For Early Childhood Ages (0-4)
21C Museum • Age Range: 2-21 • Discipline: Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o 21c Louisville was founded in 2006 and is now one of nine 21c locations that make up a multi-venue museum dedicated to expanding access to contemporary art. Featuring a range of artists and artworks that have been presented at 21c locations, our Cultural Pass offerings provide activities for the whole family. Take a virtual scavenger hunt through 21c Cincinnati’s exhibition, "Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance"; play along and read a story about our iconic penguins; and learn more about different artists’ processes and build your own works of art with materials in your home. Come back and visit us again and again: new activities will be added throughout the summer! We look forward to hosting you.
ArtEcoTech • Age Range: 1-21 • Discipline: Arts Education, Park, Forest, Garden • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The Cultural pass page will include a video of Naturalists and photographers identifying native plants and animals, teaching how to photograph nature, and a checklist of species. o Participants will be encouraged to identify and photograph their flora and fauna and upload those photos as a virtual exhibit. o The pieces could then be printed as an exhibit at some point. All this can be created in your home with a phone. o
Arts Council of Southern Indiana and Arts Alliance Southern Indiana • Age Range: 1-21 • Discipline: Arts Education, Literature/Poetry • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Due to COVID-19, AASI’s in-person programs have been postponed or canceled. With the help of technology, we are still able to implement an altered version of Art on the Move to reach audiences. This includes artists doing 15- to 30- minute videos of Art Classes, Sing-a-long and story time which we are adding to our website and social media pages to maintain engagement every day.
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest: Forest Giants in a Giant Forest • Age Range: 3-13 • Discpline: Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Park, Forest, Garden, Arboretum, Public Art • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Bernheim’s virtual offerings will include virtual hikes, and interactive activities. See what you can discover outside while staying healthy at home with nature-based activities that can be done at home, in your yard, while exploring your neighborhood, or anytime you’re outside. When Bernheim is able to open again, we will have activities that help you explore our 16,137 acres of nature.
Bourne- Schweitzer Gallery • Age Range: 1-20 • Discpline: Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The gallery exhibits the work of local, regional and international artists. o The Cultural pass page will include videos from multiple artists, images of their work, talking about, or creating their work. o Participants will be encouraged to select an artist and an artwork and recreate that work and take a photograph o Participants can photograph the re-creation an upload it to our site as a virtual exhibit. o The pieces could then be printed as an exhibit at some point. o All this can be created with things and people that you have in your home and a phone.
Commonwealth Theatre Center • Age Range: 3-6 • Discipline: Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Construction Site - a School Readiness Adventure § There’s a lot to do on the construction site: fix a sign, count the bricks, and sort some mixed up materials. Luckily, there’s a new construction crew ready to help: YOU! Enter the world of pretend to become characters and act out a story together. Commonwealth Theatre Center • Age Range: 3-9 • Discipline: Arts Education, Literature and Poetry • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The Richman & the Shoemaker - a Blue Apple Outreach StoryTime from Commonwealth Theatre Center o The Shoemaker and his family have a joyful home by keeping it full of song, but one neighbor wants to change all that. o Teaching the lesson that money can't buy happiness, this is a fable for all. A lively storytelling program that uses interactive listening and the tradition of oral storytelling to build comprehension and language development – skills vital to early literacy.
Commonwealth Theatre Center • Age Range: 3-6 • Discipline: Theatre and Musical Theatre • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Construction Site - a School Readiness Adventure § There’s a lot to do on the construction site: fix a sign, count the bricks, and sort some mixed up materials. Luckily, there’s a new construction crew ready to help: YOU! Enter the world of pretend to become characters and act out a story together.
Conrad-Caldwell House Museum • Age Range: 0-6 • Discipline: Historic Buildings, Landmarks Literature/Poetry/Writing, Fashion Design, Museum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Join us for Storytime with Nanny. The Caldwell's nanny will read a book written during the Conrad-Caldwell period (1850-1940) and we will follow it up with an easy to make craft with supplies you should have on hand at home. New story each month! (ages 0-6)
Discovery Center Experience • Age Range: 3-14 • Discipline: Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Museum, Park, Forest, Garden, Arboretum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The Discovery Center will host three Cultural Pass activities that are both educational and entertaining and that will engage the mind through our interactive museum, park properties, and historical properties. These offerings will be fun for the whole family!
The Falls of the Ohio Foundation • Age Range: 3-21 • Discipline: Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Museum, Park, Forest, Garden, Arboretum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Located on the banks of the Ohio River in Clarksville, IN is the Falls of the Ohio State Park. It includes ~165 acres of land and lies within the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area. The Lewis & Clark expedition started and ended at the Falls of the Ohio and is a designated stop on the National Historic Lewis & Clark Trail. John James Audubon spent several years sketching over 200 bird species while living in the area. The deck overlooks the 390 million- year-old fossil beds. o We will be offering the following fun and educational activities; o Movie describing the history of the area o Bird identification activity o Butterfly identification and origami art project o Cruisin' the Devonian Sea
The Filson Historical Society • Age Range: 4-14 • Discipline: Arts Education, Fashion, Folk and Historical Arts • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Patterns and instructions for making paper dolls o Coloring sheets made from historical photographs and posters o Virtual puzzles based on historical images from our collections o "How to" videos for projects at home
Frazier History Museum • Age Range: 2-12 • Discipline: Arts Education, Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Museum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o We will be sharing a variety of educational activities based on our museum's physical and virtual exhibits, including Celebrating the Sounds of Kentucky, our Great Louisville.
Halo ArtSeed Community Gallery • Age Range: 1-21 • Discipline: Visual Arts and Design, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The cultural pass page will include a video that teaches the principles of photography. o There will be instructions to create a vanitas still-life. o Participants can photograph the still-life an upload it to our site as a virtual exhibit. o The pieces could then be printed as an exhibit at some point. o All this can be created with things you have in your home and a phone.
Harrison County Public Library • Age Range: 0-21 • Discipline: Library • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Summer Reading Program for all ages - Imagine Your Story o May 26-July 31 o Login through Beanstack https://harrisonco.beanstack.org
Jewish Community Center • Age Range: 3-10 • Discipline: Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o CenterStage's Acting Out presents an original, commissioned play about teamwork and the power of giving in "Room at the Table". This story retells two popular Jewish folktales in a modern way and engages our young audience members along the way!
o The town of Moodyville is preparing for a New Year’s Feast. Joseph and his family are celebrating his bar mitzvah! But not everything is going to plan… Moodyville has run out of food, and Joseph has run out of friends! Will you help our heroes fix their feast, find their friends, and celebrate the New Year?
Kentucky Derby Museum • Age Range: 1-21 • Discipline: Literature, Historic Buildings, Parks and Gardens • Cultural Pass Offerings: § Born to Run: A Physical Education Program for K-12 § Description: Students will learn about the daily workouts of a Thoroughbred Racehorse and will participate in fun, engaging physical activities that mimic the workout of a horse and jockey. § All you’ll need is either a bed sheet or beach towel!
Kentucky Opera Association • Age Range: 3-8 • Discipline: Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Read together and sing together! This musical storytelling program fosters literacy in and through the arts. Opera Time gives students skills in broadening and contextualizing vocabulary, creating original stories, identifying character and motive, and selecting words that supply richness and meaning. Join our teaching artist in this session of singing, read-aloud story time, movement, and story/character exploration using one of our favorite children’s books.
Kentucky Shakespeare, Inc. • Age Range: 4-21 • Discipline: Theatre and Musical Theatre, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Kentucky Shakespeare is delighted to offer a digital performance of our 2-Actor HAMLET for young audiences. The production toured in person to schools during the school year and to the Louisville Free Public Library system with our annual Shakespeare in the Libraries tour. We’re now offering it here, digitally, for our Cultural Pass families for the first time! Shakespeare’s most famous play follows Prince Hamlet as he returns home to discover “something’s rotten in the state of Denmark.” Our fun and fast-paced two- actor production for young audiences highlights self-worth, relationship dynamics, the consequences of acting on vengeance, and finding help in times of isolation or vulnerability. We also include a link to an accompanying guide with specific pre and post-performance activities.
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC) • Age Range: 0-18 • Disciplines: Museum, Visual Arts, Fashion Design, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Join us for a Virtual Field Trip to KMAC Museum! The Virtual Field Trip slideshow will take us through an exhibition called Heavy Lifting, featuring six paintings by the contemporary artist Summer Wheat. The field trip includes videos where we talk about the way Summer creates her paintings and the types of imagery she uses in her work. We will ask questions and look for answers in the details of her paintings. We also have a writing and drawing activity for you to do at home, inspired by Summer Wheat: Heavy Lifting! o Join us for a Virtual Field Trip to KMAC Museum! The Virtual Field Trip slideshow takes a look at fashion designs created by the artist Wende Cudmore. Wende made these designs over the past six years as part of KMAC Couture, an annual fashion show hosted by KMAC! You can get a close look at Wende's designs and her unusual materials through pictures and videos. We will learn about the ways that art and fashion are connected, ask questions, and get creative with a writing and drawing activity. We also have tips for creating your own mood board at home, using inspiration from whatever is around you! o Get introduced to artist Julie Baldyga with a KMAC activity sheet! Julie's oil pastel work shoes heavenly bodies as she imagines them. Read about her work and follow along with an activity that will help you create your own portrait of paradise!
Locust Grove • Age Range: 0-20 • Discipline: Culinary Arts, Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Park, Forest, Garden, Arboretum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Hands-on activities that explore and interpret daily life in the early 19th century.
The Louisville Ballet • Age Range: 0-12 • Discipline: Dance, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Louisville Ballet's virtual Cultural Pass Program welcomes you to the world of dance from the comfort of your home! Follow along with instructors from Louisville Ballet and The Louisville Ballet School as you explore different dance and craft activities.
The Louisville Ballet School • Age Range: 3 mo-12 yr • Discipline: Dance • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Virtual creative movement and dance activities for ages 3 months-12 years old.
Louisville Children’s Museum • Age Range: 2-12 • Discipline: Culinary Arts, Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Museum, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Come choose your own adventure with Louisville Children's Museum! We'll explore Louisville through a lens of imagination, creativity and tactile learning through our four part Listen.Learn.Create series. Choose one adventure at a time or come back for all four as we investigate the rich history, landmarks, and influences of Pioneers and the Wilderness Trail, Native Americans in Kentucky, the Ohio River, and important Kentuckians. Each of the four lessons will include hands-on learning through a main activity, scavenger hunt picture clues you can find around Louisville with your family to promote further investigation, and supplemental activities where you can learn more. Come grow with us!
The Louisville Chorus • Age Range: 3-21 • Discipline: Music- Vocal (Choral, Opera), Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: LOUISVILLE CHORUS—SINGING For AMERICA o A Video incorporating— o * An LC Video documentary primarily related to "Fanfare for the 4th—Musical Visions of America", the event the students will not get to witness in person this season. o * Notes from the Music Director about the Power of Music and a typical season of programming and heavily varied music o * The power and value of "singing" as expressed by a few singers in the Chorus o * Then leading to the "Fanfare for the 4th" documentary—a taste and exact sampling of what the students would have experienced "live".
The Louisville Civic Orchestra • Age Range: 3-21 • Discipline: Music- Instrumental • Cultural Pass Offerings: o A tour through the orchestra, showcasing different instrument sections, and interviews with musicians. As a bonus, a live recording of one of our past concerts.
Louisville Nature Center • Age Range: 4-14 • Discipline: Parks, Gardens • Cultural Pass Offerings: o While the Louisville Nature Center is closed to the public, our 2 miles of trail and sensory garden remain open - and we continue to facilitate outdoor learning! After watching our brief video demonstrations, we encourage your family to get outside. Discover the natural world with fun and simple activities!
Louisville Visual Art (LVA) • Age Range: 3-21 • Discipline: Visual Arts, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Create a bookmark with Louisville Visual Art to go with your summer reading books! Make monsters or mermaids, cows or kittens, your brothers and sisters, or maybe the characters in your book. We are using paper and origami with some imagination to keep that place in your book before you go to sleep at night, or take a walk with your family. (For ages 7 & up, or 3 & up with help.)
Louisville Zoo • Age Range: 3-11 • Discipline: Zoo • Cultural Pass Offerings: o The Louisville Zoo is offering new virtual activities that promote conservation education at home. See the animals at the Zoo from your house and learn about how you can help us conserve these species.
Portland Museum • Age Range: 1-21 • Discipline: Museum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Explore Louisville's river heritage through permanently- displayed dioramas, life-sized mannequins, automated soundtrack, video documentaries, and an animatronic Captain Mary Miller -- with Cultural Pass 2020, we will be making all of this available online for the first time!
Sacred Heart School for the Arts • Age Range: 4-13 • Discipline: Dance, Visual Arts, Puppetry • Cultural Pass Offerings: o SHSA will have three activity options to choose from that will allow students to choose which discipline they are most interested in: a Visual Art Project, A Puppet Show and A New Dance to learn. Students do not have to complete all three activities.
Squallis Puppeteers • Age Range: 0-12 • Discipline: Theatre and Musical Theatre, Puppetry • Cultural Pass Offerings: o "Tale of a Tricky Fox" is a tabletop puppet show based on a book by Jim Aylesworth and is performed by Nora Christensen. Learn and laugh along with this trickster tale featuring animal and human hand puppets and plenty of hijinks and life lessons. If you like this story, try reading the book- what is similar and what is different from the puppet show? You can read a book and turn it into a puppet show too, give it a try with what you have at home. This recording includes short pre and post show information, total running time about 28 minutes. Please email any comments, suggestions or reviews so we can hear back from our audience at [email protected].
Squallis Puppeteers • Age Range: 0-12 • Discipline: Music- Instrumental Puppetry • Cultural Pass Offerings: o "Ferdinand the Bull" is a recording of a Live performance featuring Sara Callaway from Louisville Academy of Music and Shawn Hennessey of Squallis Puppeteers. This performance is based on the book by Munro Leaf with music composed by Alan Ridout. Sara narrates the story and plays the violin while Shawn performs the suitcase-sized, table-top puppet show. If you like this story, try reading the book- what is similar and what is different from the puppet show? You can read books and turn them into puppet shows too, give it a try with what you have at home. Total running time is about 15 minutes. Please email any comments, suggestions or reviews so we can hear back from our audience at [email protected].
Stage One Family Theater • Age Range: 2-8 • Discipline: Theatre and Musical Theatre, Arts Education • Cultural Pass Offerings: o This storybook program takes children’s favorite books and brings them to life in a way that’s as unique and exciting as the stories themselves. At these events, caregivers and little ones sit on the floor around the performers for a truly immersive theatre experience. Not only do viewers become part of the action, they’re also encouraged to help tell the story through music, interaction, and LOTS of imagination!
Teatro Tercera Llamada • Age Range: 3-10 • Discipline: Theatre and Musical Theatre • Cultural Pass Offerings: o "La Cucarachita Martina" adapted by Carlos-Manuel is a Spanish folktale that has been passed on from generations in Latinx households. The story is about a little cockroach who meets a little mouse, create a friendship over their love of books and reading. The story takes multiple twist and turns which keeps children riveted to their seats to find out what happens at the end. o This adaptation emphasis on values like friendship, sacrifice, inner beauty versus outer beauty, budgeting, kindness, reading and writing. o The play is bilingual, but don't worry, if something is said in Spanish, it is repeated again in English. No need for subtitles. o Teatro Tercera Llamada brings bilingual children's theatre every summer at many of Louisville's Free Public Libraries. o Parents will delight in the story as well. The book is available at the Louisville Free Public Library.
Yew Dell Botanical Gardens • Age Range: 2-10 • Discipline: Historic Buildings, Landmarks, Park, Forest, Garden, Arboretum • Cultural Pass Offerings: o Yew Dell Botanical Garden would love to welcome your family to the gardens this summer but due to COVID-19 precautions we are excited to offer a virtual experience for you this summer. We have created fun and engaging educational activities that will connect your family to gardening and the natural world. We will also be sharing a little about what we do and our history here at Yew Dell. We hope you'll use these videos to learn more about your backyard or other greenspaces available to you.