 for two back-to-back and how art can be made out of anything! performances. Financial assistance is Students actively engage through a variety available. of hands-on, minds-on strategies, including Availability: Sep-May tactile, storytelling, artmaking, and movement &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ experiences. coloradosymphony.org Cost: FREE for students and adult Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 chaperones; one chaperone for every 5 [email protected] students. Divide class into groups of 5. Bus transportation funding assistance available for designated Title I schools to cover up to 50% of total costs. Availability: Starting in Nov 2015; check our website for additional information. Field trip reservations must be booked at least three weeks in advance. To reserve, call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ 23(5$&2/25$'2 denverartmuseum.org. 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- tours/

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´&$1<28+($57+(',))(5(1&("µ 7+(6&,(1&(2)086,& '(19(5&(17(5)257+( 3(5)250,1*$576 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: L, U Musicians from The Ivy Street Ensemble YLROLQFHOORÁXWH SOD\FODVVLFDOPXVLFIURP many periods and styles, reinforcing basic science and math by demonstrating the correlation between the size of an instrument and its sound, as well as the idea of theme and variation (useful in teaching writing). (See website for additional programs.) Cost: FREE to DPS Schools (one assembly per school year) Availability: Inquire for availability )ULHQGVRI&KDPEHU0XVLF www.friendsofchambermusic.com (303) 388-9839 $57'2*7+('(19(5&+,/'5(1ҋ6 &$7,17+(+$7 5('5,',1*+22'7+(086,&$/ THEATRE &+,/'5(1ҋ67+($7(53(5)250$1&( FAIRY TALE )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L By day, Arthur is a mild mannered museum From the moment his tall, red-and-white- Wonderfully adapted by Phamaly Theatre guard; by night, his alter ego, Art Dog. striped hat appears at their door, Sally and Company, this tale is told through a brother However, when Leonardo Dog Vinci’s Mona her brother know that the Cat in the Hat is and sister on a sleepover at grandma’s Woofa goes missing from the Dogopolis the most mischievous cat they will ever meet. house. Restless, they decide to act out Museum of Art, Art Dog is the prime suspect! Suddenly the rainy afternoon is transformed their favorite story with things found in the How will Arthur prove his innocence? Can by the Cat and his antics. Will their house attic and clothes from an old wardrobe. he keep his true identity a secret?!? Based ever be the same? Can the kids clean up Reality and imagination begin to blur until on the popular children’s book, Art Dog, by before mom comes home? With some tricks WKHFKLOGUHQÀQGWKHPVHOYHVLQWKHGHHS Thatcher Hurd this fast paced adaptation DQGDÀVK DQG7KLQJ7ZRDQG7KLQJ2QH dark woods with a wolf tracking them down! encourages youth to connect visual art with the Cat in The Hat, the fun’s never done! This story conveys emotional, hilarious and to self-identity, community, and civic Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones heartwarming messages for all. responsibility. Resource guides are provided. free) Cost $6/person ENCORE! program can be booked to extend Availability: Oct 12, 12pm Availability: Limited learning after the show. 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 10am Cost: Student and Parents $8 per ticket. &HQWHU 3$&( Thurs, Nov 19, 2015, 10am Teachers are complimentary. Book an parkerarts.org/schools /DNHZRRG&XOWXUDO&HQWHU ENCORE! 303-805-6800 lakewood.org Workshop for an addition $2 per student NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ 303-987-7893 which includes an actor talkback, [email protected] backstage tour, and acting workshop. Availability: March-May (call for dates), performances at 10am 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& maccjcc.org 303-316-6360 [email protected]

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)/<*8<$1'27+(56725,(6 &+,/'5(1ҋ67+($7(53(5)250$1&( &/<))25'67,//086(80 )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U Seven delightful stories come to life in Teatreworks USA’s musical revuew Fly Guy & Other Stories. Books featured in the show include: Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl, Diary of a Worm, Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig, Horace & Morris But Mostly Dolores, Kitten’s First Full Moon, Lilly’s Big Day, and Paper Bag Princess. Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) Availability: Oct 26, 10am and noon 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV &HQWHU 3$&( parkerarts.org/schools 303-805-6800 NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ UPPER ELEMENTARY 67(36,17,0($+,6725<2)%$//(7 678$57/,77/( 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ &+,/'5(1ҋ67+($7(53(5)250$1&( Grades: U, L $57'$1&(086,&:25.6+236 )LHOG7ULS An interactive history of ballet from the 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U, Renaissance through to the present, Grades: U, M Stuart Little tells the surprising story of a with eight dancers from Boulder Ballet’s Art programs include watercolor, pastels, most unusual mouse who happens to be professional company. It’s an impressive, oils, acrylics, print-making, drawing, pottery, born into an ordinary New York City family. entertaining and humorous show that and mixed media. Dance workshops In no time at all, his life becomes a series of will expand student’s understanding and include ballet, tap, creative dance, hip hop. adventures and misadventures with a variety appreciation of ballet, geography, and history. Music programs include guitar, keyboard, of colorful characters including his best Cost: Call for costs – program could be singing, improvisation, music basics, and friend, a bird named Margalo, and the not Free depending on grants music history. Guitars and keyboards are so friendly Snowbell, the malevolent family Availability: April-May, before 1pm on Tues, not provided. Programs address Colorado cat. All the charm, wisdom and joy of E. B. Thurs & Fri curriculum standards. White’s classic novel are brought to life as %RXOGHU%DOOHW Cost: Varies, Call for details. the mild-mannered Stuart learns to survive boulderballet.org Availability: Year-round in his upper sized world of humans and 303-443-0028, ext 203 $XURUD&XOWXUDO6HUYLFHV'LYLVLRQ discovers the true meaning of life, loyalty and [email protected] friendship. auroragov.org/arts Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones 303-739-6520 free) [email protected] Availability: April 6 – 8 , 10am and 12pm 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV &HQWHU 3$&( parkerarts.org/schools 303-805-6800 NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ

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%28/'(53+,/+$5021,& HOW THE WEST WAS SUNG &2/25$'26<03+21<.,'6 ',6&29(5<&21&(57 Assembly '58062)7+(:25/' )LHOG7ULS Grades: U, M )LHOG7ULS Grades: U No Wii? No iPod? No reality TV? Find Grades: U, M Field trip to beautiful Macky Auditorium on out what the pioneers and miners of the Take a trip around the world with the the CU-Boulder campus, complemented frontier West did for fun in this 45 minute Symphony’s world-class percussionists by curriculum guides and classroom visits performance. The adventurous lives of creating exciting rhythms with drums and (pending availability). Music Director Michael &RORUDGRKLVWRULFDOÀJXUHV0ROO\%URZQ other surprising percussion instruments. Butterman leads the professional musicians Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and Clara Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student of the Boulder Philharmonic in an interactive Brown make great opera stories! Supports groups of 20 or more the coordinating program, each year on a different theme Colorado Academic Standards for music, teacher is free. Financial assistance is such as storytelling in music or how different reading, writing and history. available. DUWLVWLFJHQUHVLQÁXHQFHRQHDQRWKHU Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for Availability: Dec 1 Cost: $5 per student two back-to-back Two performances to choose from: 9:50am Availability: Classroom visits fall through Availability: Year-round, and 11:15am for approx. 50 minutes spring; Concert on Feb 11, 2016 Length of Program: 45 minutes. +10 &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ %RXOGHU3KLOKDUPRQLF2UFKHVWUD minute Q&A coloradosymphony.org boulderphil.org Central City Opera Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 303-449-1343 centralcityopera.org [email protected] [email protected] 303-331-7026 [email protected] '(19(5$57086(80 (;+,%,7,2172856 &2/25$'26<03+21<.,'6 )LHOG7ULS VINTAGE THEATRE &2/25)8/&2/25$'26<03+21<³ Grades: U, M, H ,//8675$7,1*:,7+6281' Castiglione: Lost Genius—Sep 22-Nov 6, )LHOG7ULS 2015. Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio Grades: U, M —Nov 10, 2015-Feb 5, 2016. A Place in the Explore how composers make use of the 4 Sun: Paintings of the Southwest by Walter families of instruments to create tonal color Ufer and E. Martin Hennings—Dec 15, 2015 SDOHWWHVVSHFLÀFWRWKHLULQVSLUDWLRQ6WXGHQWV -April 22, 2016. Check website for additional ZLOOKHDUDQGFRPSDUHPXVLFIURP3URNRÀHYҋV information. Tours address 21st Century “Cinderella Ballet,” John Williams’ “Harry Skills and 2009 CO Academic Standards. Potter,” J.S. Bach’s “Orchestral Suite #3, Cost: Varies depending on exhibition; one and more on this journey with the Colorful chaperone for every 10 students. Divide Colorado Symphony. class into groups of 10. Transportation Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student funding assistance available for designated groups of 20 or more the coordinating Title I schools. teacher is free. Financial assistance is Availability: Tues-Fri starting at 9:45am. available. Dates and times vary. Availability: Nov 10, 12; Dec 8, 9; Jan 19, Field trip reservations must be booked at 20, 21 least three weeks in advance. To reserve, Two performances to choose from each call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ day: 9:50am and 11:15am for approx. 50 denverartmuseum.org. minutes 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- coloradosymphony.org tours/ Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 [email protected] .

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'',*,7$/3+272*5$3+< 3$5.(5$576&8/785( (9(176&(17(5 WORKSHOP 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: M, H Students will learn the science of anaglyph (red and cyan) photography using a single digital camera method to create their own 3-D projects through 3-D photo composition, camera technique and the use of free 3D photo processing software. Each student will print or have one large (8X10) 3D photo processed. The workshop will be held for four hours over 3-4 days or as desired for a maximum of 30 students. Schools must have access to: one computer per student, and digital cameras, Cost: $325 (additional students over the 30 may require additional cost for printing) 3(5&(37,21*$0(6 6.,//6 MIDDLE SCHOOL Availability: Sep-April )LHOG7ULS Cherry Creek Arts Festival Grades: U (10,63$/$%5$6 ,10<2:1:25'6 cherryarts.org Students will actively engage in selecting, %,/,1*8$/23(5$ 303-355-2787 focusing, examining, and absorbing information Assembly [email protected] while exploring the museum. This collaborative Grades: M, H tour fosters active investigative thinking, risk- An original one-act bilingual opera, En Mis taking and implementing multiple perspectives. Palabras addresses adolescent development English, Spanish, or bilingual (Spanish/English). ³ÀQGLQJ\RXURZQYRLFHDQGOHDUQLQJ Tour addresses 21st Century Skills and 2009 who you are amid parental expectations CO Academic Standards. DQGSHHULQÁXHQFHV)LIWHHQ\HDUROG$QD Cost: FREE for students and adult 0DULDIHHOVVWLÁHGE\KHUVWULFWIDWKHUKHLV chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 bewildered by her wish to be herself. It takes students. Divide class into groups of 10. a family crisis to bring them to a beginning of Bus transportation funding assistance understanding. A bilingual guide/lesson plans available for designated Title I schools to (language arts & social science) explore cover up to 50% of total costs. cultural/family traditions, immigration and Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am Latino history in Colorado. Supports Colorado starting Sep 22, 2015. Academic Standards for music, reading, Field trip reservations must be booked at writing, foreign language, geography, civics, least three weeks in advance. To reserve, history and theater. call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ Cost: $650 for one performance denverartmuseum.org. Availability: Year-round 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP Length of Program: 50 minutes plus creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- 10 minute Q&A tours/ Central City Opera centralcityopera.org 678'(170$7,1((²/$,70$1ҋ6 303-331-7026 THE SCARLET LETTER [email protected] Assembly Grades: U, M, H -$186678'(17$57%8<,1* /RYHÀQGVDYRLFHLQRXUZRUOGSUHPLHUHRI 352*5$0 The Scarlet Letter, a dramatic new adaptation )LHOG7ULS of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel with Grades: M, Adaptable to grade libretto written by Colorado’s Poet Laureate An opportunity for students and their teacher David Mason. It’s a morality play of rigid to attend the Arts Festival in July to purchase judgment, heart-wrenching betrayal and artwork for the Mobile Art Gallery and for their redemptive love brought to life through own school. Applications available in Nov stunning performances, dramatic set design Contact [email protected] to join our and incredible music. A once in a lifetime mailing list. experience, the world premiere student Cost: FREE matinee will be performed by the Opera Availability: July Colorado Young Artists with a live orchestra. Cherry Creek Arts Festival Cost: $10/Student, $15/Chaperone cherryarts.org Availability: May 12 (10am-12:30pm) 303-355-2787 2SHUD&RORUDGR [email protected] operacolorado.org 303-778-7350 '(19(5$57086(80 [email protected]

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&2/25$'26<03+21<.,'6 '(19(5$57086(80+,*+/,*+76 &$5((5(;3/25$7,21'$<6 OPEN REHEARSALS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades: M, H Grades: M, H Grades: M, H Explore Denver Art Museum’s various High school and middle school students who Experience the Symphony’s musicians, guest collections (modern, contemporary, African, are active in theatre are invited to tour the conductors, and soloists as they rehearse Oceanic, and Western American art, DCPA’s professional theatre facilities and and prepare some of the season’s most European and American, historic Western sit-in on a technical rehearsal. This program engaging concerts from the Masterworks American, Asian, Pre-Columbian, and is designed to invite students see the DCPA and Inside the Score series. Please visit Spanish Colonial art). English, Spanish, or Theatre Company’s production process. coloradosymphony.org for details about each bilingual (Spanish/English). Tour addresses Cost: Free, but space is limited to 30 of the programs selected for Open Rehearsal 21st Century Skills and 2009 CO Academic students visits. Standards. Availability: check website for dates Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student Cost: FREE for students and adult 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH groups of 20 or more the coordinating chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 Performing Arts teacher is free. Financial assistance is students. Divide class into groups of 10. denvercenter.org available. Bus transportation funding assistance 303-893-6006 Availability: Oct 2, Mozart Performed by available for designated Title I schools to [email protected] Michael Thornton,10am-12:30; Oct 16, cover up to 50% of total costs. Elgar “Enigma Variations,10am-12:30; Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am 6,(),/0&(17(5 Nov 19, Berlioz “Symphonie Fantastique,” starting Sep 22, 2015. )LHOG7ULS 10am-noon; Jan 29, Mussorgsky “Pictures Field trip reservations must be booked at Grades M, H at an Exhibition,” 10am-12:30; March17 least three weeks in advance. To reserve, The Sie FilmCenter is the home of the Shakespeare Festival “Romeo & Juliet” call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ Denver Film Society and Denver’s only year- 10am-noon; May 13, Dvorak “From the denverartmuseum.org. round cinematheque, presenting a weekly- New World,” 10am-12:30 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP FKDQJLQJFDOHQGDURIÀUVWUXQH[FOXVLYHVDQG &RORUDGR6\PSKRQ\ creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- arthouse revivals. Whether it is a production coloradosymphony.org tours/ from the National Theatre in London, or an Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 adaptation of a novel, our programming offers [email protected] 678'(170$7,1((6 a unique way of integrating the arts into your )LHOG7ULS curriculum while promoting critical thinking Grades: M, H DQGOLWHUDF\2XUSURJUDPVDUHÁH[LEOHDQG Live theater productions, post-show RXUVWDIILVKHUHWRSURYLGHWKHSHUIHFWÀWIRU discussion with the cast and a professionally- your classroom outing. prepared study guide. Student matinees start Cost: Call for information at 10:30am. Grade level varies depending on Availability: See webite for new listing content. Call or visit our website for titles and 'HQYHU)LOP6RFLHW\ details. GHQYHUÀOPRUJ Cost: $16 per student, with one free 303-595-3456 ext 235 chaperone ticket for every 15 paid student HYHQWV#GHQYHUÀOPRUJ tickets. Availability: Lookingglass Alice: Sep 23, 30, Oct 7 As You Like It: Oct 7-8, 13-16, 20-23, 27-29 A Christmas Carol: Dec. 2, 9, 10, 15, 17; All The Way: Feb. 3, 10, 14; Sweeney Todd: April 21, 27, May 4 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH Performing Arts denvercenter.org/student-matinees 303-446.4895 [email protected]

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23(5$217285²%,=(7ҋ6 CARMEN Assembly Grades: M, H We bring you Bizet’s most famous opera. &DUPHQDÀHU\6SDQLVKURVHORYHVWROLYHRQ the edge and uses her feminine wiles to get what she wants – but beware; get too close and you might get burned. Our production frames Bizet’s celebrated melodies in a period, minimalistic setting, allowing for the power of the story and the drama of the characters to take center stage. True to the lure of classic Spain, Carmen will draw you deeply into an unforgettable opera experience. THINK 360 ARTS FOR Cost: $600 single -or- $700 for two back- LEARNING to-back performances Availability: Jan-May, Tues-Sat 2SHUD&RORUDGR &211(&7),/072<285&/$665220 $5,$6$1'(16(0%/(6 operacolorado.org )LHOG7ULS Assembly 303-778-0371 Grades: M, U, H Grades: M, H, PD [email protected] Please contact the Denver Film Society for a Performed by the Opera Colorado Young XQLTXHÀOPRXWLQJWDLORUHGWR\RXUHGXFDWLRQDO Artists, this delightful program features curriculum. highlights from opera and musical theater. HIGH SCHOOL Cost: Call for information Selections are performed without the use of Availability: Call for information sets and costumes, creating an intimate and $57678'(176/($*8(2)'(19(5 'HQYHU)LOP6RFLHW\ engaging experience – including background TEEN COUNCIL GHQYHUÀOPRUJ information on each piece. There will be a 5HVRXUFH 303-595-3456 ext 221 Q&A session which will give the audience Grade: H U\DQR#GHQYHUÀOPRUJ unique insight into the world of opera and Teen Advisory Council is dedicated to a select Opera Colorado. group of high school-aged teens interested 678'(17'5(665(+($56$/6 Cost: $350 in the visual arts and working in a team. It )LHOG7ULS Availability: Oct-May, Tues-Sat provides a comfortable arena for youths to Grades: M, H 2SHUD&RORUDGR voice their opinions, develop leadership skills, The 2015-16 season includes a rarely operacolorado.org and connect with staff, faculty, and Board of performed classic and a world premiere! 303-778-0371 Director members at ASLD. Meets monthly *HWWKHÀUVWJOLPSVHRI2SHUD&RORUDGRҋV [email protected] (with snacks). Contact: Rachel Basye, mainstage operas with a special dress Executive Director rehearsal performance. Online teacher GENERATION OC Cost: FREE guidebooks prepare your class for their 2Q&DPSXV5HVLGHQF\ Availability: Year-round night at the opera. Enhance your experience Grades: M, H, PD $UW6WXGHQWV/HDJXHRI'HQYHU by contacting the education department This unique Residency uses the arts to teach $6/' in advance to arrange a pre-performance 21st Century Workforce Readiness Skills. www.asld.org discussion or post-performance talk-back. A Using opera as the catalyst, participants work 303-778-6990 ext. 105 wonderful way to introduce middle and high closely with industry professionals in one of [email protected] school students to opera. two tracks: Gen OC Marketing track—create Cost: $10/student; $15/college students materials to market an opera to their peers; 3(5)250$1&(35(9,(:6 and chaperones and Page to Stage track—write and perform )LHOG7ULS Availability: Nov 5, Verdi’s Aida; May their own original piece inspired by a selected Grades: H, M, PD 5, Latiman’s The Scarlet Letter (dress literary work. Teaching artists guide every 7HDFKHUVDQGVWXGHQWVDWWHQGÀQDOGUHVV rehearsals begin at 7pm) SDUWRIWKHSURFHVVWDLORUHGWRÀWWKHVSHFLÀF rehearsal of professional production at the 2SHUD&RORUDGR needs, goals and curriculum of the class. Aurora Fox Arts Center and provide feedback operacolorado.org Cost: Covered by grant to the producers. Talk backs with artists and 303-778-0371 Availability: Fall-Spring backstage tours available upon request. [email protected] *Please contact for more information Cost: Preview: pay what you can. Cost 2SHUD&RORUDGR varies during the run, student & group operacolorado.org rates available. 303-778-0371 Availability: Sep-May [email protected] $XURUD)R[$UWV&HQWHU aurorafoxartscenter.org 303-739-1970 [email protected]

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INSTILL GALLERY EXPERIENCES SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKING LOT FOR SCHOOLS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ )LHOG7ULS Grades: H Grades: H, U, M This program presents a 60 minute Immersive and activity-based, inStill Gallery ensemble-based cutting of William Experiences transform the galleries into Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet outdoors a classroom for grades 4-12. Art, literacy, in high school parking lots with the cast and humanities are integrated in standards- then moving into classrooms to facilitate aligned, workshop-model lessons. Students workshops to start conversations that closely work in small groups of 5-7; “write to learn” examine how the play’s themes resonate in various exercises; create and justify their within both contemporary issues and the high own interpretations; and build 21st Century school experience. Skills. Choose lessons from three modules: Cost: Based on number of performances Art Language; Artistic Vision and Voice; and and workshops $UWDVD5HÁHFWLRQRI+XPDQ&RQFHUQV9LVLW Availability: Upon request clyffordstillmuseum.org/inStill for complete 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH listing. Performing Arts Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may 303.893.6073 be available. [email protected] Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling <281*),/00$.(56:25.6+23 requested. 30 student capacity unless )LHOG7ULS special request. Grades: H &O\IIRUG6WLOO0XVHXP Go behind the scenes and into the world of clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill ÀOPPDNLQJ7HHQVZLOOZULWHGLUHFWVKRRW 720-354-4877 DQGVWDULQWKHLURZQÀOPVZKLFKZLOOVKRZ [email protected] throughout the year during special screenings at the Sie FilmCenter. Cost: Call for information $57678'(176 /($*8(2)'(19(5 Availability: Call for dates 'HQYHU)LOP6RFLHW\ GHQYHUÀOPRUJ 303-595-3456 ext 221 U\DQR#GHQYHUÀOPRUJ +$1'0$'(621*6(5,(6 HIGH SCHOOL ORIGINAL SONG (72:1/,9( WRITING CONTEST 1$7,21$/5$',2352*5$0 H7RZQ+DOODQGVWXGLRV '(19(5),/062&,(7< H7RZQ+DOORQOLQHUHVRXUFH HWRZQRUJ Grades: H Grades: H, PD eTown’s Handmade Songs gives high Class Description: We invite teachers school songwriters the opportunity to write, and students to listen to or attend this perform, and record their original music in a educational, nationally syndicated radio live performance and friendly competition. show. We feature music from award-winning Winners receive record in eTown’s state-of- singers and musicians with informative and the-art recording studio with a professional inspiring discussions about sustainability production crew as part of a joint album. This and healthy communities. eTown gives out annual competition incorporates educational an eChievement award winner during every workshops in song writing and performance show, featuring a change maker who is technique for teachers and students. See making a positive impact on their community our website for details. Check winter 2015 and the world. for application of Handmande Song Series. Cost: Check website for listings and ticket Space is limited. info of live performances Cost: Pending funding; Call for information Availability: Check website Availability: Call for dates, Spring 2016. eTown eTown 303-443-8696 303-443-8696 ext 100 etown.org etown.org [email protected] [email protected]

0&$'(19(5ҋ67((1352*5$0 PROFESSIONAL THEATRE ARTS INTEGRATION )$,/85(/$% FOR TEACHERS High School Internship Program DEVELOPMENT 5HVRXUFH Grades: H Grades: PD Failure Lab, the Museum of Contemporary Professional teaching artists offer customized 086,&:25'623(5$:25.6+23 Art Denver’s Teen Program, is a school-year professional development opportunities to )25('8&$7256 long internship program for a select group of teachers, schools and districts statewide. 5HVRXUFH high school students. Because we believe Using effective theatre-based techniques, Grades: PD that risking failure is an integral element educators learn innovative ways to enhance Educators who attend this 5-day summer of creativity, we designed this program to their curriculum using an arts-integrated workshop will take away a great array of provide teens with a unique opportunity to approach in the classroom. practical teaching methods. Master teaching try out wild ideas. Always encouraged to Cost: $100 per hour depending on location artists from the service organization Opera take chances, teens engage with museum and the number of participants America guide participants in the creation of professionals, work with artists, and organize Availability: Upon request original musical stories utilizing the Music! exhibitions, programs, and events for their 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH Words! Opera! curriculum. The workshop fee peers. Performing Arts includes resource guides. Three graduate Cost: Free denvercenter.org credits are available at a very reasonable Availability: Sep-May, Weds 4-6pm 303-446-4850 cost. 0&$'HQYHU 0XVHXPRI [email protected] Cost: $99, plus $210 for 3 CU Graduate &RQWHPSRUDU\$UW'HQYHU credits (optional and subject to change) mcadenver.org WORKING GROUP THEATER’S Availability: Plan for July 2016! 720-236-1820 352'8&7,212)2872)%281'6 Central City Opera [email protected] $17,%8//<,1*352*5$0 centralcityopera.org 303-331-7026 )HESP7HDFKHU&RXQVHORU 7((1'523,11,*+7 [email protected] 5HVLGHQF\:RUNVKRS 'URS,Q Teachers and school counselors are Grades: H invited to a free Out of Bounds Workshop MCA Denver has launched a new Drop- on Feb 3 at 5pm-7pm to introduce In Program for Denver teens where teachers to exercises to help students talk they participate in a series of innovative about bullying in a safe and productive workshops created and facilitated by Look for a special manner. To participate in the workshop, professional artists working in design and SOHDVH5693WRNÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ new media. Teen participants can make stuff, SUMMER 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV hang out and just relax with a free cup of hot OPPORTUNITIES &HQWHU 3$&( chocolate. No prior reservations required. parkerarts.org/schools Cost: Free listing of professional 303-805-6800 Availability: Sep-June, Fri (bi-weekly) development for teachers 5-7pm 0&$'HQYHU 0XVHXPRI and camps/class for kids. &2/25$'2%$//(7 &RQWHPSRUDU\$UW'HQYHU Available in February at mcadenver.org 720-236-1820 sccollaborative.org! [email protected]

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),(/'75,3:,7+*8,'('7285 )LHOG7ULS Grades: Adaptable to grade A variety of guided tours are available for school groups 1st grade and up. Trained volunteer docents will lead your group on a journey to explore the wonders of animals and the living world. All tours are aligned with CO Content State Standards. Cost: $7/student (Sep-Feb) $8/student (March-April); minimum of 10 students required: max of 100 students. More than 100 students. Please call Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-April &2/25$'2 'HQYHU=RR 02817$,1 programs.denverzoo.org/register.asp &/8% 287'22572852))285',126$85 6,7(621',126$855,'*( 7+( +2*%$&. 1(:³),(/'75,3:,7+=22('75(. =22&/$66'(19(5=22 )LHOG7ULS)URP9LVLWRU&HQWHUEXVHV )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ GULYHWRVLWHVQHDUE\ Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Take the learning from the classroom to the Denver Zoo offers classroom opportunities Guides show touchable fossils in outcrops ÀHOGDV]RRHGXFDWRUVOHDG\RXUVWXGHQWV for K-8th grade students to learn about a at sites: dinosaur footrpints, dinosaur bones, on an educational journey through Toyota particular life science concept through live and plant impressions. Evidence of ancient Elephant Passage on a Zoo Ed-Venture Trek! animal interactions, biofact (animal specimen) environments (a seaway, beaches, a tidal These immersive programs are aligned with exploration, and hands-on activities. Up to 30 channel, marshes, swamps, rivers and lakes) Denver Zoo’s Toyota Elephant Passage Field participants is explained. Concepts and features such as Trip Discovery Units and Colorado Academic At Denver Zoo: superposition, faults, a hogback, erosion, and Standards. They take place entirely in Toyota Cost: $7/student (Sep-Feb) $8/student EDVLQVDUHH[HPSOLÀHGDQGGLVFXVVHG Elephant Passage, with opportunities for (March-May) Cost: $3 for students and adults, min. $36 observation, inquiry and discovery. Up to 30 Smaller groups will be charged for a Tours: M-F 10, 11:30, 1 participants minimum of 15 students 'LQRVDXU5LGJH Cost: $7/student (Sep-Feb) $8/student Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-May 10am., dinoridge.org (March-May); Smaller groups will be 11am, noon (max of three classes per day) 303-697-3466x101 charged for a minimum of 15 students At your location: [email protected] Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-May &RVWÀUVWFODVVHDFKDGGLWLRQDO 'HQYHU=RR consecutive class. 7+(%8==$%287%((6 programs.denverzoo.org/register.asp Availability: Dates and times vary, offered )LHOG7ULS year round Grades: Adaptable to grade $66(0%/<'(19(5=22 Note: Enrichment & Afterschool Classes Learn how important bees and other )LHOG7ULSRU2Q

+$1'621)81,11$785()25.,'6 AVIATION EXPLORATION 9DULRXV/RFDWLRQV )LHOG7ULS Grades: Adaptable to grade First grade and older Thorne Nature Experience connects youth Bring your students on an hour-long tour to nature through In-School, Field Trip, and at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Summer Camp Programs and Birthday Museum, a WWII-era Air Force hangar Parties with fun, hands-on, place-based that houses more than 40 different aircraft, environmental education experiences in space vehicles and exhibits. Learn about $GDPV%RXOGHU%URRPÀHOG 'RXJODV WKHSK\VLFVRIÁLJKWDQGDLUFUDIWSURSXOVLRQ Counties! systems. The tour includes a viewing of Cost: Varies Harrison Ford’s 8 minute movie which imparts Availability: Inquire for availability his love of aerospace. 70 students maximum 7KRUQH1DWXUH([SHULHQFH Cost: $7 per student thornenature.org Availability: Year-round 303-499-3647 :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH [email protected] 0XVHXP WingsMuseum.org 6(/)*8,'('086(807285 Christopher Wink )LHOG7ULS 303.360.5360 x132 Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] Lead your students on a tour at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a 63($.(56%85($8 WWII-era Air Force hangar that houses more 2XWUHDFKSURJUDP than 40 different aircraft, space vehicles Grades: Adaptable to grade and exhibits. Must have a minimum of 1 Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space responsible adult chaperone for every 10 Museum’s Speakers Bureau is comprised of students. 70 student maximum. Wings Members with interesting aviation or THORNE NATURE Cost: $6 per student aerospace backgrounds who have graciously EXPERIENCE Availability: Year-round volunteered their time and talent to speak :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH to charitable, service, community and civic 0XVHXP organizations. Visit our website to learn WingsMuseum.org more about each speaker’s subjects and to Christopher Wink schedule a speaking engagement. %($87,)8/%,5'6 303.360.5360 x132 Cost: Donations accepted 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ [email protected] Availability: Year-round Grades: L, U :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH Students will learn how birds’ physical 0XVHXP features increase their ability to survive in WingsMuseum.org Colorado habitats. Students will have the Hetty Carlson opportunity to creatively design their own 303.360.5360 X130 habitat and a bird with adaptations to survive [email protected] in their habitat. It’s a fun combination of art and science! This is a great follow-up or pre-trip program to many of the Bird &RQVHUYDQF\ҋVÀHOGWULSV LOWER ELEMENTARY Cost: $4/participant as an independent program or $1/participant as a follow- $9,$1$'$37$7,216 XSWRRQHRIRXUÀHOGWULSV$VNDERXW scholarships. 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\$FWLYLW\ Grades: L, U Availability: Year-round During this interactive program, students will %LUG&RQVHUYDQF\RIWKH5RFNLHV use tools representing beaks to “eat” multiple IRUPDOO\5RFN\0RXQWDLQ%LUG types of bird food. They will determine the 2EVHUYDWRU\ kind of food each beak is designed to eat. birdconservancy.org 303-659-4348 ext. 10 7KLVDGDSWDWLRQOHVVRQLVDÀWWLQJIROORZXS program to “Barr Lake Bird Watch” or “Barr [email protected] /DNH%DQGLQJ6WDWLRQµÀHOGWULSV Cost: $4/participant as an independent program or $1/participant as a follow- XSWRRQHRIRXUÀHOGWULSV$VNDERXW scholarships. Availability: Year-round %LUG&RQVHUYDQF\RIWKH5RFNLHV IRUPDOO\5RFN\0RXQWDLQ%LUG 2EVHUYDWRU\ (19,5210(17$/ birdconservancy.org /($51,1*)25.,'6 303-659-4348 ext. 10 [email protected]

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$57$1'1$785(*8,'('352*5$0 0(7$0253+26,6029(6 JOURNEY TO THE RAINFOREST )LHOG7ULS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U Grades: L Grades: L, U As the living landscape changes through a &RORUDGR%DOOHWDQGWKH%XWWHUÁ\3DYLOLRQ Take a break from the cold and visit our GD\RUVHDVRQHDFKDUWLVWҋVZRUNUHÁHFWV collaborate on this workshop. Students learn living and growing indoor rainforest. Through and contrasts with its surroundings. Students DERXWWKHOLIHF\FOHRIWKHEXWWHUÁ\WKURXJK a guided exploration of the rainforest and will explore a diversity of gardens and movement in this interactive dance and hands-on activities, students will learn about artworks through hands-on activities that link science class. various rainforest plants, their adaptations, different elements of the curriculum. Always &RVWWUDYHOIRUÀUVWVHVVLRQ how rainforest plants are used in their daily changing, check botanicgardens.org for more sequential sessions discounted lives and ways that the rainforest is different information for schools and teachers. Scholarships may be available for eligible from Colorado. Cost: $5 per student, scholarships schools. Cost: $5 per student, scholarships available. Availability: Sep-May Year-round available Availability: Changes seasonally and with &RORUDGR%DOOHW %XWWHUÁ\3DYLOLRQ Availability: Dates in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb exhibits FRORUDGREDOOHWRUJEXWWHUÁLHVRUJ and March 'HQYHU%RWDQLF*DUGHQV Request a reservation online at 'HQYHU%RWDQLF*DUGHQV botanicgardens.org EXWWHUÁLHVRUJOHDUQ botanicgardens.org 720-865-3580 720-865-3580 [email protected] *8,'('*$5'(1),(/'75,36,1 [email protected] 635,1*$1')$// )LHOG7ULS *$5'(1',6&29(5<'$<6 Grades: L, U, M )LHOG7ULS Our Guided Explorations emphasize Grades: L student-led discovery in age-appropriate Discovery Days offer a unique mix of garden experiences. Broaden your elementary exploration, guided activities and self-guided students’ knowledge, make observations, activities. Groups can visit a variety of guided and tackle lessons made real with hands-on and self-guided stations throughout the experiences. Younger students explore the Gardens at their own pace. At each station *DUGHQVZLWKWKHLUÀYHVHQVHVDQGSODQW there is an activity related to the theme of the Look for a special something to take home. Guides will help you Discovery Day. In between stations, groups explore Colorado’s environment, encourage are encouraged to explore the Gardens on SUMMER developing skills and understand the world their own. Choose from Plant Discovery Day OPPORTUNITIES of plants. See botanicgardens.org for lists of $SULODQG6HS RU&HOHEUDWLQJ:LOGÁRZHUV programs for schools and teachers. Week (May). listing of professional Cost: $5 per student, scholarships Cost: $3.25 per student, scholarships development for teachers available available Availability: April, May, Sep and Oct Availability: April, May and Sep – available and camps/class for kids. 'HQYHU%RWDQLF*DUGHQV selected weeks Available in February at botanicgardens.org 'HQYHU%RWDQLF*DUGHQV 720-865-3580 botanicgardens.org sccollaborative.org! [email protected] 720-865-3580 [email protected]

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),(/'75,3$'9(1785(6 FROG HUNT :22'/$1':21'(56 )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U, M Grades: L, U Grades: L, U 0D[LPL]HWKHOHDUQLQJLPSDFWRI\RXUÀHOG Did you know that frogs use their eyeballs Have you ever wondered what Dr. Seuss trip time with a thrilling Field Trip Adventure. to swallow? Or that they eat their own skin? had to say about trees? Choose this “in- Choose from one of the preplanned, 3 to Your students will discover the answers to WUHHDFWLYHµVHOIJXLGHGMRXUQH\WRÀQGRXW 3.5 hour experiences that combine hands these questions and many more as they Exploring real tree specimens and products on investigations in one of our state-of-the- observe live frogs in their natural habitat supplied in an activity pack, your students will art Exploration Studios, visits to special using this self-guided activity pack. Guided by discover the basics of tree anatomy and gain exhibitions, and more. For example, as part PDWHULDOVVXFKDVELQRFXODUVGLYLQJÀQVDQG an understanding of the important role that of our preK-2 program Dino Detectives, an interpretive model of the frog life cycle, trees play in our everyday lives. students become paleontologists and this program imparts important lessons about Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus uncover clues from the past in order to life cycles, adaptations, and communication. a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental imagine what it was like when Colorado’s Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus fee includes admission for a max of 10 state fossil, Stegosaurus, roamed the land. a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs They also explore the Discovery Zone–an fee includes admission for a max of 10 available. Additional chaperones are $1 area especially designed for young children students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs each. Financial assistance available for and chock-full with a dinosaur dig pit, water available. Additional chaperones are $1 qualifying groups. table, and engaging shows and facilitations. each. Financial assistance available for Availability: April-Oct See website for information on other Field qualifying groups. 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU Trip Adventures including a special Poison/ Availability: May-Sep hudsongardens.org Sherlock Holmes Adventure! We provide a 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU 303-797-8565 ext. 306 detailed itinerary for each, and all support the hudsongardens.org [email protected] Colorado Academic Standards. 303-797-8565 ext.306 Cost: See website for information. [email protected] LEAF LOOKOUT Scholarships available. )LHOG7ULS Availability: Sep-May 0$.,1*6(16( Grades: L, U 'HQYHU0XVHXPRI1DWXUH 6FLHQFH )LHOG7ULS Celebrate fall with an exploration of The dmns.org/teachers Grades: L Gardens’ changing colors! The materials in 8VLQJWKHLUÀYHVHQVHVDVDJXLGHVWXGHQWV this activity pack will help your students learn LET’S GET GROWING! discover the array of colors, noises, scents, why leaves change color as they search for )LHOG7ULS and textures that make up the plant world. leaves of all shapes, sizes, and colors. This Grades: L, U From a search for smells in the Chocolate self-guided fall journey wraps up with a visit Take your students on a plant adventure Garden to a sound mystery, this activity pack to the Pumpkin Patch and straw bale maze! with this self-guided activity pack! Through will help guide your students as they uncover Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus hands-on activities, students discover plant the sensory characteristics of several a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental diversity at The Gardens, explore a plant’s life features of The Gardens. fee includes admission for a max of 10 cycle from small seed to tasty vegetable, and Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs observe bee pollination in action. This pack a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental available. Additional chaperones are $1 includes materials for a seed growing activity fee includes admission for a max of 10 each. Financial assistance available for to help you continue your plant investigation students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs qualifying groups. in the classroom. available. Additional chaperones are $1 Availability: Sep-Oct Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus each. Financial assistance available for 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental qualifying groups hudsongardens.org fee includes admission for a max of 10 Availability: May-Sep 303-797-8565 ext. 306 students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU [email protected] available. Additional chaperones are $1 hudsongardens.org each. Financial assistance available for 303-797-8565 ext. 306 qualifying groups. [email protected] Availability: May-Sep 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU hudsongardens.org '(19(5=22 303-797-8565 ext. 306 [email protected]

SECRET SPACES NATURE HUNT FLIGHT ENGINEER )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L, U In addition to thousands of plants, The Students always love a good old-fashioned This hour and a half long tour is an Gardens are also home to wildlife including scavenger hunt! The self-guided Nature unabridged version of the Aviation Exploration fox, geese, coyotes, insects, turtles and Hunt will encourage students to discover tour. Students will learn the basics of the more! By examining various animal habitats the hidden sights, sounds, and scents of the IRXUIRUFHVRIÁLJKWDQGKRZDLUFUDIWFRQWURO and adaptations using materials supplied in Gardens’ plants and wildlife in every season. VXUIDFHVZRUNE\EXLOGLQJDQGÁ\LQJDEDOVD an activity pack, students will uncover the Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus plane. The program includes a viewing of reasons why wildlife seek refuge and how a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental Harrison Ford’s 8 minute movie that shares they survive in the “secret spaces” of an fee includes admission for a max of 10 his love of aerospace. 70 student maximum urban habitat. students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs Cost: $8 per student Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus available. Additional chaperones are $1 Availability: Year-round a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental each. Financial assistance available for :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH fee includes admission for a max of 10 qualifying groups. 0XVHXP students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs Availability: Year-round WingsMuseum.org available. Additional chaperones are $1 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU Christopher Wink each. Financial assistance available for hudsongardens.org 303.360.5360 x132 qualifying groups. 303-797-8565 ext. 306 [email protected] Availability: April-Oct [email protected] 7KH+XGVRQ*DUGHQV (YHQW&HQWHU 5203,1*67203,1*',126$856 hudsongardens.org '2.725.$%220/,9(:,5( )LHOG7ULS 303-797-8565 ext. 306 THE ELECTRICITY SHOW Grades: L [email protected] )LHOG7ULS Your two-hour self-guided visit includes a Grades: L, U 30-minute math and life science exploration Doktor Kaboom will explore the fundamentals facilitated by WOW! staff. Hold a baby of electrical energy and the history of Stegosaurus. Compare your foot to big humanity’s adventures into its potential. At and small dinosaur tracks. Look inside a WKHGDZQRIWKHWKFHQWXU\PDQNLQGÀUVW dinosaur’s lunchbox. Make a dinosaur fossil harnessed the power of electricity, the world FUDIW9LVLWRXUZHEVLWHIRUPRUHDERXWÀHOG changed and the journey still continues. trips and outreach programs. Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones Cost: Scholarships available, please check free) our website. Availability: Sep 30, 2015 Availability: Year-round, reservations Lone Tree Arts Center required LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools :2:&KLOGUHQҋV0XVHXP 720-509-1000 wowchildrensmuseum.org $VKOH\9DQGHU:HJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP 303-604-2424 [email protected]

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UPPER ELEMENTARY %$/$1&($1'027,21 &2/25$'2ҋ6*(2/2*<² 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS 02817$,16720(6$6 Grades: U, L 0,*5$725<0$33,1*25 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS Grades: U, M, H 0,*5$725<'$7$ %DODQFHDQG0RWLRQLVDÀHOGWULSRULQVFKRRO workshop recommended for kindergarten The rocks of Colorado tell an exciting story 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ through 5th grade. Students will explore on of landscapes that were far different than Grades: U, M and off balance and work with partners and what we see today. Learn how to make good Students have the opportunity to use real props while developing their motor skills observations of rocks, how the rocks were VFLHQWLÀFGDWDWRIXUWKHUWKHLUXQGHUVWDQGLQJ through fun movement activities. IRUPHGEDVHGRQWKHLUVSHFLÀFFKDUDFWHULVWLFV of migratory patterns and discover factors Cost: $100 and how past geologic environments relate to that drive bird migration. In the Migratory Availability: Sep-May the places where we live and recreate. Mapping program, students use bird banding &RORUDGR%DOOHW Cost: call or check website data to map migratory routes of four bird coloradoballet.com Availability: Year-round species banded at the Bird Conservancy’s 303-339-1619 Location: American Mountaineering Barr Lake State Park banding station. [email protected] Center or school classroom The Migratory Data program will focus on &RORUDGR0RXQWDLQ&OXE students analyzing and graphing the data 7202552:ҋ602817$,16&/,0$7( cmc.org/yep of four bird species banded at the Bird &8/785($1'&216(59$7,21,1+,*+ 303-996-2751 Conservancy’s banding station. This program PLACES [email protected] is a suitable follow-up program to a “Barr Lake Bird Banding” trip.. 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS 02817$,16$)(7< Cost: $4/participant as an independent Grades: U, M, H program or $1/participant as a follow-up Recognize the effects of climate change on 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS mountain environments. Through hands- Grades: U RXUÀHOGWULSV$VNDERXWVFKRODUVKLSV Availability: Year-round on activities and a museum tour, students Preparing for a trip to the mountains is part of will learn about global climates and the the adventure! Learn about essential clothing %LUG&RQVHUYDQF\RIWKH5RFNLHV importance of glaciers. This class encourages and equipment, practice Leave No Trace IRUPDOO\5RFN\0RXQWDLQ%LUG small group interaction and decision-making, outdoor ethics, and develop decision-making 2EVHUYDWRU\ birdconservancy.org as students make observations and discuss for survival situations. 303-659-4348 ext. 10 solutions. Cost: call or check website [email protected] Cost: Call or check website Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round Location: American Mountaineering Center Location: American Mountaineering or school classroom 5$',&$/5$,1)25(676$66(0%/< Center (AMC) and Bradford Washburn 352*5$0 &RORUDGR0RXQWDLQ&OXE Mountaineering Museum cmc.org/yep 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ &RORUDGR0RXQWDLQ&OXE 303-996-2751 Grades: U, M cmc.org/yep [email protected] Bugs aren’t so little when they’re projected 303-996-2751 onto a giant screen! More students than [email protected] ever before can get SUPER close to bugs as we journey through one of the world’s most fascinating biomes - the rainforest! Request a UHVHUYDWLRQRQOLQHDWEXWWHUÁLHVRUJOHDUQ Cost: Check website for pricing and mileage fees. Availability: Year-round %XWWHUÁ\3DYLOLRQ EXWWHUÁLHVRUJ UHJLVWUDU#EXWWHUÁLHVRUJ 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& %8*%,7(6 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: U, M Bone(less) appetite! Explore the world of insects with an unexpected sense--taste! Discover the role of insects in exotic diets as you crunch your way around the world. 5HTXHVWDUHVHUYDWLRQRQOLQHDWEXWWHUÁLHV org/learn &RVWWUDYHOIRUÀUVWVHVVLRQ sequential sessions discounted Scholarships may be available for eligible schools. Max. 30 students per program Availability: Year-round %XWWHUÁ\3DYLOLRQ Request a reservation online at: EXWWHUÁLHVRUJOHDUQ HGXFDWLRQ#EXWWHUÁLHVRUJ

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MIDDLE SCHOOL NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE 7($&+(5352*5$06 3$66,21'5($02)$/,)(7,0( 5HVRXUFH Grades: PD ),(/'75,3:,7+&$5((5:25.6+23 )LHOG7ULS Grades: M, H DMNS offers engaging science education )LHOG7ULS Go behind the scenes of National Geographic courses, workshops, and webinars for teachers Grades: M, H in this Explorer Talk with Mountaineer at all grade levels including ECE. Designed to Denver Zoo offers a variety of career Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. Her unstoppable meet the needs of teachers, these programs workshop topics for middle and high school appetite for adventure drove Gerlinde provide inquiry-based ideas and approaches in groups, as well as organized programs for to blaze a trail into the male domain of teaching science, current ideas and practices in individual teens. Maximum of 30 students. high altitude mountaineering. Meet this VFLHQWLÀFUHVHDUFKDQGKLJKOLJKWUHVRXUFHVIURP Cost: $420 Sep-Feb $480 March-May astonishing mountaineer and share the the museum for the classroom. Availability: Weekdays, Sep-Apr; dramatic story of how she prepared for and Cost: See website for information weekends are possible, call 720-337-1408 triumphed on K2, earning recognition as Availability: Year-round to arrange. National Geographic’s Explorer of the Year, 'HQYHU0XVHXPRI1DWXUH 6FLHQFH 'HQYHU=RR EHFRPLQJWKHÀUVWZRPDQWRVXPPLWDOO dmns.org/teachers programs.denverzoo.org/register.asp 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen in the process. WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES TEACHER =226&,(1&(/$%6 Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones )/,*+7352*5$0 ´32237232:(5*$6,),&$7,21$7 free) '(19(5=22µ )URQW5DQJH6FKRRO'LVWULFWV Availability: Feb 22, 2016 Grades: PD )LHOG7ULS Lone Tree Arts Center &RPHÁ\LQD6WHDUPDQELSODQHIRU Grades: M, H LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools free! Front Range STEM teachers can Explore the science of sustainable energy 720-509-1000 LQWURGXFHWKHZRUOGRIÁLJKWWRWKHLUVWXGHQWV through this unique, lab-based workshop at $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP by becoming a Teacher Envoy with the Denver Zoo. Design, construct and test mini- Wings Over the Rockies Teacher Flight JDVLÀFDWLRQUHDFWRUVLQWKLVKRXUSURJUDP 6262/,' 3URJUDP$IWHUDÁLJKWLQRXUFRPSOHWHO\ highlighting how trash becomes energetic 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ restored 1942 Stearman biplane, Teacher treasure in our newest exhibit, Toyota Grades: M Envoys can share the educational resources Elephant Passage. Maximum of 30 students. 6WXGHQWVOHDUQWRGUDZWKHÀYHEDVLF and attractions found at Wings with their Cost: $630 Sep –Feb $720 March-May geometric solids. Creating increasingly students. The participating teacher’s entire Availability: Weekdays, Sep-May; complex stacked arrangements of these school population will receive a one-time free Weekends are possible, call 720-337-1408 shapes, participants will integrate art, admission pass to explore the Museum with a to arrange geometry and spatial thinking. Program run parent or one Teacher Envoy per school. 'HQYHU=RR WLPHLVÁH[LEOHôRUKRXUV Cost: Free programs.denverzoo.org/register.asp Cost: $8/person (minimum fee $160) Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE 0$&&DWWKH5REHUW(/RXS-&& 0XVHXP (;3/25,1*7+(5('3/$1(7 maccjcc.org WingsTeacherFlight.org )LHOG7ULS 303-316-6360 Hetty Carlson Grades: M, H [email protected] 303.360.5360 x130 Go behind the scenes of National Geographic [email protected] in this Explorer Talk with NASA Engineer Kobie Boykins. Few events in the last decade PROFESSIONAL WINGS AEROSPACE SCIENCE of space exploration have captured the 352*5$0 world’s imagination like NASA’s ongoing DEVELOPMENT 5HVRXUFH Mars Exploration Program. Join Boykins for Grades: PD an engaging look at exploring the Red Planet, TEACHER WORKSHOPS/RESOURCES Physics curriculum and resources for third to with an update on the very latest chapter in 5HVRXUFH eighth grade classrooms! Wings Aerospace the ongoing story of Mars exploration. Grades: PD Science Program (W.A.S.P.) is an inquiry- Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones Enhance your teaching with our interactive based kit developed by teachers. The kit uses free) workshops. Designed to correlate with the thrill of aviation to spark students’ interest Availability: Oct 26, 2015 academic standards, our workshops are in science. Each lesson includes hands-on, Lone Tree Arts Center interdisciplinary combining science content multidisciplinary activities to illustrate core LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools with art, literature, inquiry, and more! Register science concepts such as process and 720-509-1000 RQOLQHDWEXWWHUÁLHVRUJOHDUQ&UHGLWLV inquiry, physical science, life science, earth $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP available through CO School of Mines. DQGVSDFHVFLHQFHDQGWKHVFLHQWLÀFPHWKRG Cost: Varies by Workshop Cost: Free Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round %XWWHUÁ\3DYLOLRQ :LQJV2YHUWKH5RFNLHV$LU 6SDFH EXWWHUÁLHVRUJOHDUQ 0XVHXP UHJLVWUDU#EXWWHUÁLHVRUJ :LQJV0XVHXPRUJ Hetty Carlson 303.360.5360 x130 [email protected]

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086(80$1'3,21((5$576'$<6 &2/25$'25$,/52$'+,6725< $57,)$&77581.&2/25$'2 25&8/785$/$576'$<6 )LHOG7ULS 5$,/52$'6²7235(6(17 )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade The Museum interprets the impact of Grades: Adaptable to grade Integrate the arts into your curriculum with railroads on Colorado’s development, 7KH´WUXQNµLVÀOOHGZLWKDUWLIDFWVDFWLYLWLHV workshops taught by professional artists both economically and socially. Advance and teaching materials. Objects include a using arts to explore Colorado history and reservations are required for children’s working steam engine model, costumes, ZRUOGFXOWXUHV6SHFLÀFZRUNVKRSVDQG groups. Groups will have time to visit the model train cars and much more. A programs for: Songs and Tales from Colorado Museum exhibits and grounds, plus time for curriculum, teachers’ background information, Trails, Molly Brown, Pre-Revolutionary lunch in the picnic area if desired. A maximum colorful signs and fun activities are all America, Shakespeare, Native Americans, of 60 children per group, and all groups must included to help demonstrate the importance African Arts and Interactive Storytelling. For be supervised at all times. of railroads on Colorado’s geographic, complete program listing & descriptions visit Cost: $4 per child; 1 adult supervisor cultural and economic history. arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day. Field for every 7 children (ages 10 and up); Cost: $25 deposit upon checking out trunk Trips include assembly style programs, 1 supervisor for every 5 children (under (refunded with the return of materials) your choice of interactive workshop(s), and 10). Supervisors receive free Museum Availability: Year-round docent lead tours and activities in our history admission &RORUDGR5DLOURDG0XVHXP museum. Outreaches are scheduled and Availability: Year-round ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org designed based on the group’s needs. &RORUDGR5DLOURDG0XVHXP 303-279-4591 Cost: Student $4 to $11; Adult: $4 to $11. ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org [email protected] Assembly $250 to $500. Discounts are 303-279-4591 available for Title 1 schools and ADA [email protected] groups. Availability: Outreach Year-round/ Daily, In-house programs run 9am to 4pm, Mon-Fri $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG +XPDQLWLHV arvadacenter.org 720-898-7240 [email protected] &2/25$'2 5$,/52$' '(/$1(<)$50+,6725,&6,7(7285 086(80 )LHOG7ULS Grades: Adaptable to grade Experience 1870s homesteading life on a guided walking tour and program at this historic farm site including Gully Homestead House and DeLaney Round Barn. Cost: $2/student; 1 adult free/10 students Availability: Mar-Oct $XURUD+LVWRU\0XVHXP auroramuseum.org 303-739-6663 [email protected]

$57 &8/785(72856 $*5,&8/785(086(807285 +,6725,&$/'(&$'(7581.6 )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULSRU2QFDPSXV Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade These in-depth interactive tours encourage Students will discover what life was like on Get up close and personal with real artifacts students to examine objects and ideas an early 20th century farm before modern while exploring our area’s culture and from world cultures. Students are led in technology. Options include creating your history. See the change in fashion through games, discussion, artmaking, writing, and own Victory Garden, participating in a the years, calculate the changing costs of collaborative work. Tours include: Africa, livestock auction and hayrides. a car, discover how world events affected American Indian, Japan, New World, Cost: $4/student, $3/chaperone, teacher/ communities and learn about pop culture Architecture, Art of Architecture Tour + free; Discounts available for multiple tours trends. 10 trunks available: 1900s-1990s. Artmaking. Tours address 21st Century Skills Availability: Year-round Cost: $2/student and $3/chaperone and 2009 CO Academic Standards. /DNHZRRG+HULWDJH&HQWHU on-site, $50/day with presenter or $40/ Cost: FREE for students and adult lakewood.org day without presenter off-site. Discounts chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 303-987-7879 available for multi-day or multi-trunk use. students. Divide class into groups of 10. [email protected] Availability: Year-round Bus transportation funding assistance /DNHZRRG+HULWDJH&HQWHU available for designated Title I schools to &200(5&,$/*52:7+086(807285 lakewood.org cover up to 50% of total costs. )LHOG7ULS 303-987-7879 Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] starting Sep 22, 2015. What do a diner, variety store, and beauty Field trip reservations must be booked at salon have in common? All were types of <($552$'75,3 least three weeks in advance. To reserve, businesses that contributed to commercial GATHERING SPARKS call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ growth after World War II. Students will )LHOG7ULS denverartmuseum.org. explore the White Way Grill, 88-cent Store Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD 'HQYHU$UW0XVHXP and other buildings with math activities and The Mizel Museum’s core exhibit, 4,000 Year creativity.denverartmuseum.org/school- hands-on artifacts to learn how much a “bun Road Trip: Gathering Sparks, is a dynamic tours/ pup with cow feed” cost and which games journey through art, artifacts, and digital kids played in the 1950s. media which illuminates Jewish history and '5$0$7,&/($51,1* Cost: $4/student, $3/chaperone, teacher/ culture. This exhibition engages students 62&,$/6&,(1&($1'+,6725< free; Discounts available for multiple tours around current issues such as social justice 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS Availability: Year-round and cultural preservation. Add-on programs Grades: Adaptable to grade /DNHZRRG+HULWDJH&HQWHU can include an art project, synagogue tour, Dramatic Learning™ is a tailored in-school lakewood.org or Holocaust survivor speaker. Customized program, which uses theatre exercises 303-987-7879 tours are available; please inquire. to teach any curriculum (history, poetry, [email protected] Cost: $5 student; Add-on program $3; science, math, etc.).Workshops are led by Scholarships available experienced teaching artists who address &20081,7<&8/785(,17+(+20( Availability: Year-round multiple learning styles and require full 086(807285 0L]HO0XVHXP participation from students and teachers. )LHOG7ULS www.mizelmuseum.org Past workshops include: Ellis Island Grades: Adaptable to grade 303-749-5016 Experience, Ancient Civilizations, Economics What was home life like for children in the [email protected] and Personal Finance, Civil Rights, Colorado 1920s and 1930s? Students will experience History, US Government and more. a 1920s school day, kids’ jobs on a farm %5,'*(62)&8/785$/ Cost: $75 per class and life during the struggles of the Great 81'(567$1',1* Availability: Sep-May Depression. 2Q&DPSXV([KLELW 'HQYHU&HQWHUIRUWKH Cost: $4/student, $3/chaperone, teacher/ Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Performing Arts free; Discounts available for multiple tours Encompassing an array of cultures and denvercenter.org Availability: Year-round objects, this engaging exhibit explores 303-893-6006 /DNHZRRG+HULWDJH&HQWHU commonalities among a variety of cultural [email protected] lakewood.org celebrations and rituals. Six 6’ by 4’ cases 303-987-7879 for Ceremonies & Festivals can stay on site [email protected] for one semester, then can be exchanged with six 6’ x 4’ Rites of Passage cases the second semester. An overview of the exhibits &2/25$'2 will be offered, and a menu of options for &+$0%(5 programming is customizable for your school. 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,17(5$&7,9(086(8072856 $1'&/$665220352*5$06 %28/'(5+,6725<086(80 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ Grades: Adaptable to grade Educators bring interactive experiences to your classroom exploring local history through programs such as Lego City, the Denver Grows!, and more! Join us on site in addition to a classroom program or on its own. Step back in time and explore the life of Molly Brown and Colorado History. Scholarships available. Cost: Museum Tours: K-8-$4, HS-$5 Classroom Programs: $100 Availability: Year-round 0ROO\%URZQ+RXVH0XVHXP mollybrown.org/learn 303-832-4092 x17 [email protected]

*2/'(1'5$*21$&52%$76 6281','($6)520$5281' LOWER ELEMENTARY :25/'&8/785$/3(5)250$1&( 7+(:25/' )LHOG7ULS Assembly Grades: Adaptable to grade 621*6$1'7$/(6)520&2/25$'2 Grades: Adaptable to grade TRAILS The premiere Chinese acrobatic touring This assembly teaches lessons in geography, )LHOG7ULSRU2XWUHDFK company showcases award-winning social studies, languages, all through Grades: L, U acrobatics, ancient and contemporary music, wondrous musical instruments that Michael Dressed in typical 1860’s attire, Susannah traditional dance, spectacular costumes, and Stanwood has collected through his travels. and Jackson will tell stories of pioneer theatrical techniques. Over its long and rich Michael is a former goodwill ambassador for experiences while crossing the plains, history it has developed as one of the most the U.S. State Department. 45 minutes in interspersed with songs about early Colorado popular art forms among the Chinese people. length. pioneer women - Clara Brown, Chipeta, The citizens of china continue to present their Cost: $350 base plus 10 cents per student. Silverheels, Rattlesnake Kate, and Matilda acrobatic art for the world today, as it portrays Financial Assistance may be available Godfrey. Tales include Native Americans, the hard working nature of their people and Availability: Year-round miners, cowboys, and ranchers. Songs are sets forth an example of the rich traditions of 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF accompanied by traditional instruments such Chinese culture. swallowhillmusic.org as: banjo, dulcimer, and autoharp. Even their Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones 303-643-5820 lumberjack family becomes a part of the free) [email protected] Availability: Oct 23, 10am show and encourages audience participation. Cost: $200 in-house, $250 outreach 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV TESORO CULTURAL CENTER TOUR &HQWHU 3$&( Availability: Outreach Year-round, Daily, In- )LHOG7ULS house programs run 9am-4pm, Mon-Fri pacecenteronline.org/school Grades: Adaptable to grade $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG 303-805-6800 Tours include an interactive trunk show, NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ +XPDQLWLHV a tour of The Fort and lunch. Interpreters arvadacenter.org assist students in dressing up in historically 720-898-7240 5+<7+0$08/7,&8/785$/086,& inspired clothing. During the program, (;3(5,(1&($1'025( [email protected] students will learn about Colorado’s cultural . )LHOG7ULSRU$VVHPEO\ diversity, Bent’s Fort, economics of the fur .862*($12%,'580(16(0%/( Grades: Adaptable to grade trade, life in the 1830s and 1840s, and early )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ This assembly explores rhythm as it has entrepreneurial Coloradans. Grades: L, M, U come out of Africa through the Caribbean, Cost: trunk & tour $6, Lunch: $5 This vibrant and energetic performance, Brazil and up through the Americas. Students Available: Year-round based on traditions of West Africa, takes the will also gain an appreciation for other 7HVRUR&XOWXUDO&HQWHU audience on a rhythmical journey from Africa cultures. 45 minutes in length. tesoroculturalcenter.org to New World and back to Africa. “Kusogea” Cost: $400 base plus 10 cents per student. 303-839-1671 in Ki-Swahili that means “to move.” “Nobi” Financial Assistance may be available [email protected] Availability: Year-round is an indigenous word that means “people.” 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF Kusogea Nobi moves people! swallowhillmusic.org Cost: $400 in-house, $500 outreach 303-643-5820 Availability: Outreach Year-round/ Daily in- house programs run 9am to 4pm, Mon-Fri $UYDGD&HQWHUIRUWKH$UWVDQG +XPDQLWLHV arvadacenter.org 720-898-7240 [email protected]

&2$/&5((.21(5220 :25/''$1&($1''5800,1* <(67(5$'27+($75(3(5)250$1&( SCHOOLHOUSE )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV2XWUHDFK )LHOG7ULS )LHOG7ULS Grades L Grades: L, U Grades: L, U, M Take a rhythm journey around the world Yesterado is the imaginative and fun way Experience a typical school day in a one as we learn about drums and dance from to learn Colorado history! Based on various room school house during the 1900s. diverse cultures. Students will all get to newspaper clippings from the 1890s, you’ll Cost: $2/student; 1 adult free/10 students try their hands at different drums in this meet Jack Langrishe and Marietta Ravel - Availability: Mar-Oct interactive musical adventure combining late 19th century performers eager to usher $XURUD+LVWRU\0XVHXP geography, arts and culture. Best for grades you back in time to see Colorado history as auroramuseum.org Pre-K to 1st. you never have before! 303-739-6663 Cost: Outreach—$150 per session within Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones [email protected] the seven-county region. Field Trip—$8 free) per child Availability: Jan 25-27 at 10am +20(67($',1*,1'8675,$/ Availability: Year-round (Mon-Fri, 9:30am- Lone Tree Arts Center 5(92/87,21&/$665220 3:30pm) 10075 Commons Street PRESENTATIONS &KLOGUHQҋV0XVHXPRI'HQYHU Lone Tree CO 80124 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ mychildsmuseum.org LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools Grades: L, U, M 303-561-0113 720-509-1000 Choose from a variety of classroom [email protected] $VKOH\YDQGHUZHJ#FLW\RÁRQHWUHHFRP presentations/activities including: Homesteading Trunk, Then and Now History +(5,7$*('$<6 &2/25$'2+,6725<7+528*+086,& and a program about the Industrial Revolution )LHOG7ULS Assembly Cost: $35 per presentation Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Availability: Year-round Explore the past through a day of hands-on Colorado has a rich tradition of music through $XURUD+LVWRU\0XVHXP activities and demonstrations including Day in LWVKLVWRU\1DWLYH$PHULFDQVZHUHWKHÀUVW auroramuseum.org the Country School, sheepherding and much settlers and had their own musical traditions. 303-739-6663 more. Students use their investigative skills to The following waves of explorers and settlers [email protected] ÀQGDQVZHUVWRKLVWRU\DQGFXOWXUHTXHVWLRQV all contributed to our musical heritage as in the museum’s galleries as they learn about well. During the performance, the musicians +,6725<'(7(&7,9(6 life in early Lakewood. will share songs of mountain men, explorers, 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RU)LHOG7ULS Cost: $8/student, teacher/free IDUPHUVUDQFKHUVDQGPLQHUVDQGZLOOÀQLVK Grades: L, U Availability: May 10, 11, 12, 13 the assembly with recognizable and modern A historian is a detective who uses clues to 10am-1:30pm each day Colorado songs. The children will participate learn about the past. Armed with artifacts /DNHZRRG+HULWDJH&HQWHU in the concert through singing and movement, from Boulder’s past to touch, try on and lakewood.org and will learn a little history about each song examine, students are transported back 303-987-7879 along the way. The program is designed in time by exploring objects representing [email protected] to support Colorado State K-6 teaching early Boulder commerce, mining, farming, standards and will align both classroom and education and Native Americans. music room curriculum. Costs: $3/student Cost: $350-$450 plus 10 cents per Availability: Year-round students. Financial Assistance may be %RXOGHU+LVWRU\0XVHXP available. boulderhistory.org 45 Minutes in length 303-449-3464 Availability: Year-round [email protected] 6ZDOORZ+LOO0XVLF swallowhillmusic.org 303-643-5820 [email protected]

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+2/2&$867$:$5(1(66('8&$7,21 $77+(7$%/(:,7+'5.,1* &2817(57(5525,60('8&$7,21 2Q&DPSXVRU)LHOG7ULS 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\ /($51,1*/$% &(// Grades M, H, PD Grades: M, H, PD )LHOG7ULSRU2Q&DPSXV$VVHPEO\ In Eyewitness to History: A Holocaust At the Table with Dr. King immerses middle Grades: M, H, Adaptable to grade Survivor Speaks, students hear a survivor’s and high school students in the sights The CELL exhibit is a dynamic center powerfully moving personal account of the and sounds of the American Civil Rights ZKLFKLVFRQWLQXDOO\XSGDWHGWRUHÁHFWWKH Holocaust. This program is a rare opportunity 0RYHPHQWIRFXVLQJRQDGHÀQLQJPRPHQW ongoing discourse surrounding terrorism. to interact with a member of the last living in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tours allow students to explore aspects of generation of survivors. In Living Lessons when he rose above his circumstances and civics, ethics, homeland security, and media of the Holocaust: Eyewitness Digital responded to his call to action and service literacy in the context of a highly interactive Stories, students will view a series of multi- in his community. This program inspires experience. The CELL also offers interactive media stories created with survivors that students to confront hatred and racism presentations in your school which will pair document their experiences. An educator will today. It aims to nurture life-long leaders for your students with a subject matter expert facilitate an interactive discussion about the social transformation—a powerful antidote to LQWKHÀHOGVRILQWHUQDWLRQDOUHODWLRQVSXEOLF importance of rejecting discrimination and the recent decline in civic engagement. The affairs, or national security. These assemblies promoting human dignity. hour-long program features the professional give your students a front row seat to the Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students) $10/ musical ensemble, More Than Music. most important topics of the day. student; Assembly (over 40 students) $350 Cost: Please inquire Tour Cost: $4 per students, chaperones plus $1/student Scholarships available free; Scholarships & Bus Funding are Scholarships available Availability: Year-round available. Assembly Cost: $500 Base, Availability: Year-round 0L]HO0XVHXP must have at least 250 students. 0L]HO0XVHXP mizelmuseum.org Scholarships available www.mizelmuseum.org 303-749-5016 Availability: Year-round 303-749-5016 [email protected] &RXQWHUWHUURULVP(GXFDWLRQ Learning Lab ),1',1*)5(('20$1(:/,)(,1 thecell.org $0(5,&$ 303.844.4000 x 8 2Q&DPSXV$FWLYLW\RUDW0L]HO0XVHXP [email protected] Grades: M, H This engaging program provides students WORKING GROUP THEATER’S the opportunity to view a series of multi- 352'8&7,212)2872)%281'6 media digital stories of people’s immigration $17,%8//<,1*352*5$0 to America—some by choice and some )LHOG7ULS by force. From our renowned Community Grades: M, H, PD Narratives Project, storytellers speak to Out of Bounds tells the story of cyber bullying VWXGHQWVDERXWWKHGLIÀFXOWLHVRIXSURRWLQJ from the point of view of 14-year-old Amy and from home and moving to America, as well her peers. On a dare, Amy posted a picture as the rewards and positive change that of herself online that she shouldn’t have. Now America has afforded them. Educators will that she’s transferred to a new school, she engage with students interactively to create hopes she can make a fresh start. But when a dialogue about who we are as Americans, DULYDOÀQGVWKHZKROHHPEDUUDVVLQJKLVWRU\ what we represent, and how best to welcome online, this time Amy has nowhere to run. newcomers to America, land of the free. This honest production is both thoughtful and Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students) $10/ powerful for today’s students facing multi- student; Assembly (over 40 students) $250 faceted bullying. 52&.<02817$,148,/7 plus $1/student Cost: Teachers and school counselors are 086(80 0L]HO0XVHXP invited to a free Out of Bounds Workshop mizelmuseum.org on Feb 3 at 5pm-7pm to introduce 303-749-5016 teachers to exercises to help students talk [email protected] about bullying in a safe and productive manner. To participate in the workshop, SOHDVH5693WRNÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQH *2/'(1+,6725<086(80 org. Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) Availability: Feb 4, 10am 3DUNHU$UWV&XOWXUHDQG(YHQWV &HQWHU 3$&( parkerarts.org/schools 303-805-6800 NÁHWFKHU#SDUNHURQOLQHRUJ

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