Arts-In-Education 2019-2020

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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

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 each performer’s 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.

ARTS COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Michael N. Russo, Jr. President Jessica Daigle Vice President Daniel LeDuc Treasurer Patricia Horn Secretary

Carole Alexander Jeremy Allen, Sr. Andrew Bienstock Martha Blaxall Liz Borcik Matthew Earl Paul Gable Cynthia Jones Sunhee Kim Jung Kris Kohlmann Sean Looney Shannon Morton Joe Natoli James O’Hare Tony Spencer Lucy Spiegel Amy Tate Briana Walton, MD Pravi Wickramasuriya Mark Yarbrough

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

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

Jenn Lombardi, Senior Manager, Citizen Advisory Committee, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Vanessa Rivera, President of Anne Arundel County Council of PTAs

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 & ARTS AGENCIES...... 10

DANCE…...... 11

MUSIC...... 16

THEATER...... 28

VISUAL ...... 45

WRITERS...... 49

INDEX OF ARTISTS...... 51

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 2019-2020 school year.

2. Applications must be received by October 22, 2019. Notification of awards will be mailed no later than December 1, 2019.

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, on the MSAC AiE registry, or a Young Audience/Artivate artist, all of whom have been found to meet high educational goals and professional artistic standards.

5. Each school is eligible to apply for no more than two (2) grants per school (i.e. one of each grant or 2 residency grants or 2 auditorium grants). 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 announced at performances and acknowledged on the school’s website and 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 grants must be applied for electronically through our website at acaac.gosmart.org 1. Click the ‘Access GO Smart’ button on our Arts in Education page. (www.acaac.org/our-programs/arts-in-education/) 2. Login and click the ‘Current Programs & Applications’ tab. 3. Scroll down and choose Apply for Residency Grant. 4. The tutorial on using the online grants system can be found on the ‘Home’ tab. 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 a MAXIMUM of two AiE grants. Either 1 residency grant and 1 auditorium grant or 2 residency grants or 2 auditorium grants 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.

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

GUIDELINES FOR AUDITORIUM GRANT APPLICATIONS

2. Applications must be received by October 22, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be mailed no later than December 1, 2019.

5. Each school is eligible to apply for no more than two (2) grants per school (i.e. one of each grant or 2 residency grants or 2 auditorium grants). 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.

All grants must be applied for electronically through our website at acaac.gosmart.org 1. Click the ‘Access GO Smart’ button on our Arts in Education page. (www.acaac.org/our-programs/arts-in-education/) 2. Login and click the ‘Current Programs & Applications’ tab. 3. Scroll down and choose Apply for Auditorium Grant. 4. The tutorial on using the online grants system can be found on the ‘Home’ tab. 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 a MAXIMUM of two AiE grants. Either 1 residency grant and 1 auditorium grant or 2 residency grants or 2 auditorium grants 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.

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 Kayla Morgan, 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.

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The piece, elements of dance, narration, Experience the impact of which features 8 dancers, music, costumes, sets, props cultural diversity on the demonstrates the science behind and music are used to evolution of American Ballet, the creative process and the communicate meaning through especially the Irish, African interconnectedness of math, the characters in Lewis American, Latino, and Native engineering, and the arts. Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland American cultures. Students see Lissajous is set to an original as they are transformed from how classical dance can be used music score, To Say Pi by Dr. the page to the stage in a live as a means of expressing the Jordan Alexander Key of the ballet performance. rhythms of a culture, or as a University of Florida. A FREE Pirates of the Chesapeake way of capturing its history in Lissajous education curriculum Based on the first documented this dance assembly. package (student lesson and acts of piracy on the teacher’s resource guide) is Chesapeake Bay, BTM brings Sample Common Core included for K-5th, 6th-8th, and to life pirates, settlers and connection 9th-12th grade students. natives who lived in 17th CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3 BMDC’s 2019-2020 season is century America in this dance Explain events, procedures, supported by a foundation assembly. Local history, ideas, or concepts in a grant, which helps the Company swordfights and lost treasures historical, scientific, or bring a larger ensemble of eight come together through dance to technical text, including what professional dancers to the tell a story of our colonial roots. happened and why, based on stage. This piece will be paired Students will participate in demonstrations including stage specific information in the text. with other pieces to create a combat. full-length school program. Sample Common Core Please note: This performance connection for 6th Grade: is an artistic interpretation of Measurement and Geometry historical events involving 6.7.a The student will derive π pirates. As a result, the (pi) performance contains the use of 6.7.b The student will solve stylized stage combat, primarily problems, including practical sword fighting and incorporates Bowen McCauley Dance problems, involving the use of stage replica circumference and area of a weapons, primarily swords Company circle (some wood and some metal). If Contact: Artivate* Grades: K-12 you are concerned about this Dancing Through the Decades content, please take a look at Fees: Single $950 Dancing Through the Decades the other offerings from Ballet Back-to-back $1,350 (5 dancers) explores the pop Theatre of Maryland, or call Workshop: $200; Travel: $50 music and dance movements Young Audiences to discuss Residency: Contact Artivate that shaped our culture, further.

12 beginning with the twist in the African, European and Native Curriculum Connections: Social 1950s and culminating in a American traditions. Live music Studies, American History, tribute to the contemporary and an exciting array of Dance and Movement award-winning Broadway percussive dances are performed, including step Build A Better World musical, Hamilton! The piece Footworks Percussive Dance demonstrates a deeper learning dance, gumboot dance, tap, clogging and hamboning, along Ensemble presents "Build A as it relates to students’ lives, with inspiring audience Better World", a family-friendly and a greater understanding of participation. show for all ages that includes how different generations can Curriculum Connections: Social live music, dancing, audience connect through music. This Studies, American History, participation, and lots of fun piece will be paired with other Dance and Movement, Music that will inspire students and pieces to create a full-length Workshops and Arts Integrated audiences of all ages to do their school program. Residencies Available. part to build a better world. Come join world class artists as BMDC Workshops & Irish Roots and American they perform an interactive and Residencies Branches uplifting show that is sure to get Programs for students and Performing live Irish music and you smiling, toe tapping, teachers are tailored to specific dance with their descendant singing and clapping! age groups and ability levels American styles, Footworks illuminates the American story and may connect dance to of traditions coming from the storytelling, poetry, and other Old World and meeting others curriculum topics, while here, resulting in new traditions. boosting confidence, body Students learn the powerful role awareness, and coordination. the Irish played in the shaping

of Maryland, the United States and American culture. Curriculum Connections: Social Lesole's Dance Project Contact: Artivate* Studies, Maryland History, American History, Dance and Grades: K-12 Fees: Single $750 Movement, Music Workshops and Arts Integrated Back-to-back $1,000 Residencies Available. Travel: $40 Workshop/Residency: Footworks Percussive Roots and Rhythm: Exploring Contact Artivate Dance Ensemble the Cultural Diversity of the MSAC AiE funding available Contact: Young Audiences* United States through MSAC AiR Roster Multicultural Traditional Dance Grades: K-12, Adult Dancing through South Africa Fees: Single $830-$870 This arts-integrated residency Founder Lesole Maine and his Back-to-Back $1,050-$1,115 explores the diversity and dancers blend South African MSAC AiE and AiR funds commonality of the people of available the United States. Dances and roots with a modern approach their histories from different for an engaging program Keeping the Beat: cultures are taught in a fun and blending dance, history, and Multicultural Influences in inviting way, bringing students culture. Experience three American Music and Dance together in rhythms and songs exciting dance cultures from the “Footworks conveys the power that build community and tip of the African continent! connect participants to each and joy of percussive dance Traditional Ndlamu dance gives other and to their shared while illuminating the a snapshot of Zulu village multicultural roots of American American heritage. clothing, customs, and high- music and dance, including energy drumming. The moves 13

and percussive sounds of music, dance and the music and dance troupes and is Gumboot create a kind of importance of collaboration. under the direction of master “instant messaging” dance The performers are all New percussionist Dendê. The slapped out on gold miners’ York professionals, teaching ensemble has performed rubber boots. Pantsula, an movement, rhythm, musicality throughout the US since its upbeat, urban dance similar to and performance through formation in 2002 and toured Greece as part of the Cultural American hip-hop, adds a Broadway's most popular Olympiad, appearing at the contemporary connection to this musicals. Kalamata Dance Festival and overview of authentic South Grade Level -- PreK-8th, with the Athens Festival at the African dance styles. age appropriate modifications. Acropolis. The company’s educational programs have been Lesole's Dance Project Broadway Bound: Stories featured at venues such as Workshops & Residencies from the Road Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Students learn elements of Dancers tell the stories of their School, the Eastman School of traditional Zulu, Gumboot, and journey to Broadway and Music and the Peabody street dances, songs in the Zulu becoming professional Conservatory among many language, and drumming performers, from beginning other esteemed institutions. techniques while exploring the dance lessons through college, culture and history of South auditions, tours and Broadway Africa. Workshop topics may shows. As they tell their stories, they perform numbers from be tailored to suit teacher’s shows. If there is time available, goals and students ages and performers do a Q & A

abilities. following the Performance. Grade Levels: 6-12

Prakriti Dance Contact: Artivate* Grades: PreK-12 Fees: Solo Single $500 Back-to-back $650 Single Duo: $650 New York City's Back-to-back Duo: $800 LMproject Ologundê Workshop Only: $400 Contact: Mary Jo Ford Contact: Young Audiences* WS after performance $300 (571) 217-4763 Grades: All Additional WS: $200 [email protected] Fees: $1,000 Travel: $45 LMprojectdance.com Residency: Contact Artivate Axe Puro: Afro-Brazilian Fees: $1,000-$1,600 Music, Dance and Martial Arts Storytelling through Classical Prices vary based on program The Ologundê ensemble specifics and the number of Indian Dance celebrates the rich Prakriti Dance shows students’ dancers. AfroBrazilian culture of stories told in a new way – Salvador, Bahia through a Broadway Bound through the body and face diverse repertoire of music, Broadway Bound is a high movement of classical Indian dance and martial arts. energy, interactive, educational Comprised of Brazilians living dance. Stories presented will and entertaining program that in the United States and Brazil, draw from Indian mythology explores the many elements of a Ologundê includes former and the fables of the West, Broadway show, including members of world-renowned showcasing dance as a versatile

language that transcends small changes in their own lives SOLE Defined Live! cultural boundaries. Audience to help minimize further Separate your hands from your members learn different hand environmental damage. May be feet and join SOLE Defined to gestures and have opportunities presented as a solo or duo create a funky beat. SOLE to brainstorm about how they program. Performance, Defined interactive assembly are used in storytelling. May be workshop, and residency energizes the audience with its presented as a solo or duo options available. fusion of tap dance and stepping program. Performance, while sharing the history and workshop, and residency traditions of two American art options available. forms.

Rhythms of India: An Exploration through Classical Indian Dance Using a combination of dance movements and recitation based Quynn Johnson on classical Indian dance, Contact: Young Audiences* students learn different rhythm Grades: K-8 patterns and how they form the Fees: Assembly: $350 Step Afrika! basis for intricate dance Residency: $75/Class Contact: Artivate* sequences. Students have the Grades: PreK-12 opportunity to create their own Tap dancing through life Fees: Single $975 rhythm patterns and see how An interactive and rhythmic Back-to-back $1,300 their patterns can be performance that shares Quynn Travel $50 implemented in classical Indian Johnson’s unique personal Step Afrika! Reads: $375 dance. This performance journey of perseverance and Workshop: $310 determination to overcome engages all students as they Master Class $475 challenges through tap dance. journey through the rhythmic Through the rhythmic landscapes of classical Indian Stepping with Step Afrika! expression of tap, this assembly This highly interactive dance and music. May be combines elements of music presented as a solo or duo performance highlights the and storytelling to inspire and rhythm, physicality and history program. Performance, impact students. Students will of stepping. Performers workshop, and residency enjoy making rhythmic patterns incorporate world traditions, options available. with their hands, learning basic demonstrated through lively tap steps, and improvisation South African gumboot dance, Through Fish Eyes session with volunteers. and introduce the concepts of This unique performance teamwork, discipline and utilizes the dynamic classical commitment. Students enjoy Indian dance form, Bharata getting on their feet to learn Natyam, to spark interest in basic step choreography and what lies beneath the ocean's discover how dance brings surface. Prakriti Dance shares people and cultures together.

the wonders of marine life through the language of dance. Audiences will learn about the ways in which humans are SOLE Defined Contact: Young Audiences* affecting the world's oceans and Grades: K-12 will be empowered to make Fees: $900

of the Americas, traveling with song and dance through a lesson in geography that incorporates language, culture and music. Suggested audience: early

elementary students

M 123 Andrés Around the Americas Contact: Young Audiences* Building on “¿Dónde está Grades: PreK-5 Juana?” this concert leads Fees: Single $800 students on a bilingual Back-to-back $1,200 exploration of the hemisphere. We learn more about Latin Around the Americas with genres and how they traveled to Andrés the US and became a part of US Latin GRAMMY winner 123 culture, too. Andrés and U Andrés introduces students to Christina also share some of Latin American song and dance their personal stories, infusing through a musical lesson in the program with opportunities geography that incorporates to think more deeply about the language, history, culture and elements of culture and the music. Andrés and Christina use importance of inclusion. a map to take students on a Suggested audience: older magical trip to the Americas elementary students (4th-5th) S while singing and dancing. Students participate in regional dances and practice their Spanish vocabulary building their knowledge of language and culture.

Andrés is a multi- instrumentalist and singer Adventures in Rhythm I performing with a guitar, saxophone, percussion and Contact: Young Audiences* more. This presentation is ideal Grades: 1-8 for pre-K to 5th grade and dual Fees: Contact Young Audiences

language, ESL, foreign Adventures in language and diversity/ Rhythm/Assembly multicultural studies. An interactive concert like,

experience using call and C ¿Dónde está Juana response, stomping, clapping This concert inspires kids to and singing. I demonstrate and explore the whole hemisphere, *Contact information is listed teach about percussion of all in Spanish and English. Andrés’ with their agency under Arts kinds as well as the drum-set. I friend Juana is missing, and the Councils and Arts Agencies on define percussion, demonstrate only clue we have is that she’s page 10 of the directory. instruments and my band somewhere in the Americas. performs songs inviting Come ready to explore our map

16 students to join us on stage. In Workshops/Residencies: between, I teach elements of Contact Artivate music like pitch and tempo, and follow the history of percussion A Visit to Kofi's Village from the African log drum to Kofi Dennis presents an the modern drum-set. Songs by exhilarating and memorable Stevie Wonder, James Brown introduction to West African and Santana to name a few. We culture. Audiences become Ball in the House also explore how different members of a typical Ghanaian Contact: Young Audiences* materials, and the different village, gathering with “royal Grades: K-12 ways instruments vibrate elders” and court musicians to Fees: $1,110 change the way they sound. experience traditional music, Back-to-back $1,600 storytelling and dance, Adventures in enhanced by the vibrant colors Totally Vocally Rhythm/Residency of native attire. Through call Totally Vocally is jam-packed I expand on assembly concepts, and response songs, games, with music, entertainment and elements of music and dance, and drum rhythms, Kofi education! Through transform the class into a bucket offers an engaging, first-hand contemporary & classic cover band. We learn to play drums exploration of West African songs and original works, Ball and perform songs in culture. in the House (BitH) will discuss preparation for a culminating and teach many aspects of performance. I bring my drum- This energetic program includes music and performance. set, many percussion traditional stories, Students will discover what “a instruments such as bongos, demonstrations of authentic cappella” is and how it works, congas, timbales, and more. I musical instruments and an explore the technology behind a also have a "recycled drum-set" explanation of kente cloth sound system, hear the various made of recyclable materials. symbolism. With his extensive voice parts and how they fit I'm very flexible and can tailor background as a teacher and together to make harmony and my residencies to fit desired performer, Kofi has developed songs, learn how to beatbox and subjects. However, my standard programs that engage, educate, use rhythm, experience the residency touches on many and entertain audiences of all history of a cappella singing subjects such as STEM, ages. from chant through doo-wop, History, Geography, and Math. get introduced to songwriting Anansegro of Ghana and collaboration and have a Workshop/Residency chance to ask questions. Totally Workshops and residencies for Vocally also addresses the teachers, students (grades PreK- teamwork aspect of performing adult), and community groups together and how BitH needs to are available. Possible topics work together as people and as include West African voices. Through fun rapport and

drumming, dance, and creative stories of their own experiences Anansegro of Ghana dramatics (where teachers learn as students (dealing with peer Contact: Artivate* to help students create and pressure, etc.), BitH inspires Grades: PreK-12 dramatize their own stories). and encourages students to get Fees: Single $650 Information and pricing involved and stay involved in Back-to-back $850 available upon request. the arts. Travel: $40

levels are among the concepts ¡Mucha Música! – A Musical that Billy B. sings about as he Journey to Latin America reveals the ways of the Sing and dance on a tour Chesapeake Bay. exploring the Indigenous,

European and African cultures Bio, Bio Diversity that shape Latin American Billy B. presents the beauty, Barynya music. WAMMIE award abundance, and complexity of Contact: Artivate* winning Cantaré captivates with the biodiversity around us and Grades: PreK-12 fascinating traditional in specific habitats (coral reefs, Fees: Single $695 instruments – donkey jaw, goat old growth forest, soil). For Back-to-back $895 toenail rattle and armadillo shell older students, Billy B. presents Travel $75 guitar – in Spanish and human activities causing Portuguese rhythms. Barynya – Russian Music and problems for the world’s Workshops available on their Dance biodiversity and possible own, or in conjunction with Barynya’s skillful musicians solutions. Commissioned and performance programs. and dancers introduce the rich approved by the World Wildlife Fund. traditions and culture of pre- Rainforest Air revolution Russia. Lively songs Weather, Climate, Let’s Mesmerizing music and from Russian, Cossack, Define It magical folktales from the heart Ukrainian, Jewish, Gypsy, Tatar Billy B. leads his audience of the rainforests of South and Siberian traditions are sung through a song and dance America, Central America, and and played on instruments like exploration of the differences Puerto Rico. Cantaré's original the bayan and garmoshka between weather and climate, song "Rainforest Air" delivers a (Russian accordions) and the structure and benefits of the powerful ecological message guitar-like dorma, balalaika, atmosphere, and how it all about protecting the rainforests. supports the amazing diversity and very large contrabass Workshops available on their balalaika. Vivid costumes, of plant and animal life on our beautiful planet. For older own, or in conjunction with athletic dances and lighthearted performance programs. humor enhance this memorable students, Billy B. introduces the

performance. concepts, and science of the human impact on the ¡Vamos al Carnaval!

atmosphere/climate. Experience the excitement of

Carnaval (the Latin American

version of Mardi Gras) with

joyful, contagious rhythms from

different Carnaval traditions

such as carnavalito from

Bolivia, festejo from Peru, Billy B. plena from Puerto Rico, conga Contact: Artivate* from Cuba, and samba from Grades: PreK-12 Cantaré Brazil. Audiences sing, play Fees: Single $750 Contact: Artivate* instruments, and dance with Back-to-back $900 Grades: PreK-12 Cantaré. Workshops available Fees: Single $675 Travel: $75 on their own, or in conjunction Back-to-back $850 with performance programs. Ways of the Bay Travel: $25 Watershed, estuaries, erosion, MSAC AiE & AiR Funds runoff and depleted oxygen available

The Classical Hip-Hop 2.0 guide, Curtis performs on a sequel program fuses additional variety of instruments made of pieces by Bach, Strauss, “up-cycled” materials. Students Beethoven and Vivaldi with discuss responsible green live-looping technology and practices and how to use hip-hop compositions. discarded items to create musical instruments as people have done throughout history. Christylez Bacon Beats, Bows, & Remixes Contact: Artivate* Join Christylez Bacon and Grades: PreK-12 Wytold as hip-hop and classical The Multicultural Roots of Fees: Solo Single $625 music collide with multi- Rock and Rap Most people know how African Solo Back-to-back $825 cultural collaboration, American blues music Single Duo $795 transforming well-known songs into new compositions. Learn influenced modern rock, Hip Back-to-back Duo $995 how these musicians work as a Hop and rap. But what are the Travel: $20 team, listening to each other's influences that helped create Workshop/Residency: different backgrounds and blues from musical traditions in Contact Artivate perspectives as they shape Africa? modern versions of all-time Human Beatbox favorites, from Hot Cross Buns Multi-instrumentalist Curtis Christylez (pronounced: Chris- to Bruno Mars. Create a team Blues performs with fascinating styles) Bacon, GRAMMY remix with Christylez and instruments from Africa and nominated Progressive Hip-Hop Wytold that twists and turns a North and South America to artist, combines rhyming, familiar tune into a brand-new demonstrate how African storytelling and interactive call musical invention. musical history changed music and response choruses with all over the world. The diverse instrumentation (West Multicultural Roots of African djembe drum, human American Music traces musical beatboxing). This high-energy history from African lutes solo program delivers a through gourd banjos, brought message of cultural acceptance over on slave ships, to the and unification blending modern guitar styles of the traditional elements of musical blues and rap beats today. styles from jazz to hip-hop. Curtis Blues This assembly program touches Classical Hip-Hop & Classical Contact: Young Audiences* on many curriculum Hip-Hop 2.0 Grades: K-2, 3-12, Adult connections as well as Remixing the classics, this Fees: Assembly $615 celebrating the lives of specific program merges the contrasting Back-to-back $975 African Americans who worlds of Classical and Hip- changed musical history. Hop music in a collaborative Up-cycling: Turning Junk musical program featuring into Musical Instruments Sample Common Core Progressive Hip-Hop artist from Africa to America Connection: Music Standard 1.0 Christylez Bacon and six-string Up-cycling: Turning Junk into Perceiving and Responding: electric cellist, Wytold. Musical Instruments from Aesthetic Education: Students Traditional elements of hip-hop Africa to America is an will demonstrate the ability to such as human beatbox, interactive assembly that perceive, perform and respond rhyming, and storytelling are challenges students to use to music. blended with classical recycled materials to make folk compositions of composers like instruments. Using the STEM Bach, Vivaldi and Pachelbel. engineering design model as a

connections. Songs of Africa, styles, and the legacy of African the Spiritual, the Underground American musicians in country Railroad and the Blues will music and rock and roll, and highlight influences on these their influence on hip-hop styles of music on American culture. In 2008, he founded the Art Songs, Opera and other Carolina Chocolate Drops, an international musical art forms. African American string band (1- 2 performers) that won a GRAMMY for Best Devonna B. Rowe Traditional Folk in 2010 and Productions LLC Arts in Songs of Africa were inducted into the NC Education Programs (Grades 1-5) Music Hall of Fame. In 2018, Contact: Devonna B. Rowe The Game Songs, Story Songs he joined the Smithsonian (410) 652-4843 and Recreational Songs of Folkways Label and released a [email protected] Ghana and Zimbabwe are new album, “Black Cowboys”, historyofsong.com explored as students take part in which is in conjunction with the Grades: 1- 12 the music, songs and games of National Museum of African Fees: Single $525 Africa. American History and Culture. Back to back $625 His album explores the rich history of African American Residencies $425 pioneers and Pullman Porters of

Music Music Music: I've Got the Old West through music, the Music in Me! storytelling, poetry, tin type (Grades 6-12) photography and a 40-page Students go beyond the booklet. classroom as they develop technical skills and The American Songster increase their knowledge of Dom Flemons – The Workshop vocal music. Classical, American Songster GRAMMY Winner Dom Broadway, Folk and Patriotic Contact: Artivate* Flemons – “The American Songs are explored as students Grades: PreK-12 Songster” – leads a workshop gain an awareness of Fees: Single $750 exploring the styles, techniques themselves through breathing, Back-to-back $950 and history of the early posture and diction. Content Travel fee additional American Songsters. This Skills and Standards set by the covers nearly a century of tunes, Department of Education are The American Songster including early popular music, used as a guide for these Join GRAMMY Winner Dom ragtime, blues, country western, sessions. Flemons as he shares his bluegrass and string band repertoire of music and history music. Participants learn songs The Folk Music of African covering nearly 100 years of and explore the deeper African Americans American folklore, ballads and roots of the banjo and rhythm (Grades 1-12) tunes. Flemons is a music bones. The workshop may also A Teaching Artist with scholar, historian, singer- include (by request) experience as a performer and songwriter, record collector and demonstrations of hand games, as a consultant and workshop multi-instrumentalist who is square dances, call and leader at the John F. Kennedy considered an expert on the responses, hambone, banjo, Center, Devonna Rowe uses banjo, fife, guitar, harmonica, guitar, jug, harmonica integrated arts education percussion, quills and rhythm techniques and panpipes, principals to involve the bones. His solo work focuses on culminating in an impromptu audience in each presentation. the African and Caribbean roots jam session. Residency also Music, song, dance and role of the banjo, the history of available. Fees available upon play allow students to make popular roots music, Songster request. historical and cultural 20

Out of This World: A Space Odyssey with Flumpa and Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' Science Rocks! This musical

science assembly and family night program is out of this world with award-winning music and high energy full Magpie audience movement. A space Flumpa and Friends Contact: Artivate* challenge through our solar LIVE! /Ion Imagination Grades: PreK-12 system and beyond. Curriculum Entertainment, Inc. Fees: Single $750 points include: the sun, visible Contact: Wendy Whitten light spectrum, planets, space Back-to-back $885 (800) 335-8672 exploration and much more. Additional Fee: Travel $50 [email protected] SOLO show is available with MSAC AiE funds available www.FLUMPA.com Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' Grades: PreK-6 only and includes space-based Fees: Single $650 Living Planet & Living Planet science careers. Perfect for 2 Back-to-back $850 grades PK-6 Celebrate the complex web of Solo Single $500 life forms that populate the Solo Back-to-back $650 Water, Water Everywhere earth – whales to wolves, Pricing includes: with Flumpa and Wendy 'The magpies to macaws, teeming travel, tolls and Singing Scientist' oceans to frozen tundra – and accommodations Science is Fluid! One of the learn how we can help to building blocks of life: preserve the earth. For those Frogs, Rain Forests & Other WATER. From the simple to who have enjoyed Living Planet Fun Facts with Flumpa and the complex presented in a way in the past, Living Planet 2 Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' to remember the facts for all offers a way to extend learning STEM comes ALIVE! Earth grades. Music and movement through new songs and ideas. and biological science are reinforce the curriculum points; Workshop and residency presented through music and water cycle, molecules, options also available. movement. Highly interactive, properties of matter and the multiple award-winning musical future of water science. SOLO show is available with Sense of Wonder: A Tribute science assemblies and family to Rachel Carson nights presented by scientists. Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' only and includes water-based This music and literature Great for science motivation. program help students connect Curriculum points include science careers. Perfect for grades PK-6 to the beautiful writings of habitats, life cycles, species famous nature author Rachel identification and All shows are presented with Carson and encourages a love environmental awareness. for science and for the Earth. Wendy - award winning author, songwriter and singer; a real Students read and recite SOLO show is available with Rachel’s uplifting words and Wendy 'The Singing Scientist' scientist with a BS in agriculture, life science and enjoy wonderfully singable only and includes science chorus songs, with a goal of careers that fit the subject. food chemistry. She was a research chemist in food flavor inspiring us all to do our part to Perfect for grades: PK-3 protect wildlife and their applications in the ice cream industry. Dedicated to making habitats. In a songwriting residency, students write new science come alive for everyone. songs with Greg & Terry about the issues that concerned Rachel, expressing what we can

21 do today to continue her work vocabulary, as well. music. A musical story problem celebrating and protecting the Performances include the ends the show. Highly planet. chance for volunteers to get up interactive. and try their hand at playing Battle Cry of Freedom: From these BIG drums! Woven Rhythms Civil War to Civil Rights (For middle school students) Beginning with music from the Introductory Taiko Exploration of the three main abolitionist movement and the Workshop religions and their influence in Underground Railroad, Magpie With an emphasis on listening the Middle East through explores freedom fighters from skills and a focus on rhythm. history, including John Brown, fundamentals, this workshop the famed raider of Harper’s (best for grades 3+) introduces Ferry and Harriet Tubman, the great conductor of the the basic techniques for getting a large sound with efficient Underground Railroad. They continue the story of the movement, the practice of drumming as a community and struggle for freedom and equality into the 1960s and the the traditional way to learn present day, connecting the taiko music – all centered songs used in the Underground around the key principals of New Moon Opera Railroad with their use in the respect and connection. For Contact: Julie Kurzava sit-ins, freedom rides and other more experienced students, demonstrations organized by (410) 719-8603 intermediate, advanced and [email protected] those involved in the modern master class options are also Civil Rights Movement. www.nmtheater.org available. Grades: K-5

Fees: Single $595+ Travel varies

The Adventures of the Opera Explorers Experience the thrill of discovery as our heroes learn why opera is a great way to tell a story. Included are fourteen Mark H Rooney Mosaic Contact: Artivate* live excerpts from eleven Contact: Cindy Rosenberg Grades: PreK-12 different operas by Mozart, Fees: Single $575 (410) 552-3411 Puccini, Beethoven, Bizet, Back-to back $725 [email protected] Rossini, Gounod, Strauss, Workshops start at $150 Grades: K-8 Gershwin and Gilbert & Travel: $20/day Fees: Single $525 Sullivan, both in English and Back-to-back $675 their original languages. Hear An Introduction to Taiko, the opera as it was intended - live! Art of Japanese Drumming Arhythmatic Grades K-5 This interactive program (For grades K-2, 3-5) features the performance of Exploration of the connections Amahl and the Night Visitors both traditional and between music and math, using This classic children’s opera by contemporary songs and percussion instruments to American master Gian Carlo rhythms and explores the kinesthetically experience Menotti uses the Christmas story as a backdrop for a instruments, the use of one’s equations (younger group) or universal tale of generosity and voice in taiko and a bit of fractions (older group). forgiveness. This beautiful story history and Japanese Exploring division of beats in 22 of love and compassion points ventriloquism make all this a another actor from the silent us all to the true meaning of the great way to celebrate our earth. era. season. Let’s All Get Along New Moon Theater’s This program can address production is a wonderful conflict resolution, manners, opportunity for schools to bring character and values. You can an entire opera sung by choose the emphasis or mix it classically trained, professional up. Pam makes it fun to get singers right to their door and along with song, dance and allows children to experience an puppetry. art form that’s been bringing Ray Owen audiences to their feet for over Contact: Ray Owen 400 years. (717) 334- 8631 PO Box 3012

Gettysburg, PA 17325 www.rayowenmusic.com Grades: K-12

Fees: $350-$450

Peacherine Ragtime The Song Imagineer Society Orchestra Hop on board for a whirlwind Pam the Kindersinger Contact: Young Audiences* tour through some of the most Grades: K-12 Contact: Pam Minor creative, zany and downright Fees: Single $1,285 (410) 771-4774 hilarious songs, dreamed up Back-to-back $1,600 [email protected] anywhere down the line. All www.pamthekindersinger.com aboard! for an unforgettable Movies and Music! Grades: PreK-3 adventure full of comic songs, This program introduces Fees: Single $300 rib-tickling one liners and Back-to-back $450 audiences to a ragtime orchestra and an orchestra in general. sumptuous stories. Imagine Travel: Varies that! After introducing how an

Celebrate the Season ensemble works together to Enjoy an interactive and fun create sound, we then talk about Hats Off to America show with singing, dancing and how sound impacts the way we Take a multicultural journey puppetry with ventriloquism think, how we relate sounds to through history that travels emphasizing the current season. emotions, and how with critical down on through the music and These include the Icicle Ball, thinking we can create a scene social studies curriculum on a Christmas, Spring Fling, just using music and sound! tuneful American adventure that Sizzlin' Summer Fun, fall into When film was in its beginning embraces songs, stories, history, autumn and Halloween. stage 100 years ago, there was heritage, humor and theater. no sound to accompany the Take along twenty period hats movie — so we work with Go Green with Pam and and a few jam-packed book audiences to show how sounds Rascal bags brimming with Kick start or highlight your can change how we think about a certain scene or action instruments. Come and sing school's environmental along with a crew of colorful awareness or make Earth Week sequence. We then accompany characters that step right out of special with this interactive and a short silent film with the history and onto the stage, fun "green" show. Songs, orchestra featuring Charlie dance, puppetry with Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold pulling you into a world of fun. Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, or

Animal Odyssey and The with roots spreading back to the using proper mallet technique. Great Natural Sciences traditional “Talking Drums” of Basic percussion skills are Adventure Africa. Bermuda Blue taught using Explore the animal kingdom on demonstrates the different types “Tamboo Bamboo” a tuneful trek teeming with sea of steel drums and other instruments. Students learn to creatures, tree beasts, farm Caribbean instruments while read music symbols and charts animals and frolicking fauna. playing Calypso music. from another culture while Get inspired by the finest Students join the band to play exploring Calypso music. science fair to ever take place; steel drums and tamboo trek down the enchanting bamboo. Students leave with an animal trails of the world; revel appreciation and understanding in the hip hop rap about the life of steel drum music, the cycle of the cicada; discover the instrument and its history and amazing magical side of math culture. and perform in the zany chicken The Steel Drum Experience karaoke contest for kids. Come journey through a land of This fun and interactive music rousing songs, down a river of assembly combines a steel drum Síneadh Fada rollicking stories through a performance with hands on Contact: Artivate* Grades: PreK-12 rolling valley of wide-eyed instruction. The entire audience Fees: Single $600 surprises to a sea of kid’s will learn to play a complete Back-to-back $750 comedy. song on the steel drums while Travel: $50 exploring physics and other STEM topics behind the sound.

This is a great introduction to Spórt: Traditional Irish the steel drum instrument. No Music & Dance musical background is required. Dancer/musician Shannon Participants will gain the Dunne and musical confidence to play other collaborators, including multi- instruments in the school band. instrumentalist Alex Boatright, Audience limited to 100 present engaging, interactive Rockcreek Steel Drums students per show. performances showcasing Contact: Young Audiences* Contact Young Audiences for traditional Irish music and Grades: K-12 Pricing dance. The artists introduce old Fees: Single $800 style percussive and social Back-to-back $1,100 Residency: Beginner Steel dances, traditional “sing-along” Residency: $100/workshop Drum Band songs, and Irish tunes on Travel: Varies This unique music residency instruments like concertina,

brings a complete steel drum harp and fiddle. Audiences The Birth of Steel Drum band program to your school. learn what it means to be a Music Students learn the basics of traditional musician/dancer, and Rockcreek Steel Drum’s Band steel drum playing and experience a wide array of “Bermuda Blue” takes the performance as they prepare for instruments, singing and audience on a journey through a final concert. A full-sized dancing through the stories of the development of the modern steel drum instrument is how Shannon and her friends steel drum instrument in this provided for each student. The learned, and continue to learn, music assembly. The story class learns methods to produce within the tradition. begins in the small Caribbean good tone and to play melodies Island of Trinidad in the 1940s

Traditional Irish Music & Snowday transforms from timid instrument play, riddles and Dance Workshop newcomer into seasoned rhyming, musical stories, Workshops – whether performer as they find their way dramatic and (where space scheduled on their own, or as through music. Students enjoy allows) parachute play. Tracey part of a series or residency – upbeat, chart-topping hits while has created dozens of programs explore a variety of topics in taking away numerous lessons to complement early in how to find the strength to be childhood curriculum, music, dance and performance themselves. welcoming every opportunity to skills and may be customized to build new theme programs. supplement and enhance Snowday Workshop She would be happy to create a curriculum. Join the artists for one or more program to answer your highly interactive workshops curricular needs! exploring topics like History of *Maryland State Arts Council– a Capella, Vocal Percussion, (AIE) funding may be available Ear Training & Musicianship for MD schools and Basic Arranging (Song Structure). Workshops may be Grace and Fire: A tailored to suit teachers’ goals Celebration of World Cultures through Music and and students’ ages and abilities. Dance Snowday For Pre-K through Grade 8.

Contact: Artivate* Tracey Eldridge and Company

Grades: PreK-12 takes audiences on an

Fees: Single $850 interactive journey to explore

Back-to back $1000 music and dance from world

Travel: $45 cultures on 6 continents. With a

MSAC AiE funds available map for navigation, music played on authentic instruments, An A Cappella Musical Tracey Eldridge & and exquisitely performed History Company traditional dances, this talented Snowday takes students on a trio examines the different and Contact: Tracy Eldridge whirlwind journey through important roles that music and 410-340-0492 time, tracing a capella music dance play in the lives of people [email protected] from its roots in chant, around the world. barbershop and doo-wop to www.traceykidsmusic.com *Maryland State Arts Council– present-day pop and rock. Grades: PreK-8 (AIE) funding may be available Students are introduced to Fees: $350 - $750 for MD schools elements of music theory – including harmonic voice parts Music 'n' Motion Tracey's fun and interactive and vocal drumming (beatbox) techniques – then are invited to MUSIC 'N' MOTION programs learn harmony parts and sing for preschool - grade 2 are together. designed to spark imaginations, to inspire creative self- Be Aca-Awesome expression, to enhance self- esteem and to foster a sense of Music performance, especially a cappella, is a great way to community in the classroom. develop real world skills like Programs include singing to The Uncle Devin Show public speaking, self-confidence "live" musical accompaniment, Contact: Young Audiences* and teamwork. In this creative movement and dancing, Grades: K-6 performance, audiences watch a bit of puppetry, body Fees: Single $655 as the newest member of percussion and percussion Back-to-back $825

Uncle Devin's World of communication throughout highlight of the program, as Percussion many cultures around the world. students learn about African- The music assembly Uncle inspired clave rhythms and how Devin’s World of Percussion to create them. (trio program) takes students on a magical journey through the Land of American Dixieland Heritage Percussion that allows them to Explore the roots of Dixieland, hear, see, and play different an all-American style that percussion instruments while developed during the early 20th gaining an understanding of the century out of European and history of percussion and why it African traditions. Learn about is the easiest, oldest, and most Unified Jazz Ensemble the instruments in a Dixieland diverse form of musical Contact: Artivate* band (cornet, trumpet, creativity. Uncle Devin and his Grades: PreK-12 trombone, bass, and drums) – flute-playing sidekick Mr. Fees: Single trio $550 Grasshopper will introduce Back-to-back trio $700 then keep time as the students to different genres of Single Quartet $700 musicians’ trade solos and music while showing them how Back-to-back quartet $850 improvise over a driving percussion is the heartbeat of Travel: $15 Dixieland beat. (Quartet them all. MSAC AiE & AiR funds program) available; MSAC AiR Roster Life is a Drum, so Beat It! Artist Percussion instruments are often called the heartbeat of life. Learning about Jazz In Life is a Drum, so Beat It!, Celebrate the birth and children gain an understanding development of jazz through of percussion instruments as an different eras – Dixieland, essential part of history and swing, be-bop and human experience and will be contemporary – and learn about able to classify multicultural contributors like Dizzy Wytold percussion instruments by sight Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Contact: Artivate* and sound. George Gershwin, through Grades: PreK-12 Uncle Devin uses different songs both familiar and new. Fees: Single $595 musical instruments, along with UJE connects rhythm, math, Back-to-back $795 his award-winning book, “The music, memory and teamwork Travel: $25 and offers a hands-on ABC’s of Percussion with MSAC AiE funds available; exploration of jazz instruments. Music CD,” to help students MSAC AiR Roster Artist (trio program) construct an understanding of how sounds made by percussion Sounds and Rhythms of Latin Fireflies, Fairies, & Squids instruments were used to Jazz What kind of sound does a giant communicate. This residency A fascinating introduction to squid make? How can you will guide children in how to classic Latin jazz songs with a make a stringed instrument create and use percussion focus on the “gotta move” sound like a firefly illuminating instruments to articulate non- rhythms and unique sounds of a cave? Wytold explores these verbal communication through samba and bossa nova. The questions and more as he leads pitch, force, and rhythm. contributions of composers and students on a journey of Through this process, they will musicians such as Antonio storytelling and imagination gain a greater understanding of Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz and through instrumental music. why percussion instruments Dizzy Gillespie in the history of Wytold demonstrates how he were some of the first forms of Latin jazz are also explored. uses the six-string electric cello Audience participation is a and live electronics to score

film, dance and theater productions, and shows how simple sounds can create vivid images and exciting stories in our minds. Students collaborate with Wytold to create a new musical story and adventure together! Workshops provide opportunities for in-depth exploration and story creation.

The Science of Sounds: Music Theory Demystified Six-string electric cellist and composer Wytold shows students how his background in science and math helps him create exciting new music. By exploring the relationship between the science of waves and musical scales, students learn how basic patterns in the world can create interesting and dynamic music. They use their new knowledge to create a short musical piece together as a group. Workshops offer additional opportunities for hands-on learning and collaborative music creation.

Wytold Workshop Hands-on workshop, residency and master class options are tailored to age and musical

experience and explore music creation and composition in- depth. Workshops may complement performance programs or customized

curriculum connections. Fees available upon request.

Life is Improvised Let BIG take your students into the always surprising and hilarious world of improvised theater in this improv assembly. T BIG’s performers create never-

before seen characters and scenes from your students’ Baba Jamal Koram suggestions and bring students Contact: Artivate* directly into the performance. Grades: PreK-12 Students learn the fundamental H Fees: Single $450 skills that allow improvisers to PreK Program $375 create theater in the moment: Back-to-back $625 Listening, collaboration and creativity. Travel: $20 MSAC AiE & AiR funds available Life is Improvised - Residency Students will explore the key

E improv elements–Listen, Agree Baba Jamal Koram: The and Add–during this improv Story Man residency. Students will learn Master storyteller Baba Jamal the basics of improv, including Koram shares the history, creating solid scene work, humor, music and lore of active listening and fun A African and African American characters. Through it all, the cultures. Blending traditional students will see their self- and contemporary storytelling confidence increase while techniques with drumming, call exploring their own creativity and response, wisdom, and and how group trust and playful wit, his stories teamwork make for amazing encourage youth to make and hilarious improv theater. T intelligent choices and improve their character.

Blue Sky Puppet Theatre Contact: Michael Cotter Baltimore Improv Group (301) 927-5599 R [email protected] Contact: Young Audiences* www.blueskypuppets.com *Contact information is listed Grades: K-12 Grades: PreK-8 with their agency under Arts Fees: Single $700 Fees: Single $375-$600 Councils and Arts Agencies on Back-to-back $925 page 10 of the directory. Back-to-back $475-$750 Residency $100/workshop Residency $300 minimum

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IF PIGS COULD FLY helps relate math to their table float with the powers of If pigs could fly, where would everyday lives. Brian's mind; for Shiloh, several they go? All over the world! students will help a balloon dog Since they can’t fly, they read During this show, your students learn some new tricks. Brian books. Meet Chester, Buster will play a special version of customizes what books are and Suzy Pig, who visit the "Deal or No Deal" while they shared based on what grades are library for books and act out uncover the meaning of attending this assembly. After multicultural and world probability. They will review the curtains close, you'll see the folktales in a creative way! fractions as a newspaper is torn books Brian featured vanishing in half, quarters, eighths…then from your library shelves and BANANAS it magically restores. Each hear your students buzzing Quality exercise, good eating amazing piece of magic they about the fun they have had. habits and visiting the doctor see will remind your students of are explored in an exciting and a concrete math concept long interactive way. Witness the after the curtain closes. talent show sponsored by Dr. Broccoli. Learn 4 original Pop Quiz: The Math and songs about health topics. Science Game Show Sensational Hit Game Shows SANDCASTLES like "Are You Smarter Than a The importance of math and 5th Grader," "Deal or No Deal," how fun it can be. Hang with and "Who Wants to Be a Building Better People the Pigs at the beach, while they Millionaire" have captivated the Productions ride boogie boards, eat pizza public and changed the face of Contact: Lynne Childress television. Now, Pop Quiz and build a spectacular (443) 906-0099 brings the same thrills and sandcastle. [email protected] excitement to your school by www.bbpproductions.com challenging your students' Grades: PreK-7 knowledge of Math and Science concepts. Student contestants Fees: Single $600 will encounter six challenges Back-to-back $850 involving crazy props like Title 1: Single $400 pinwheels, targets, bean bags Back-to-back $650 and a fog machine. Each 30-minute Q&A after challenge reviews mathematical performance: $100 Brian Curry Magic theory or scientific facts in a Local travel more than an hour Contact: Brian Curry way that they will remember outside of Annapolis (703) 725-2100 long after the show! $50 additional [email protected] Book Club the Magic www.briancurryassemblies.com We Got It!: A Show About Assembly Grades: K-6 Empathy Fees: Single $650 Brian Curry brings classic literature magically to life with “We Got It!” is a theatrical Back-to-back $900 adventure for Pre-K-5th graders state-of-the-art multimedia, music, and illusions in Book in self-worth, empathy and Magical Math Tour Club the Magic Assembly. those things that add up to all- Energize your students with Introducing your students to around understanding. Enjoy laughter, cheers and applause beloved books with funny, interactive tales filled with while they review important scary and truly amazing magic mathematical concepts with The laughter and heart that are the will get them excited about Magical Math Tour. In addition equivalent of hiding veggies in these stories and eager to read. to great math content, this show your macaroni and cheese: For Matilda, students will see a

positive lessons disguised as Maryland Arts Council and the first million seller book in fun! consultant/workshop leader America. Originally with the Kennedy Center commissioned by the Show running time: 45 minutes. Education Dept., Bus uses Smithsonian, this Maryland integrated arts education to native comes alive with Zombie Thoughts inspire and involve the mystery, drama and intrigue.

“Zombie Thoughts” is a funny, audience. 45 minutes duration. touching and honest look at Grades 3-12 how to deal with anxiety, in a The Acting Workshop play where the audience are the The Acting workshop is a players in a video game who hands-on interactive workshop decide how the actors take their that emphasizes listening skills journey through this important and ensemble/team building.

subject! Written by a mother Theater games follow warm-up and son playwrighting duo and exercises. Developing listening

originally commissioned by leads to ensemble exercises, Chesapeake Children's that leads to impromptu Plan B Theatre Company in Museum Utah, our show is best for 3-7th dramatic scene study...lots of Contact: Debbie Wood laughs, lots of "ah-ha" graders. (410) 990-1993 moments. [email protected]

Show Running Time: 35-45 www.theccm.org 45-90 minutes duration. minutes Each school receives Grades: PreK-5 Grades K-12 the Teacher Guide to Our Show, Fees: $200 Per Class

including pre- and post-show Title 1: $150 Per Class An Evening with Frederick activities that touch on all on Douglass the whys and how’s of anxiety A "before your eyes" Lively Tales in age-appropriate ways. transformation into the Classmates become the Maryland native Frederick characters as folktales from Douglass. Through 1st person around the world are told. narrative, live music, audience Travel to: China, West Africa, interaction, this lively historical the Caribbean, and Eastern reenactment chronicles the Europe with Riki Tiki Tembo, events of this 18th century Who's in Rabbit's House?, Statesman. An after Trouble and The Great Big presentation "in-character" Enormous Turnip. Make a question and answer period paper bag puppet / sock puppet Bus Howard allows for a closer look into the to take home. Contact: Bus Howard life and times of this American hero. (202) 390-2161 Nuestras Historias Infantilas (Our Stories for Children) [email protected] 45 minutes duration. Act out folktales in Spanish: La www.BusHoward.com Grades K-12 Jicama Grande (The Great Big Grades: K-12 Turnip) and La Lagartija y el Fees: Single $550 Josiah Henson - The Real Sol (The Lizard and the Sun). Back-to-back $900 Uncle Tom Learn steps to a traditional folk A performance arts piece with dance. Create crafts to take Bus Howard, a Teaching Artist music and after performance Q home. Presented in Spanish and Institute Fellow, veteran Union & A. When Harriet Beecher English. Actor, AEA, SAG/AFTRA, a Stowe heard this man's story, 20-year veteran with she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 30

Who Am I in African experience. He’s a creator, Travel included. Block booking American History? director, improviser, producer and library show discounts Brief biographies and wardrobe and teacher who co-founded available. options are provided for your and produced the Chicago class to become notable African Improv Festival, created and Bringing Literature to Life! Americans from history. produced the College Improv Get your students motivated to Students can pair up such that Tournament and spent 7 years read! Award-winning, one is the character and the as Teen Comedy Fest’s nationally touring performer other is the presenter. executive producer. He is also Chris Fascione acts out the founder and producer of children's contemporary and Chicago Podcast Festival. classical literature in a fast Jonathan taught at The Second paced, fun-filled assembly City for 16 years and he’s a program. Chris' participatory, contributing writer to their book high-spirited shows incorporate on improvisation – he also a unique style of acting, taught story-based improv at storytelling and physical

Piven Theatre Workshop. comedy that receive lots of Jonathan has taught and laughs and rave reviews from Chicago Improv performed internationally in students, teachers and principals Productions more than a dozen countries, as alike! Contact: Artivate* well as more than 25 cities Grades: PreK-12 across America. Around the World! Fees: Single $600 Multicultural stories from many Back-to-back $800 Chicago Improv Productions different countries, continents Travel fee additional Workshop and cultures come to life as Professional actors lead improv Chris becomes colorful The Make ‘Em Ups games exploring story elements characters from ethnic folktales The Make 'Em Ups tells the like character, plot and setting, -- always with the help of his history of Chicago's connection and introduce students to the audience! From an Italian to modern improvisational foundational ideas of improv. grandma to an African tree toad, theatre, while at the same time Workshop and residency a French baker to a Ukrainian teaching how to – and how not options available. farmer, or a Chinese stonecutter to – improvise. In this highly to a Nicaraguan Uncle Nacho, interactive performance, Chris' comedic portrayals span students gain new the globe. understanding of how to create characters, settings and stories Rocket into Reading! and explore the A fun, participatory show that “who/what/where” of all encourages imaginative improv scenes. Three exploration through reading. professional improv actors lead Students leave their everyday a variety of engaging improv Chris Fascione: Bringing games, inviting audiences to world behind as they take off continually contribute ideas – Literature to Life! into the universe of books! and even join the action on Contact: Chris Fascione Through his unique, interactive stage. (708) 383-8788 style of story performance, Jonathan Pitts, the Founder and [email protected] Chris acts out library books that Executive Director of Chicago www.chrisfascione.com thoroughly engage his audience, Improv Productions, is an Grades: PreK-8 fuel the imagination, and propel award-winning international Fees: Single $495 students to become readers who improv theatre artist from Double $795 are truly out of this world! Chicago with over 30 years’ Triple $995

Mi Casa Es Su Casa In this bilingual musical journey through Latin America, Michele and Ingrid introduce children to positive images of their neighbors in Latin America with original songs with Diane Macklin, DinoRock Productions authentic rhythms, outrageous Storyteller Contact: Artivate* puppet characters, true travel Contact: Diane Macklin Grades: PreK-6 stories, and an 8 ft. map with (703) 966-7957 Fees: Single $695 removable Andes Mountains. [email protected] Back-to-back $795 Based on a Parent's Choice www.dianemacklin.com Additional Fee: Travel $40 Gold award-winning CD, this Grades: PreK-9 MSAC AiE funds available show includes geography and Fees: Single $475 language arts in an Dinosaur Babies Back-to-back $675 plus mileage unforgettable, interactive Created for school venues, this MSAC AiE, AiR, Touring cultural experience. Perfect for show explores characteristics Roster funds available Hispanic Heritage Month that human babies and dinosaur celebrations! Succotash Tales babies share, using award

A delicious blend of tales that winning music and dynamic stir up wit, wisdom and humor puppetry. Interpreting fossil for a delightful stew of finds, scientists have come to

American stories with African understand much of dinosaur roots. social behavior. These findings are presented to the children Fables Rule! through original songs and Celebrate classic tales with a interaction with characters like Dovie Thomason unique twist, honoring an Crash-Boom-Bam-Sam the Contact: Artivate* ancient tradition of living and baby Triceratops, Q. E. the Grades: PreK-12 learning through stories, Quetzalcoatlus Kid, Doris the Fees: Single $695 bubbling over with valuable toddler Stegosaurus, Mama Back-to-back $895 lessons. Fables are "the food of Maiasaura and, of course, Baby Travel $50 the ear" that nourishes mind and Rex. Workshop/Residency: heart. (STEM focused fables Contact Artivate available – commissioned by Junkyard Pirates MSAC AiE funds available Wolf Trap Institute for Early Sail with Captain Jack, MSAC AiR Roster Learning) Sparetire, Flotsam, Jetsam and Native Voices Small Wonders and the rest of the Junkyard Pirates Traditional stories about Stupendous Feats – puppets made from animals and tricksters provide a Enjoy marvelous tales of repurposed materials – as they clearer understanding of values unlikely heroes that defy the embark on a hilarious musical and cultures of the First Nations impossible through kindness, adventure. This program of North America. Whether a friendship, and courage. (Note: emphasizes the importance of talkative Turtle or overbearing This program fits within anti- recycling and protecting the Buffalo, characters face choices bullying programming. The environment as the Junkyard and life decisions. focus is upon problem solving Pirates battle the evil villain,

and the qualities of a s/hero.) Landfill.

Lessons from the Animal www.einsteinshow.com People Grades: PreK-9 An intertribal sampling of the Fees: Einstein/Storyteller $675/$450 animal stories which often explain the what and why Back to Back $875/$575

questions about the Earth and Einstein Alive! her animal children (why bear Marc vividly brings Einstein to hibernates, why rabbit has no life, talking about his fame, his Elaine Muray tail, etc.) – stories are used, as difficulties in school and Contact: Elaine Muray all stories are, to teach proper the “adventures” in his mind. (505) 400-4123 behavior and values. Using humor, song, and [email protected] audience participation Einstein www.embodiedvoicestoryarts.com Grades: K-12 Story & Writing Workshops demonstrates how “strange” Fees: Single $450 & Residencies motion is and what the terms “relative” and “frame of Back-to-back $600 Workshops and residencies tailored to grade level and reference” mean. A Trip on the Four Winds “Einstein Alive!” is presented in curriculum study Native Elaine's unique and highly age appropriate programs K to peoples, storytelling, and story acclaimed theatrical approach to adult. Students 4th grade and writing in depth. Workshops storytelling bring characters to older are introduced to the life in this ever-growing body examine stories and techniques Special Theory of Relativity. of telling via demonstration and of tales from around the world. Study guides are available. discussion. Residencies offer an Marc has received a CINE Promo Sampler: in-depth exposure to types of Golden Eagle award and https://vimeo.com/191051749 stories (anecdotal, historical, performed as Einstein from the (Promo Public) familial, tutorial) and can be Arctic Ocean to the Everglades focused towards memory, oral as well as in Canada, The Mandarins, Maoris, Moons storytelling skills, and folklore, Dominican Republic and Korea. and Monkeys or multiple literary skills. A collection of movement- Students work on Marc Spiegel, Storyteller based tales from Asia and the Pacific Rim improvisation, development of Extraordinaire characters, pacing and memory Marc dramatically performs his Teen sample (program also techniques, visualization, original stories in verse, narrative prose and song. Marc available for children): predicting outcomes, imagery, explains various ways to find https://vimeo.com/189863563/0 and descriptive language skills. story ideas, illustrating each b72c531d7 (The Talking with an example of one of his Taniwha of Rotorua)

own stories. Audience Animals A to Z participation is the hallmark of Elaine brings a jungle of

Marc’s performance. animals to life through her Study guides are available. movement-based interpretations Marc also offers a wonderfully of folktales full of thoughtful enjoyable PTA family show. morals. In addition to thousands of

schools, Marc has performed at Sample for Children: Einstein Alive: Marc Wolf Trap, Off-Broadway and Spiegel Programming: at the White House https://vimeo.com/190016291/e Contact: Marc Spiegel Millennial Celebration. 727a8232f (Jack and the (202) 486-4641 Robbers)

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Read Yourself Silly the age range, room size, and Students will be inspired to read time constraints of any venue.

as performer Paul Miller shares the story of how a trip to the Educational Standards: circus inspired him to visit his NGSS: Motion and Stability; library to learn more about Forces and Interactions; juggling which led to balloons, Pushes and Pulls magic, and the history of the MSC: Science—Concepts of Flow Circus circus. Throughout the Physics Contact: Artivate* performance, he models how MELS: Science—Physics Grades: PreK-8 learning through books can be Fees: Single $700 fun and lead you to discover Back-to-back $1,250 new interests. Workshop and Travel Varies residency options also available.

Flop Forward: Flipping Failure into Fortitude A week with his grandparents at

their mountain home with no HISTORY ALIVE! television or internet seems like Contact: Mary Ann Jung torture at first – but things change when performer Paul (410) 647-8699 Miller learns to shift his [email protected] mindset, unlocking a world rich Gregory May www.HistoryAliveShows.com in adventure and play. Contact: Gregory May Grades: K-12 Empowered to persevere when (443) 996-8197 Fees: Single $475 things get hard, innovate instead [email protected] Back-to-back $850 of complaining and model www.circusgreg.com MSAC Funds Available bravery by showing weakness, Grades: K-5 Mary Ann Jung is an award- Paul enjoys successes he never Fees: First Show $400 winning actress and imagined. Enjoy Paul’s comic Second Show +$100 storytelling as he shares the (Same Day, Same School) Smithsonian Scholar with fun, skills he learned, the toys he interactive and inspiring shows created and the timeless lessons Circus Science with Gregory about Amazing Women in he learned from his May History. They include CLARA grandparents. Workshop and Program Length: 45 minutes BARTON (Civil War), GOOD residency options also available. Join professional knucklehead QUEEN BESS (Renaissance), and silly scientist Gregory May AMELIA EARHART, Science of Awesome on a tour of the scientific ROSALIE CALVERT (War of principles behind his circus Explore the world of science 1812), and ROSIE THE skills. As a former Ringling and skill toys where things fall, RIVETER and others. balance and spin. Performer Brothers Circus performer and Paul Miller will leave students Port Discovery Children’s SALLY RIDE-WHO WANTS (and teachers) with an urge to Museum educator, Gregory uses TO BE AN ASTRONAUT? pick up and play with the world feats of amazing silliness to Fun New STEM game show around them to discover the explore Newton’s Laws, about life on the Space Shuttle invisible forces of the physical Gyroscopic Motion, and Center world such as gravity and of Gravity. MARGARET BRENT & kinetic energy. Workshop and More than twenty students will THE INDIANS residency options also available. join him on the stage Colonial MD Life-How and throughout this energetic show, why it was founded and Native which can be adapted to meet American culture.

PEE WEE PIRATES Not My Monkey create virtual percussion Adventures in Exploration and (Grades K-5th) ensembles of up to five Sailing with Captain Grace InterAct Story Theatre brings “performers.” Described in the O'Malley! you Not My Monkey, a fresh Washington Post as “a and fun look at personal percussionist in the widest and For complete listing of responsibility, citizenship, and most exuberant sense of the programming please visit my community action, all set at a word,” Tom is a three-time website! circus where everything’s recipient of the Helen Hayes topsy-turvy! The new ringleader Theatre Award for Outstanding wants to do a good job leading Sound Design and a five-time her zany crew of circus folk, but recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes there’s a new problem every grant for performances in the time she turns around, and no Middle East. one wants to pitch in or even try to get along. To make matters worse, the monkeys have broken loose and are wreaking InterAct Story Theatre havoc everywhere! How can a Contact: Ali Oliver-Krueger community work together to (301) 879-9305 solve its problems, when [email protected] everyone thinks it’s not their www.interactstory.com problem to solve? And how can Grades: PreK-12 the community work together to Joe Romano’s Ultimate Fees: Varies by program stop the monkey madness? School Shows Everyone in the audiences gets Contact: Joe Romano Bobtail Bong Bong: A into the act right from where (301) 641-1862 Monkey's Tale they’re sitting, becoming part of [email protected] (Grades PreK-2nd) the community of performers www.ultimateschoolshows.com Bob the Monkey is the smartest and townspeople who need to Grades: K-6 monkey in the land, and they tackle this hair-raising problem. want everyone to know it! Bob Fees: Single $695 the Monkey wants what they Back-to-back $990

want, and they should be able to Drumming Through Time and Across Cultures Books: The Magic is Real get it! But why is everyone mad Many popular children's books at Bob? Why is everyone so (Grades PreK-12) Join award-winning composer are brought to life though the art mean? Bob didn’t do anything! of magic and illusion. Romano In this interactive theatre forum, and world percussionist Tom Teasley on a unique journey motivates your children by children follow Bob’s igniting a passion for reading all misadventures and help Bob through the history of percussion from around the through the school year. A great figure out where they went way to promote your book fair wrong, and where they could try world! Audiences travel the Silk Road from Italy to China and and reading incentive programs. out Caring, Fairness, and Many versions of show Respect to turn things around. follow the Sugar Trade Route from Africa to the Americas. available. Led by the actors, audience members make suggestions This program for all ages Green Magic about how Bob could do things combines ancient instruments A science and comedy show differently, watch Bob roleplay with the most recent advances that will transport students into out their suggestions to see if in music technology, including a world where recycling Bob can make things better by digital looping. Audiences are becomes fun. Green Magic will making better choices. Does it captivated as Tom creates and grow students' minds as they work? What happens next? records performances in real learn how going green can be a time, layering elements to cool and exciting experience.

Your students will witness a a high-energy, hands-on We’ll explore the Story used soda can, recycled in the experience that simple Elements of character, setting, blink of an eye! An animatronic household items can be used to problem and solution, use bird comes to life to educate perform amazing science chants and imaginary travel as about the dangers experiments. Guaranteed to be students become different that plastic bags pose to our one of the best Science shows community helpers, playing planet. This production is your students will ever see! rhythms on the tools they each guaranteed to motivate children use to help solve the problem. to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!

Superhero Math! Magician Joe Romano will multiply your student’s excitement for math in a fraction of the time with the

addition of this exciting new math assembly! Joe Romano Katherine Lyons cuts his arm in 3 equal pieces to Contact: Young Audiences* Mark Jaster teach the concept of thirds. Grades: PreK-4 Contact: Artivate* Students have to guess how Fees: (#1) $500 (#2) $600 Grades: PreK-12 many prizes are in the magic Fees: Single $575 gumball machine, a great lesson Transformation Imagination Back-to-back $675 in estimation. What tools does an actor need? Additional Fee: Travel $40 Actors use their bodies, their "Take Me to Your Readers!" MSAC AiE & AiR funds voices and their imaginations to Popular book magician Joe available; MSAC AiR Roster change or transform into Romano returns with the most Artist something else. amazing show on the planet. We’ll use our transformation “Take Me to Your Readers” Wingnut imaginations to create a A NEW family-friendly will transport your students to a performance together, to interactive clowning world of space, planets, aliens, become the animal characters in performance featuring the magic, and lots of books! This the play, “Who’s in Rabbit’s foolish and musical misuse of school year will be STELLAR, House?” with masks, music, tools. A folding rule becomes a as Joe Romano DOCKS his all transforming props, and a shark (among other things), a new reading magic show that saw makes lyrical melodies, and surprise ending. Professional will BEAM young readers to a drop cloth creates characters musician, Elias Mays library shelves everywhere! requested by the audience. Schutzman joins Katherine live Mark Jaster, known for his Wacky Science on stage to provide the music kinetic humor, playful This amazing assembly will and sound effects for the show. interaction, musical wit, and answer the question, "Is it inventive imagination, brings The Dragon Show; Share, Magic or Science?" More than over 30 years’ experience Care and Play Fair just whiz, bang, poof and pop, performing for school “The Dragon Show; Share, this zany show makes science assemblies and a vast array of Care, and Play Fair” promotes look "way cool!" With a focus other audiences, from The the social-emotional skills of on science experiments that use Maryland Renaissance Festival empathy, respect, self-control, everyday objects, Dr. Science to Regional Parks and Libraries. kindness, cooperation and makes the Scientific Method problem solving through the Piccolo's Trunk easy to understand. Up to 10 interactive story/drama, A wordless clownish character students participate on stage in Goodbye to a Greedy Dragon.” engages the audience with 36 skillful movement, live music, Hooked on Books MatheMagic! Starring and prolific participation. A In this theatre assembly, Mr. Bradley Fields delightful, popular introduction Jones, a mild mannered Internationally renowned to the art of mime. Workshop “everyone,” sits down to enjoy magician, Bradley Fields, and residency options also some afternoon television. He is captivates the audience with his available. interrupted by a public service famous magic illusions, and announcement informing him of then teaches the secrets behind A Fool Named "O" the epic battle between TV and some startling math tricks. Developed and featured at the reading. Through trial and error, Maryland Renaissance Festival he learns reading is a fun, Recognized as one of the since 1986, “O” is a wordless exciting way to gain new skills, preeminent shows for young jester who plays unusual see new places, meet new people, MatheMagic! ® instruments and non- people and experience more features world-class magic, instruments and uses other channels than any TV. Watch as comedy, and theatre. Amidst simple props to beguile, involve Mr. Jones discovers a new oohs, aahs and laughter, and entertain in a medieval interactive passion – reading! Bradley Fields challenges, manner. Grades: K-5 provokes and elicits critical Best for grades 6+ thinking. Kids (unknowingly!) America's Got Vaudeville! practice classroom skills and Long before “America’s Got problem-solving. Talent,” Vaudeville ruled as America’s number one form of MatheMagic! ® explores entertainment! Join new ancient civilizations. We meet Vaudevillian Mark Lohr as he Zeno, Imhotep, Pythagoras, and teaches Vaudeville style the first magicians (whose comedy and performance skills. secret was really math!) This theatre residency teaches Mark Lohr students performance Bradley Fields connects with Contact: Young Audiences* techniques enabling them to young people of different ages, Grades: K-12 perform their very own abilities and learning styles. Fees: Single $525 “REALLY BIG SHOW!” Kids leave the theater with a Back-to-back $675 Students experience history new fascination for the history, through the introduction of the Residency $100/workshop the power and the beauty of the history of Vaudeville. language of Math. Travel: Varies Grades: 3-12

Classic Comedy Mark’s character, Mr. Jones, takes audiences on an exciting journey with underlying educational themes. Highly interactive, Mr. Jones and the audience share center stage! This action-packed theatre New Moon Theater performance includes slapstick, MatheMagic! Contact: Julie Kurzava juggling, plate spinning and Contact: Bradley Fields (410) 719-8603 more. Based on “If at first you (202) 364-8350 [email protected] don’t succeed…” theory, Mr. [email protected] www.nmtheater.org Jones’ creative problem-solving www.mathemagic.com Grades: K-5 skills leave audiences howling Grades: K-8 Fees: Single $400 with laughter. Fees: $1,500 Grade: K-12 Back-to-back $600

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

of books and language with lessons accessible and relevant things. This former students while keeping them to students. professional’s ambitions are to laughing! perform for students and Ancient Glories: Stories from encourage them to say, “Yes to Greek Mythology Education.” Travel back in time into the rich world of Greek mythology.

Students are introduced to these ancient stories in the way they were originally passed down

before they were written – orally. Myths were used to Noa Baum highlight universal values and Contact: Young Audiences* explain science and nature. Noa Grades: PreK-12 uses expressive movement and Poetry Alive! Fees: Assembly $480 song to help students imagine Contact: Carney Gray Back-to-back $675 and picture the story in their (800) 476-8172 [email protected] mind and student participation Character Counts: Lessons www.poetryalive.com from World Cultures is encouraged. Grades: PreK-12 This fun and interactive Fees: One day $810 plus

storytelling program helps lodging, or a straight $990

students develop 21 Century

Social-Emotional skills, Poetry Alive! Assembly exploring qualities of character Performance Poetry Alive! ®'s high-energy and encouraging responsibility and empathy. Noa introduces assembly shows are presented by a team of two professional students to the importance of performers. Student audiences kindness, courage and making ON THE BALL SPINNY range from kindergarten good choices using stories from Contact: Spencer Johnson through the university level. A around the world. This dynamic (301) 977-1553 typical 35-50-minute show assembly invites audience [email protected] includes 20-25 poems tailored participation with chants, songs, www.spinnyjohnson.com to fit the ages and interests of sounds effects and movements Grades: K-8 the audience. The poems, Fees: Single $550 & $600 memorized and performed Choosing Peace: Tales to Back-to-back $600 & $850 theatrically, are found in Ponder popular textbooks and How can each one of us take the On the Ball Spinny anthologies. Our shows change first step toward peace in our This dynamic program features each year and the current year classrooms and communities? fun and amazing basketball show list is sent out in advance Focusing on themes of peace, skills while teaching the of the visit. justice, and understanding Noa importance of education, Poetry Alive! Classroom shares stories from diverse respect, health and anti- Follow-ups cultures and her own rich bullying. Using audience participation, Spinny persuades Poetry Alive! ® performers are Jewish heritage. Noa’s personal available to visit individual the students to believe in experience of growing up in classrooms to work directly themselves and to embrace Israel in war and conflict with smaller groups. Using the infuses stories in this dynamic positive thinking. With the assembly show as a role-model, assembly with genuine warmth proper discipline and hard Poetry Alive! ® will and compassion, making their work, you can accomplish many demonstrate how the students 39 can use performance techniques Read, Rhyme and Respect to experience poetry more fully. with Rosie Rosie is a goofy and wondrous Poetry Alive! In School character who uses popular Residency children's books to promote a Like our performances, our love of reading. Her program is residencies are designed to help entertaining and educational, each school achieve the goals of featuring magic, balloons, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo its curriculum. Poetry Alive! ® storytelling and audience develops each residency to fit participation. Contact: Artivate* the educational philosophy of Grades: PreK-12 the school. For greater Enjoy the excitement of the Fees: Single $650 effectiveness, we consult with greatest tales coming alive with Back to back $800 teachers and administrators her balloon creations and (Asia FantAsia & Bamboo many times before ever visiting storytelling! This program Jamboo) a school. This preparation emphasizes treating others with Single $650 allows us to set up a structure respect, being responsible and Back to back $800 that teachers can use year after developing trust. Friendship, (Kulintang) year. anti-bullying and cooperation Travel: $50 Our goal is to introduce the are other important areas concept of the "poem covered. Inspired by the works Asia FantAsia performance" as a mechanism of Dr. Seuss. Weaving a variety of traditional for increasing the students' appreciation and understanding tales with yarns of music and Snippy Doodles of poetry. theater, Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo Snippy Doodles is a clown, delights his audiences with Poetry Alive! Professional balloon storyteller, balloon folktales and myths from Korea, Development artist and children's magician. Japan, China, Tibet and more Poetry Alive! ® conducts She has been performing at workshops that introduce schools, libraries, festivals, than twenty-three other Asian educators to the basics of using childcare centers and many countries-often embellishing the performance as a pathway to other venues for over 20 years. plots with the lyricism of a understanding, experiencing She is a silly character that bamboo flute, or bringing and appreciating poetry. children love. characters to life with animated facial gestures. With a masterful Space Oddities! use of timing and elements of On the 50th Anniversary of the surprise, Robert draws students Apollo 11 moon landing, the and teachers alike into a joyful Magical Worlds of Rosie exploration of Asian culture. conjures an epic tale spanning two galaxies, aliens, rockets, Bamboo Jamboo and so much more. There will A variety of music, dance and be drama! There will be Renate McIntosh storytelling cultures from the excitement! There will be Asian world are introduced Contact: Renate McIntosh cheeseburgers! Learn all about through a performance featuring (302) 653-1658 the solar system and the [email protected] wonders of the universe in this varied flutes and Storytelling snippydoodles.com all new show. Theater. The haunting sounds of Grades: PreK-5 Shakuhachi flute music from Fees: Single $395 Japan, the buzzing of a Back-to-back $695 Southern Filipino bamboo jaw

harp, and the multi-reed

bamboo cane panpipes of willing to help, and slave today are magnificent Thailand all come to life as catchers. Will he make it? reflections of their ancestry, Robert demonstrates their their individual identities and sounds and introduces myths, This 45-minute presentation is America’s future. anecdotes and folklore performed with a variety of Going the Distance & Into the associated with these puppets — rod puppets, hand puppets, and wood cut-outs — Great Unknown: African instruments. Students have the constructed by Schroeder American Adventurers and opportunity to try the Cherry. The show ends in a Explorers instruments and learn a variety participatory chant with the Celebrate Black History Month of Asian folk-dance steps. audience. Recommended this February with two inspiring audience ages are six years Discovery Theater productions! Asian Pacific Playshop through adult. In the original Olympian Hands-on workshops and one- musical play, "Going the day residencies feature Distance", audiences’ race to storytelling, music, dance, the finish line with Jesse Owens history and culture and and Wilma Rudolph, who traditional instruments tailored overcome childhood disability and illness to win the highest to age group and curriculum. honor in athletics, the Olympic

Fees available upon request. gold medal. Soaring anthems and lively action speak to the Smithsonian Associates heart and soul of the winner in Discovery Theater on all of us! "Into the Great Tour Unknown" asks, "What does it Contact: Artivate* take to go to the ends of the earth, or to the farthest star - Grades: PreK-8 Fees: Single $700 and survive?" Arctic explorers Matthew Henson and Barbara Back-to-back $950 Hillary, astronauts Mae Jemison Travel: $40 Schroeder Cherry and and Ron McNair, and Nat Love

His Puppets and Stagecoach Mary Fields of Contact: Young Audiences* ¡¡CUENTOS!! & Retratos: My People, Myself the Wild West challenge and Grades: 1-12 rally us to capture leadership, Fees: $350 Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with these Discovery courage, and adventure in this inspiring play highlighting Underground Railroad Not A Theater originals, available individually or as a pair history and heroism. Subway In the puppet performance ("¡¡CUENTOS!!" for younger Once Upon a Moon & Science Underground Railroad, Not A grades + "Retratos" for older of Spring Subway, students will learn the grades). "¡¡CUENTOS!!" Welcome spring with two new true definition of the presents three tales in two Discovery Theater productions Underground Railroad and how languages - Chicken Little, Jack in March and April! The it got its name. They’ll see and in the Beanstalk, and The charming "Once Upon a hear the story of a young boy Gingerbread Man go from page Moon", geared for grades PreK- who decides to run north and to the stage in this fresh take on 3, and presented in partnership escape slavery. classic stories featuring puppets, with the National Air and Space The story is narrated by an older sing-along songs, and audience Museum, combines science and gentleman who leads the participation. The art and story to spin old tales about the audience through the boy’s history themed, "Retratos", is a moon’s magic and introduce the journey north as he encounters joyous interactive play about exciting historic Apollo lunar free blacks, whites who are how the lives of young people mission. Exquisite puppets and

large-scale interactive models The Magic of the Sea create a sense of excitement and Discover the many magical wonder. The seasonal mysteries of water and how the awakening of the earth takes Indonesians rely on it for their center stage in "Science of existence. Explore life above Spring", a Discovery Theater and under sea level through original exploring the song, story and dance. Become indigenous and modern science a manta ray and a shark as you behind the greening of the year. listen and participate in folk Synetic Theater Using science, culture and tales and true stories from Contact: Young Audiences* history, we examine humanity’s Indonesia. Students gain a Grades: 1-12 relationship to the natural ‘new better understanding of world Fees: Workshops $150-$350 year’ – a time when the earth cultures and marine biology in Touring Shows: Single $500 and its creatures experience this storytelling assembly! Back-to-Back $900 rebirth, regeneration, and new growth (best for grades K-5). A Customized Arts-Integrated Workshops Residency: Learn the Synetic dance uses natural and Standards spontaneous movements to (All Curricula, All Artists) exhibit the joy, the rage, the Design your own residency. madness, the love, the Match your curriculum with the conflicted internal life of a artists’ strengths as an artist and character. Students will be led teacher. Begin by selecting the through a rolodex of warm-ups, common core standards and coordination, plasticity and character education goals you Story Tapestries: acceleration to unlock deeper want to integrate with arts more realized expression Arianna Ross and the ST standards and strategies. Create through dance. These systems Ensemble a residency that is the right may also be applied in the Contact: Young Audiences* balance for your classroom of creation of environments, Grades: PreK-12 storytelling, music, multimedia, moods and atmospheres in a Fees: Single $415 visual art, writing, drama, and play. Back-to-Back $600 movement. Allow the creative Residency $100/workshop process to guide your students’ Touring Shows Travel: Varies ability to synthesize and A wonderful collection of evaluate their understanding in comedic vignettes set to music: The Fastest Plane new areas of learning. Through an average day becomes Around the world in 45 a series of arts integrated extraordinary when a surly minutes: a multi-lingual exercises, students understand janitor and an uptight program. Travel back in time how to solve a math problem, businessman discover a magical and across the world, landing in understand a scientific process, mask, two cowboys in the wild a time when animals could talk, film a weather report, create a west tame a bull on the loose, and some people could commercial, perform a two road workers try to catch a understand them! Dance modernized folktale, write a butterfly in an attempt to through the streets of Brazil, personal story, historical tale, capture the heart of a girl and Mexico, India and even the piece of fiction, or nonfiction. the classic invisible wall. United States. Students will The result of the residency is a Students are introduced to the leave this storytelling assembly piece of writing and/or a art of storytelling without words with knowledge of what a folk performance ready to be shared through imagination, illusions, tale is and the desire to read, with their community. and physical comedy. write and even tell other stories.

Residency Re-Imagining Math through FERDINAND Students explore the signature Storytelling Inspired by the classic movement style of Synetic You can feel a good story in children's book The Story of Theater in a versatile custom your core- the sadness, the Ferdinand by Munro Leaf, designed theater residency that suspense, the bitterness and the FERDINAND tells the poignant suits your students’ learning. beauty. We are good at story of Tom, a single dad, Synetic offers a unique and registering and reacting to all struggling to go with the flow cross-cultural type of theater the characters, events and plot and raise his son in a world that incorporates dance, body twists a story throws at us, but determined to make him fight. awareness, storytelling, music have you ever tried to look at Raised on the story of his and mime. At the end of the one through the eyes of a namesake Ferdinand, the bull residency students come away mathematician? who refused to fight but just with a presentation that wanted to sit and smell the exemplifies the discipline, In this innovative utilizes flowers, young Ferdy learns the dedication, body control and storytelling to present math hard lessons in life as his father creativity they have gained concepts in a creative and endeavors to shield him from through the project that stays imaginative way offering the harsh realities of adulthood. with them throughout their students a different perspective lives. to approaching math. Students FERDINAND is a hard-hitting will apply the elements of black yet heart-warming one-man storytelling to create their show which, in the course of 50 version of a story told my minutes, takes the audience on a master storyteller, TAHIRA. journey of rebirth. Told from The students' readaptions offer the perspective of Tom, a hard- them an opportunity to make working middle manager, this is unique choices to shape the the story of a father bringing up story to reflect their own voices, his son with empathy and personal experiences and kindness in a world that seems TAHIRA values. determined to push him in all Contact: Young Audiences* the wrong directions. Through Grades: K-9 This program is well-suited Tom we experience all the joys Fees: $595 from students in Grade 3 and all the heartbreaks of through Grade 9. growing up, as well as quite a LOL: Literacy Out Loud few very real parental TAHIRA enthralls students dilemmas, as he battles to with her tickle-your-funny-bone preserve the innocence of tales and delightful sing-along childhood despite corporate songs. Delivered in her downsizing, classroom peer signature high-energy style, pressure, and mixed social TAHIRA captivates young messages about what it means audiences with stories rooted in to be a man in this the oral tradition of the African contemporary twist on a grown- Diaspora. The interactive up fairy tale. program utilizes stories and Tasty Monster songs to teach literacy skills, as Productions Winner: Top 100 Shows of the students join in the performance Contact: Luke Tudball Fringe - Edinburgh Fringe through call-in-response and (917) 533-3961 (FringeReview UK); Top Ten engaging Q&A woven into the [email protected] Children's Shows - Edinburgh fabric of the stories. www.tastymonsterproductions.com Fringe (FringeReview UK); Grades: 3-8 Top Ten Pick of the Fringe - This program is geared towards Fees: Variable BedFringe (FringeReview UK) students in K through Grade 5

Youth audiences will learn how CHOOSE TO READ to use the virtues to stand up for YoJo, the big blue fuzzy their truth and collective entertainer, initially has a responsibility in bullying bad attitude about reading and situations. would rather watch TV or play video games, but after several The Virtues Concert comic mishaps, he ultimately This concert is an inspiring learns “The more you read, the WombWork Productions, show that shares Virtue Songs smarter you get!” A perfect Inc. and stories and scenes that share assembly for reading rallies and Contact: Young Audiences* the importance of Speaking the kicking off reading incentive Grades: K-12 Language of Virtues to create a programs. Approx. 45 min. Fees: Assembly $800 culture of character. Art ensemble members will engage TREAT YOUR BODY Black History Show: Standing the audience with virtues songs, RIGHT on the Shoulders of our rhymes and musical numbers. YoJo’s junk food binges and Ancestors couch potato ways finally end This show is a Musical History in our health & fitness program. of the African American story This show emphasizes daily through songs, scenes, stories physical activity, getting plenty and dance. This is a musical of sleep and making sensible exploration showcasing the food choices. It features the sojourn of slaves transported to USDA MyPlate food icon and America and their stories as will get your entire audience on shared through African their feet to do a session of American culture. Features The YoJo Show “YOJOROBICS!” Approx. 45 min. Harriet Tubman’s role in Contact: Bromley Lowe

fighting for freedom for (301) 943-9047 ACE YOUR MAP enslaved brothers and sisters. [email protected] This show deals with This show includes historical Bromley Productions, LLC overcoming test-taking anxiety facts, rhyming songs and ways www.YoJo.com and promotes very specific and to learn about Black History, Grades: K-6 beneficial strategies for the new the sojourn and inventions by Fees: Single $650 - $800, Black Americans that includes MAP exams. YoJo gets additional shows discounted audience participation. involved in a “MAP game show,” and learns about the You Better Check Yourself BULLY NO MORE features, questions and tools of before you wreck Yourself YoJo has a bully problem. The this new computerized test. In Bullying Others is bad for problem is YoJo’s the bully! the end, YoJo develops the Your Health But after several situations, he skills and confidence to ACE This musical production sees the harm he’s done and THE MAP! Approx. 45-50 min. presents an analysis of the realizes how damaging bullying “Bully”, “The Victim”, “The is. Many lessons are learned for those who are being bullied, Bystander” and “The Protector” personas. The show closes with those who are witnessed to the virtues needed to eliminate bullying and we even address those who may be doing the bullying. Rhyming and musical components coupled with bullying, too. BULLY NO scenes demonstrate an analysis MORE is a serious assembly that’s also positive and upbeat. of the Bully, Victim, Bystander and Protector and how each of Approx. 45 min. them can grow out of them. 44

Arts Integrated Mosaic Art Residency Join South-African born multimedia artist Carien Quiroga on a collaborative and empowering journey while V learning about the Artist’s cultural heritage, artistic work Arturo Ho and the art of mosaic-making. Contact: Artivate* The Artist will work with the Grades: PreK-12 school to design and plan the Fees: 5-day residency (includes residency around a specific materials) $4,500 theme or concept and address I any needs the school Travel: $40/day community may have. 5-Day Visual Arts Residency Mosaic artworks are suitable for Arturo’s students are inspired to indoor or outdoor installation create, discover, communicate and can include mosaic murals, and connect with different steppingstones or translucent people and perspectives through glass mosaic art and may S art. Collaborative workshops include traditional glass and and residencies explore ceramic mosaic, recycled universal themes like home, materials, fused glass or community and transformation embossed metal. The through a variety of 2-D and 3- collaborative process involves D techniques and artworks. participants in all aspects of the With more than two decades of project, from design to U teaching experience, Arturo construction and presentation. expertly custom-tailors’ Students learn and master programs to connect art with mosaic techniques through a curricular areas like math, scaffolded process, practicing science, engineering and social problem-solving, teamwork and studies. decision-making skills while leaving a visual legacy behind A that both beautifies and educates the school community. During the 6-day residency, participants create individual mosaic elements that are incorporated into the collaborative artwork, allowing students to develop a sense of L ownership, as well as an Carien Quiroga Contact: Artivate* understanding of the *Contact information is listed Grades: PreK-12 collaborative art-making process. The structured with their agency under Arts Fees: 6-day residency (includes residency is fully inclusive and Councils and Arts Agencies on materials) $5,280 Maryland State Arts Council adaptable to any grade or ability page 10 of the directory. Residency Approved level, aiming for student MSAC AiR funds available success and empowerment.

Hypnotizers! Light Machine Invention Lab Invent machines that spin, glow and hypnotize! Explore simple circuits to make a motor spin, discover battery polarity and how light emitting diodes glow,

and combine two simple circuits Gayle Mangan Kassal FutureMakers and craft materials to create a Contact: Gayle Mangan Kassal Contact: Young Audiences* glowing, spinning machine of (443) 852-0123 Grades: K-8 your own design! Perfect for [email protected] Fees: Residency $385 for 1st grades 2 and up, this workshop www.GMKfineart.com workshop is a favorite of media centers Grades: K-12 $250 for each additional and grade level groups. Lower Fees: Single $250 Travel + Supplies: Varies elementary focuses on the concepts of electricity and Back-to-back $400 Drawbots! Drawing Machine circuits, upper elementary Contact the artist for Residency Invention Lab focuses on open and closed & Workshop Fees Invent electrified kinetic circuits, and middle school Travel + Supplies: Varies artwork that comes to life and focuses on solving a design draws - art that makes art! In challenge with raw materials Be Creative! one class period, students will that require exploration for Inspire your students to be invent a machine that can stand, assembly. All students take creative with a wow factor. move and draw - using a their working hypnotizers’ Ever wonder where Dr. Seuss, battery, motor and common home! All materials are Georgia O’Keeffe, or Norman craft materials. Lower included in the cost of the Rockwell received inspiration? elementary students explore workshop. An exciting lecture on the basic concepts of electricity and where, how and who can inspire its role in kinetic artwork, and Illumania! Light Painting Lab you. how circles are made; upper Explore the connections elementary students define how between light, space and time - Mural artist, Gayle Mangan a circuit can be open or closed, and create amazing images with Kassal, will awaken creativity and how vibration makes your very own "light brush." and spill secrets of her mural objects move and draw a variety Participants build a "brush" inspirations that bring smiles to of lines; and middle school using light emitting diodes, many. Her recent works adorn students explore design batteries and craft materials, Children’s National Medical variables (weight, balance, and then use them to draw with Center, Hasbro’s Children’s height, angles of incidence and Hospital and Boston Medical light in our long-exposure light tension) and how they affect the Center. types of lines their inventions painting booth. Perfect for all draw! Perfect for media centers ages, PK - HS. Participants take Students will learn that or classrooms, this is one of our home their "light brushes," and inspiration and a little most popular workshops. All photos from all groups are technology goes a long way to drawbots go home with their shared with you for further color the world of white walls. inventor! This is also a popular distribution. All materials are The art presentation can be professional development included. This workshop is a expanded into an interactive session for STEAM-focused perfect "in-school field trip" for workshop residency where teachers. media centers and multipurpose students have the opportunity to contribute (hands-on) to a work rooms. We request that the of art. room can be dimmed or darkened. Former College Educator MSAC approved artist

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The Felted Vessel - Residency In this visual arts residency, after observing vessels from

many cultures, students use wet-felting techniques to link loose fibers into a solid form John Iampieri around a tennis ball. Once dry, Susan Stockdale Contact: Young Audiences* the forms are cut in two, the ball Contact: Susan Stockdale Grades: K-12 removed and a small dish with a (301) 654.0292 Residency fees vary lid remains. Students then [email protected]

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

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 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 48

the cost of his visit by sponsoring an author autographing. Your school will receive a percentage of all proceeds from the book and music sales generated by his visit. W Barry Louis Polisar

Contact: Barry Louis Polisar

(301) 384-9207 [email protected] www.barrylou.com Grades: K-5, 6-8, 9-12 Fees: Single $750 R Back-to-back $1,500 Weekend and Family Shows: Rosanne Singer $1,000-$3,000 Contact: Rosanne Singer

Barry Louis Polisar: Songs, (301) 580-6792 Stories, Poetry and books [email protected] Barry sings his song "All I Grades: 3-5 Want is You" in the opening Fees: $80 per 55-minute I workshop plus mileage credits of the Academy Award winning film "Juno" and his The Sense of Poetry songs are featured in other Through movement, sound, and movies, television shows and objects we experience poetry as TV commercials throughout the a sensory event, not only as a world. written form. Students are T Barry has performed at The exposed to poetry of different White House, The Smithsonian times and cultures, and each and The Kennedy Center for the workshop is a self-contained Performing Arts and presents unit that includes introduction, concerts and author visits in writing, and sharing work. schools from Washington DC to Fairbanks, Alaska--but he lives in Maryland! E Barry can provide grade level

presentations or back-to-back sessions for combined grades. He will inspire your students, teachers and parents with his entertaining stories, witty poems, funny songs and Susan Stockdale R engaging books. He is the rare Contact: Susan Stockdale author who can vary his (301) 654-0292 program to accommodate [email protected] different grade levels and his www.susanstockdale.com presentations are equally appealing to younger and older Grades: K-5 students. Fees: $700+ S In addition to his AIE grant Please contact artist for further funding, you can help finance information 49

Writing Picture Books Award-winning author/illustrator Susan Stockdale demonstrates how she researches and writes her nonfiction picture books with themes ranging from how animals carry their young to how flower shapes attract certain pollinators.

Students learn how to conduct thorough research to gather accurate information and the importance of revising during the writing process. They discover how rhythmic rhyme and vivid verbs; synonyms and

alliteration can make their words sparkle.

Stockdale's program also integrates visual art and science for a robust STEAM experience. Find out why schools call her presentation "the best author program we ever had."

ARTISTS INDEX

DANCE Ray Owen, 23 Baba Bomani, 11 Rockcreek Steel Drums, 24 Ballet Theatre of Maryland, 11 Sineadh Fada, 24 Bowen McCauley Dance Company, 12 Snowday, 25 Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, 13 Tracey Eldridge & Company, 25 Lesole’s Dance Project, 13 The Uncle Devin Show, 25 New York City’s LMproject, 14 Unified Jazz Ensemble, 26 Ologundê, 14 Wytold, 26 Prakriti Dance, 14 Quynn Johnson, 15 THEATER SOLE Defined, 15 Baba Jamal Koram, 28 Step Afrika!, 15 Baltimore Improv Group, 28 Blue Sky Puppet Theatre, 28 MUSIC Brian Curry Magic, 29 123 Andres, 16 Building Better People Productions, 29 Adventures of Rhythm, 16 Bus Howard, 30 Anansegro of Ghana, 17 Chesapeake Children’s Museum, 30 Ball in the House, 17 Chicago Improv Productions, 31 Barynya, 18 Chris Fascione: Bringing Literature to Life!, 31 Billy B., 18 Diane Macklin, Storyteller, 32 Cantaré, 18 DinoRock Productions, 32 Christylez Bacon, 19 Dovie Thomason, 32 Curtis Blues, 19 Einstein Alive: Marc Spiegel, 33 Devonna B. Rowe, 20 Elaine Muray, 33 Dom Flemons – The American Songster, 20 Flow Circus, 34 Flumpa, 21 Gregory May, 34 Magpie, 21 History Alive!, 34 Mark H Rooney, 22 InterAct Story Theatre, 35 Mosaic, 22 Joe Romano’s Ultimate School Show, 35 New Moon Opera, 22 Katherine Lyons, 36 Pam the Kindersinger, 23 Mark Jaster, 36 Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra, 23 Mark Lohr, 37

ARTISTS INDEX

MathMagic!, 37 New Moon Theater, 37 Nicolo Whimsey Show, 38 Noa Baum, 39 On The Ball Spinny, 39 Poetry Alive!, 39 Renate McIntosh, 40 Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, 40 Schroeder Cherry and His Puppets, 41 Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater on Tour, 41 Story Tapestries: Arianna Ross and the ST Ensemble, 42 Synetic Theater, 42 TAHIRA, 43 Tasty Monster Productions, 43 WombWork Productions, Inc., 44 The YoJo Show!, 44

VISUAL Arturo Ho, 45 Carien Quiroga, 45 FutureMakers, 46 Gayle Mangan Kassal, 46 John Iampieri, 47 Katherine Dilworth, 47 Susan Stockdale, 47 Suzanne Herbert-Forton, 48

WRITERS Barry Louis Polisar, 49 Rosanne Singer, 49 Susan Stockdale, 49