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Arts-In-Education 2018-2019 Arts Council of Anne Arundel County - 2666 Riva Road suite 150, Annapolis, MD 21401 www.acaac.org - [email protected] - Phone: (410) 222-7949 - Fax: (410) 222-4068 1 2 Mission Statement The mission of the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, Inc. is to encourage and invest in the visual arts, performing arts, and historic preservation for the people of our county. Vision Statement The vision of the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County is to be the premier resource of the cultural arts community. Through our leadership in advocacy, funding, programming and promotions, the Council shall help to create a vibrant cultural arts community that enriches the quality of life for every county resident. Arts in Education The Arts Council of Anne Arundel County assists schools and PTA/O groups in presenting quality performances and residencies for students in dance, history, music, theatre and arts related or integrated disciplines.

Many of the performers listed in the Arts in Education Directory offer more than one production to serve different age groups or grade levels. Please respect the performers’ designated age levels and audience sizes for the best program presentation.

Grants are available from the Art Council to assist with the expense of your performer or program. Funding is also available from the Maryland State Arts Council for approved artists. Inquire of the artist for funding.

3 ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael N. Russo, Jr. President Jessica Daigle Vice President Ellen Ambrose Treasurer Martha Blaxall Secretary Wil Scott Past President

Jeremy Allen, Sr. Andrew Bienstock Richard D’Amato Matthew Earl Paul Gable, County Executive Appointee Patricia Horn Cynthia Jones Kris Kohlmann Sunhee Kim Jung, County Executive Appointee Daniel LeDuc Godfrey Lewis Sean Looney, County Executive Appointee Rachelle Millison Richard Montgomery, III Shannon Morton James O’Hare Scotti Preston Dania Schuh Tony Spencer Lucy Spiegel Briana Walton, MD Mark Yarbrough

STAFF April Nyman, Executive Director Brenda Collins, Program Director, Grants Administrator McKenna Kennedy, Program Manager

4 Sponsors

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Anne Arundel County Public Schools

George Arlotto, Superintendent Anne Arundel County Schools

Eleni Dykstra, Coordinator of Visual Arts, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Lacey Sheppard, Arts Integration Specialist, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

5 Table of Contents

MISSION STATEMENT...... 3

VISION STATEMENT...... 3

BOARD OF DIRECTORS...... 4

SPONSORS...... 5

GUIDELINES FOR RESIDENCY GRANT APPLICATIONS………………7

GUIDELINES FOR AUDITORIUM GRANT APPLICATIONS...... 9

ARTS COUNCIL & ARTISTS AGENCIES...... 10

DANCE…...... 11

MUSIC...... 17

THEATER...... 29

VISUAL ...... 45

WRITERS...... 50

INDEX OF ARTISTS...... 51

6 GUIDELINES FOR RESIDENCY GRANT APPLICATIONS

1. The Arts Council currently accepts applications for cultural and artistic presentations that take place in Anne Arundel County public schools and state approved private schools during the 2018-2019 school year.

2. Applications must be received by October 18, 2018. Notification of awards will be sent no later than December 1, 2018.

3. The Arts Council will review all applications and approve maximum funding possible. The school, its PTO/ PTA or other sources of support will be responsible for funding the balance of the programs.

4. The Arts Council will support presentations of the performers listed in the catalog or on the MSAC AiE registry, all of whom have been found to meet high educational goals and professional artistic standards.

5. Each school is eligible to apply for ONE residency grant per school. Evening performances will not be supported.

6. It is the responsibility of each applicant to book the performer(s). The Arts Council will only issue a grant check after receiving a contract confirming the booking of an approved presentation.

7. The Arts Council grants received under the Art-in-Education Program should be acknowledged in the school’s newsletter, giving credit to the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, the Maryland State Arts Council and City of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. The school should invite parents to attend performances whenever possible.

All grantsAll grants must must be applied be applied for electronically for electronically through through our websiteour website at www.acaac.gosmart.org/. at www.acaac.gosmart.org/.

1. Click the green Grants button at the top of the Home Page. 2. Click Arts in Education Grant. 3. Choose Apply for Residency Grant. 4. If you need a tutorial on using the online grants system, click the ‘Go SMART’ Online Applicant Dashboard Tutorial. 5. All schools will have to create a new login for this system. a. Please create ONE user profile per school. You will be able to apply for one residency grant and one auditorium grant with that profile. b. Coordinate in your schools to ensure duplicate profiles are not created. 6. For any questions regarding grant applications, please contact the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County at (410) 222.7949 and ask for McKenna Kennedy.

7 ADDITIONAL NOTES FOR RESIDENCY GRANT APPLICATIONS

This Program will Support:

• Artist in residence workshops for Anne Arundel County public schools and state approved private schools. • Programs involving joint participation of teachers, students and artists. • Orientation meeting with teachers (one session). • A minimum of FIVE artist workshops (minimum 45 minutes each) with a small core group of the same students. Ideally, the core group will consist of a classroom sized group of students or fewer. • Textbooks and supplies relating to the program. • Artist related travel fees.

This Program WILL NOT support:

• In-service training for teachers • Release time for teachers • Receptions • Awards, trophies • Transportation for students or staff • Space Rental

8 GUIDELINES FOR AUDITORIUM GRANT APPLICATIONS

2. Applications must be received by October 18, 2018. Notification of acceptance will be mailed no later than December 1, 2018.

5. Each school is eligible to apply for one auditorium grant per school. Evening performances will not be supported.

6. It is the responsibility of each applicant to book the performer(s). The Arts Council will only issue a grant check after receiving a contract confirming the booking of an approved presentation.

7. The Arts Council grants received under the Arts-in-Education Program should be acknowledged in the school’s newsletter, giving credit to the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, the Maryland State Arts Council and City of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. The school should invite parents to attend performances whenever possible.

All grantsAll grants must must be applied be applied for electronically for electronically through through our websiteour website at www.acaac.gosmart.org/. at www.acaac.gosmart.org/.

1. Click the green Grants button at the top of the Home Page. 2. Click Arts in Education Grant. 3. Choose Apply for Auditorium Grant. 4. If you need a tutorial on using the online grants system, click the ‘Go SMART’ Online Applicant Dashboard Tutorial. 5. All schools will have to create a new login for the ‘Go SMART’ system. a. Please create ONE user profile per school. You will be able to apply for one auditorium grant and one residency grant with that profile. b. Coordinate in your schools to ensure duplicate profiles are not created. 6. For any questions regarding grant applications, please contact the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County at (410) 222.7949 and ask for McKenna Kennedy.

9 Arts Councils & Arts Agencies

Arts Council of Anne Arundel County 2666 Riva Road, Suite 150 Annapolis, MD 21401 www.acaac.org Phone: (410) 222-7949 Fax: (410) 222-4068 Email: [email protected]

Maryland State Arts Council Christine Stewart, AiE Program Director 175 W. Ostend Street, Suite E Baltimore, MD 21230 www.msac.org Phone: (410) 767-6555 Fax: (410) 333-1062 TTY: 1(800) 735-2258 or 711 Funding available for programs through MSAC approved artists. Inquire of the artists for funding.

Artivate* 8455 Colesville Road, Suite 202 Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.goartivate.org Phone: (301) 588-7525 Fax: (301) 588-1618 Email: [email protected]

Young Audiences* 2600 N. Howard Street, Suite 1300 Baltimore, MD 21218 www.yamd.org Phone: (410) 837-7577 Fax: (410) 837-7579 Email: [email protected]

*Some Artists listed in the directory are represented by this agency. Please contact the agency to book the Artists.

10 Ballet Theatre of Seed 1.1: Demonstrate how the Maryland elements of dance, narration, Contact: Young Audiences* music, costumes, sets, props Grades: K-12 and music are used to D Fees: Single $825 communicate meaning through Back-to-Back $1,165 the characters in Lewis Travel: Varies Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland as they are transformed from Alice in Wonderland the page to the stage in a live A company of professional ballet performance. dancers brings a 30-40 minute A full-fledged story ballet into Pirates of the Chesapeake your school. Experience Alice Based on the first documented in Wonderland in a nutshell, acts of piracy on the with excerpts from the ballet, Chesapeake Bay, BTM brings based on the “Classic” Lewis to life pirates, settlers and Carroll tale. Journey with Alice natives who lived in 17th N to Wonderland where you will: century America in this dance enter a “caucus race; laugh at assembly. Local history, the antics of Tweedledee and swordfights and lost treasures Tweedledum; attend the zany come together through dance to Mad Hatter’s Tea Party; paint tell a story of our colonial roots. the roses red; play croquet with Students will participate in the Queen of Hearts and her demonstrations including stage C Raven Red Knight; meet the combat. mysterious Cheshire Cat; and rescue the Mad Hatter from the Please note: This performance Red Queen when he goes on is an artistic interpretation of trial for stealing her tarts. historical events involving Narration is transformed as pirates. As a result, the E students experience how performance contains the use of costumes, props, ballet, musical stylized stage combat, primarily theatre, and music, mesh sword fighting, and also incorporates the use of stage *Contact information is listed together to bring all of these replica weapons, primarily with their agency under Arts whimsical characters to life through the power of dance. swords (some wood and some Councils and Arts Agencies on metal). If you are concerned page 10 of the directory. Fine Arts Content Standards in about this content, please take a Dance: Standard 1.0 Performing look at the other offerings from and responding; Aesthetic Ballet Theatre of Maryland or Education Indicator1. The call Young Audiences to students will demonstrate how discuss further. elements of dance are used to communicate meaning as the Sample Common Core characters in Alice in connection CCSS.ELA- Wonderland come to life in a Literacy.RI.4.3 Explain events, full-fledged ballet performance. procedures, ideas, or concepts Explain how the elements of in a historical, scientific, or dance are used to communicate technical text, including what ideas, thoughts and feelings in happened and why, based on movement sequences. specific information in the text.

11 An American Journey how dancers move differently Le Café Carambole (five through Dance based on a particular musical dancers) features the music of Experience the impact of composition. School programs living composer Paul cultural diversity on the may include the following Schoenfield and five precocious evolution of American Ballet, options (with other repertoire dancers in this comical romp especially the Irish, African- favorites available upon through a European Café. The piece demonstrates the American, Latino, and Native request): American cultures. Students see athleticism and beautiful classical lines of a male and how classical dance can be used Dancing Through the Decades female professional company. as a means of expressing the (five dancers) explores the music and dance movements rhythms of a culture, or as a Bowen McCauley Dance that shaped our culture way of capturing its history in Company Workshop or this dance assembly. beginning with the 1950’s Twist and culminating to the current Residency Programs for students and Sample Common Core decade with a tribute to the award-winning Broadway teachers are tailored to age connection musical, Hamilton! The piece group and ability level, and may CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3 demonstrates a deeper learning connect dance to storytelling, Explain events, procedures, as it relates to students’ lives, poetry, and other curriculum ideas, or concepts in a and a greater understanding of topics, while boosting historical, scientific, or how different generations can confidence, body awareness, technical text, including what connect through music. and coordination. Workshops happened and why, based on may be scheduled on their own, specific information in the text. Carnival of the Animals (five or in conjunction with a dancers), set to music by Saint- performance, and may be Saens, brings humorous poems combined into a single-day or to life through animated Bowen McCauley Dance characters and inventive multi-day residency. Additional Company choreography. The Unicorn, the information and residency Contact: Artivate* Gorgon, and the Manticore pricing available upon request. Grades: PreK-12 teaches compassion and Fees: Single $950 acceptance of others through an Back-to-back $1,350 original composition based on a $200/workshop fable about a man who takes Travel: $50/day three unique creatures as pets. The piece draws strong connections between dance and Bowen McCauley Dance language arts and is an example Company Performance of how dance can be used to tell BMDC offers interactive a story. performances featuring two or three dance pieces from its A Tribute to Hamilton features extensive repertoire. Audience five dancers performing two of participation is facilitated by the songs from the Broadway narration from the stage hit musical based on the life of highlighting elements of the founding father, Alexander music and movement. Hamilton! The piece engages Comparisons are drawn students and demonstrates the between partnered and solo interconnections among diverse and generational populations. performances, or different musical genres – all linked to 12 Dancing Warriors musical instruments of Capoeira Old World and meeting others Contact: Young Audiences* Angola, a traditional martial here, resulting in new traditions. Grades: K-12 arts dance form. This dance Students learn the powerful role Fees: $750 residency explores the history the Irish played in the shaping and philosophy of this art form of Maryland, the United States Dancing Warriors: An as a means to discuss cultural and American culture. African – Brazilian Cultural ideas that help students to Tradition understand our society and Curriculum Connections: Social Explore how the dance, fight art others. Through talking circles, Studies, Maryland History, form of Capoeira Angola students are coached in basic American History, Dance and journeyed across the Atlantic rules for listening and speaking. Movement, Music Ocean, from its origins in Central Africa to the shores of Workshops and Arts Integrated South America. Students will Footworks Percussive Residencies Available experience Social Studies Dance Ensemble through a visual folktale show Roots and Rhythm: Exploring Contact: Young Audiences* of spins, kicks, flips and live the Cultural Diversity of the Grades: K-12, all ages music. This dance assembly United States through Fees: Single $800/$850 features life lessons for youth, Traditional Dance Back-to-Back $1,050/$1,115 audience participation and a This arts-integrated residency finale with student performers. explores the diversity and Keeping the Beat: commonality of the people of Multicultural Influences in Ya Feel Me? The (Martial) the United States. Dances and American Music and Dance Art of Caring their histories from different “Footworks conveys the power This is a show about getting at cultures are taught in a fun and and joy of percussive dance the root of empathy to lessen inviting way, bringing students while illuminating the the occurrence of bullying and together in rhythms and songs multicultural roots of American emotional abuse in our schools. that build community and music and dance, including With three main activities that connect participants to each African, European and Native emanate from the core of the other and to their shared American traditions. Live music African Diasora, we journey American heritage. and an exciting array of into the soul. Through percussive dances are storytelling, the characters Curriculum Connections: Social performed, including step weave a narrative that pulsates Studies, American History, dance, gumboot dance, tap, our human sensibilities. Dance and Movement clogging and hamboning, along Through music, the audience with inspiring audience participates and simultaneously Build A Better World participation. connects with each member of Footworks Percussive Dance our performance community. Ensemble presents "Build A Curriculum Connections: Social And through movement, we see Better World", a family-friendly Studies, American History, and do the dance of a sacred art show for all ages that includes Dance and Movement, Music form that spans centuries and live music, dancing, audience Workshops and Arts Integrated continents. This assembly is participation, and lots of fun Residencies Available. well-suited for expanding that will inspire students and Common Core lessons on audiences of all ages to do their Irish Roots and American Speaking and Listening. part to build a better world. Branches Come join world class artists as Performing live Irish music and Dancing Warriors: Learning they perform an interactive and dance with their descendant to Talk About Culture uplifting show that is sure to get American styles, Footworks Residency you smiling, toe tapping, illuminates the American story Students love to learn how to singing and clapping! of traditions coming from the move their bodies and play the 13 Illstyle and Peace multiplication and fractions, and hop – then explore historic Productions help kids associate positive Gumboot, with percussive Contact: Young Audiences* messages with mathematics sounds that helped gold miners Grades: K-12 with audience participation communicate through rhythm – Fees: Single $900 throughout the program. Illstyle and traditional Ndlamu, a Back-to-back $1,150 believes knowledge is power, snapshot of Zulu village dance, and so they dedicate this show Travel: Varies customs, and high-energy to inspiring a love of learning drumming. Workshop and math with a creative The History of Hip Hop residency options also available. This high-energy Hip Hop twist. Using movement patterns assembly brings the history of and complex rhythms, Illstyle hip-hop dance to life, through explains math concepts in a fun interactive demonstration, jaw- and engaging way. They cover New York City's dropping dance, audience addition, subtraction, LMproject multiplication and fractions, and participation, and a compelling Contact: Mary Jo Ford Q&A. Students learn about the help kids associate positive messages with mathematics (571) 217-4763 positive aspects of hip-hop art [email protected] and culture, the technical with audience participation LMprojectdance.com elements of this dance form and throughout the program. Illstyle Fees: $1,000-1,600 its history. Students get to share believes knowledge is power, some of their own dance and so they dedicate this show Prices vary based on program moves! Djing, the Human Beat to inspiring a love of learning specifics and the number of Box and the MC are also math with a creative dancers. covered. twist. Broadway Bound NO Bullying, STOP Bullying: Broadway Bound is a high Let's Be Friends! energy, interactive, educational During this high-energy dance and entertaining program that assembly, students learn explores the many elements of a contemporary and old school Broadway show, including Hip Hop moves and valuable music, dance and the lessons about positivity, importance of fairness, working together, acceptance and communication. collaboration. The performers Illstyle acts out scenarios that are all New York professionals, place two school groups against Lesole's Dance Project teaching movement, rhythm, one another in day-to-day life, Contact: Artivate* musicality and performance and finally in a dance-off. With Grades: PreK-12 through Broadway's most the help of a dedicated teacher, Fees: Single $675 popular musicals. Grade Level the students soon come Back-to-back $950 -- PreK-8th, with age together, discovering that they Travel: $45 appropriate modifications. are more alike than they are MSAC AiE Performance Funds different. and Residency Approved Broadway Bound: Stories from the Road ILL Math “Hip Hop Added Dancing Through South Dancers tell the stories of their Up” Africa journey to Broadway and Using movement patterns and Experience three dynamic becoming professional complex rhythms, Illstyle dance cultures from South performers, from beginning explains math concepts in a fun Africa! Start with modern dance lessons through college, and engaging way. They cover Pantsula, an upbeat, urban auditions, tours and Broadway addition, subtraction, dance similar to American hip- shows. As they tell their

14 stories, they perform numbers patterns and how they form the Quynn Johnson from shows. If there is time basis for intricate dance Contact: Young Audiences* available, performers do a Q & sequences. Students have the Grades: K-8 A following the opportunity to create their own Fees: Assembly: $350 Performance. Grade Levels: 6- rhythm patterns and see how Residency: $75/ Class 12 their patterns can be implemented in classical Indian Tap dancing through life dance. (Solo or duo option An interactive and rhythmic available) Pakriti Dance performance that shares Quynn Contact: Artivate* Johnson’s unique personal Introduction to Classical journey of perseverance and Grades: PreK-12 Indian Dance (Workshop) determination to overcome Fees: Solo Single $500 Using a combination of dance challenges through tap dance. Solo Back-to-back $650 movements and rhythms based Through the rhythmic Duo Single: $650 on the classical Indian dance expression of tap, this assembly Duo Back-to-back: $800 style of Bharata Natyam, combines elements of music Workshop: Only $400 students explore the traditions, and storytelling to inspire and music, and stories of South After performance $300 impact students. Students will India and how they have shaped Additional $200 enjoy making rhythmic patterns the classical performing arts. Travel: $45/day with their hands, learning basic Students learn traditional dance tap steps, and improvisation steps and experience the dance Storytelling through Classical session with volunteers. style's intricate rhythms and Indian Dance (Performance hand gestures. This workshop or Workshop) engages all students as they Prakriti Dance shows students journey into this ancient dance RC Dance Discovery stories told in a new way – style from India. Residency also Contact: Artivate* through the body and face available. Best for grades 3+. Grades: PreK-6 movement of the Classical Fees: Single $695 Indian dance style of Bharata Back-to-Back $875 Natyam. Stories presented will Travel: $40 draw from Indian mythology MSAC AiE & AiR funds and the fables of the West, available showcasing dance as a versatile language that transcends Stories to Stage: Classic cultural boundaries. Audience Children’s Books Brought to members learn different hand Life Onstage! gestures and have opportunities Relive favorite books and to brainstorm about how they stories while exploring how are used in storytelling. (Solo or music and dance help create duo option available) characters, settings, and plots (best for grades preK-3). Rhythms of India: An Choose from the following Exploration through Classical stories: Indian Dance Journey through the rhythmic A contemporary version of landscape of classical Indian Maurice Sendak’s "Where the dance and music! Using a Wild Things Are" features combination of dance “Maxine” arguing with her movements and recitation based mother about her messy room, on classical Indian dance, then sailing off to dance with students learn different rhythm wild things to create a “rumpus”

15 through dance. Props, SOLE Defined Urban Artistry instruments, and costumes fill Contact: Young Audiences* Contact: Ryan Webb the senses and stimulate the Grades: K-12 [email protected] imagination! Fees: $900 932 Philadelphia Ave Silver Spring, MD 20910 Ezra Jack Keats’ "The Snowy SOLE Defined Live! www.urbanartistry.org Day" encourages young Separate your hands from your Grades: K-12 students to create in their minds feet and join SOLE Defined to Fees: Single $1,000 the magic of snow through Back to Back $1,300 actions of the characters, the create a funky beat. SOLE Defined interactive assembly setting/props, and movement. Let the Rhythm Hit Em Dance with Peter to make a energizes the audience with its Learn about the music and snowstorm, build a snowman, fusion of tap dance and stepping dance cultures that stem from and throw gigantic snowballs. while sharing the history and various African American Students discover expressive traditions of two American art communities across the United movement through the forms. States. Although these urban characters, emotions, and and hip-hop dance communities narrative. transpired amidst struggles and Step Afrika! adversity, they have inspired a Folk Dance: Journey Around global commonwealth of artists, Contact: Artivate* the World practitioners and creatives. In Grades: PreK-12 Take a dance journey to this presentation, we celebrate Fees: Single $975 different continents and explore the diverse communities and Back-to-back $1300 what makes dance unique to influences that contribute to Travel $50 different cultures, people, and urban dance culture through Step Afrika! Reads $375 places. Varied dances and music and dance. The emcee, Workshop: $310 costumes demonstrate cultural DHG and dancers tell the story Master Class $475 traditions as you follow a map of where, when and how these of the world. Audience dance styles were developed Stepping with Step Afrika! members participate in dances through storytelling, dance This highly interactive throughout this lively program, demonstrations, call-and- performance highlights the which is a wonderful fit for response games and interactive rhythm, physicality and history International Day celebrations. dance workshops. Dance styles of stepping. Performers Workshop and residency in the presentation can include incorporate world traditions, options also available. tap dance, locking, popping, demonstrated through lively breakin’ house dance, waacking South African gumboot dance, Folk Dance: American Dance and hip-hip. We are eager to and introduce the concepts of Discovery engage an audience of all ages teamwork, discipline and Explore what makes American in celebrating the freedom to commitment. Students enjoy dance unique and understand express ourselves, cultivate self- getting on their feet to learn how it developed with the worth and respectfully hold basic step choreography and fusion of immigrants from space on and off the dance floor discover how dance brings various continents. Audiences for each other. learn dance steps and create people and cultures together. connections through American history. The performance includes an Irish Jig, the African Juba, the Charleston, the Cake Walk, Maypole dances, and more! Workshop and residency options also available.

16 Alden Phelps Singing, Reading & Writing Contact: Young Audiences* Songs: An Interactive Grades: K-5 Assembly Fees: $465 It's a show and it's a workshop! M Silly Songster Alden Phelps plays guitar and sings his Word Play original children's songs, then Alden’s longest running and leads students step by step as most popular performance. His they design their own musical far-fetched, funny songs and couplets in teams. Featuring impressive guitar playing will magnetic words on easels, this U delight audiences. Students are hands-on experience is designed encouraged to sing along with for an entire school grade to original songs such as My enjoy together. Mommy’s a Pirate, My By physically manipulating Brother’s Got an iPod Totally magnetic words, roadblocks that Attached to His Head and inhibit participation (spelling, handwriting, etc.) are removed; S Chocolate Pie. Word games are students at different levels are also woven into this musical able to engage meaningfully performance as a way to bolster and achieve writing success in language skills, and students activities that build language will be asked to finish simple skills. Guided exercises rhyming couplets and play word encourage rich vocabulary, I games. reinforce parts of speech, and introduce rhyme and meter. Ages: K-5th; appropriate for Most importantly, it's a whole Schools, libraries, festivals lot of fun! The assembly ends as Connectors: Music; 21st students transform Alden's Century Skills; History/Social opening song into their own C Studies; Language Arts original creation. This Interactive Assembly is designed for 100 students/one *Contact information is listed A Window in my Heart full grade (grade 3, 4 or 5). with their agency under Arts Using singing and storytelling, Councils and Arts Agencies on Alden tells the tale of a child Length: 45 min.; Age: Grade 3- who gets bullied at school, and page 10 of the directory. 5; Connectors: ELA: parts of how he stops it, with help from speech, rhyme, syllables, students and adults. Set in an speaking & listening; Music; outerspace alien elementary school, the story is told from three points of view: the bully, the victim, and the bully's Anansegromma of Ghana friend, all narrated by the school Contact: Artivate* janitor. This program will be Grades: PreK-12 most effective when combined Fees: Single $700 with other school anti-bullying programs. Back-to-back $995 Travel: $20 Ages: K-5th MSAC AiE funds available Connectors: 21st Century Skills, Music

17 Anansegromma of Ghana: incredible variety of shapes and Suggested audience: early African Dance, Drums, Story, sizes. elementary students and Games Join the “royal elders” of a Around the Americas West African village! Native 123 Andrés Building on “¿Dónde está Ghanaians Kofi Dennis and Contact: Young Audiences* Juana?” this concert leads Kwame Ansah-Brew offer an Grades: PreK-5 students on a bilingual engaging, first-hand exploration Fees: Single $800 exploration of the hemisphere. of West African culture through Back-to-back $1,200 We learn more about Latin traditional music, storytelling genres and how they traveled to and dance. With irresistible call Around the Americas with the US and became a part of US and response songs, games, Andrés culture, too. Andrés and dance, and drum rhythms, Latin GRAMMY winner 123 Christina also share some of Anansegromma introduces Andrés introduces students to their personal stories, infusing traditions that teach about Latin American song and dance the program with opportunities courage and cooperation. through a musical lesson in to think more deeply about the geography that incorporates elements of culture and the language, history, culture, and importance of inclusion. Andes Manta music. Andrés and Christina use Suggested audience: older Contact: Artivate* a map to take students on a elementary students (4th-5th) Grades: PreK-12 magical trip to the Americas Fees: Single $975 while singing and dancing. Back-to-back $1,275 Students participate in regional Barynya Travel: $45 dances and practice their Contact: Artivate* Spanish vocabulary building Grades: PreK-12 Music of the Andes their knowledge of language Fees: Single $695 Mountains and culture. Andrés is a multi- Back-to-back $895 Surround yourself with the instrumentalist and singer Travel: $75 vibrant, joyous music of the performing with a guitar, Andes Mountains as performed saxophone, percussion and on more than 35 traditional, more. This presentation is ideal Barynya – Russian Music and hand-crafted instruments. for pre-K to 5th grade and dual Dance Andes Manta captivates language, ESL, foreign Barynya’s skillful musicians audiences with the haunting language and diversity/ and dancers introduce the rich tones of six-foot long panpipes, multicultural studies. traditions and culture of pre- the lyrical sounds of the quena revolution Russia. Lively songs (Andean flute), and the ¿Dónde está Juana from Russian, Cossack, infectious rhythms of llama nail Ukrainian, Jewish, Gypsy, Tatar rattles and drums. The This concert inspires kids to and Siberian traditions are sung musicians’ signature piece – explore the whole hemisphere, and played on instruments like “Causai Pacha” – creates the in Spanish and English. Andrés’ atmosphere of a trip to the friend Juana is missing, and the the bayan and garmoshka Amazon Rainforest, complete only clue we have is that she’s (Russian accordions) and with chirping frogs, calling somewhere in the Americas. guitar-like dorma, balalaika, birds, and the sounds of rain Come ready to explore our map and very large contrabass and thunder. A rousing finale of the Americas, traveling with balalaika. Vivid costumes, features chances to join the song and dance through a lesson athletic dances and lighthearted musicians by playing traditional in geography that incorporates humor enhance this memorable percussion instruments in an language, culture and music. performance.

18 Billy B. Cantaré from Cuba, and samba from Contact: Artivate* Contact: Artivate* Brazil. Audiences sing, play Grades: PreK-12 Grades: PreK-12 instruments, and dance with Fees: Single $750 Fees: Single $675 Cantaré. Workshops available Back-to-back $900 Back-to-back $850 on their own, or in conjunction Travel: $75 Travel: $20 with performance programs. MSAC AiE & AiR Funds Ways of the Bay available Watershed, estuaries, erosion, Cello Fury runoff and depleted oxygen ¡Mucha Música! – A Musical Contact: Artivate* levels are among the concepts Journey to Latin America Grades: PreK-12 that Billy B. sings about as he Sing and dance on a tour Fees: Single $975 reveals the ways of the exploring the Indigenous, Back-to-back $1,400 Chesapeake Bay. European and African cultures Travel: Varies that shape Latin American Bio, Bio Diversity music. WAMMIE award Cello Fury’s Musical Odyssey Billy B. presents the beauty, winning Cantaré captivates with Cello Fury - three classically abundance, and complexity of fascinating traditional trained cellists and a rock the biodiversity around us and instruments – donkey jaw, goat drummer - performs classical in specific habitats (coral reefs, toenail rattle and armadillo shell pieces, cover songs and high old growth forest, soil). For guitar – in Spanish and energy original music that older students, Billy B. presents Portuguese rhythms. fuses classical and contemporary styles. Audiences human activities causing Workshops available on their identify tone colors produced by problems for the world’s own, or in conjunction with cello and drums, explore biodiversity and possible performance programs. rhythms, and connect the dots solutions. Commissioned and between musical styles. approved by the World Wildlife Rainforest Air Fund. Mesmerizing music and Melodies, Moods, and Movies magical folktales from the heart Students take a journey from Weather, Climate, Let’s of the rainforests of South the silent film era to today’s Define It America, Central America, and movie blockbusters in this Billy B. leads his audience Puerto Rico. Cantaré's original interactive program! Using through a song and dance song "Rainforest Air" delivers a foley sound effects, live exploration of the differences powerful ecological message performance, and collaborative between weather and climate, about protecting the rainforests. storytelling, Cello Fury helps the structure and benefits of the Workshops available on their students discover how and why atmosphere, and how it all movie music tells a story and own, or in conjunction with supports the amazing diversity creates an emotional response. of plant and animal life on our performance programs. beautiful planet. For older Cello Fury Workshop students, Billy B. introduces the ¡Vamos al Carnaval! Workshops are tailored to grade concepts, and science of the Experience the excitement of level and musical experience human impact on the Carnaval (the Latin American and focus on building musical atmosphere/climate. version of Mardi Gras) with skills, creativity, and critical joyful, contagious rhythms from thinking. Master class options different Carnaval traditions for older students and adults such as carnavalito from explore techniques in Bolivia, festejo from Peru, composition, collaboration, and plena from Puerto Rico, conga

19 performance. Fees available transforming well-known songs vocal music. Classical, upon request. into new compositions. Learn Broadway, Folk and Patriotic how these musicians work as a Songs are explored as students team, listening to each other's gain an awareness of Christylez Bacon different backgrounds and themselves through breathing, Contact: Artivate* perspectives as they shape posture and diction. Content Grades: PreK-12 modern versions of all-time Skills and Standards set by the Fees: Single $595 favorites, from Hot Cross Buns Department of Education are Solo Back-to-back $795 to Bruno Mars. Create a team used as a guide for these Duo Single $775 remix with Christylez and sessions. Duo Back-to-back $975 Wytold that twists and turns a familiar tune into a brand-new The Folk Music of African Travel: $20 musical invention. Americans (Grades 1-12) Human Beatbox A Teaching Artist with Christylez Bacon, GRAMMY- experience as a performer and nominated Progressive Hip-Hop as a consultant and workshop artist, combines rhyming, leader at the John F. Kennedy storytelling and interactive call Center, Devonna Rowe uses and response choruses with integrated arts education diverse instrumentation (West principals to involve the African djembe drum, human audience in each presentation. beatboxing). This high-energy Music, song, dance and role program delivers a message of play allow students to make cultural acceptance and historical and cultural unification blending traditional connections. Songs of Africa, elements of musical styles from the Spiritual, the Underground jazz to hip-hop. Workshops also Railroad and the Blues will available. (solo program) highlight influences on these styles of music on American Classical Hip-Hop Devonna B. Rowe Art Songs, Opera and other Remixing the classics, this Productions LLC Arts in international musical art forms. program merges the contrasting (1- 2 performers) worlds of Classical and Hip- Education Programs Hop music in a collaborative Contact: Devonna B. Rowe Songs of Africa musical program featuring (410) 652-4843 (Grades 1-5) Christylez Bacon and six-string [email protected] The Game Songs, Story Songs electric cellist, Wytold. P. O. Box 1294 and Recreational Songs of Bel Air, MD 21014 Traditional elements of hip-hop Ghana and Zimbabwe are www.historyofsong.com such as human beatbox, explored as students take part in rhyming, and storytelling are Grades: 1- 12 the music, songs and games of blended with classical Fees: Single $525 compositions of composers like Back to back $625 Africa. Bach, Vivaldi and Pachelbel. Residencies $425 Workshops also available. (duo program) Music Music Music: I've Got Don Flemons – The the Music in Me! American Songster Beats, Bows and Remixes (Grades 6-12) Contact: Artivate* Join Christylez Bacon and Students go beyond the Grades: PreK-12 Wytold as hip-hop and classical classroom as they Fees: Single $750 music collide with multi- develop technical skills and Back-to-back $950 cultural collaboration, increase their knowledge of Travel fee additional 20 The American Songster ragtime, blues, country western, Includes visual reinforcements Join GRAMMY Winner Dom bluegrass and string band and full audience participation. Flemons as he shares his music. Participants learn songs PERFECT for grades: PK-3 repertoire of music and history and explore the deeper African (45-55 minutes) covering nearly 100 years of roots of the banjo and rhythm TWO (2) performers American folklore, ballads and bones. The workshop may also tunes. Flemons is a music include (by request) Science Rocks - Out of This scholar, historian, singer- demonstrations of hand games, World: A Space Odyssey with songwriter, record collector and square dances, call and Flumpa and Wendy multi-instrumentalist who is responses, hambone, banjo, 'The Singing Scientist' considered an expert on the guitar, jug, harmonica Supplement your STEM banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, techniques and panpipes, curriculum with SCIENCE percussion, quills and rhythm culminating in an impromptu PROGRAMS presented by bones. His solo work focuses on jam session. Residency also scientist - highly interactive, the African and Caribbean roots available. Fees available upon musical science assemblies and of the banjo, the history of request. family nights. Great for science popular roots music, Songster motivation! styles and the legacy of African American musicians in country Flumpa and Friends MUSIC * SCIENCE * music and rock and roll, and LIVE! /Ion Imagination FITNESS their influence on hip-hop Entertainment, Inc. Curriculum points: A Space culture. In 2008, he founded the Challenge through our solar Contact: Wendy Whitten Carolina Chocolate Drops, an system and beyond. This high African American string band (615) 646-3644 energy, fast paced assembly that won a GRAMMY for Best [email protected] includes visuals from NASA as Traditional Folk in 2010 and PO Box 210943 well as information on the were inducted into the NC Nashville, TN 37221 planets, the sun, our Earth and Music Hall of Fame. In 2018, www.FLUMPA.com its moon, the space program and he joined the Smithsonian Grades: PreK-5 more! Folkways Label and released a Fees: Single $650 PERFECT for grades: PK-6 new album, “Black Cowboys”, Back-to-back $850 (45-55 minutes) which is in conjunction with the Pricing includes travel, tolls and National Museum of African accommodations Science Rocks - Water, Water American History and Culture. Everywhere with Flumpa and His album explores the rich Science Rocks - Frogs, Rain Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' history of African American Forests & Other Fun Facts Supplement your STEM pioneers and Pullman Porters of with Flumpa and Wendy curriculum with SCIENCE the Old West through music, 'The Singing Scientist' PROGRAMS presented by storytelling, poetry, tin type Supplement your STEM scientist - highly interactive, photography and a 40-page curriculum with SCIENCE musical science assemblies and booklet. PROGRAMS presented by family nights. Great for science scientist - highly interactive, motivation! The American Songster musical science assemblies and Workshop family nights. Great for science MUSIC * SCIENCE * GRAMMY Winner Dom motivation! Flemons – “The American FITNESS Songster” – leads a workshop MUSIC * SCIENCE * Curriculum points: Water cycle, exploring the styles, techniques FITNESS molecules, properties of matter, and history of the early Curriculum points: Focus on water habitats from fresh water American Songsters. This habitats, rain forests, life cycles, to brackish water to salt water, covers nearly a century of tunes, reptiles and amphibians. geography and the future of including early popular music,

21 water science. Jazzing Up Learning with the American genre of music PERFECT for grades: PK-5 Renee Georges known as jazz. (45-55 minutes) Contact: Young Audiences* Grades 3, 4 and 5 TWO (2) performers Grades: K-5; 6-8 Curriculum Connections: Music Fees: Single $950 and Appreciation, American Back-to-back $1,285 History, Culture Genticorum Jazz music in Film, Contact: Artivate* Hit The Road Jack! ASSEMBLY: Students will Animation, TV & Video Grades: PreK-12 Games! Fees: Single $900 discover the world of jazz singing and touring through an WORKSHOP: Jazz music in Back-to-back $1,200 film, animation, TV and video Travel: $50 interactive performance by former Ray Charles Raelette, games. Sing and swing as you learn about jazz music, its Genticorum Performance Renée Collins Georges and the Kidz MusiQ Club Jazz influence and its many Firmly rooted in the soil of their contributors to animation, film, native Quebec, ‘power trio’ Ensemble! They will explore the genre of music known as TV and cartoons and the new Genticorum incorporates the media craze, gaming. Journey dynamism of traditional North jazz, it’s history and hear music by jazz giants. Improvisation, through time as you listen to American and European folk compositions from the early (including Cajun and Celtic “scat singing” and elements of music are demonstrated through days of television and cinema. influences) into their vibrant Sing popular theme songs in music. Intricate fiddle, flute, song. Then, students are invited on stage to jam with Renée and group and team settings. and accordion work, vocal Improve reading, confidence, harmonies, guitar and foot the ensemble in a lyrical adaptation of Hit the Road, articulation and projection. Gain percussion combine with good- knowledge and an appreciation natured humor in a jubilant Jack! They will leave the assembly with a suitcase packed of jazz music in media through musical feast. Tour dates our music trivia game of "Jazz available in November. with knowledge and skills. Designed to engage, educate Jeopardy!” and entertain. All ages. Great for families! Curriculum Connections: Global Beat Connection Hit the Road Jack and Learn Music, American History, Contact: Young Audiences* to Scat! Language Arts, Digital Media Grades: K-12 RESIDENCY: students Fees: $700 discover the world of jazz singing and touring, as well as Magpie The Global Beat Connection explore jazz music and an Contact: Artivate* The American invention of the improvisational language skill Grades: PreK-12 drum kit has influenced a world called “scatting” (bop bop, bee Fees: Single $750 of popular musical genres. Join bop)! They will learn to sing a Back-to-back $885 Ryan Diehl and His Band for jazz melody and take on the Travel: $50 the “Global Beat Connection” social issue of bullying and MSAC AiE funds available which takes students on a adversity through our lyrical journey to explore the drum adaptation of the song, Hit the kit’s influence around the Living Planet & Living Planet Road, Jack! Through creativity, 2 world. Stops along the way collaboration and an analysis, include: the U.S., Brazil, the Celebrate the complex web of they will showcase knowledge life forms that populate the Caribbean and Africa. This and skills for their peers. exciting, highly-interactive earth – whales to wolves, Designed to engage, educate magpies to macaws, teeming music assembly connects and foster an appreciation for students’ love of modern music oceans to frozen tundra – and to its rhythmic roots. learn how we can help to

22 preserve the earth. For those Mark H Rooney Mosaic who have enjoyed Living Planet Contact: Artivate* Contact: Cindy Rosenberg in the past, Living Planet 2 Grades: PreK-12 (410) 552-3411 offers a way to extend learning Fees: Single $575 [email protected] through new songs and ideas. Back-to back $725 7437 Marriottsville Road 2 Workshop and residency Workshops start at $150 Marriottsville, MD 21104 options also available. Travel: $20/day Grades: K-8 Fees: Single $525 Sense of Wonder: A Tribute An Introduction to Taiko, the Back-to-back $675 to Rachel Carson Art of Japanese Drumming This music and literature This interactive program Arhythmatic program helps students connect features the performance of to the beautiful writings of (For grades K-2, 3-5) both traditional and famous nature author Rachel Exploration of the connections contemporary songs and Carson and encourages a love between music and math, using rhythms and explores the for science and for the Earth. percussion instruments to instruments, the use of one’s Students read and recite kinesthetically experience Rachel’s uplifting words and voice in taiko, and a bit of equations (younger group) or enjoy wonderfully singable history and Japanese fractions (older group). chorus songs, with a goal of vocabulary, as well. Exploring division of beats in inspiring us all to do our part to Performances include the music. A musical story problem protect wildlife and their chance for volunteers to get up ends the show. Highly habitats. In a songwriting and try their hand at playing interactive. residency, students write new these BIG drums! songs with Greg & Terry about the issues that concerned Woven Rhythms Introductory Taiko Rachel, expressing what we can (For middle school students) Workshop do today to continue her work Exploration of the three main With an emphasis on listening celebrating and protecting the religions and their influence in skills and a focus on planet. the Middle East through fundamentals, this workshop rhythm. Battle Cry of Freedom: From (best for grades 3+) introduces Civil War to Civil Rights the basic techniques for getting Beginning with music from the a large sound with efficient New Moon Opera abolitionist movement and the movement, the practice of Contact: Julie Kurzava Underground Railroad, Magpie drumming as a community and (410) 719-8603 explores freedom fighters from the traditional way to learn history, including John Brown, [email protected] taiko music – all centered 5 Overhill Road the famed raider of Harper’s around the key principals of Ferry, and Harriet Tubman, the Catonsville, MD 21228 respect and connection. For great conductor of the www.nmtheater.org more experienced students, Underground Railroad. They Grades: K-5 continue the story of the intermediate, advanced and Fees: Single $595+ struggle for freedom and master class options are also Travel varies equality into the 1960s and the available. present day, connecting the The Adventures of the Opera songs used in the Underground Explorers Railroad with their use in the Experience the thrill of sit-ins, freedom rides and other discovery as our heroes learn demonstrations organized by why opera is a great way to tell those involved in the modern a story. Included are fourteen Civil Rights Movement. live excerpts from eleven

23 different operas by Mozart, Sizzlin' Summer Fun, Fall into sequence. We then accompany Puccini, Beethoven, Bizet, Autumn and Halloween. a short silent film with the Rossini, Gounod, Strauss, orchestra featuring Charlie Gershwin and Gilbert & Go Green with Pam and Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Sullivan, both in English and Rascal Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, or their original languages. Hear Kick start or highlight your another actor from the silent opera as it was intended - live! school's environmental era. Grades K-5 awareness, or make Earth Week special with this interactive and Amahl and the Night Visitors fun "green" show. Songs, Performing Arts Center This classic children’s opera by dance, puppetry with for African Cultures American master Gian Carlo ventriloquism make all make Contact: Kwame Ansah-Brew Menotti uses the Christmas this a great way to celebrate our (301) 256-2842 story as a backdrop for a earth. [email protected] universal tale of generosity and 8576 Laureldale Drive forgiveness. This beautiful story Let’s All Get Along Maryland City, MD 20724 of love and compassion points This program can address www.pacafricancultures.org us all to the true meaning of the conflict resolution, manners, Grades: K-12 season. character and values. You can Fees: Single $575 New Moon Theater’s choose the emphasis or mix it Back-to-back $795 production is a wonderful up. Pam makes it fun to get opportunity for schools to bring along with song, dance and A Musical Journey through an entire opera sung by puppetry. Africa classically trained, professional Musical Journey through singers right to their door and Africa: A taste of West African allows children to experience an culture is explored through art form that’s been bringing Peacherine Ragtime games, dances and songs and audiences to their feet for over Society Orchestra musical instruments. 400 years. Contact: Young Audiences* Grades: K-12 This program introduces the Fees: Single $1,285 audience to the African Back-to-back $1,600 instruments and sounds of Pam the Kindersinger music they produce which Contact: Pam Minor Movies and Music! culminates in a jam session with (410) 771-4774 This program introduces the participants [email protected] audiences to a ragtime orchestra This is a highly interactive 3529 Hess Road and an orchestra in general. performance/workshop! Monkton, MD 21111 After introducing how an www.pamthekindersinger.com ensemble works together to Connections & Unity through Grades: PreK-3 create sound, we then talk about Drumming Fees: Single $300 how sound impacts the way we This program offers an exciting Back-to-back $450 think, how we relate sounds to opportunity to join in the Travel: Varies emotions, and how with critical celebration of drumming with thinking we can create a scene other enthusiasts, using Celebrate the Season just using music and sound! organized rhythms to enhance Enjoy an interactive and fun When film was in its beginning both drumming and listening show with singing, dancing and stage 100 years ago, there was skills. Using a variety of drums puppetry with ventriloquism no sound to accompany the and other percussion emphasizing the current season. movie — so we work with instruments, these musical These include the Icicle Ball, audiences to show how sounds sessions are improvised and co- Christmas, Spring Fling, can change how we think about created by all the participants. a certain scene or action Drum circles are a fun way of

24 group expression, not controlled Animal Odyssey and The audience on a journey through by genre, in instrumentation, or Great Natural Sciences the development of the modern directed by a particular person. Adventure steel drum instrument in this They are used for recreational Explore the animal kingdom on music assembly. The story music making, and to facilitate a tuneful trek teeming with sea begins in the small Caribbean other activities like team- creatures, tree beasts, farm Island of Trinidad in the 1940s building, wellness, education, animals and frolicking fauna. with roots spreading back to the celebrations, personal growth, Get inspired by the finest traditional “Talking Drums” of etc. science fair to ever take place; Africa. Bermuda Blue trek down the enchanting demonstrates the different types Ray Owen animal trails of the world; revel of steel drums and other in the hip hop rap about the life Caribbean instruments while Contact: Ray Owen (717) 334- 8631 cycle of the cicada; discover the playing Calypso music. PO Box 3012 amazing magical side of math Students join the band to play Gettysburg, PA 17325 and perform in the zany chicken steel drums and tamboo Grades: K-12 karaoke contest for kids. Come bamboo. Students leave with an Fees: $350-$450 journey through a land of appreciation and understanding rousing songs, down a river of of steel drum music, the The Song Imagineer rollicking stories through a instrument and its history and Hop on board for a whirlwind rolling valley of wide eyed culture. tour through some of the most surprises to a sea of kids creative, zany and downright comedy. The Steel Drum Experience hilarious songs, dreamed up This fun and interactive music anywhere down the line. All assembly combines a steel drum aboard! for an unforgettable performance with hands on adventure full of comic songs, instruction. The entire audience rib-tickling one liners and will learn to play a complete sumptuous stories. Imagine song on the steel drums while that! exploring physics and other STEM topics behind the sound. Hats Off to America This is a great introduction to Take a multicultural journey the steel drum instrument. No through history that travels on musical background is required. through the music and social Participants will gain the studies curriculum on a tuneful confidence to play other American adventure that instruments in the school band. embraces songs, stories, history, Rockcreek Steel Drums Audience limited to 100 heritage, humor and theater. Contact: Young Audiences* students per show. Take along twenty period hats Grades: K-12 Contact Young Audiences for and a few jam-packed book Fees: Single $800 Pricing bags brimming with Back-to-back $1,100 instruments. Come and sing Residency: $100/workshop Residency: Beginner Steel along with a crew of colorful Travel: Varies Drum Band characters that step right out of This unique music residency history and onto the stage, The Birth of Steel Drum brings a complete steel drum pulling you into a world of fun. Music band program to your school. Rockcreek Steel Drum’s Band Students learn the basics of “Bermuda Blue” takes the steel drum playing and

25 performance as they prepare for Traditional Irish Music & in how to find the strength to be a final concert. A full sized Dance Workshop themselves. steel drum instrument is Workshops – whether Snowday Workshop provided for each student. The scheduled on their own, or as Join the artists for one or more class learns methods to produce part of a series or residency – highly interactive workshops good tone and to play melodies explore a variety of topics in exploring topics like History of using proper mallet technique. music, dance, and performance A Capella, Vocal Percussion, Basic percussion skills are skills and may be customized to Ear Training & Musicianship taught using supplement and enhance and Basic Arranging (Song “Tamboo Bamboo” curriculum. Structure). Workshops may be instruments. Students learn to tailored to suit teachers’ goals read music symbols and charts and students’ ages and abilities. from another culture while Snowday exploring Calypso music. Contact: Artivate* Grades: PreK-12 Steve Cyphers – Fees: Single $850 Adventures in Rhythm Síneadh Fada Back-to back $1,000 Contact: Young Audiences* Contact: Artivate* Travel: $45 Grades: PreK-5 Grades: PreK-12 MSAC AiE funds available Fees: Single $650 Fees: Single $600 Back-to-back $900 Back-to-back $750 An A Cappella Musical Workshops: $100/session Travel: $50 History Residency: Prices vary with Snowday takes students on a number of days booked Spórt: Traditional Irish whirlwind journey through time, tracing a capella music Music & Dance Steve Cyphers – Adventures from its roots in chant, Dancer/musician Shannon barbershop and doo-wop to in Rhythm Assembly Dunne and musical present-day pop and rock. The Adventures in Rhythm collaborators, including multi- Students are introduced to Assembly is an interactive instrumentalist Alex Boatright, elements of music theory – performance by the Steve present engaging, interactive including harmonic voice parts Cyphers Trio. Steve explores performances showcasing and vocal drumming (beatbox) the evolution of percussion traditional Irish music and techniques – then are invited to from the earliest instruments dance. The artists introduce old learn harmony parts and sing like the African log drum to the style percussive and social together. modern drum-set and many, dances, traditional “sing-along” many in between. Students sing, songs, and Irish tunes on Be Aca-Awesome chant, clap, stomp and even Music performance, especially a instruments like concertina, play with the band on stage. cappella, is a great way to harp and fiddle. Audiences Students learn about the science develop real world skills like learn what it means to be a public speaking, self-confidence of sound and learn the basic traditional musician/dancer, and and teamwork. In this elements of music along the experience a wide array of performance, audiences watch way. The band displays many instruments, singing and as the newest member of different rhythms and styles of dancing through the stories of Snowday transforms from timid music, performing songs how Shannon and her friends newcomer into seasoned (African chants, James Brown, learned, and continue to learn, performer as they find their way Santana, Stevie Wonder and within the tradition. through music. Students enjoy more) throughout the program upbeat, chart-topping hits while in a concert like experience. taking away numerous lessons

26 Steve Cyphers – Adventures Taikoza Music, Movement, & in Rhythm Residency Contact: Young Audiences* "Magination” Show! The Adventures in Rhythm Grades: K-12 Stories, Songs & Skits perfect Residency delves deeper into Fees: $850 for young children. Each the origins and evolution of number deals with a kid- percussion. It provides an The Exciting Sounds & Sights friendly topic, such as: sharing, reading, attitude, environment opportunity for students to of the Japanese Festivals with and so on. discover old and new Taiko Drums and Dances instruments from many The Exciting Sounds & Sights of the Japanese Festivals with Baby Betty doesn't like to share, different cultures (bongos, Taiko Drums and Dances. A Sweet Pea Cuddlesbee loves to congas, timbales, djembe fun, entertaining as well as read, Candy has a wild doomdek, vibra-slap, claves, educational program that will imagination, and all the animals woodblocks, drum-set, and introduce students to the music need help finding their way many more!) while exploring of Japan. home to either the farm, the rain the different ways they produce The sounds of Nature such as forest or the woods, and more… sound. Students form a “Bucket crashing waves and the Band” learning to play rhythms rumbling thunder can be heard A fast-moving show filled with and perform songs alone and as in the Japanese Taiko drums. fun facts, and lots of music and a group. The colorful traditional dances dance. I have a strong background in musical theater, This residency is a great and the soulful and expressive and every story gets a song! introduction to what it is like to sounds of the bamboo flutes all learn an instrument and to be a create a magical world that will introduce audiences to an productive, creative member of exciting performance. Students Unified Jazz Ensemble a band. Students learn valuable will discover and learn new Contact: Artivate* lessons in teamwork, respect, aspects of Japan and will be Grades: PreK-12 self-control and the rewards of dazzled by the magical sounds Fees: Single trio $550 practice. A culminating of the 150 lb. Japanese festival Back-to-back trio $700 performance gives students a drums. Some students will also Single Quartet $700 chance to show the skills they get a chance to play some Back-to-back quartet $850 have learned. percussion instruments as well Travel: $15 Steve is very flexible and can as the Taiko. A true once in a MSAC AiE & AiR funds tailor his Lessons to life time chance for students to available; MSAC AiR Roster accommodate the needs of any experience the energy of Artist school, class or grade. (STEM, Taikoza. Literacy, History, Geography, Learning about Jazz Social Studies, etc…) although Celebrate the birth and development of jazz through his standard Residency does Terry Marsh in The Music, Movement, & different eras – Dixieland, touch on all of these subjects. swing, be-bop and ‘Magination Show! contemporary – and learn about Contact: Terry Marsh contributors like Dizzy (410) 206-4006 Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and [email protected] George Gershwin, through 4227 Belmar Ave. songs both familiar and new. Baltimore, MD 21206 UJE connects rhythm, math, terrymarshentertainment.com music, memory and teamwork Grades: PreK-2 and offers a hands-on Fees: $225/show exploration of jazz instruments. (trio program)

27 Sounds and Rhythms of Latin Wytold demonstrates how he Jazz uses the six-string electric cello A fascinating introduction to and live electronics to score classic Latin jazz songs with a film, dance and theater focus on the “gotta move” productions, and shows how rhythms and unique sounds of simple sounds can create vivid samba and bossa nova. The images and exciting stories in contributions of composers and our minds. Students collaborate musicians such as Antonio with Wytold to create a new Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz and musical story and adventure Dizzy Gillespie in the history of together! Workshops provide Latin jazz are also explored. opportunities for in-depth Audience participation is a exploration and story creation. highlight of the program, as students learn about African- The Science of Sounds: Music inspired clave rhythms and how Theory Demystified to create them. (trio program) Six-string electric cellist and composer Wytold shows American Dixieland Heritage students how his background in Explore the roots of Dixieland, science and math helps him an all-American style that create exciting new music. By developed during the early 20th exploring the relationship century out of European and between the science of waves African traditions. Learn about and musical scales, students the instruments in a Dixieland learn how basic patterns in the world can create interesting and band (cornet, trumpet, dynamic music. They use their trombone, bass and drums) – new knowledge to create a short then keep time as the musicians musical piece together as a trade solos and improvise over a group. Workshops offer driving Dixieland beat. (Quartet additional opportunities for program) hands-on learning and collaborative music creation.

Wytold Wytold Workshop Contact: Artivate* Hands-on workshop, residency, Grades: PreK-12 and master class options are Fees: Single $595 tailored to age and musical Back-to-back $795 experience and explore music Travel: $25 creation and composition in- depth. Workshops may Fireflies, Fairies & Squids complement performance What kind of sound does a giant programs or customized squid make? How can you curriculum connections. Fees make a stringed instrument available upon request. sound like a firefly illuminating a cave? Wytold explores these questions and more as he leads students on a journey of storytelling and imagination through instrumental music.

28 Arianna Ross friend or at a performance Contact: Young Audiences* venue. Grades: K-12 Fees: Single $415 T Back-to-back $600 Baba Jamal Koram Residency $100/workshop Contact: Artivate* Travel: Varies Grades: PreK-12 Fees: Single $450 The Fastest Plane PreK Program $375 Around the world in 45 Back-to-back $625 H minutes: a multi-lingual Travel: $20 program. Travel back in time MSAC AiE & AiR funds and across the world, landing in available a time when animals could talk and some people could understand them! Dance Baba Jamal Koram: The through the streets of Brazil, Story Man E Master storyteller Baba Jamal Mexico, India and even the United States. Students will Koram shares the history, leave this storytelling assembly humor, music and lore of with knowledge of what a folk African and African-American tale is and the desire to read, cultures. Blending traditional A write and even tell other stories. and contemporary storytelling techniques with drumming, call The Magic of the Sea and response, wisdom, and Discover the many magical playful wit, his stories mysteries of water and how the encourage youth to make Indonesians rely on it for their intelligent choices and improve existence. Explore life above their character. T and under sea level through song, story and dance. Become a manta ray and a shark as you listen and participate in folk Baltimore Improv Group tales and true stories from Contact: Young Audiences* Indonesia. Students gain a Grades: K-12 E better understanding of world Fees: Single $700 cultures and marine biology in Back-to-back $925 this storytelling assembly! Residency $100/workshop Travel: Varies A Taste of Storytelling - Residency Life is Improvised Discover what it takes to R Let BIG take your students into perform a story from memory. the always surprising and Students learn specific *Contact information is listed hilarious world of improvised storytelling techniques that they with their agency under Arts theater in this improv assembly. can use in the future to give a Councils and Arts Agencies on BIG’s performers create never speech, tell a story, or even page 10 of the directory. before seen characters and perform in a play. During this scenes from your students’ storytelling residency, students suggestions and bring students create the structure for an entire directly into the performance. story that they can share with a

29 Students learn the fundamental Broccoli. Learn 4 original and "Who Wants to Be a skills that allow improvisers to songs about health topics. Millionaire" have captivated the create theater in the moment: public and changed the face of Listening, collaboration and SAND CASTLES television. Now, Pop Quiz creativity. The importance of math and brings the same thrills and how fun it can be. Hang with excitement to your school by Life is Improvised - Residency the Pigs at the beach, while they challenging your students' Students will explore the key ride boogie boards, eat pizza knowledge of Math and Science improv elements–Listen, Agree and build a spectacular concepts. Student contestants and Add–during this improv sandcastle. will encounter six challenges residency. Students will learn involving crazy props like the basics of improv, including pinwheels, targets, bean bags creating solid scene work, Brian Curry Magic and a fog machine. Each active listening and fun Contact: Brian Curry challenge reviews mathematical characters. Through it all, the (703) 725-2100 theory or scientific facts in a students will see their self- [email protected] way that they will remember confidence increase while 3580 Elsa Ave long after the show! exploring their own creativity Waldorf, MD 20603 and how group trust and www.briancurryassemblies.com Book Club the Magic teamwork make for amazing Grades: K-6 Assembly and hilarious improv theater. Fees: Single $650 Brian Curry brings classic Back-to-back $900 literature magically to life with state-of-the-art multimedia, music, and illusions in Book Blue Sky Puppet Theatre Magical Math Tour Club The Magic Assembly. Contact: Michael Cotter Energize your students with Introducing your students to (301) 927-5599 laughter, cheers and applause beloved books with funny, [email protected] while they review important scary and truly amazing magic, 4301 Van Buren Street mathematical concepts with The will get them excited about University Park, MD 20782 Magical Math Tour. In addition these stories and eager to read. www.blueskypuppets.com to great math content, this show For Matilda, students will see a Grades: PreK-8 helps relate math to their table float with the powers of Fees: Single $375-$600 everyday lives. Brian's mind; for Shiloh, several Back-to-back $475-$750 students will help a balloon dog Residency $300 minimum During this show, your students learn some new tricks. Brian will play a special version of customizes what books are IF PIGS COULD FLY "Deal or No Deal" while they shared based on what grades are If pigs could fly, where would uncover the meaning of attending this assembly. After they go? All over the world! probability. They will review the curtains close, you'll see the Since they can’t fly, they read fractions as a newspaper is torn books Brian featured vanishing books. Meet Chester, Buster in half, quarters, eighths…then from your library shelves and and Suzy Pig, who visit the it magically restores. Each hear your students buzzing library for books and act out amazing piece of magic they about the fun they have had. multicultural and world see will remind your students of folktales in a creative way! a concrete math concept long after the curtain closes. BANANAS Quality exercise, good eating Pop Quiz: The Math and habits and visiting the doctor Science Game Show are explored in an exciting and Sensational Hit Game Shows interactive way. Witness the like "Are You Smarter Than a talent show sponsored by Dr. 5th Grader," "Deal or No Deal,"

30 Building Better People originally commissioned by Dream House: A Rainy Day Productions Plan B Theatre Company in Play Contact: Lynne Childress Utah, our show is best for 3-7th A young woman named Jenn (443) 906-0099 graders. Cost : $550 per single moves back to her childhood [email protected] show, $800 for 2 shows back- home, and faces fears old and new with the help of her PO Box 5912 to-back. Title 1 Discounts imagination. It’s a touching, Offered. Each school receives Annapolis, MD 21403 lively and funny look at the the Teacher Guide to Our Show, www.bbpproductions.com power of creativity for the child Grades: PreK-5; 3-7 including pre- and post-show in everyone, on any day, rainy Fees: Single $550 activities that touch on all on or otherwise. Best for prek-5th Back-to-back $800 the why’s and how’s of anxiety graders. Written by Jeremy in age-appropriate ways. Gable and produced by special "We Got It! : A Show About Available October 2018-June arrangement with Empathy" 2019. YouthPLAYS. Cost: $550 per “We Got It!” is a theatrical single show, $800 for 2 shows adventure for pre- k-5th graders The Gift of the Mad Guy back to back. Title 1 Discounts in self-worth, empathy and Learn about generosity through Offered, Available September 2018-June 2019 those things that add up to all- the hilarious story of Jack, a around understanding. Enjoy gift-crazed child who believes that Christmas is about giving interactive tales filled with — specifically to HIM — until laughter and heart that are the Bus Howard he is promised a REALLY big Contact: Bus Howard equivalent of hiding veggies in gift if he gives 3 of his gifts your macaroni and cheese: (202) 390-2161 away to others. Will Jack learn [email protected] positive lessons disguised as that the holidays are about more 4008 30th Street fun! than getting? Appropriate for Mount Rainier, MD 20712 Show running time: 45 minutes. pre k-8th grade. Cost : $550 per www.BusHoward.com Cost : $550 per single show, single show, $800 for 2 shows Grades: K-12 $800 for 2 shows back-to-back. back-to-back. Title 1 Discounts Fees: Single $550 Title 1 Discounts Offered. Offered. Available November Back-to-back $900 Workshops and Residencies 2018-January 2019. available. Each school receives Bus Howard, a Teaching Artist the Teacher Guide to Our Show, Friendlier Fables and Thoughtful Tales Institute Fellow, veteran Union including pre- and post-show Join us for a collection of Actor, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, 20 activities that will introduce updated versions of some of year veteran with Maryland students to the concept of your favorite kid stories, told Arts Council and empathy. Available September with kinder twists. Cheer on consultant/workshop leader 2018-June 2019. friends like our not-so-ugly with the Kennedy Center duckling and a boy who cries Education Dept., Bus uses Zombie Thoughts wolf for reasons you might not integrated arts education to “Zombie Thoughts” is a funny, expect as they learn to respect inspire and involve the touching and honest look at themselves and others in a audience. how to deal with anxiety, in a funny, touching, engaging show best for pre-K-5th grade. Cost : play where the audience are the The Acting Workshop $550 per single show, $800 for players in a video game who The Acting workshop is a 2 shows back-to-back. Title 1 decide how the actors take their hands- on interactive workshop Discounts Offered. Available journey through this important April-May 2019 that emphasizes listening skills subject! Written by a mother and ensemble/team building. and son playwrighting duo and Theater games follow warm-up

31 exercises. Developing listening Chicago Improv Piven Theatre Workshop. leads to ensemble exercises, Productions Jonathan has taught and which lead to impromptu Contact: Artivate* performed internationally in dramatic scene study...lots of Grades: PreK-12 more than a dozen countries, as laughs, lots of "ah-ha" Fees: Single $600 well as more than 25 cities all moments. Back-to-back $800 across America. 45-90 minutes duration Travel fee additional Grades K-12 Chicago Improv Productions The Make ‘Em Ups Workshop An Evening with Frederick The Make 'Em Ups tells the Professional actors lead improv Douglass history of Chicago's connection games exploring story elements A "before your eyes" to modern improvisational like character, plot and setting, transformation into the theatre, while at the same time and introduce students to the Maryland native Frederick teaching how to – and how not foundational ideas of improv. Douglass. Through 1st person to – improvise. In this highly Workshop and residency narrative, live music, audience interactive performance, options available. interaction, this lively historical students gain new reenactment chronicles the understanding of how to create events of this 18th century characters, settings, and stories Chris Fascione: Bringing Statesman. An after and explore the Literature to Life! “who/what/where” of all presentation "in-character" Contact: Chris Fascione improv scenes. Three question and answer period (708) 383-8788 allows for a closer look into the professional improv actors lead a variety of engaging improv [email protected] life and times of this American 528 Woodbine Ave hero. games, inviting audiences to continually contribute ideas – Oak Park, IL 60302 45 minutes duration. www.BringingLiteratureToLife.com Grades K-12 and even join the action on Grades: PreK-8 stage. Fees: Single $495 Josiah Henson - The Real Jonathan Pitts, the Founder and Double $795 Uncle Tom Executive Director of Chicago Triple $995 A performance arts piece with Improv Productions, is an Travel included. Block booking music and after performance Q award-winning international and library show discounts & A. When Harriet Beecher improv theatre artist from available. Stowe heard this man's story, Chicago with over 30 years’ she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", experience. He’s a creator, the first million seller book in Bringing Literature to Life! director, improviser, producer America. Originally Get your students motivated to and teacher who co-founded commissioned by the read! Award-winning, and produced the Chicago Smithsonian, this Maryland nationally touring performer Improv Festival, created and native comes alive with Chris Fascione acts out produced the College Improv mystery, drama and intrigue. children's contemporary and Tournament, and spent 7 years 45 minutes duration. classical literature in a fast as Teen Comedy Fest’s Grades 3-12 paced, fun-filled assembly executive producer. He is also program. Chris' participatory, the founder and producer of high-spirited shows incorporate Chicago Podcast Festival. a unique style of acting, Jonathan taught at The Second storytelling and physical City for 16 years and he’s a comedy that receive lots of contributing writer to their book laughs and rave reviews from on improvisation – he also students, teachers and principals taught story-based improv at alike!

32 Around the World! American stories with African interaction with characters like Multicultural stories from many roots. Crash-Boom-Bam-Sam the different countries, continents Baby Triceratops, Q. E. the and cultures come to life as Fables Rule! Quetzalcoatlus Kid, Doris the Chris becomes colorful Celebrate classic tales with a Toddler Stegosaurus, Mama characters from ethnic folktales unique twist, honoring an Maiasaura and, of course, Baby -- always with the help of his ancient tradition of living and Rex. audience! From an Italian learning through stories, grandma to an African tree toad, a French baker to a Ukrainian bubbling over with valuable Junkyard Pirates farmer, or a Chinese stonecutter lessons. Fables are "the food of Sail with Captain Jack, to a Nicaraguan Uncle Nacho, the ear" that nourishes mind and Sparetire, Flotsam, Jetsam, and Chris' comedic portrayals span heart. (STEM focused fables the rest of the Junkyard Pirates the globe. available – commissioned by – puppets made from Wolf Trap Institute for Early repurposed materials – as they Rocket into Reading! Learning) embark on a hilarious musical A fun, participatory show that adventure. This program encourages imaginative Small Wonders and emphasizes the importance of exploration through reading. Stupendous Feats recycling and protecting the Students leave their everyday Enjoy marvelous tales of environment as the Junkyard world behind as they take off unlikely heroes that defy the Pirates battle the evil villain, into the universe of books! impossible through kindness, Landfill. Through his unique, interactive friendship and courage. (Note: style of story performance, This program fits within anti- Mi Casa Es Su Casa Chris acts out library books that bullying programming. The In this bilingual musical journey thoroughly engage his audience, focus is upon problem solving through Latin America, Michele fuel the imagination, and propel and the qualities of a s/hero.) and Ingrid introduce children to students to become readers who positive images of their are truly out of this world! neighbors in Latin America DinoRock Productions with original songs with Contact: Artivate* authentic rhythms, outrageous Diane Macklin, Grades: PreK-6 puppet characters, true travel Storyteller Fees: Single $695 stories, and an 8 ft. map with Contact: Diane Macklin Back-to-back $795 removable Andes Mountains. (703) 966-7957 Additional Fee: Travel $40 Based on a Parent's Choice [email protected] MSAC AiE funds available Gold award-winning CD, this 13842-A Outlet Dr., Ste. 214 show includes geography and Silver Spring, MD 20910 Dinosaur Babies language arts in an www.dianemacklin.com Created for school venues, this unforgettable, interactive Grades: PreK-9 show explores characteristics cultural experience. Perfect for Fees: Single $475 that human babies and dinosaur Hispanic Heritage Month Back-to-back $675 plus mileage babies share, using award celebrations! MSAC AiE, AiR, Touring winning music and dynamic Roster funds available puppetry. Interpreting fossil finds, scientists have come to Succotash Tales understand much of dinosaur A delicious blend of tales that social behavior. These findings stir up wit, wisdom and humor are presented to the children for a delightful stew of through original songs and

33 Dovie Thomason taught without confrontation. Einstein Alive: Marc Contact: Artivate* Workshop and residency Spiegel Grades: PreK-12 options also available. Contact: Marc Spiegel Fees: Single $650 (202) 486-4641 Back-to-back $850 The Spirit Survives: The [email protected] Travel: $40 Boarding School Experience 3902 Northampton St. NW MSAC AiE & AiR funds Then and Now Washington DC 20015 available This original story for middle www.einsteinshow.com and high school students Grades: PreK-9 Lessons From the Animal explores a tragic chapter in our Fees: Einstein/Storyteller People nation’s history. For decades, $675/$450 This program offers an the Native nations of North Back to Back $875/$575 intertribal sampling of the America suffered the loss of animal stories which often their children to government Einstein Alive! explain the what and why boarding schools, where they Marc vividly brings Einstein to life, talking about his fame, his questions about the Earth and were forcibly “re-educated” to her animal children-why bear difficulties in school and assimilation and “civilization”, the “adventures” in his mind. hibernates, why rabbit has no at the cost of culture and tail, etc. They are also used, as Using humor, song and identity. Thomason introduces audience participation, Einstein all stories are, to teach proper her listeners to the Carlisle demonstrates how “strange” behavior and values. First told Indian School in Pennsylvania motion is and what the terms to her by her grandmother, these and its profound and broad- “relative” and “frame of traditional stories provide a reaching impact on Indian and reference” mean. clearer understanding of the non-Indian people since its “Einstein Alive!” is presented in values and cultures of the inception in 1879 and far age appropriate programs K to diverse Native Nations of North beyond its closing in 1918. She adult. Students 4th grade and America. Whether a talkative shades this history with older are introduced to the Special Theory of Relativity. Turtle, bullying Bear or personal memoir, biography of Study guides are available. overbearing Buffalo, the indigenous activists and culture Marc has received a CINE characters face the importance keepers of the 19th and 20th of choices as listeners are held Golden Eagle award and centuries, and the impact of the performed as Einstein from the spellbound by Dovie’s animated boarding schools on Indian Arctic Ocean to the Everglades style and character voices. people today. Her story as well as in Canada, The Workshop and residency explores the inner resources that Dominican Republic and Korea. options also available. enabled the spirit and identity of Native peoples to survive and Marc Spiegel, Storyteller The Trickster, He Was Going raises provocative questions for Extraordinaire Along all contemporary Americans: Marc dramatically performs his Trickster stories are part of all Why does this matter to original stories in verse, Native cultures. The stories of Americans in the 21st century? narrative prose and song. Marc tricksters like Iktomi, Turtle, Can we learn from this? What explains various ways to find story ideas, illustrating each Raccoon and Coyote show the must be done that we can move similarities and differences with an example of one of his on? With honor, compassion own stories. Audience among different Native peoples and imagination, Thomason and their stories. Through the participation is the hallmark of helps her audience bring respect Marc’s performance. often comical misbehavior of and reconciliation to their study Study guides are available. the Trickster, lessons about of history. Workshop and Marc also offers a wonderfully proper behavior are gently residency options also available. enjoyable PTA family show.

34 In addition to thousands of Read Yourself Silly Storytelling” is one of the schools, Marc has performed at Students will be inspired to read best ways to encourage Wolf Trap, Off-Broadway and as performer Paul Miller shares inhibited writers and twice at the White House the story of how a trip to the exceptional students' to develop Millennial Celebration. circus inspired him to visit his creativity and to gain library to learn more about confidence to write what they juggling which led to balloons, know and “see” in their mind’s magic, and the history of the Flow Circus eye. Students listen to stories circus. Throughout the Contact: Artivate* from various of cultures performance, he models how Grades: PreK-8 (teachers may request) and add learning through books can be Fees: Single $700 images they see when she uses fun and lead you to discover Back-to-back $1,250 an organic intervention adapted new interests. Workshop and from West Africa. She adds Travel Varies residency options also available. students' images to her story Flop Forward: Flipping and makes them work; creates ways to call for other students' Failure into Fortitude Gail N. Herman, PhD A week with his grandparents at ideas and images. Contact: Gail Herman their mountain home with no (413) 203-5247 television or internet seems like Storytelling Writing [email protected] torture at first – but things Residency 11 Russell Lane change when performer Paul Dr. Gail performs stories East Hampton, MA 01027 Miller learns to shift his illustrating four story structures. www.gailherman.net mindset, unlocking a world rich One is a true story with a Grades: K-8 in adventure and play. beginning-middle-end from her Fees: $375 Empowered to persevere when book Tales of Mischievous things get hard, innovate instead Martha at an orphanage. Others Hearing Between the Lines of complain, and model bravery are stories her students wrote Dr. Gail begins with the by showing weakness, Paul that include different structures importance of sound and enjoys successes he never than beginning, middle and end. paralanguage in storytelling. imagined. Enjoy Paul’s comic Gail and the students create a She performs a story to storytelling as he shares the story together and then students demonstrate how her folk skills he learned, the toys he write/draw and share their percussion and novelty created, and the timeless lessons stories using one of 4 story instruments are played. Then he learned from his structures she has demonstrated. she chooses members from the grandparents. Workshop and audience to help her augment residency options also available. the meaning of a story using instrumental sound effects and Science of Awesome chant. Explore the world of science Finally she tells a story and and skill toys where things fall, accepts ideas from the audience balance and spin. Performer as to which instruments would Paul Miller will leave students augment the meaning for them. (and teachers) with an urge to Students play and retell parts of pick up and play with the world the story. around them to discover the invisible forces of the physical Folktales Around the World: world such as gravity and Organic Storytelling & kinetic energy. Workshop and Participation residency options also available. Dr. Gail performs stories from various cultures. She believes that her method called “Organic 35 HISTORY ALIVE! InterAct Story Theatre students have a rare opportunity Contact: Mary Ann Jung Contact: Ali Oliver-Krueger to dialogue with the actress and (410) 647-8699 (301) 879-9305 playwright about a significant [email protected] [email protected] time in American history. 1219 Heartwood Court 11510 Georgia Ave, Ste. 140 The program includes a Arnold, MD 21012-1930 Silver Spring, MD 20902 discussion session. Max. www.HistoryAliveShows.com www.interactstory.com Audience: 250/60 minutes Grades: K-12 Grades: PreK-12 (varies by Fees: Single $450 program) Drumming Through Time Back-to-back $825 Fees: Varies by program and Across Cultures (Grades MSAC Funds Available PreK-12) Voytto Tech: a scifi fable Join award-winning composer and world percussionist Tom Mary Ann Jung is an award- (grades K-6th) Teasley on a unique journey winning actress and "Voytto Tech: a scifi fable" through the history of Smithsonian Scholar with fun, combines science, engineering, and technology with a story percussion from around the interactive and inspiring shows about bullying and social world! Audiences travel the Silk about Amazing Women in inequity. Klipp Casey travels Road from Italy to China and History. They include CLARA from a planet far, far away to follow the Sugar Trade Route BARTON (Civil War), GOOD study at Voytto Tech, the from Africa to the Americas. QUEEN BESS (Renaissance), galaxy’s most famous science This program for all ages AMELIA EARHART, magnet school. Right away, combines ancient instruments ROSALIE CALVERT (War of Klipp has trouble fitting in at with the most recent advances 1812), and ROSIE THE his new school and becomes a in music technology, including RIVETER, and others. target for bullying. What can digital looping. Audiences are Klipp do? And what can anyone captivated as Tom creates and SALLY RIDE-WHO WANTS do about the huge energy crisis records performances in real TO BE AN ASTRONAUT? threatening the planet? This time, layering elements to Fun New STEM game show highly interactive play is create virtual about life on the Space Shuttle performed by three actors who percussion ensembles of up to become a variety of characters. five “performers.” Described in the Washington Post as “a MARGARET BRENT & The entire audience participates percussionist in the widest and THE INDIANS from their seats, becoming most exuberant sense of the Colonial MD Life-How and characters in the story and brainstorming possible solutions word,” Tom is a three-time why it was founded and Native recipient of the Helen Hayes American culture. for Klipp's problems. No play can or should offer an easy Theatre Award for Outstanding solution to the complex problem Sound Design and a five-time PEE WEE PIRATES of bullying and social inequity; recipient of a Adventures in Exploration and Voytto Tech offers schools an Fulbright-Hayes grant for Sailing with Captain Grace opportunity to open up dialogue performances in the O'Malley! about these complex issues in Middle East. an engaging way. Max audience For complete listing of 300/50 minutes programming please visit my website! Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One (Grades 3-12) A dynamic one-woman show that brings to life the story of this great African-American. Following the performance,

36 Joe Romano’s Ultimate teach the concept of thirds. face painting, balloon twisting School Shows Students have to guess how and strolling entertainment for Contact: Joe Romano many prizes are in the magic every event imaginable. (301) 641-1862 gumball machine, a great lesson [email protected] in estimation. The Juggling Hoffmans have 4908 Donovan Drive been performing for children Alexandria, VA 22304 and adults at libraries, schools, childcare centers, festivals and www.ultimateschoolshows.com The Juggling Hoffmans Grades: K-6 loads of other events throughout Contact: Michael and Lois the Mid-Atlantic region for over Fees: Single $695 Hoffman 24 years. Their performances Back-to-back $990 (302) 737-3163 are loved by families of all [email protected] ages. Books: The Magic is Real Many popular children's books 34 Oklahoma State Dr. are brought to life though the art Newark, DE 19713 of magic and illusion. Romano www.jugglinghoffmans.com Kate Campbell Stevenson motivates your children by Grades: PreK-5 Contact: Kate Campbell igniting a passion for reading all Fees: Single $395 Stevenson through the school year. A Back-to-back $695 (301) 622-1588 great way to promote your book Travel: Varies [email protected] fair and reading incentive 12122 David Dr. programs. Many versions of The Juggling Hoffmans Show Silver Spring, MD 20904 show available. Double your fun with www.katecampbellstevenson.com Delaware's only husband and Grades: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12 Green Magic wife comedy juggling team! Fees: Single $550 A science and comedy show Your guests will have a blast Back-to-back $700 that will transport students into with The Juggling Hoffmans’ a world where recycling face-paced, interactive, comedy Women: Back to the Future becomes fun. Green Magic will variety show. Sure, they juggle Through, music, monolog, grow students' minds as they lots of different props, but it's poetry, sign language and learn how going green can be a the interaction between period costumes, Stevenson cool and exciting experience. performers and audience that brings to life diverse historic Your students will witness a makes their show one-of-a-kind. used soda can, recycled in the American women who contributed greatly to our blink of an eye! An Catch On To Science country's history and culture. animatronic bird comes to life Step into the hilarity as this to educate about the dangers Two or three women featured in husband and wife juggling duo that plastic bags pose to our each performance. Adapted to set out to tackle gravity, planet. This production is each grade level grouping. Fits trajectory, and a variety of guaranteed to motivate children directly into school curriculum. science concepts with a fast- to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! Emphasizes problem solving, paced, interactive, fun and positive character traits and funny show. Kids and adults Superhero Math! clearly demonstrates how one will be amazed by the tricks and Magician Joe Romano will person can make a difference in amused by the antics in a smile- multiply your student’s our world. Twelve historic a-long, laugh-a-long good time. excitement for math in a women role models to choose fraction of the time with the from. See website. Stevenson Strolling Entertainment addition of this exciting new serves as the Maryland When a sit-down show isn't the math assembly! Joe Romano Women's Heritage Center's cuts his arm in 3 equal pieces to right thing for your event, they've got you covered with Cultural Ambassador.

37 Amending America-How 1930's. Depending on time, can Mark Jaster, known for his Women Won the Vote! include contemporary NASA kinetic humor, playful Through monologue, music and and other STEM women interaction, musical wit, and clever onstage costume and leaders. Can compare Arctic inventive imagination, brings make up changes-Stevenson conditions from 1920's to today over 30 years’ experience brings to life historic women and emphasis the need for performing for school assemblies and a vast array of who fought for women to have students to care and develop other audiences, from The an equal role in voting and their skills to protect our Maryland Renaissance Festival running for office to contribute environment here on earth and to Regional Parks and Libraries. their voice and talents as equal beyond. participants in American Piccolo's Trunk government. (Developed with a A wordless clownish character special grant from Montgomery engages the audience with County and The League of skillful movement, live music Women Voter's ) Featuring and prolific participation. A Abigail Adams - First Lady and delightful, popular introduction early advocate of Women's to the art of mime. Workshop rights. (Quick review of Susan and residency options also B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady available. Stanton) Rose Crabtree- A Fool Named "O" member of 1920 all-female Developed and featured at the town council Jackson Hole Maryland Renaissance Festival Wyoming; Alice Paul, since 1986, “O” is a wordless Suffragist and leader of the jester who plays unusual National Women's Party. How instruments and non- everyday women of different instruments and uses other ages fought to win the vote for simple props to beguile, involve women. (Also available in a 2 and entertain in a medieval hour interactive workshop manner. Best for grades 6+. developed in partnership with Mark Jaster The National Archives for Contact: Artivate* middle school students and Grades: PreK-12 New Moon Theater older). See website for details. Fees: Single $575 Contact: Julie Kurzava Back-to-back $675 (410) 719-8603 Forging Frontiers-Women in Travel: $40 [email protected] STEM MSAC AiE & AiR funds 5 Overhill Road Through music, and dramatic available; MSAC AiR Roster Catonsville, MD 21228 www.nmtheater.org monolog-Two or three STEM Artist Grades: K-5 women role models are Fees: Single $400 featured… Wingnut A NEW family-friendly Back-to-back $600 Rachel Carson, Marine interactive clowning Travel varies Biologist, Environmentalist; performance featuring the Bessie Coleman- early Aviator foolish and musical misuse of Tales from the Good Earth who flew two years before tools. A folding rule becomes a Travel to the four corners of the Amelia Earhart! shark (among other things), a world as these engaging Louise Arner Boyd- Arctic saw makes lyrical melodies, and folktales encourage an Explorer who led seven Arctic a drop cloth creates characters appreciation and respect for the Expeditions in the 1920's and requested by the audience.

38 natural world. Told in a broad, The Old Man and the Bay that with a bit of effort, theatrical style with all students Explore the history of the anything is possible. participating, Tales from the Chesapeake Bay with explorers, Good Earth is entertaining and pirates, settlers and watermen, interactive, while supporting told in tale and song. Singer- Nicolo Whimsey Show students' connection with the actor Tom Zielinski spins the Contact: Nick Newlin environment. Julie Kurzava has tales, interspersed with sea (301) 888-1281 been widely praised by teachers chantey sing-a-longs, keeping [email protected] and audiences for her energy audiences actively engaged in 16815 Milltown Landing Rd. and engaging style. Classroom history. Stories include tales of Brandywine, MD 20613 connections include the study of the privations of 17th century www.nicolowhimsey.com folklore, geography, ecology settlers, the dangers of Grades: PreK-6 and cultural awareness. shipwrecks, pirates in the Fees: Single $475 Chesapeake and great moments Back-to-back $600 Unexpected Heroes: India in Great moments in American Tales history, such as the Civil War Nicolo the Jester Meet quick witted and kind- battle of the ironclads, the Nicolo the Jester celebrates literacy by combining juggling hearted heroes who help others Merrimac and the Monitor. with poetry and storytelling to and transform their own lives! extoll the virtues of reading Three interactive folktales shed Leading Ladies: Women of books. light on the beauty of the Maryland subcontinent. Students will Students of all ages can relate as Nick Newlin is a Harvard- meet three unexpected heroes: a sixth grade Sarah stresses over educated lover of words with a little girl whose compassionate another impossible school Master's Degree in Theatre heart helps her save the day project, and Mom (and Aunt from the University of MD. He through the power of MATH; a Rose's attic) come to the rescue. uses these credentials to wise man who stops a bully in Along the way, they rediscover enhance a joyful performance his tracks; and a little boy stories of women whose that combines breathtaking whose ingenuity and generosity courage and conviction helped juggling with inspiring lead him to his heart’s desire. shape Maryland and influence wordplay that emphasizes literacy, tolerance, perseverance our nation. This quick tour and generosity of spirit. Minwa, Japanese Folktales through over 300 years of Share the grace and beauty of a Maryland history is fun and Nick Newlin is also a Folger culture half a world away. educational and a great Shakespeare Library Teaching Performed with zest and introduction to the history of the Artist and the author of a book enthusiasm, these timeless Free State. series with 18 titles: "The 30- stories teach the power of Minute Shakespeare." Nick has kindness and doing the right Tall Tales of the Wild West also served as a Kennedy thing. Julie Kurzava uses her Saddle up for this hilarious Center teaching artist and has a own unique performance style, romp through American strong love for lifelong learning including puppets, stylized folklore, featuring heroes such and a mission to share his love movement, song and lots of as the rough riding Pecos Bill, of books and language with audience participation. This the resourceful Paul Bunyan, students while keeping them laughing! production has been an and the fearless Annie enduring hit with students of all Christmas as they overcome ages as part of their cultural impossible obstacles in their diversity studies. own uniquely silly ways. These interactive stories teach students

39 Noa Baum Egyptians’ favorite animal, the Poetry Alive! Assembly Contact: Young Audiences* cat! Noa brings myths and Performance Grades: PreK-12 timeless stories of magic and Poetry Alive!®'s high-energy Fees: Single $480 adventure to life with animated assembly shows are presented Back-to-back $675 voices, song and audience by a team of two professional participation. performers. Student audiences range from kindergarten Character Counts: Lessons through the university level. A from World Cultures typical 35-50 minute show This storytelling assembly helps ON THE BALL SPINNY includes 20-25 poems tailored students develop 21 Century Contact: Spencer Johnson to fit the ages and interests of Social-Emotional skills, (301) 977-1553 the audience. The poems, exploring qualities of character [email protected] memorized and performed and encouraging responsibility 6405 Manor View Drive theatrically, are found in and empathy. Laytonsville, MD 20882 popular textbooks and Noa introduces students to the www.spinnyjohnson.com anthologies. Our shows change importance of good citizenship Grades: K-8 each year and the current year and making good choices using Fees: Single $550 & $600 show list is sent out in advance stories from around the world. Back-to-back $600 & $850 of the visit. This dynamic assembly invites audience participation with On the Ball Spinny Poetry Alive! Classroom chants, songs, sounds effects This dynamic program features Follow-ups and movements. fun and amazing basketball Poetry Alive!® performers are skills while teaching the available to visit individual Ancient Glories: Stories from importance of education, classrooms to work directly Greek Mythology with smaller groups. Using the This storytelling assembly respect, health and anti- assembly show as a role-model, introduces students to stories bullying. Using audience Poetry Alive!® will from the Greek mythology the participation, Spinny persuades demonstrate how the students way these tales were passed the students to believe in can use performance techniques down before they were written themselves and to embrace to experience poetry more fully. – orally. Myths were used to positive thinking. With the highlight universal values and proper discipline and hard work Poetry Alive! In School explain science and nature. Noa you can accomplish many Residency uses expressive movement and things. This former Like our performances, our song to help students imagine professional’s ambitions are to residencies are designed to help and picture the story in their perform for students and each school achieve the goals of mind and student participation encourage them to say “Yes to its curriculum. Poetry Alive!® is encouraged. Education.” develops each residency to fit the educational philosophy of Pharaoh’s Secrets: Myths and the school. For greater Mysteries of Ancient Egypt effectiveness, we consult with Dive into the rich culture of Poetry Alive! teachers and administrators ancient Egypt, one of the Contact: Carney Gray many times before ever visiting world’s most fascinating and (800) 476-8172 a school. This preparation important civilizations, in this [email protected] allows us to set up a structure storytelling assembly. Through PO Box 18111 that teachers can use year after Noa’s captivating stories and Asheville, NC 28814 year. songs, students learn about www.poetryalive.com customs and beliefs, pharaohs, Grades: PreK-12 Our goal is to introduce the famous inventions and even Fees: One day $810 plus concept of the "poem some fun facts about the lodging, or a straight $990 performance" as a mechanism 40 for increasing the students' Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo opportunity to try the appreciation and understanding Contact: Artivate* instruments and learn a variety of poetry. Grades: PreK-12 of Asian folk dance steps. Fees: Single $650 Poetry Alive! Professional Back to back $800 Asian Pacific Playshop Development Hands-on workshops and one- Poetry Alive!® conducts (Asia FantAsia & Bamboo day residencies feature workshops that introduce Jamboo) storytelling, music, dance, educators to the basics of using Single $650 performance as a pathway to Back to back $800 history and culture and understanding, experiencing, (Kulintang) traditional instruments tailored and appreciating poetry. Travel: $50 to age group and curriculum. Fees available upon request. Asia FantAsia Schroeder Cherry and Weaving a variety of traditional His Puppets tales with yarns of music and Seth Reichgott Contact: Young Audiences* theater, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo Contact: Young Audiences* Grades: 1-9 delights his audiences with Grades: K-6 Fees: $390 folktales and myths from Korea, Fees: Single $500 Japan, China, Tibet and more Back-to-back $670 Underground Railroad, Not A than twenty-three other Asian Subway countries-often embellishing the The Appalachian Tale In the puppet performance plots with the lyricism of a Come on in, sit down by the Underground Railroad, Not A bamboo flute, or bringing Subway, students will learn the fire, and hear an amazing tale! characters to life with animated true definition of the Journey to the heart of the Underground Railroad and how facial gestures. With a masterful Appalachian Mountains where it got its name. They’ll see and use of timing and elements of the rich heritage of America hear the story of a young boy surprise, Robert draws students still lives in story and song. who decides to run north and and teachers alike into a joyful Through unparalleled escape slavery. exploration of Asian culture. storytelling, catchy music and lively audience participation, The story is narrated by an older Bamboo Jamboo “The Appalachian Tale” gentleman who leads the A variety of music, dance, and explores the unique history, audience through the boy’s storytelling cultures from the quirky humor and incredible journey north as he encounters Asian world are introduced creativity of this distinctive free blacks, whites who are through a performance featuring region of the United States. willing to help, and slave varied flutes and Storytelling catchers. Will he make it? Theater. The haunting sounds of This 45-minute presentation is Shakuhachi flute music from Single Carrot Theatre Japan, the buzzing of a performed with a variety of Contact: Young Audiences* Southern Filipino bamboo jaw puppets — rod puppets, hand Grades: K-5 harp, and the multi-reed puppets, and wood cut-outs — Fees: Single $650 constructed by Schroeder bamboo cane panpipes of Back-to-back $900 Cherry. The show ends in a Thailand all come to life as Travel: Varies participatory chant with the Robert demonstrates their audience. Recommended sounds and introduces myths, Rumpled audience ages are six years anecdotes and folklore through adult. Bring a full-fledged theatrical associated with these production to your school! instruments. Students have the Rumpled is a fractured fairy tale 41 of Rumplestiltskin. In this Score a home run with the to promote the love of reading. theatre assembly, the play musical, inspirational Black Her program is entertaining and centers on normal girl Edith’s Diamond: The History and educational and includes magic, attempts to climb the fashion Heroes of the Other Major balloons, storytelling and industry ladder. Along the way, League. Discover thrilling audience participation. Enjoy we meet the King of the fashion stories of history and heroism in the excitement as she brings her world and a fashion troll named the arctic, the wild west, space, favorite children's stories alive Rumplestiltskin. The play and beyond, in the NEW Into with her balloon creations! explores issues of cheating and the Great Unknown: African Her program focuses on treating plagiarism with the use of American Adventurers and others with respect, being movement, voice, humor, Explorers. responsible and trust. She talks music—and of course—love. about friendship, anti-bullying Elaborate costumes, audience Tigers, Dragons, and Other and cooperation. participation, improvisation and Wise ‘Tails’ hilarious action sequences leave In this delightful Discovery Snippy Doodles students howling with laughter Theater original, four freshly Snippy Doodles is a clown, at this reinvented classic. imagined folk tales reveal balloon storyteller, balloon nuggets of traditional Asian artist and children's magician. wisdom. The Tiger, the Thief, She has been performing at Smithsonian Associates and the Dried Persimmon schools, libraries, festivals, Discovery Theater on (Korea) features a trickster tiger childcare centers and many whose antics recall the other venues for over 20 years. Tour teachings of Anansi. The She is a silly character children Contact: Artivate* natural innocence of childhood love. Grades: PreK-6 outwits the villain in The Boy Snippy Doodles (Renate Single $700 and the Fly (Vietnam). In The McIntosh) has her M.Ed. in Back-to-back $900 Wise Mole (Japan) true love Special Education. She is the Travel: $40 takes charge, complete with cell Delaware State Director of the phones and iPods. The Mid-Atlantic Clown African Roots/Latino Soul & sumptuous and mythic creation Association and has held that Cuentos Muy Mágicos – story The Four Dragon Rivers office for several years. Magical Stories of China features beautiful Celebrate Hispanic Heritage flying dragon puppets. Stories with a Little Magic Month with two vibrant Available in May. Mrs. Holly Claus provides a productions! African variety of age appropriate Roots/Latino Soul explores the activities for children. American melting pot with the Snippy Doodles She’s a balloon storyteller who story of Celia Cruz, the warmth Contact: Renate McIntosh engages the children with tales of mama's kitchen, and the (302) 653-1658 about the North Pole, Santa, the bustle of city life. NEW [email protected] elves and reindeer. Cuentos Muy Mágicos – PO Box 200 She utilizes books, magic, Magical Stories offers a fresh, Cheswold, DE 19936 balloons and singing to go bilingual take on classic snippydoodles.com along with her stories. childhood favorites with an Grades: PreK-5 interactive production about Fees: Single $395 magic and possibilities! Back-to-back $695

Black Diamond & Into the Great Unknown Read, Rhyme and Respect Celebrate Black History Month with Rosie this February with two Rosie is a silly character who Discovery Theater productions! utilizes popular children's books 42 The Story Road: Hither, kidnapped by aliens and trapped life. As a baby he is lost and sea Thither & Yon on a space ship! Audience and finds he way to an island of Contact: Charlotte Smutko volunteers must quickly form a circus misfits. Finding purpose, (301) 627-3023 Rescue Team and use math, family and love, the storyteller [email protected] logic and music to get her back. weaves a tale of joy and 6320 Mallard Lane The audience helps by solving kindness. This show combines Lothian, MD 20711 mathematical equations to amazing animation, wonderful Grades: K-5 unravel a celestial musical puppets, lots of magic and Fees: $100 message as we tour the solar music. As in every Story Ship system learning about the show everyone is dancing and STORIES FOR YOUNG planets, earth and the sun. Each singing in celebration at the end CHILDREN Alien communication gives us of the show. Pre K – 3rd Grades (Grades K-3) clues as to the Alien’s location Folk and Fairy Tales, Old- and how to rescue her. Times Poems & New Poems: Onstage, giant video animations TAHIRA Mother Goose, Small-Dog and holographic images allow Contact: Young Audiences* Poems, Dinosaurs and other us to communicate and track Grades: K-9 wacky characters. her. Interactive games are used Fees: $595 to help navigate our rescue team. Audience members LOL: Literacy Out Loud TALES FROM HERE, explore the relationship TAHIRA enthralls students THERE, AND between music, math and space with her tickle-your-funny-bone EVERYWHERE travel. tales and delightful sing-along (Grades 4 & 5) The show ends in a celebration songs. Delivered in her Giants, princesses, cheats, and as the aliens, audience and signature high-energy style, scoundrels, fools and funny actors all dance to the melody TAHIRA captivates young fellows come alive when this the aliens sent us. audiences with stories rooted in poet and storyteller shares time This fast paced high energy the oral tradition of the African tested tales from around the show combines: Diaspora. The interactive world. Interactive 3D Holograms program utilizes stories and Animation projected on a large songs to teach literacy skills, as screen students join in the performance The Story Ship Music through call-in-response and Contact: Sean Driscoll Dance engaging Q&A woven into the (912) 663-6320 Gaming fabric of the stories. [email protected] Comedy Theater 9945 Whitfield Ave. This program is geared towards Savannah, GA 31406 The Great Pirate Race (Math) students in K through Grade 5 www.storyship.com Giant math digital board game Grades: PreK-5 where two teams race to X Re-Imagining Math through Fees: Single Show $895 marks the spot. Huge dice and Storytelling Two Shows $1,195 funny onstage challenges entice You can feel a good story in volunteers with over 60 Three Shows $1,295 your core- the sadness, the opportunities to participate. suspense, the bitterness and the Crazy fun! Pre K – 5th Grades Aliens Alive! (STEAM, beauty. We are good at STEM, Science Math) registering and reacting to all of The Circus King (Reading) the characters, events and plot (STEAM, STEM, Science A magical storybook comes Math) twists a story throws at us, but alive through animation, magic, have you ever tried to look at HELP! While reporting live to music and puppets onstage. An your students, The Story Ship’s one through the eyes of a aging circus performer (live mathematician? science reporter, Sam, is actor) recounts the story of his

43 This innovative program that’s also positive and upbeat. utilizes storytelling to present Approx. 45 min. math concepts in an creative and imaginative way offering students a different perspective CHOOSE TO READ to approaching math. Students YoJo, the big blue fuzzy will apply the elements of black entertainer, initially has a storytelling to create their bad attitude about reading and version of a story told my would rather watch TV or play master storyteller, TAHIRA. video games, but after several The students' readaptations comic mishaps, he ultimately offer them an opportunity to learns “The more you read, the make unique choices to shape smarter you get!” A perfect the story to reflect their own assembly for reading rallies and voices, personal experiences kicking off reading incentive and values. programs. Approx. 45 min.

This program is well-suited TREAT YOUR BODY from students in Grade 3 RIGHT through Grade 9. YoJo’s junk food binges and couch potato ways finally end in our health & fitness program. The YoJo Show This show emphasizes daily Contact: Bromley Lowe physical activity, getting plenty (301) 943-9047 of sleep and also making [email protected] sensible food choices. It Bromley Productions, LLC features the USDA MyPlate P.O. Box 24 food icon, and will get your Simpsonville, MD 21055 entire audience on their feet to www.YoJo.com do a session of Grades: K-6 “YOJOROBICS!” Fees: Single $650 - $800, Approx. 45 min. Additional shows discounted ACE YOUR PARCC Co-booking discounts with This show deals with neighboring schools are overcoming test-taking anxiety available and promotes very specific and beneficial strategies for the new BULLY NO MORE PARCC exams. YoJo gets YoJo has a bully problem. The involved in a “PARCC game problem is YoJo’s the bully! show,” and learns about the But after several situations, he features, questions and tools of sees the harm he’s done and this new computerized test. In realizes how damaging bullying the end, YoJo develops the is. Many lessons are learned for skills and confidence to ACE those who are being bullied, THE PARCC! Approx. 45-50 those who are witness to min. bullying, and we even address those who may be doing the bullying, too. BULLY NO MORE is a serious assembly

44 Arturo Ho tricks, comedy, as well as a Contact: Artivate* Kangaroo mascot that comes to Grades: PreK-12 visit the children. Christalene Fees: 5-day residency (includes will end the performance with V materials) $4,500 some music and movement for Travel: $40/day all the kids to get up and dance like Australian Animals. The 5-Day Visual Arts Residency children and teachers are Arturo’s students are inspired to guaranteed to walk away feeling create, discover, communicate entertained in a fun and and connect with different imaginative way. This I people and perspectives through motivational performance is art. Collaborative workshops like no other. It also teaches the and residencies explore kids about affirmations and universal themes like home, ways to enhance their self- community and transformation esteem, through the ARTS, through a variety of 2-D and 3- MUSIC, DRAMA and learning S D techniques and artworks. and understanding about the With more than two decades of Australian culture. teaching experience, Arturo expertly custom-tailors Authentic Australia programs to connect art with Residency Program curricular areas like math, RESIDENCY PROGRAM science, engineering and social Residency $1,500 plus materials U studies. Travel: Varies Duration 45-60min.

Authentic Australia by Children learn how to interpret Aboriginal art work, Aboriginal Christalene Karaiskakis symbols and how to paint Contact: Christalene Aboriginal abstract paintings on A (443) 995-7082 a boomerang, didgeridoo or [email protected] canvas using dots. www.crystalooneys.com Each child will either take home Grades: PreK-5 a one of a kind art piece OR Fees: Single $300 the children can collaborate on making an Aboriginal mural for L Authentic Australia the school to keep! Christalene Karaiskakis is a *Contact information is listed world renowned, award winning with their agency under Arts artist that comes to you all the Councils and Arts Agencies on way from Down Under page 10 of the directory. Australia! She will present a show called “Authentic Australia.” It is an interactive program that will keep students captivated by her Australian accent, information about Australian animals, Aboriginal Dot Art, Australian/ Aboriginal history, geography, musical instruments, language, magic

45 Carien Quiroga ownership, as well as an craft materials. Lower Contact: Artivate* understanding of the elementary students explore Grades: PreK-12 collaborative art-making basic concepts of electricity and Fees: 6-day residency (includes process. The structured its role in kinetic artwork, and materials) $5,280 residency is fully inclusive and how circles are made; upper Maryland State Arts Council adaptable to any grade or ability elementary students define how Residency Approved level, aiming for student a circuit can be open or closed, MSAC AiR funds available success and empowerment. and how vibration makes objects move and draw a variety Arts Integrated Mosaic Art of lines; and middle school Residency students explore design Join South-African born variables (weight, balance, multimedia artist Carien height, angles of incidence and Quiroga on a collaborative and tension) and how they affect the empowering journey while types of lines their inventions learning about the Artist’s draw! Perfect for media centers cultural heritage, artistic work or classrooms, this is one of our and the art of mosaic-making. most popular workshops. All The Artist will work with the drawbots go home with their school to design and plan the inventor! This is also a popular residency around a specific professional development theme or concept and address session for STEAM-focused any needs the school teachers. community may have. Mosaic artworks are suitable for Hypnotizers! Light Machine indoor or outdoor installation Invention Lab and can include mosaic murals, Invent machines that spin, glow stepping stones, or translucent and hypnotize! Explore simple glass mosaic art and may circuits to make a motor spin, include traditional glass and discover battery polarity and ceramic mosaic, recycled how light emitting diodes glow, materials, fused glass, or and combine two simple circuits embossed metal. The and craft materials to create a collaborative process involves glowing, spinning machine of participants in all aspects of the your own design! Perfect for project, from design to FutureMakers grades 2 and up, this workshop construction and presentation. Contact: Young Audiences* is a favorite of media centers Students learn and master Grades: K-8 and grade level groups. Lower mosaic techniques through a Fees: Residency $385 for 1st elementary focuses on the scaffolded process, practicing workshop concepts of electricity and problem-solving, teamwork, $250 for each additional circuits, upper elementary and decision-making skills Travel + Supplies: Varies focuses on open and closed while leaving a visual legacy circuits, and middle school behind that both that both Drawbots! Drawing Machine focuses on solving a design beautifies and educates the Invention Lab challenge with raw materials school community. Invent electrified kinetic that require exploration for During the 6-day residency, artwork that comes to life and assembly. All students take participants create individual draws - art that makes art! In their working hypnotizers mosaic elements that are one class period, students will home! All materials are incorporated into the invent a machine that can stand, included in the cost of the collaborative artwork, allowing move and draw - using a workshop. students to develop a sense of battery, a motor and common 46 Illumania! Light Painting Lab inspirations that bring smiles to various parts of the world and Explore the connections many. Her recent works adorn foster cultural appreciation. between light, space and time - Children’s National Medical and create amazing images with Center, Hasbro’s Children’s Students will form a group of 6 your very own "light brush." Hospital and Boston Medical – 10 students. (The class should Participants build a "brush" Center. have a maximum of 3-4 using light emitting diodes, groups). Each group will choose Students will learn that a proverb that resonated with batteries and craft materials, inspiration and a little them from a list that the and then use them to draw with technology goes a long way to instructor provided. Based on light in our long-exposure light color the world of white walls. the proverb, each group will painting booth. Perfect for all The art presentation can be interpret the meaning of each ages, PK - HS. Participants take expanded into an interactive proverb then create a short home their "light brushes," and workshop residency where scenario that captures the photos from all groups are students have the opportunity to meaning of the proverb set shared with you for further contribute (hands-on) to a work within their own cultural distribution. All materials are of art. environment. included. This workshop is a Former College Educator perfect "in-school field trip" for MSAC approved artist Everyday I See: Addressing media centers and multipurpose Social Challenges rooms. We request that the In this residency, students will create a short movie that room can be dimmed or Griot’s Eye illustrates a problem/issue that darkened. Contact: Young Audiences* is common in their lives and Grades: 1-12 work creatively with their group Fees: $75/hour or $300/day to create a commercial that uses humor and unexpected twists to Gayle Mangan Kassal Where I'm From Video Poem propose solutions to the Contact: Gayle Mangan Kassal In this residency designed for problem. (443) 852-0123 students grades 6 – 12, [email protected] participants will explore www.GMKfineart.com identity through the creation of Grades: K-12 a “Where I'm From” video Fees: Single $250 poem using Back-to-back $400 photography, video, and audio Contact the artist for Residency recording. Students will have & Workshop Fees the opportunity to bring their Travel + Supplies: Varies family and cultural traditions to life through powerful creative Be Creative! writing that celebrates diversity. Inspire your students to be creative with a wow factor. The Grass is Greener: Ever wonder where Dr. Seuss, exploring cultural proverbs Georgia O’Keeffe, or Norman through video Rockwell received inspiration? This residency introduces An exciting lecture on the students to digital film where, how and who can inspire production including you. cinematography, audio recording, scriptwriting, acting Mural artist, Gayle Mangan and editing. The residency is Kassal, will awaken creativity designed to introduce students and spill secrets of her mural to cultural concepts from

47 John Iampieri beading. Stockdale demonstrates how Contact: Young Audiences* Grades: 1-8 she creates paintings for her Grades: K-12 picture books about nature in Residency fees vary The Felted Mural - Residency this lively PowerPoint In this visual arts residency, presentation. The Art of Screen Painting students working with both wet Students discover how her and needle-felting techniques, Screen painting is a unique and initial sketches evolve into final develop individual elements of traditional folk art that started in book illustrations with bright Baltimore back in 1913. In this a larger, multi-paneled scene colors and intricate patterns. screen painting residency, that can be hung in the school Stockdale shows how she students learn the history, after completion. Students learn techniques, tools and how take loose wool and use researches her scientific functionality of the art form. friction and water, as well as subjects to ensure that her This residency is custom- specially designed needles, to images are realistic, yet designed to meet your schools link the fibers, develop imagery imaginative. Students enhance needs and budget. Students can and add details. their literacy skills by make individual “mini screens” Grades: 4-8 comparing and contrasting or a large-scale mural to be Stockdale's sketches to the final installed at the school. Screen Felted Story Quilt - Residency images in her books, and are painting images can be created After an examination of the inspired to create a book of their narrative paintings in Jacob from observation, memory, or own. imagination and is a perfect Lawrence’s Migration series, medium to connect to content in students create individual needle-felted squares depicting Learn why schools exclaim that the classroom curriculum. "few authors have generated Sample Common Core part of a story or historic event in this visual arts residency. such enthusiasm from the connection: students and teachers." 3.MD.C.6 Geometric Working collaboratively to use Measurement: Understand imagery as narrative, students concepts of area and relate area retell the story with the to multiplication and to assembly of the squares into addition. wall quilts. These can be used as teaching tools for future classes. Katherine Dilworth Grade: 4-8 Contact: Young Audiences* Grades: 4-8 Fees: Residency $100/workshop Susan Stockdale Travel + Supplies: Varies Contact: Susan Stockdale (301) 654-0292 The Felted Vessel - Residency [email protected] In this visual arts residency, 3506 Raymond St after observing vessels from Chevy Chase, MD 20815 many cultures, students use www.susanstockdale.com wet-felting techniques to link Grades: K-5 loose fibers into a solid form Fees: $700+ around a tennis ball. Once dry, Please contact the artist for the forms are cut in two, the ball further information removed, and a small dish with a lid remains. Students then Illustrating Picture Books embellish with embroidery Award-winning needles using stitching and author/illustrator Susan

48 Suzanne Herbert-Forton integrated with objectives from Contact: Young Audiences* other core curriculum or Grades: K-12 focused solely on art curriculum Fees: Vary, depending on objectives. duration of residency Travel + Supplies vary Mixed Media Residency Artist on MSAC AIE roster The artist will work with the art teacher to design a residency Embroidery Residency that addresses the specific needs Each project is custom designed of their situation. Students will with input from teachers to suit design and create embroidered your curriculum and budget illustrations in relief sculpture needs. The number of sessions frames made from clay or found varies according to the project objects. These artworks can be we design. Students will learn incorporated into an installation how embroidery has been used or remain as individual works. in various cultures and basic The residency may be an arts embroidery techniques. They integration project or it may may incorporate other areas of focus solely on art curriculum. the fiber arts such as plant dyes The total number of students or felting. They will design and will determine the structure of create their own embroidered the project. Each student could illustrations. The residency can create both an embroidery and a be designed as an arts integrated frame or with a larger group, project. The final product can teams could complete various be an installation or individual aspects of the work. works of art.

Relief Sculpture Residency Students will design and create a relief sculpture mural with handmade ceramic tiles. If an installation is not desired, students may create individual works. Students will learn about high, low and sunken relief. We will discuss how this kind of sculpture has been used throughout history and across cultures. Students will learn how math and science are involved in ceramics. They may figure out the percentage of shrinkage of a clay body, calculate the perimeter and area of a tile mural. Artist may take students through the process of calculating what size individual tiles need to be to ensure that all students have a tile in a project. The theme of the mural can be 49 Barry Louis Polisar autographing. Your school will Contact: Barry Louis Polisar receive a percentage of all (301) 384-9207 proceeds from the book and [email protected] music sales generated by his W 3605 Dustin Road visit. Burtonsville, MD 20866 www.barrylou.com Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12 Susan Stockdale Fees: Single $750 Contact: Susan Stockdale Back-to-back $1,500 (301) 654-0292 Weekend and Family Shows: [email protected] R $1,000-$3,000 3506 Raymond Street Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Barry Louis Polisar: Songs, www.susanstockdale.com Stories, Poetry and books Grades: K-5 Barry sings his song "All I Fees: $700+ Want is You" in the opening Please contact artist for further credits of the Academy Award I information winning film "Juno" and his songs are featured in other movies, television shows and Writing Picture Books TV commercials throughout the Award-winning world. author/illustrator Susan Stockdale demonstrates how T Barry has performed at The she researches and writes her White House, The Smithsonian nonfiction picture books with and The Kennedy Center for the themes ranging from how Performing Arts and presents animals carry their young to concerts and author visits in how flower shapes attract schools from Washington DC to certain pollinators. E Fairbanks, Alaska--but he lives in Maryland! Students learn how to conduct thorough research to gather Barry can provide grade level accurate information and the presentations or back-to-back importance of revising during sessions for combined grades. the writing process. They He will inspire your students, discover how rhythmic rhyme R teachers and parents with his and vivid verbs, synonyms and entertaining stories, witty alliteration can make their poems, funny songs and words sparkle. engaging books. He is the rare author who can vary his Stockdale's program also program to accommodate integrates visual art and science different grade levels and his S for a robust STEAM presentations are equally experience. Find out why appealing to younger and older schools call her presentation students. "the best author program we ever had." In addition to his AIE grant funding, you can help finance the cost of his visit by sponsoring an author 50 INDEX OF ARTISTS

DANCE Mark H Rooney, 23 Ballet Theatre of Maryland, 11 Mosaic, 23 Bowen McCauley Dance Company, 12 New Moon Opera, 24 Dancing Warriors, 13 Pam the Kindersinger, 24 Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, 13 Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra, 24 Illstyle & Peace Productions, 14 Performing Arts Center for African Cultures, 24 Lesole’s Dance Project, 14 Ray Owen, 25 New York City’s LMproject, 14 Rockcreek Steel Drums, 25 Prakriti Dance, 15 Sineadh Fada, 26 Quynn Johnson, 15 Snowday, 26 RC Dance Discovery, 15 Steve Cyphers – Adventures of Rhythm, 26 SOLE Defined, 16 Taikoza, 27 Step Afrika!, 16 Terry Marsh in the Music, Movement, & ‘Magination Show!, 27 Urban Artistry, 16 Unified Jazz Ensemble, 28 Wytold, 28 MUSIC Alden Phelps, 17 THEATER Anansegromma of Ghana, 17 Arianna Ross, 29 Andes Manta, 18 Baba Jamal Koram, 29 123 Andres, 18 Baltimore Improv Group, 29 Barynya, 18 Blue Sky Puppet Theatre, 30 Billy B., 19 Brian Curry Magic, 30 Cantare, 19 Building Better People Productions, 31 Cello Fury, 19 Bus Howard, 31 Christylez Bacon, 20 Chicago Improv Productions, 32 Devonna B. Rowe, 20 Chris Fascione: Bringing Literature to Life!, 32 Dom Flemons – The American Songster, 21 Diane Macklin, Storyteller, 33 Flumpa, 21 DinoRock Productions, 33 Genticorum, 22 Dovie Thomason, 34 Global Beat Connection, 22 Einstein Alive: Marc Spiegel, 34 Jazzing Up Learning with Renee Georges, 22 Flow Circus, 35 Magpie, 23

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Gail N. Herman, PhD, 35 Susan Stockdale, 48 History Alive!, 36 Suzanne Herbert-Forton, 49 InterAct Story Theatre, 36 Joe Romano’s Ultimate School Show, 37 WRITERS The Juggling Hoffmans, 37 Barry Louis Polisar, 50 Kate Campbell Stevenson, 37 Susan Stockdale, 50 Mark Jaster, 38 New Moon Theater, 38 Nicolo Whimsey, 39 Noa Baum, 40 On The Ball Spinny, 40 Poetry Alive!, 40 Schroeder Cherry and His Puppets, 41 Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, 41 Seth Reichgott, 41 Single Carrot Theatre, 41 Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater on Tour, 42 Snippy Doodles, 42 The Story Road: Hither, Thither & Yon, 43 The Story Ship, 43 TAHIRA, 43 The YoJo Show!, 44

VISUAL Arturo Ho, 45 Authentic Australia by Christalene Karaiskakis, 45 Carien Quiroga, 46 FutureMakers, 46 Gayle Mangan Kassal, 47 Griot’s Eye, 47 John Iampieri, 48 Katherine Dilworth, 48