Young Audiences of Rochester Resource Guide 2015

Artists & Education Reference Guide 2015

Art is the only way to run away without leaving hom e.

-Twyla Tharp, dancer and choreographer

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WELCOME! For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Rochester (YA) has been the premier provider of arts learning experiences in the Greater Rochester region. One of 30 self-­‐supporting affiliates in the national Young Audiences, Inc. network, YA is the catalyst and connection to practicing, professional teaching artists that deliver artistically excellent, academically relevant and educationally effective art programs.

FIND US

For more information visit www.yarochester.org

In the heart of Village Gate Second Floor (above The Gate House Restaurant) Neighborhood of the Arts (NOTA)

274 N. Goodman Street, Suite D242 Rochester, NY 14607 (p) 585.530.2060 | (f) 585.530.2087 Office Hours 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday -­‐ Friday Like us on Facebook YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/yarochester United Way Donor Designation #2217

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CONTACT US

Contacting us is easy-­‐-­‐ online, by phone, snail mail or in person.

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HOW TO SCHEDULE A PROGRAM It’s easy to work with us! YA is a cost effective, comprehensive, one-­‐stop arts resource to meet your 21st Century arts learning needs. Let us be your “go-­‐to” arts learning organization and bring the field trip to YOU! Programs are scheduled on a first come, first served basis and subject to artist availability.

Current pricing is available online or by contacting us directly.

Visit our website: www.yarochester.org

Call 585.530.2060

E-­‐mail: ah@yarochester.org or td@yarochester.org

YA is aware, agile and able to coordinate, customize and provide options that are aligned with NYS Learning Standards & Common Core, and national Young Audiences, Inc. foundational elements: “Experience, Understand, Create and Connect”. Choose from a professional and diverse roster of national and regional teaching artists representing such arts disciplines as: visual, music, theater, performance, multi-­‐media, technology, literary, and dance. Select from a variety of options and focus areas.

YA provides: *Community, After School/Extended School Day (year-round, seasonal and summer) *Creative Entrepreneurship

*Curriculum &Professional Development

*Customized Residencies: Early Childhood, Intergenerational, Adolescent/Teen & Home School

*Event and Festivals

*Partnership & Collaborations *Interactive Workshops

*Performances & Assemblies *Library & Recreation Center programs *Quality Assessment / Evaluation

*Literary, Technology, Digital & Media Arts *Therapeutic, Creative, Meditative & Healing Arts *NYS Learning Standards & Common Core

Program Scheduling Process: ·School representative calls or emails YA to schedule a program.

Create Rochester and Beyond: Scholarships may be available to underwrite a portion of our artists' fees for those in need of financial assistance, seeded by the generosity of the Max & Marian Farash Foundation, Xerox Foundation and other donors.

Cancellation/Rescheduling Process: All scheduled programs are considered binding once we have received your signed program agreement. A contracted program that is cancelled by the school with less than 30 days notice is subject to a penalty of 50% of the program fee. A contracted program that is cancelled with less than five business days notice is subject to full payment, as artists refuse other work when a date is scheduled and confirmed. Young Audiences will notify you immediately should an artist be unable to perform due to inclement weather, illness, or other unforeseen circumstances. We will make every effort to reschedule, offer substitute artists or, if necessary, cancel the program.

All date changes and rescheduling must be made through Young Audiences of Rochester, NY and not directly with the artist(s).

·YA confirms a program and date with the school and the teaching artist. ·YA emails a contract to school representative; representative signs and returns contract to YA within one week. Note: Program/teaching artist is not confirmed until YA has received the contract. ·YA emails a Program Study Guide to school representative for distribution to teachers. ·30-­‐60 days before the scheduled Program, YA emails school representative to confirm program arrangements, and may email an Invoice, Study Guide, and Program Evaluation. ·For Schools working with BOCES funding: The school representative submits a copy of the signed contract to the designated BOCES for a PO number; BOCES contacts YA with a PO number; and YA sends final invoices to BOCES.

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RESIDENCIES ARTS-INTEGRATION Create an original arts-­‐integrated residency customized to meet your curricular needs, based on an art form, work of art or general theme.

An arts-­‐integrated residency actively engages students in creative learning and helps them develop significant cognitive, social and performance skills. YA will match your needs with one of our talented B teaching artists who will work with you to plan, facilitate, and implement a residency.

Arts 4 Learning:

YA is one of twelve affiliates selected to participate in and implement a yearlong initiative that will revitalize the Arts for Learning (A4L) curriculum, an innovative, research-­‐ based literacy program that blends the creativity and discipline of the arts with learning science. JCPenney Cares and its customers who generously donated a portion of their transactions from August 2014 to benefit arts integrated education, make the JCPenney Arts for Learning (JCPA4L) initiative possible.

The JCPA4L Initiative provides an opportunity to encourage and support professional staff capacity in understanding the role Arts for Learning can play in the development of arts integration practices in all settings. Since 2006, Young Audiences, Inc. has focused on the development, evaluation and expansion of the A4L program, a research-­‐based arts integrated curriculum model, and has been proven to raise D student achievement in reading, writing and math, while supporting the development of key 21st century learning and life skills. The JCPA4L Initiative will enhance, implement and assess a more comprehensive program design that is rooted in a co-­‐ teaching model that involves classroom teachers, teaching artists and/or arts specialists in partnership with affiliate staff, school administrators and parents.

YA has also provided A4L lessons in: Rochester City School District (RCSD), Penfield School District and Newark School District elementary schools; after school settings in child care centers; and New Directions residencies for in-­‐school and after school sites in RCSD school buildings, recreation centers and branch libraries. For four years (2011-­‐2014), The Wallace Foundation and RCSD selected YA to provide A4L literacy lessons for incoming 3-­‐5th grade students (over 800 students in four summers) enrolled in Rochester Summer Scholars (RSS).

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In association with Young Audiences, New York, Young Audiences of Rochester presents Literature to Life® stage presentation of Black Boy

By Richard Wright

Performed by Tarantino Smith Adapted and Directed by Wynn Handman

Black Boy by Richard Wright

For booking inquiries about this or any other of Young Audiences New York’s Literature to Life arts and literacy programs, please contact Gwen Brownson, Director of National Programs at Literature to Life; 212.319.9269. Visit us online at

World of Inquiry School #58

A verbatim adaptation of the classic American autobiographical work, Black Boy dramatizes Richard Wright's journey from childhood innocence to adulthood in the Jim Crow South. The issues addressed in this novel still resonate in today's cultural dialogue. Having premiered at the Kennedy Center, this Literature to Life original was adapted for the stage in 2005 and marked one of the first on our roster to tour to educational communities nationally. The show features fifty minutes of verbatim performance from the first half of this epic American novel. A tour de force, the actor plays upwards of fifteen characters from Richard Wright’s past. The journey focuses on Richard’s hunger for knowledge and his fight to claim his basic human rights in a racist society. Surrounded by an interactive pre and post show discussion, the audience will explore themes including Racism and Individualism/Non Conformity. Black Boy © 1944 Richard Wright. Published by Perennial Classics and used by permission of the author.

Audience Response "It was clear that seeing Black Boy live on stage drew in students who have a hard time connecting to what they read... who might have otherwise missed out on its resonance with their own experiences and struggles."

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AFTER & OUT-OF SCHOOL READY-TO-GO RESIDENCIES Residencies are available covering a variety of topics. Multi-­‐disciplinary Teaching Artists are subject matter experts and bring learning to life through their respective art forms.

City of Rochester Department of Recreation & Youth Services (DRYS) NEW DIRECTIONS: YA's New Directions after school program provides Arts, Literacy & Leadership residencies, combining national Young Audiences, Inc. Arts for Learning Lessons © (A4L) and professional Teaching Artists to integrate literacy and the arts for extended learning outside the classroom.

As a Young Audiences, Inc. national affiliate, YA is the only authorized provider of the Arts for Learning Lessons © programs and services in the Rochester area. For almost 30 years, YA has partnered DRYS to provide New Directions residencies in R-­‐Centers. YA also partners with Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, expanding program sites and increasing provision and access to more children and youth.

New Directions residencies are offered, both after school and during summer months, and serves approximately 335 elementary and middle school children ages 9-­‐14.

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AFTER & OUT-OF SCHOOL THE CYPHER The Cypher is an after school/out-­‐of-­‐school year-­‐round program for at-­‐risk teens in the City of Rochester.

Program components include: • After School: September–June; Summer: July–August • Entrepreneurial work readiness, arts and technology learning opportunities and experiences such as, but not limited to: digital music, media production and recording; slam poetry and creative writing; visual arts; graphic design and associated merchandising; public arts; dance; healing arts (yoga) • Partnerships with skilled multi-­‐disciplinary teaching artists, adult leaders, and mentors • Strengthening of 21st Century Learning skills to complement classroom learning • TruArt Dance Company (TDC) is a component of The Cypher. Founded by choreographer and Artistic Director, Jayme Bermudez (also Manager of The Cypher), TDC is available for appearances and performances as a full dance corps or ensemble. To schedule a performance and to request pricing, please contact YA directly.

• imagineYOU/Teen Central: Music and Sound production: Students have access to professional sound equipment in a recording studio. Through guidance and training provided by artist mentor/producer Joe Mangano, students have the opportunity to create their own original music/sound on a professional level as well as receive coaching in areas including (but not limited to) music production, music composition, sound production, song writing, spoken word/slam poetry, and written poetry.

Opportunities exist to book 1 on 1 training/production/recording time with Joe, as well as to collaborate with other artists (both amateur and professional) and attend workshops with topics ranging from slam poetry to music video creation.

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PEFORMANCES

YA’s performance program offers students the opportunity to actively engage with and experience the very best of the local and touring arts world.

Because our performance ensembles represent professional companies with international reputations, students are introduced to a wide spectrum of cultural traditions, art forms and styles. These unique arts experiences spark the imagination and expend Students’ global perspectives.

DANCE Bush Mango Drum & Dance

Performance Dances and Rhythms of Guinea, West Africa (K-­‐12) Bush Mango performs dance, drum and song from Guinea, West Africa.

With a company of 4-­‐6 dancers they provide an energetic and participatory experience for all ages while weaving in many facts about the culture of origin.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350 Single class size (workshops) Workshops and residencies available upon request.

Yoga Instruction – Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, Colleen Hendrick, teaches a simple, accessible, fun, and energizing yoga class for youth of all ages. Classes focus on flexibility, strength, and an introduction to skeletal anatomy.

A Day In Guinea – This full or half-­‐day field trip offers a full menu of dance, drum, visual art, and yoga. Pick two selections for the half-­‐day, all four for the full day. Lunch can be brought and served on site. Snacks are provided for full day.

Audience Limit: Up to 40 students. (field trips are held at 31 Prince Street.)

Mike Callahan

Workshop Team Building To Music (K-­‐12) Square dancing provides rapid learning and mind/body coordination. Students will practice in an interactive physical education environment while learning this American cultural dance form.

Audience Limit: None Program Length: 45 minutes

Dance China New York (From New York City Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance China Patterns (K-­‐12) This dance program, performed in full traditional Chinese costume, introduces students to Chinese culture through language lessons, historical background, on-­‐stage demonstrations and audience interaction. The dances and narration illustrate and explain traits, customs and patterns of Chinese life.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 250 Workshops available upon request Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble Elizabeth Clark studied at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. She has served on the dance faculties at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester and S.U.N.Y. Empire State College. Ms. Clark has performed her original work internationally and toured as a teaching artist with the Lincoln Center Education Program. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble where she creates performances and designs workshops for schools, museums, and community-­‐wide events. Ms. Clark has recently been honored with the 2006 National Dance Education Organization Award for meritorious service to children.

Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble, cont.

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Come Fly with Me (K-­‐12) Children’s Classic (K-­‐2) Let’s Explore Dance (K-­‐6) Workshops Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 25 unless otherwise noted

Time Steps (Math) (K-­‐1) Dancing Stories (ELA) (K-­‐6) Program Length: 30 minutes Dancing Through The Ages (K-­‐6) From Baseball To Vegetables (K-­‐6)

Mounafanyi Pan-­‐African Drum & Dance Ensemble

Performance Mounafanyi Pan-­‐African Drum & Dance (K-­‐12) Experience the artistry in West African drumming and dance

by Guinean native and dance troupe founder and art director Kerfala “Fana” Bangoura. Featured are the music and dance of Guinea, Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

Footworks (From Maryland Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Keeping the Beat: Contemporary American Traditional (K-­‐12) Energetic, engaging performance of live fiddle music presents historical and multicultural perspectives of percussive dances that include American clogging, hambone, call–and-­‐answer songs, rhythms, and other related dances such as French Canadian step-­‐dance and South African boot dance.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Workshops available upon request

FuturPointe Dance

Frances Hare

Residency or Workshop (K-­‐6) Using her extensive experience as a master dancer and choreographer, Ms. Hare develops residencies and workshops that engage students in Latin, Flamenco, Salsa, Ballroom, Hip Hop, and African dance styles.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class Size

Performance FuturTour! (K-­‐12) This “fusion” dance company of culturally diverse dancers combines choreographic styles that include modern, popular/social/folk dance, Caribbean, African, Latin and ballet.

Audiences will experience a multi-­‐ media, interactive lecture and demonstration.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None Workshops available upon request.

PUSH Physical Theatre

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 500 unless otherwise noted

The Natural World (K-­‐12) PUSH is well known for their ability to create physical and gravity-­‐defying illusions. Become engaged as performers work in collaboration to create ‘The Two Headed Bug’, ‘The Scorpion’ and the playful ‘Squat Frogs’.

PUSH 21(K-­‐12) 21st Century Learning skills are presented by PUSH’s team of talented ‘human sculptures’ using acrobatic strength, stunning physicality and emotional depth. Core subjects such as physical science, literacy and the arts are explored within the context of health, creativity, innovation, communication and collaboration.

Healthy Hero’s (K-­‐4) Continuous physical activities support the Be A Healthy Hero™ campaign for our community’s children. Activities include running for the healthiest snack choices in a relay race, and physical theatre exercises.

Audience Limit: Single class size

Partnering (7-­‐12) With hands-­‐on collaboration, students participate as they ‘share weight’ to build impossible looking physical sculptures.

Audience Limit: Single class size

Emotionscapes (3-­‐6) Working collaboratively, students create “Emotionscapes” – choreographed movement sequences that represent the emotional journey of the character(s) in the story. Source material can be provided by PUSH or selected by classroom teacher.

Audience Limit: Single class size Workshop Simple Machines (Dance) Students develop a deeper understanding of the physical sciences as they analyze topics such as simple machines, transfer of weight, magnetism, and energy through physical movement and discussion. Teamwork, balance, and trust are explored through science exercises.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Rebecca Thomas (From New York City Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Flamenco Dream (K-­‐3) A young woman falls asleep to a bedtime lullaby and wakes up in a Flamenco Dream World.

She discovers Flamenco’s many roots, rhythms and emotions, as well as the history, culture and geography that lie at the core of this Spanish art form. Audience members participate in rhythmic hand clapping and some basic Flamenco dance moves.

Flamenco-­‐Ole! (4-­‐12) Performance teaches the geography, history and culture of Spain and Flamenco dance. Student participants play castanets and learn arm exercises and footwork as well as rhythmic hand clapping – “las palmas”.

Tap Team Two (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New

Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Hoofing in America (K-­‐12) The roots of American tap dance are traced from Ireland and Africa to the street and social dances of today in this dynamic program. Major influences on tap styles are experienced firsthand, as students join the duo on stage to learn basic dance steps. Note: Wooden floor required for performance.

Tapping with Goldilocks (PreK-­‐2) Experience an energy packed performance of the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Children learn the seven basic steps of tap dancing as they are introduced to patterns and rhythms while the artist narrates the story and presents each different character with different steps and sounds.

TRUArt Dance Company (TDC)

Performance Express The Real U (PreK-­‐12) A component of The Cypher, YA’s year round after school and summer program for at risk youth and young adults.

Under the leadership of teaching artist, founder and choreographer Jayme Bermudez, an ensemble of self-­‐taught, hip hop genre teen dancers are transformed through classical training and the development of an esprit de corps to become more proficient and creative performers and positive contributors to society. The origin of the TRU ART Dance Company dates back to the mid 2000. As part of a summer program, a group of youth under the guidance of artistic adults, created a mock art gallery to bring awareness to the community on issues that allied them as youth. These youth were not only exposed to the arts, but weere also able to learn business skills, creating a Business Plan and Power Point along the way. As part of the Business plan, students learned about and created a Mission and Vision statement, along with a slogan. TRU stands for THE REAL U. Jayme's combined dance and human services background make him well suited to work with the youth who have experienced systemic barriers hindering their personal growth, academic and employment potential. The full dance corps or ensembles are available for appearances and performances. Jayme is also available for solo speaking engagements as a motivational and inspirational speaker.

Program Length 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

DIGITAL MEDIA Dr. Robin Blair

Residency Common Good Radio project (6-­‐12) Dr. Blair, founder and executive director of Common Good Radio, has vast experience in the music industry and in radio and television production. She founded Common Good Radio in 2008 to create an environment for young people to listen to music and story void of sexual or violent content. Her educational studies include how commercial media impacts youth and character education.

Description: During this residency, students will be introduced to a behind-­‐the-­‐scenes production of a digital radio program. Students will take on the responsibilities of typical roles including producer, DJ, journalists, researchers, etc. Students will select a topic pertinent to their school and age level, focused to a current character education issue. Students will ultimately research, write, perform, and produce a radio spot on this theme, which will be aired on Common Good Radio.

EARLY CHILDHOOD Annette Ramos (THEATER)

Residencies (PreK-­‐2) Former WolfTrap – STEM certified: Customized early childhood literacy residencies. Works collaboratively with classroom teachers during a residency, weaving arts into the classroom curriculum to improve children’s academic growth in the following areas: emergent literacy, self-­‐ awareness and self-­‐confidence, group awareness and socialization skills, problem-­‐solving skills, ability to concentrate and remember, gross and fine motor control, awareness of individual creativity, motivation and enthusiasm for learning, and conceptual and verbal skills.

Exemplary children's literature is used throughout each residency. Residency sessions are six weeks in length, with the teaching artist visiting a classroom two times a week for 45-­‐60 minute sessions, for a total of twelve sessions.

Catskill Puppets (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate) (THEATER) Performances Sister Rain and Brother Sun (PreK-­‐2) This musical nature tale performance features colorful sets and costumes, large, animated rod puppets with finely chiseled features. When Sister Rain becomes jealous of Brother Sun and stops watering the earth, Mother Nature and the audience must join forces to save the day.

Audience Limit: 300

Doug Rougeux (THEATER)

Performance Bubblemania Pop Art! (PreK-­‐2) Demonstrating how and why bubbles form and pop, students are lead on an investigation of surface tension, evaporation, and gravity. He creates sculptures and uses storytelling with bubbles to encourage connections between reading, science and art.

Audience Limit: 300

Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble (DANCE)

Performance & Residencies Children’s Classics (K-­‐2) Dancing to music ranging from contemporary to classic jazz, a pair of dancers brings alive characters from literature, including Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Students engage in creating imaginary moments.

Audience Limit: 300

Flower City Vaudeville (THEATER) Performance Slapstick Science Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐6) This highly interactive show features scientific concepts brought to life with the talents and skills of Flower City Vaudeville. The intrepid scientists Ward Hartenstein, Richard Highson and Dr. Ted Baumhauer run experiments and test theories involving air pressure, sound waves, aerodynamics, vibration and gyroscopic precession employing homemade instruments, vacuum tub cannon, boomerangs, tennis balls, spinning ball, marbles with audience participation.

Gretchen Sepik (THEATER)

Performance Beatrix Potter (K-­‐3) Students become characters in children’s stories and add twists to the tales, while author and illustrator “Beatrix Potter,” narrates the beloved stories of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and “The Tale of Ms. Tittlemouse”.

Audience Limit: 100

Kevin McCarthy (From Western NY affiliate) (MUSIC) Presentations

I Believe in Me! The Self-­‐Esteem Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) One of the most important life lessons in a young person's development is building self-­‐esteem. "Believing in Yourself" is the first step towards happiness and a rewarding life. More than just "feeling good", students will learn the building blocks of life-­‐long self-­‐esteem in a simple, easy to understand approach. Kevin reveals effective steps to healthy self esteem inspiring students to understand how to believe in themselves. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

I Am Respectful Learning how to give and show respect is one important key to life-­‐long success. Students learn important lessons on how to be respectful to everyone, not only teachers & parents, but fellow peers as well. Student interaction leads to outlining the key ways of giving and showing respect. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Our "Bully-­‐Free" School Show! "Thanks to Me, We're Bully-­‐Free" This program begins with students understanding what bullying is, how to identify bullying, and then discusses what to do in a bullying situation. Students are taught a simple, yet powerful 4-­‐Step process, which they quickly learn, and can apply immediately in any bullying situation. There is an important section on what to do if you witness bullying and how bystanders can -­‐ and should -­‐ help! Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Montana Jack (MUSIC)

Performance Tall Tales and Cowboy Songs from the Wild, Wild, West (K-­‐2) Students experience the life of a cowboy in the Wild West through songs and sing-­‐alongs such as ‘Home on the Range’, ‘You Are My Sunshine’, and ‘She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain’. Program includes cowboy poems, harmonica music, and tall tales.

PUSH Physical Theatre (THEATER) Workshop Animals of the Antarctic (PreK-­‐1) Through observation, discussion, and demonstration of the characteristics of Antarctic animals, their habits and environments, students analyze and impersonate the movements of polar bears, penguins, and seals.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Robin Pease (From Northeast Ohio Young Audiences Affiliate) (THEATER)

Performances Remember to be Nice: the Talkative Turtle (PreK-­‐6) A mean turtle learns the value of friendship and remembers to be nice while students participate in Spanish language and song while learning about animals and places in Costa Rica.

Audience Limit: 250 Two Tales in Two Tongues (PreK-­‐6) Join a mother mouse on a trip to the library as students discover the benefits of being bilingual and the power of reading as a poor boy outsmarts a magician. Audience participates in Spanish and English.

Audience Limit: 250

Susan Rozler (From Western NY Young Audiences Affiliate) (MUSIC) Performances Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted.

Susie the Singing Elf Holiday Show (PreK-­‐2) In full Elfin regalia, Susie the Elf leads a festive holiday sing-­‐along, featuring songs from around the world, including Feliz Navidad, the Dreidel Song, and Oh Tanenbaum. Don't miss Susan's rendition of the Chipmunk’s Christmas song!

Mama Earth’s Kitchen Band (PreK-­‐5) Through this environmentally themed country-­‐hoedown, students will sing along to songs that get them hootin’, howlin’, clappin', snappin’, wrigglin’ and gigglin’!

Erie Canal Show (PreK-­‐5) Test your knowledge of the construction of the Erie Canal from start to finish in a fun and interactive way through games, stories, songs and dances from that era. Become a panelist in a question and answer game, sing popular songs of the time, become a member of a "Chuck Wagon" band with spoons, kettles and washtub and dance around an imaginary campfire while Suzie accompanies on the harmonica, banjo or guitar. Available also as a workshop.

Workshop Introduction to Instruments from Around the World Enjoy a hands-­‐on experience playing instruments from around the world, including a banjo, harmonicas, American Folk kitchen instruments, an African tone box, didgeridoo, djembe, assorted bells, maracas, cabasa, flutes and more! This experience emphasizes teamwork and appreciation of world culture.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Tap Team Two (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate) (DANCE) Performance Tapping with Goldilocks (PreK-­‐2) Experience an energy packed performance of the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Children learn the seven basic steps of tap dancing as they are introduced to patterns and rhythms while the artist narrates the story and presents each different character with different steps and sounds.

Audience Limit: 300

Topher Holt (THEATER) Performance

Giraffes Can’t Dance (K-­‐3) Based on the classic children’s book, enjoy interactive storytelling, dance and drumming while experiencing the story that teaches self-­‐ esteem, self-­‐confidence and a celebration of everyone’s individuality.

Audience Limit: 150

Vincent (MUSIC) Performances Smart Songs for Active Children (PreK-­‐2) Vincent Nunes is excited to share his seventh album, Smart Songs for Active Children. Often compared to kids’ music legends such as Raffi, Vincent Nunes has, since 1991, quietly forged a musical path that reflects his commitment to early childhood learning and deep respect for children’s innate intelligence. Smart Songs for Active Children kicks off with a song co-­‐written by children, “House of Love,” whose open structure allows kids to add their own activity ideas as they listen and sing along. With a classic R&B vibe, “No One’s Going to Keep Me Down” is a bluesy number built around affirmations that help build character, one trait at a time, each one emphasizing a child’s grit. The best teaching is done in the most uncomplicated manner, and Vincent Nunes is gifted with a knack for discovering the simplest, most direct means of getting a point across through music.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None Shine On Me This lively participatory performance features songs from his award winning CDs, including songs about the five senses, the ABCs, community helpers (firefighters!), recycling, lighthouses, as well as introducing children to American Sign Language.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

LANGUAGE & LITERARY ARTS David Zucker (performed by Dora Hamm)

Performance Poetry in Motion (K-­‐12) Drawing from the best children’s English Language poetry, this exciting one-­‐man show brings age-­‐appropriate literature to life. Characters come to life through a combination of acting, mime, humor, props, costumes, masks, puppets, and audience participation.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 200 (K-­‐2); 300 (3-­‐12)

Freestyle Repertory Theatre (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate) Workshop Write Stuff (3-­‐12) Improvisational theatre games are used to help students organize their thoughts, develop and explore character, setting and story through descriptive language.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Jay Stetzer

Performance Make Worlds from Words (K-­‐12) This is a genuine celebration of the oral tradition and the beauty and humor of the spoken word. Jay draws on a vast wealth of stories and songs from all over the world to craft a highly animated and participatory experience that is both entertaining and educational.

Audience Limit: 300 Workshops Audience Size: Single Class size unless otherwise noted.

How Stories Are Made (K-­‐6) Elementary students are introduced to the basic concepts and materials of a story that enhance oral presentation skills. They also learn how the “who, where and what” – character, setting, plot – are used to create all kinds of tales.

A World Full of Story (7-­‐12) Older students are introduced to multiple forms of storytelling approaches from around the world. Puppets, masks, and movement are all included.

Joe Mangano

Residency Soliloquy Slam (10-­‐12) Students build their understanding of Shakespeare, by selecting a soliloquy, translating it into their own words, and then converting the words into slam poetry, which they will perform for their peers.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class

Nels Cremean – InJest

Performance Read to Achieve (K-­‐6) Celebrate reading through the art of juggling and physical theatre. Students improve reading proficiency by practicing skills such as word tracking. The artist provides encouragement with sayings like ‘The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more you grow!

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

Rhythm Connect – Ed Keegan

Performance Reading, Writing & Rhythm (K-­‐5) During this multi-­‐level learning experience, based upon Ed Keegan’s children’s book Drumming with Dexter Drumming Through the Jungle, students participate in interactive reading and retelling of the story, dynamic rhythm-­‐making, and problem solving that addresses bullying, and the importance of teamwork.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

MUSIC

Ball in the House (From Boston Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Totally Vocally (K-­‐12) Students will explore technology behind a sound system, hear the various voice parts and how they fit together to make harmony and songs, learn how to beatbox and use rhythm, experience the history of a cappella singing from chant through doo wop, and be introduced to songwriting and collaboration.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 500

Caryn Lin (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Bach 2 Rock And The Sound Of Science (K-­‐12) In an amazing multi-­‐media interactive extravaganza, Caryn Lin transforms sound itself through the use of her 5 string electric violin and a myriad of modern technology that takes the students from the classical days of Bach to today’s techno-­‐wonders. Caryn opens up students’ minds to the fact that they can explore; in whatever discipline they study, "out of the box thinking." This program draws from the schools' curriculum in music, science & history & is one of the best in character education.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 700

Cello Fury (From Pittsburgh Young

Audiences Affiliate)

Performance From Bach to Rock: A Musical Odyssey (K-­‐12) This high-­‐energy program featuring a cutting edge, classically trained quartet, presents original music along with classical pieces and cover songs, designed to enable students to connect musical genres.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Size: 325

Cordancia

Performance The Emperor’s New Clothes (3-­‐4) Experience the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes as portrayed through the sounds of distinctive musical instruments. Oboe and Viola play the parents, violin is their lively daughter, cello their son, and piano the Emperor’s dog.

Performed by professional musicians, teachers and performer from Rochester.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Unlimited

Diaspora Drumming

Performance Echoes of Africa (K-­‐12) This performance includes authentic drumming from three continents (Africa, Latin America, Europe), songs, thoughtful commentary linking various threads of the African Diaspora, and invites audience participation.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 (Workshops available upon request)

The Dady Brothers

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: None unless otherwise noted

Songs of the Erie Canal (K-­‐12) Be transported back in time to the days of the Erie Canal’s construction, and 19th Century canal life through a folk history performance that includes songs and tales.

American Folk Music Experience (K-­‐12) Using the banjo, guitar, harmonica, and mandolin, students are guided through genres of American folk experiences, including examples of country, blues, blue grass, and the American ballad while learning American history through song.

Songs of Ireland (K-­‐12) The Dady Brothers entertain and educate students of all ages using a variety of folk instruments including the fiddle, mandolin, banjo, uilleann pipes (Irish pipes), the bodhran (Irish drum), tin whistle, and harmonica.

Workshop Acoustic Instrument “Petting Zoo” (K-­‐12) The Dady Brothers introduce at least 10 acoustic instruments including guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica, tin whistle, bodhran (Irish drum), uilleann pipes (Irish pipes), and ukulele. Joe and John, both multi-­‐instrumentalists, will demonstrate the playing of the instruments and then invite the students to try them out with instruction.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Jump With Jill

Performance Jump with Jill! (K-­‐5) A high-­‐energy interactive, rock ‘n roll concert, performed by a registered dietitian and musician, teaches students about the importance of good nutrition. The topics covered include respecting your body, eating breakfast, drinking more water, getting enough calcium, exercise, examining food packages, and eating foods with less sugar.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 500

Nominated for an Emmy (2015) The Jump with Jill "Get Me Goin’ Danceable Music Video" has been nominated for an Emmy by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the Children/Youth/Teens – News Feature category.

Kevin McCarthy (From Western New York Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: None unless otherwise noted

I Believe in Me! The Self-­‐Esteem Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) One of the most important life lessons in a young person's development is building self-­‐esteem. "Believing in Yourself" is the first step towards happiness and a rewarding life. More than just "feeling good", students will learn the building blocks of life-­‐ long self-­‐esteem in a simple, easy to understand approach. Kevin reveals effective steps to healthy self esteem inspiring students to understand how to believe in themselves. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

I Am Respectful (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) Learning how to give and show respect is one important key to life-­‐long success. Students learn important lessons on how to be respectful to everyone, not only teachers & parents, but fellow peers as well. Student interaction leads to outlining the key ways of giving and showing respect. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Our "Bully-­‐Free" School Show!

"Thanks to Me, We're Bully-­‐Free" (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) This program begins with students understanding what bullying is, how to identify bullying, and then discusses what to do in a bullying situation. Students are taught a simple, yet powerful 4-­‐Step process, which they quickly learn, and can apply immediately in any bullying situation. There is an important section on what to do if you witness bullying and how bystanders can -­‐ and should -­‐ help! Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Lindsay Warren Baker

Workshop First Impressions: A Guide for Audition Success (10-­‐12) Working with a professional director, writer and acting coach, students will examine what it takes to make a great audition. Included are explorations of how to successfully implement proper audition etiquette, and strategies and appropriate performance techniques in an audition setting. Appropriate for actors and/or singers. This is a 2-­‐3 session workshop.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

McClure Artist Guild

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Steel Drum Paradise (K-­‐12) Follow the creation of the steel drum, from discarded oil barrel to a high-­‐tech musical instrument. Through the story of the Trinidadian steel drum, artists demonstrate how music grows and changes as it flows between cultures.

One World Music (K-­‐5) Performers take students on a trip around the world in music, songs and stories.

Students of all ages travel to many counties such as Brazil, Vietnam, Italy, Russia, Cuba, Australia and more.

Merry Mischief

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Tales and Tunes along the Towpath (4-­‐6) An informative and entertaining program filed with songs, poems and facts from the Erie Canal. Songs such as of “Low Bridge’, “Never Take the Hindshoe from a Mule” and “The E-­‐RI-­‐E” are performed in historical period costume so students can experience the mood and feeling of living on the Erie Canal.

Renaissance Poetry & Music (7-­‐12) Poetry and music are relished with merriment as songs of knights, dragons, damsels in distress, seafaring men, and fearsome pirates bring them to life!

Songs of the Civil War (4-­‐6) In period costume, re-­‐enactors and musicians share folklore about the Union and Confederate armies, and music from the era.

Miche’ Fambro (From Western New York Young Audiences Affiliate) Performance

Finding Your Own Voice (K-­‐12) Through music, rhythms, stories and a smattering of history, Miché encourages young people toward creative self-­‐expression. Using his own unique approach to playing the guitar, his belief in using whatever is at hand to begin, and humor, Miché both challenges and inspires his audience to experiment, to play, to practice and to believe in themselves. Whether Miché is relating a story about having been expelled from Art School for playing the guitar left-­‐handed, or being turned down by record companies because he didn't look and sound like everyone else, Miché offers a positive and affirming message of following one's own path. Miché demonstrates through his music the ways in which he incorporates and translates a wide range of musical flavors and rhythms into his own unique sound. In so doing, he takes his audience on a mini-­‐tour of different cultures' musical traditions. Students will be given the opportunity to play with rhythms and to create music on the spot. And they will be inspired to move beyond imitation to self-­‐expression.

Montana Jack

Program Length: 45 minutes Performance

Audience Limit: None

Montana Jack – A Cowboy’s Life (3-­‐5) Students learn about the history of the cowboy, roundups, cattle drives, and westward expansion, though songs, vocabulary and interactive participation in a typical trail drive crew experience.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 200

New Millennium Jazz

Performance The Language of Jazz (K-­‐12) Experience an informative yet entertaining performance while learning about each musician’s instrument and their role within the Jazz group as a soloist and as part of an ensemble. The many styles of Jazz from Latin, Swing, Blues and Contemporary are demonstrated, improvisation is stressed and students are invited to participation a “scat” singing lesson.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

Rachel Bell (From Western New York Young Audiences Affiliate)

Workshop Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted

Number Jam (3-­‐5) Uses engaging, hands-­‐on musical activities to build math skills that address the Common Core Math Standards and how math is used in every day life. Students will practice multiplication facts through songs and rhythmic chants while building pattern recognition by dancing and creating ostinatos with musical instruments such as ukuleles, dulcimers, bells and drums. Through dance and creative movement students will practice skip counting, adding and multiplication.

Dance Through France (9-­‐12) Authentic French folk dances and music allow students to develop an understanding of the many elements of French life, culture, geography and music while actively participating with a native Belgium dance master Werner Ceusters. Authentic instruments drawn from genuine French folk music repertoire are used. Available as a bi-­‐lingual program.

Audience Limit: Up to 60 Audience Limit: Single Class size

Rhythm Connect – Ed Keegan

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Reading, Writing & Rhythm (K-­‐5) During this multi-­‐level learning experience, based upon Ed Keegan’s children’s book Drumming with Dexter Drumming Through the Jungle, students participate in interactive reading and retelling of the story, dynamic rhythm-­‐making, and problem solving that addresses bullying, and the importance of teamwork.

The Rhythm of Me, You and Us (K-­‐5) Diversity empowers creativity and it is an essential component in a healthy and dynamic education process. Combining interactive rhythm-­‐based learning with tonally, physically, and culturally diverse drums & percussion instruments, students rhythmically experience how diversity inspires creativity. It is not about teaching drumming, but using the drums as a tool for experiencing the value and need for diversity. This performance will facilitate an environment where individual differences are truly valued and not just tolerated, equipping students to value the different roles, abilities, and backgrounds of others, and to understand the importance of diversity in both school and life.

Workshop Team Rhythm (6-­‐12)` This interactive drumming workshop applies experiential learning through group rhythm, and equips students to function as an effective team. Participants will gain greater awareness and appreciation of their own personal strengths and unique contributions, as well as the strengths and contributions of others.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Quintet

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 250 unless otherwise noted

Holidays Around the World K-­‐12 This program offers a sample of music for the holiday season from many different cultures.

The Uses of Music In a lively performance and introduction to orchestral brass instruments, the ensemble demonstrates how music affects our lives every day as it is used in celebrations, concerts, worship and entertainment.

Sally & Doug

Performance Latin & World Music: A Journey in Song (K-­‐6) A PowerPoint presentation, and songs performed in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, presents a multi-­‐cultural m Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350

Performance Folk Music Travels (K-­‐6) This program introduces American folk music, imported to the U.S. from many parts of the well as percussion instruments such as the limberjack, washboard and bongo drum.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Size: 300 (Singing Games workshop available upon request)

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Susan Rozler (From Western New York Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Mama Earth’s Kitchen Band (PreK-­‐5)

Through this environmentally-­‐themed country-­‐hoedown, students will sing along to songs that get them hoo Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Workshop Introduction to Instruments from Around the World (PreK-­‐5) Enjoy a hands-­‐on experience playing instruments from around the world, including a banjo, harmonicas, Am Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Taikoza (From New York City Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Japanese Taiko Drumming and Dance (K-­‐12) Drawing from Japan’s rich tradition of music and performance, experience a 100lb ancestral Japanese Taiko drum, where performers provide audiences with an experience of powerful rhythms and electrifying room-­‐thumping energy.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 250

Taylor Made Jazz

Performance Peace & Harmony Through Music (K-­‐8) Jazz musicians and vocalist introduce students to the truly American music art form of Jazz and Blues through both original songs and standards. Audience participation is encouraged and music teachers may suggest qualified students who would like to perform with the band on stage.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

Tony Padilla

Performances Conga Drum Mania (K-­‐12) Heart pumping, feet stomping, rhythmically exhilarating Latin percussion at its best! This performance takes you on a journey where you will experience many different instruments and drumming techniques from Afro-­‐Cuban traditions and culture.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None Tony Padilla & his Latin Band Tumbao (K-­‐12) Hear and feel the traditional music of Cuba, the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and Africa, and gain understanding of the traditions and cultural diversity Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

Topher Holt

Performance

Giraffes Can’t Dance (K-­‐3) Based on the classic children’s book, enjoy interactive storytelling, dance and drumming while experiencing the story that teaches self-­‐esteem, self-­‐confidence and a celebration of everyone’s individuality.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 150

Vincent

Performances Smart Songs for Active Children (PreK-­‐2) Vincent Nunes is excited to share his seventh album, Smart Songs for Active Children.

Often compared to kids’ music legends such as Raffi, Vincent Nunes has, since 1991, quietly forged a musical path that reflects his commitment to early childhood learning and deep respect for children’s innate intelligence. Smart Songs for Active Children kicks off with a song co-­‐written by children, “House of Love,” whose open structure allows kids to add their own activity ideas as they listen and sing along. With a classic R&B vibe, “No One’s Going to Keep Me Down” is a bluesy number built around affirmations that help build character, one trait at a time, each one emphasizing a child’s grit. The best teaching is done in the most uncomplicated manner, and Vincent Nunes is gifted with a knack for discovering the simplest, most direct means of getting a point across through music.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None Shine On Me (PreK-­‐2)

This lively participatory performance features songs from his award winning CDs, including songs about the five senses, the ABCs, community helpers (firefighters!), recycling, lighthouses, as well as introducing children to American Sign Language.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

STEM to STEAM

Annette Ramos (THEATER)

Workshop

An Introduction to Biomes (K-­‐4) Explore one of six biomes – natural world environments classified by their predominant vegetation and the animals that adapt to them – using storyboards, fact sheets, and by sharing what was discovered with the rest of class.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

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Caryn Lin (From Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate) (MUSIC)

Performance Bach 2 Rock And The Sound Of Science In an amazing multi-­‐media interactive extravaganza, Caryn Lin transforms sound itself through the use of her 5 string electric violin and a myriad of modern technology that takes the students from the classical days of Bach to today’s techno-­‐wonders. Caryn opens up students’ minds to the fact that they can explore, in whatever discipline they study, "out of the box thinking." This program draws from the schools' curriculum in music, science & history & is one of the best in character education.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 700

Elizabeth Clark Dance Ensemble (DANCE)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted Come Fly With Me! (Dance) (K-­‐6) A single dancer invites students into the world and imagery of flight in nature, science, and technology. Participants discover descriptive words for qualities of movement.

Let’s Explore Dance (K-­‐6) A trio of dancers introduces students to a variety of dance styles and exploration of movement. Dances relate to weather, technology, friendship and communication and include opportunities for participation Workshop Time Steps (K-­‐1) Math skills are strengthened as students learn about timepieces and the measurement of time by learning kinesthetically about the “space of time”.

Audience Limit: Single Class size

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Flower City Vaudeville (THEATER)

Performance Slapstick Science Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐6) This highly interactive show features scientific concepts brought to life with the talents and skills of Flower City Vaudeville. The intrepid scientists Ward Hartenstein, Richard Highson and Dr. Ted Baumhauer run experiments and test theories involving air pressure, sound waves, aerodynamics, vibration and gyroscopic precession employing homemade instruments, vacuum tub cannon, boomerangs, tennis balls, spinning ball, marbles with audience participation.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350

Hobey Ford (THEATER)

Performance Animalia (K-­‐6)

Explore the world of animals through movement, music and carved, foam puppets that move in life-­‐like manner. The performance includes a magnified look at butterfly and frog metamorphosis, the world of birds and an undersea ballet of whales, dolphins and otters.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350

Jennifer Sirey (Touring from NYC) (VISUAL ARTS) Workshops & Residencies Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted SPECTRUM: Specialized Projects Encouraging Children to Really Understand Math (1-­‐6) Participants are encouraged to experience the creative possibilities of exploring mathematics through visual art. Students are introduced to exciting hands-­‐on projects that make mathematical ideas concrete, visual, understandable, and fun. Students use a percentage circle, as well as factors and multiples to investigate rotational or “point” symmetry. Their finished piece is a unique and beautifully colored and symmetrical piece of art.

Creative Constructions (1-­‐8)

Students learn how to depict regular polygons using the basic tools of a straight edge and a coffee can lid. This skill is then applied to create a multitude of unique and colorful, geometric designs.

Larry Moss (THEATER)

Performance

How to Catch a Mouse: Simple Machines at Work (K-­‐6) This interactive, theatrical performance utilizes balloons to construct a Rube Goldberg style mousetrap, teaching how simple machines work, and the forces in nature, which affect mechanical devices that are designed to complete tasks.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 250

McClure Artist Guild (MUSIC)

Performances

The Rainforest (K-­‐5) Using a wide variety of instruments from rainforest cultures around the world and students from the audience, this highly interactive program creates a musical picture of rainforest layers – and the animals, people and plants that inhabit them.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Great Garbage Concert (K-­‐5) This musical recycling show brims with bumps, bangs, whooshes, and whirls – as well as sweet melodies – on a seven-­‐foot long pile of musical trash called the “Garbaphone”!

Audience Limit: 300

Nels Cremean – InJest (THEATER) Performance

Science Circus (K-­‐6) Imaginative math and science demonstrations, performed using circus skills, develop student understanding of forces, energy, and motion.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

PUSH Physical Theatre (THEATER)

Workshop Simple Machines (K-6) Students develop a deeper understanding of the physical sciences as they analyze topics such as simple machines, transfer of weight, magnetism, and energy through physical movement and discussion. Teamwork, balance, and trust are explored through science exercises.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Sharon Locke (VISUAL ARTS)

Workshop Fascination With Faces (K-­‐12) Using a life-­‐sized clay model head, students participate in a demonstration that shows how simple geometric shapes can create a unique clay portrait.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 30

Wildlife Educators Coalition (WEC)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 250 unless otherwise noted

Cockatoo & Corn Snake (K-­‐12) This hands-­‐on performance communicates the life stories of a talking Cockatoo and a corn snake.

The experienced handlers of these rescued animals provide students with abundant opportunities for up-­‐close interaction.

(Single Class workshop available) Diversity of Life (K-­‐12) Discover the environmental science and interdependence of seven animals ranging from an arthropod, snake, lizard and turtle to an amphibian or crocodilian, a bird and a mammal. Students rotate through and observe all of the animal stations and learn which animals are keystone species (a plant or animal that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions) and which are apex predators (an animal that, as an adult, has no natural predators in its ecosystem).

(Single Class workshop available)

Workshop Rain Forest Wonder (3-­‐6) Part I – Students will actively engage in creating a group rainforest mural under the guidance of teaching artist James Ryan. They will work on detailed descriptions, layers of canopy, animal inhabitants, and flora and fauna.

Audience Limit: Single Class size Part II – The classroom mural serves as the backdrop for the rainforest to come alive! Animal handlers present live animals to a large assembly. Teaching Artist James Ryan embodies ancient grandfather tree, in costume and on stilts. Students visit several animal stations for up-­‐ close observations and evidence gathering.

Audience Limit: 250 If two or more of the two-­‐part program are purchased and presented on the same day and in the same location, discounted pricing applies.

THEATER Almeta Whitis

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 250 unless otherwise noted Stories from the Black Worlds (K-­‐6) A fascinating program of diverse world cultures, stories songs, riddles, folk tales, poems and legends from the African Diaspora Experience. Using wonder, magic, mystery and humor, Ms. Whitis captivates students while engaging them in the interactive aspect of the art of storytelling.

Our Differences? Celebrate Diversity! (PreK-­‐12) As we become more of a diverse and inclusive nation, this interdisciplinary arts program explores the historical and current trends and societal changes impacted by immigration. It stresses the importance of creativity, self-­‐awareness, and inner motivation in order to build appreciation and foster more open and honest communication necessary for living peacefully in a multi-­‐racial and ethnic society.

Harriet Tubman Pays a Visit (4-­‐12) In a dynamic portrayal in costumed first-­‐person narrative, Ms. Whitis brings to life Harriet Tubman, the pre-­‐ eminent conductor of the Underground Railroad, in a series of historical vignettes drawn from actual life experiences of her fight for freedom and equal rights under the law for Blacks.

Annette Ramos

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 250 unless otherwise noted The Juan Bobo Folktales (K-­‐6) This highly interactive, energized performance brings to life several of the misadventures of a much-­‐loved classic Puerto Rican fictional character, Juan Bobo, immersing students into Hispanic culture through call-­‐and-­‐ response chants, movement and imaginative play.

(Residency available upon request) Indigenous Folktales: The Art of Storytelling (3-­‐6) Through several native tales, total immersion in this cross-­‐cultural performance gives students a deeper understanding of diverse cultures, with hands-­‐on participation in the steps of storytelling, chants and creative movement.

(Workshop on storytelling is available upon request)

Annette Ramos, cont.

Workshop The Art of Storytelling (3-­‐6) Students experience total immersion in a cross-­‐cultural experience, inspiring and motivating them to engage in the tradition of storytelling.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Catskill Puppets (From Eastern Pennsylvania/New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Sister Rain and Brother Sun (PreK-­‐2) This musical nature tale performance features colorful sets and costumes, large, animated rod puppets with finely chiseled features. When Sister Rain becomes jealous of Brother Sun and stops watering the earth, Mother Nature and the audience must join forces to save the day.

Hiawatha (K-­‐6) Full sets and handcrafted puppets are accompanied by Native American flute and drum in a play based on the life of the great Iroquois hero, Hiawatha.

The Willow Girl (K-­‐6) When a young Chinese girl immigrates to the American frontier, she finds herself facing discrimination amongst a myriad of other immigrants and cultures.

The Lion’s Whiskers (K-­‐6) Original songs, masks and shadow and other puppets, life-­‐sized to gigantic, are used to tell this traditional Ethiopian folktale.

Doug Berky (Loyd Artists Touring Artist from North Carolina)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 350 unless otherwise noted

Gems: The World’s Wisdom Stories (K-­‐6) Gems uses masks, puppets, mime, drama, comedy, music and storytelling, integral elements that enable young audiences to experience classic stories that impart wisdom from cultures around the world.

No Show (K-­‐6) When a lone spectator finds himself unwittingly on stage, audiences will experience a variety of theatre forms: mime, mask theatre, circus arts, and storytelling in this hilarious physical comedy performance.

Doug Rougeux Performance

Bubblemania Pop Art! (PreK-­‐2) Demonstrating how and why bubbles form and pop, students are lead on an investigation of surface tension, evaporation, and gravity. He creates sculptures and uses storytelling with bubbles to encourage connections between reading, science and art.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

Faustwork Mask Theatre (Touring Artist from Toronto)

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Performance The Mask Messenger (K-­‐12) A mix of monologue and physical theatre with masks—a tour de force solo performance that explores the artistic, cultural, and psychological use of masks. This performance expands the idea of a mask to include body language, makeup, jewellery, and the many faces we all wear daily.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350 (Workshops available upon request.)

Flower City Vaudeville

Performance Slapstick Science Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐6) This highly interactive show features scientific concepts brought to life with the talents and skills of Flower City Vaudeville. The intrepid scientists Ward Hartenstein, Richard Highson and Dr. Ted Baumhauer run experiments and test theories involving air pressure, sound waves, aerodynamics, vibration and gyroscopic precession employing homemade instruments, vacuum tub cannon, boomerangs, tennis balls, spinning ball, marbles with audience participation.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 350

Freestyle Repertory Theatre (From New York City Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Theatre Sports (K-­‐12) Presented in a sports-­‐like format, this performance is a fast-­‐paced series of improvisational theatre games created from student suggestions and includes student participation.

Students have fun while learning to use language creatively and working together as a team.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 (Workshops available upon request.)

Fritz Klein (Touring Artist from Springfield, IL)

Performance Portrait of President Abraham Lincoln (K-­‐8) For three decades, Lincoln re-­‐enactor Fritz Klein has immersed himself in the life, work, and scholarly study of Abraham Lincoln. His assembly program features a living history portrayal of Lincoln. Following the performance, students have the opportunity to ask questions about Lincoln and his family, life in the White House, the Civil War and more.

Program Length: 40 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Maximum

Gretchen Sepik

Performances Program Length: 60 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 100 unless otherwise noted

Susan B. Anthony (4-­‐8) A historical characterization, this 19th century women’s rights leader talks of her life and the obstacles she overcame in her quest for the equal rights of all people. The program includes a display of women’s clothing from the late 1800s.

Erie Canal Sal (4-­‐8) A fictitious character, based on real lives of cooks from the Erie Canal, talks of her life on the Erie Canal and shares Irish folk tales. The audience participates as passengers on a packet boat from the year 1840.

Mary Jemison (4-­‐8) A historical characterization, this young woman shares details about her life as a captive, and later adopted member of a Native American tribe. Different members of the audience become her brothers and sister and her children in this comprehensive program, which includes discussion on research and character development.

Gwendolyn Briley-­‐Strand (Touring Artist from Maryland)

Performance Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One (4-­‐12) A dynamic, one-­‐woman play celebrates the life of the courageous Harriet Tubman. This re-­‐enactment, in full costume, the artist uses theatre to take students on one of her many journeys through the Underground Railroad.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 250 (Workshop based on the play is available upon request)

Workshop The Harriet Tubman in Me (4-­‐12) A student workshop based on the ‘Harriet Tubman: The Chosen One’ play.

These workshops are designed for small groups of 15 students that are interested in acting.

(Note: Workshops may only be presented in conjunction with the play’s performance.)

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Hobey Ford (Loyd Artists Touring Artist from North Carolina)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 350 unless otherwise noted

World Tales (K-­‐6) This performance presents a collection of stories and puppetry techniques from around the world, including an Aesop fable, a Native American story and an African Anansi story. The puppetry techniques include Bunraku from Japan, shadow puppetry from Asia, rod puppetry from Indonesia, and Hobey’s own Foamies puppets and Peepers puppets.

The Rainbow Bridge and Other Tales Using stunning shadow puppetry and storytelling, audiences experience folktales from around the world, including Native American, Puerto Rican and Nordic traditions.

Animalia (K-­‐6)

Explore the world of animals through movement, music and carved, foam puppets that move in life-­‐like manner. The performance includes a magnified look at butterfly and frog metamorphosis, the world of birds and an undersea ballet of whales, dolphins and otters.

Howard Edmond

Performance

Storytelling (K-­‐12) Masterful storyteller and musician, using folktales, fairytales, legends and myths, Howard Edmond presents Global Stories from Asia to Iceland, Johnny Appleseed, Erie Canal Tales and Legends, Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War II, Mythology, Medieval Times, Ghost Stories from Around the World, and Mr. E’s Mysteries. Performances can be customized for individual grade levels.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 (Workshops on storytelling are available upon request)

James Ryan (Stiltwalker)

Residencies The Circus Arts Experience The Circus Arts in its end is a form of expression like any other form of art. Basic skills are used as a foundation to form creative ideas and thereby creating a new form of communication. The Circus Arts Experience provides the opportunity to create a team experience that encourages and empowers students to do their best by facilitating the basic understanding of juggling, balance, dance and theater within the Circus Arts. Our underlying message, that “we each have something unique to share with the world around us” results from the playful way of empowering youth with an engaging activity while building life skills such as problem solving, responsibility and teamwork and to create an environment of education without competition. At the core of these experiences is the ability to turn education into a personalized game, helping create the main idea that anything is possible! Culminating in a class created showcase.

Program Activities Act 1: The Basics of Juggling with balls. Learning how to sequence events with objects with simple follow the leader games. Also implementing creative partner & group juggling used to create a small performance.

Act 2: The Basics of Balance with various props including peacock feathers, balancing beams, mini-­‐stilts while navigating a collaboratively created maze. Use balancing points all over the body with use of our juggling props culminating in partner weight-­‐sharing (balancing) and group balancing act.

Act 3: The Basics of Dance with Hula-­‐Hoops. Make the hoops go round adding creative turns and rhythms in and out of the hula. Using the hoop as a tool to create our own dances culminating in a class sized hula-­‐hooping mandala.

Act 4: Clowning & Theater. Reintroduction of our juggling props but they may not be what they seem. Creating alternative meaning and action to everyday objects through puppetry, molding figures and mirroring while using an array of expressions, emotions and actions. Groups will create a short skit to share with the class.

Act 5: How to Produce a Show Review of our Circus Skills and development. With group games exploring "setting the Stage", What's the problem? and the Solution! the class will develop small performances to share.

Act 6: Open Gym Quick lessons and development in Juggling, Balance and Hula Hooping. Ending in a clowning prop adventure.

Act 7: Performance as a Game The class is split into small working groups to develop a performance to share with the class. Each group will be given a prompt or activity to inspire their collaborative performance.

Jay Stetzer

Performance Make Worlds from Words (K-­‐12) This is a genuine celebration of the oral tradition and the beauty and humor of the spoken word. Jay draws on a vast wealth of stories and songs from all over the world to craft a highly animated and participatory experience that is both entertaining and educational.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Larry Moss & Kelly Cheatle (Airigami) Performance, Workshop & Residencies

Artists Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle have been creating “full-­‐blown” installations that enchant both young and old for over twenty years. Airigami projects like Elastic Park, Balloon Manor and Fantastic Flying Octopus have been the subject of much local, national and international media attention. Their unique fine art and award-­‐winning illustration work has been showcased around the world and Larry’s achievements has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, CNN Headline, PBS, Smithsonian Magazine, and Ripley’s Believe It or Not! He has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, NBC’s “Today” and at the White House. As a partner in Airigami, Kelly’s design sense and illustration background have helped to take Arigami programs in new directions.

How to Catch a Mouse: Simple Machines at Work (K-­‐6) This interactive, theatrical performance utilizes balloons to construct a Rube Goldberg style mousetrap, teaching how simple machines work, and the forces in nature, which affect mechanical devices that are designed to complete tasks.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 250

Workshops & Residencies

A Pi Day Project -­‐ Making a Blueberry Pi (3-­‐12) In this hands-­‐on workshop, students use balloons and math to build a massive blueberry pie in the classroom. Younger students can work on their counting and arithmetic skills while older students get to use their knowledge of more advanced mathematics to calculate all of the elements of the pi, and get to see in a very tactile way, how well their calculations worked.

Examples of general school and community projects Henry Hudson’s Half Moon Students at Blue Mountain Middle School in Cortlandt Manor, NY worked together to design and build their interpretation of Henry Hudson’s Half Moon. This project is the result of their vision and hands on work guided and coached by Arigami teaching artists.

Balloon Manor, Rochester, NY The former Sibley’s Building is transformed into a massive installation that is open to the public.

Lindsay Warren Baker

Workshop First Impressions: A Guide for Audition Success (10-­‐12) Working with a professional director, writer and acting coach, students will examine what it takes to make a great audition. Included are explorations of how to successfully implement proper audition etiquette, and strategies and appropriate performance techniques in an audition setting. Appropriate for actors and/or singers. This is a 2-­‐3 session workshop.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Nels Cremean – InJest

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 300 unless otherwise noted

Possibilities (K-­‐12) Based on the principle that every person has value and potential, this dynamic performance addresses character issues such as attitude, excellence, respect, responsibility, and life choices.

The Greatest Show on Mirth (K-­‐6) Enjoy a knock-­‐your-­‐socks-­‐off, laugh-­‐until-­‐it-­‐hurts performance perfect for kick off and closing celebrations, family fun nights, and other special events.

High on Life (K-­‐12) With an emphasis on wellness, this uplifting program promotes healthy choices that develop body, mind, and character. It incorporates an age-­‐appropriate message targeting substance abuse.

Science Circus (K-­‐6) Imaginative math and science demonstrations, performed using circus skills, develop student understanding of forces, energy, and motion.

Workshop Juggling for Success (K-­‐12) Program teaches juggling, promotes positive decision-­‐making, and includes age-­‐appropriate play-­‐shops.

Audiences Limit: Single class Performance Read to Achieve (K-­‐6) Celebrate reading through the art of juggling and physical theatre. Students improve reading proficiency by practicing skills such as word tracking. The artist provides encouragement with sayings like ‘The more you read, the more you know, the more you know, the more you grow!

Robin Pease (From Northeast Ohio Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: 250 unless otherwise noted

Remember to be Nice: the Talkative Turtle (PreK-­‐6) A mean turtle learns the value of friendship and remembers to be nice while students participate in Spanish language and song while learning about animals and places in Costa Rica.

Two Tales in Two Tongues (PreK-­‐6) Join a mother mouse on a trip to the library as students discover the benefits of being bilingual and the power of reading as a poor boy outsmarts a magician. Audience participates in Spanish and English.

The 4 Directions: Native American Programs (K-­‐6) In this historical characterization, students will meet Hegeota, a real Indian in traditional costume, will learn some Mohawk language, sing a chant and participate in a story as they explore the four directions of the compass. Please choose one of the following stories for inclusion in the performance.

PUSHING UP THE SKY -­‐ Story In this Native American legend, students become birds, beasts, and people who work together to solve the problem of a sky that is too low to the ground.

TOUCH THE EARTH -­‐ Story Explore through music, games, and participation in two Native American legends about the importance of giving thanks and the power of words.

Susan Rozler (from Western NY Young Audiences Affiliate)

Performance Erie Canal Show (PreK-­‐5) Through interactive period games, stories, songs and dances, accompanied by harmonica, banjo and guitar, students learn about the construction of the Erie Canal.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300

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Ted Baumhauer

Performance You Can! (K-­‐12) Through acrobatics on a chair, ball spinning, and learning to juggle, students discover that they have what it takes to be successful. They also explore the many ways that members of their support group – parents, teachers and other caring adults – will encourage their efforts.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Unlimited

Workshops Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted Becoming the Best! (K-­‐12) Students examine their individual gifts, skills and talents, and reflect on what it might take to become one of the best. They learn to juggle and to set a plan for achieving personal goals.

Telling Your Story (K-­‐12) Using the techniques of the P.R.E.P Method (Point, Reason, Example, Point) students build their ability to present themselves and their ideas clearly and compellingly through the spoken word.

Topher Holt

Performance Giraffes Can’t Dance (K-­‐3) Based on the classic children’s book, enjoy interactive storytelling, dance and drumming while experiencing the story that teaches self-­‐esteem, self-­‐confidence and a celebration of everyone’s individuality.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 150

VISUAL ARTS

Eddie Davis

Residency Graphic Novels (6-­‐12) Artist and students will work together to design and illustrate a graphic novel or sequential art story. Each student will create his or her own project and the artist will help to facilitate at each stage, with additional work being completed by the students in between artist meetings.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Jan Towsley

Workshops and Residencies Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted

Weaving & Fiber Art Adventures (K-­‐12) Patterned/Stitched Bookmarks: children weave a colorful bookmark or bracelet using simple looms, designs of their own creation, and cotton or knitting yarns.

Kumihimo Braids: children create a bookmark or bracelet using a Japanese braiding technique. Using seven pieces of cotton or knitting yarn on a cardboard disc, they will discover ways to make other projects. Traditional designs can inspire new ideas!

Jennifer Sirey (Touring Artist from New York City)

Workshops & Residencies Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted Program Length: 45 or 90 minutes unless otherwise noted

SPECTRUM: Specialized Projects Encouraging Children to Really Understand Math (1-­‐6) Participants are encouraged to experience the creative possibilities of exploring mathematics through visual art. Students are introduced to exciting hands-­‐on projects that make mathematical ideas concrete, visual, understandable, and fun.

Students use a percentage circle, as well as factors and multiples to investigate rotational or “point” symmetry. Their finished piece is a unique and beautifully colored and symmetrical piece of art.

Creative Constructions (3-­‐8) Students learn how to depict regular polygons using the basic tools of a straight edge and a coffee can lid. This skill is then applied to create a multitude of unique and colorful, geometric designs.

Geometric Abstraction (1-­‐6) Students use a percentage circle, as well as factors and multiples to investigate rotational or point symmetry. Their finished piece is a unique and beautifully colored and symmetrical piece of art.

Fabulous Fractions (1-­‐3) In this residency, fractional relationships are explored by working with everyday images from magazines. Circles are divided into fractional pieces to be compared.

The results are individual artworks that when combined create a Spectrum mosaic for further learning about fractions.

Fascinating Fibonacci (5-­‐8) This 13th century mathematician discovered a fascinating number sequence that appears everywhere in nature, architecture and engineering. In this workshop, we generate and graph the Fibonacci numbers in order to create the Golden Rectangle. Students then use color to investigate its amazing properties including Fibonacci?s famous spiral.

Other Extended Residencies Angles, Polygons, Tessellations; Creating Polyhedra; Multiple Pattern Design; The Vedic Square

Michelle Cardulla

Workshops and Residencies Museum of Kids Art (MOKA) on the MOVE (PreK-­‐6)

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Mollie Wolf

Workshops & Residencies The Nuts & Bolts of Creative “Steam Punk” Jewelry Making (7-­‐12) Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Regina Neri

Workshops & Residencies 3-­‐Dimensional Design The residency explores different 3-­‐dimensional forms of art, art materials and processes including ceramics and sculptural techniques. Children will learn to trust their own creative decisions as they explore a variety of art materials and processes.

Each session begins with a simple drawing activity. Students will study artists, listen to music, engage in drawing and painting activities and design 3-­‐dimensional artworks. Students will use what they have learned as they create a completed piece of 3-­‐dimensional art.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

Sharon Locke Workshop Fascination With Faces (K-­‐12) Using a life-­‐sized clay model head, students participate in a demonstration that shows how simple geometric shapes can create a unique clay portrait.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 30

CHARACTER EDUCATION !

Caryn Lin (From Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey Young Audiences Affiliate) (MUSIC) Performance Bach 2 Rock And The Sound Of Science In an amazing multi-­‐media interactive extravaganza, Caryn Lin transforms sound itself through the use of her 5 string electric violin and a myriad of modern technology that takes the students from the classical days of Bach to today’s techno-­‐wonders. Caryn opens up students’ minds to the fact that they can explore, in whatever discipline they study, "out of the box thinking." This program draws from the schools' curriculum in music, science & history & is one of the best in character education.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 700

Freestyle Repertory Theatre (Touring Artist from New York City) (THEATER) Performance

Theatre Sports (K-­‐12) Presented in a sports-­‐like format, this performance is a fast-­‐paced series of improvisational theatre games created from student suggestions and includes student participation. Students have fun while learning to use language creatively and working together as a team.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 (Workshops available upon request.)

FuturPointe Dance (DANCE)

Performance

FuturTour! (K-­‐12)

Audiences will experience a multi-­‐media, interactive lecture/demonstration. This “fusion” dance company of culturally diverse dancers combines choreographic styles that include modern, popular/social/folk dance, Caribbean, African, Latin and ballet.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None (Workshops available upon request.)

Kevin McCarthy (From Western NY Affiliate) (MUSIC) Performances Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: None unless otherwise noted

I Believe in Me! The Self-­‐Esteem Show! (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) One of the most important life lessons in a young person's development is building self-­‐esteem. "Believing in Yourself" is the first step towards happiness and a rewarding life. More than just "feeling good", students will learn the building blocks of life-­‐long self-­‐esteem in a simple, easy to understand approach. Kevin reveals effective steps to healthy self esteem inspiring students to understand how to believe in themselves. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

I Am Respectful (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) Learning how to give and show respect is one important key to life-­‐long success. Students learn important lessons on how to be respectful to everyone, not only teachers & parents, but fellow peers as well. Student interaction leads to outlining the key ways of giving and showing respect. Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Our "Bully-­‐Free" School Show!

"Thanks to Me, We're Bully-­‐Free" (Pre-­‐K-­‐8) This program begins with students understanding what bullying is, how to identify bullying, and then discusses what to do in a bullying situation. Students are taught a simple, yet powerful 4-­‐Step process, which they quickly learn, and can apply immediately in any bullying situation. There is an important section on what to do if you witness bullying and how bystanders can -­‐ and should -­‐ help! Audiences participate in upbeat songs and actively engage in an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.

Lindsay Warren Baker (MUSIC)

Workshop First Impressions: A Guide for Audition Success (10-­‐12) Working with a professional director, writer and acting coach, students will examine what it takes to make a great audition. Included are explorations of how to successfully implement proper audition etiquette, and strategies and appropriate performance techniques in an audition setting. Appropriate for actors and/or singers. This is a 2-­‐3 session workshop.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

“Art makes you smarter. Without art, what a glum world we would live in.”

—Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

Mike Callahan (MUSIC) Workshop Team Building To Music (K-­‐12) Square dancing provides rapid learning and mind/body coordination. Students will practice in an interactive physical education environment while learning this American cultural dance form.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

Nels Cremean – InJest (THEATER)

Performance Possibilities (K-­‐12) Based on the principle that every person has value and potential, this dynamic performance addresses character issues such as attitude, excellence, respect, responsibility, and life choices.

Audience Limit: 300

PUSH Physical Theatre (DANCE)

Workshop Emotionscapes (3-­‐6) Working collaboratively, students create “Emotionscapes” – choreographed movement sequences that represent the emotional journey of the character(s) in the story. Source material can be provided by PUSH or selected by classroom teacher.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single class

Rhythm Connect (Ed Keegan) (MUSIC)

Performance Reading, Writing & Rhythm (K-­‐5) During this multi-­‐level learning experience, based upon Ed Keegan’s children’s book Drumming with Dexter Drumming Through the Jungle, students participate in interactive reading and retelling of the story, dynamic rhythm-­‐making, and problem solving that addresses bullying, and the importance of teamwork.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 300 Workshop Team Rhythm (6-­‐12) This interactive drumming workshop applies experiential learning through group rhythm, and equips students to function as an effective team. Participants will gain greater awareness and appreciation of their own personal strengths and unique contributions, as well as the strengths and contributions of others.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: Single Class size

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Ted Baumhauer (THEATER)

Workshops

Program Length: 45 minutes unless otherwise noted Audience Limit: Single Class size unless otherwise noted Becoming the Best! (K-­‐12) Students examine their individual gifts, skills and talents, and reflect on what it might take to become one of the best. They learn to juggle and to set a plan for achieving personal goals.

Telling Your Story (K-­‐12) Using the techniques of the P.R.E.P Method (Point, Reason, Example, Point) students build their ability to present themselves and their ideas clearly and compellingly through the spoken word.

Topher Holt (MUSIC) Performance

Giraffes Can’t Dance (K-­‐3) Based on the classic children’s book, enjoy interactive storytelling, dance and drumming while experiencing the story that teaches self-­‐ esteem, self-­‐confidence and a celebration of everyone’s individuality.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: 150

Vincent (MUSIC)

Performances Smart Songs for Active Children (PreK-­‐2) Vincent Nunes is excited to share his seventh album, Smart Songs for Active Children. Often compared to kids’ music legends such as Raffi, Vincent Nunes has, since 1991, quietly forged a musical path that reflects his commitment to early childhood learning and deep respect for children’s innate intelligence. Smart Songs for Active Children kicks off with a song co-­‐written by children, “House of Love,” whose open structure allows kids to add their own activity ideas as they listen and sing along. With a classic R&B vibe, “No One’s Going to Keep Me Down” is a bluesy number built around affirmations that help build character, one trait at a time, each one emphasizing a child’s grit. The best teaching is done in the most uncomplicated manner, and Vincent Nunes is gifted with a knack for discovering the simplest, most direct means of getting a point across through music.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None Shine On Me (PreK-­‐2)

This lively participatory performance features songs from his award winning CDs, including songs about the five senses, the ABCs, community helpers (firefighters!), recycling, lighthouses, as well as introducing children to American Sign Language.

Program Length: 45 minutes Audience Limit: None

We Are C3: Bart Dentino (MUSIC)

Beginnings (K-­‐3) The curriculum offers process-­‐based lessons, activities, and theme-­‐based music, which create and instill in children, awareness, recognition, and appreciation of their community. This awareness, recognition, and appreciation of the likenesses and differences in each other is the first step in leading them to acknowledge, support and utilize the positive qualities each one of us can offer in helping to create a caring community.

Beginnings concentrates on helping young people of this age who are in Piaget’s ‘egocentric’ stages of cognitive development, understand what is required in order to become a community of caring, compassionate and respectful individuals. As a curriculum, Beginnings confronts the egocentric stage of development, which is where 5, 6, and 7 year olds exist, and engages hem to look ‘outside of their ego’ AN tAGREEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING and become aware of what’s around them. In a real sense, the curriculum guides young children past their egocentric blinders through Dear Lydia, material that focuses on three curricular Themes: Thanks for your message and the thought that you have put into establishing a relationship with WeR3C, Theme 1: Recognizing the Same and Different

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We truly believe that such a partnership will be mutually beneficial for both nonprofits and ultimately and most importantly, the children that will benefit from our coming together.

At our first meeting, you had mentioned keeping things formally understood and in writing so there is doubt as to the meaning of our relationship. We couldn’t agree more and in the spirit of understanding, have prepared this Agreement of Understanding. It is an agreement that is born in collaboration, cooperation and friendship to forward the visions and missions of both Young Audiences, Rochester and WeR3C, Inc. Accordingly, for your consideration the following information represents our mutual relationship:

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Theme 3: Me and Other -­‐ Second grade-­‐aged children (7 yrs. old)

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no one can claim to be truly educated who lacks basic knowledge and skills in the arts.”

—National Standards for Arts Education