Roslyn and Abner Goldstine
School Outreach Programs 2019–2020
The Roslyn and Abner Goldstine School Outreach Programs at the Skirball Cultural Center are made possible by generous support from:
The Ahmanson Foundation
Bob and Nita Hirsch Family Foundation
The Herb Alpert Foundation
Melanie and Richard Lundquist
The Annenberg Foundation
Shelby Notkin
The Capital Group Companies
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
The Walt Disney Company
The Rose Hills Foundation
The Dream Fund at UCLA
Specialty Family Foundation
Evelyn M. and Norman Feintech Family Foundation
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund
Marianna and David Fisher The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation
Philip and Alyce de Toledo Fund The Wasserman Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Windsong Trust Winnick Family Foundation
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WELCOME TO THE SKIRBALL! At the Skirball, learning means connecting to one another, to history, and to the world around us. Our Education programs are rooted in the Jewish tradition of welcoming the stranger and American democratic ideals. We are committed to being an inclusive space, inviting people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in cultural experiences that celebrate discovery and hope, foster human connections, and call upon us to help build a more just society. Led by inspiring artists and educators, our student and teacher programs strengthen learners’ cultural literacy; encourage creativity and resourcefulness; and cultivate empathy, self-esteem, and civic engagement.
School Tours and Performances pp. 4–11 Residency Program: Student Presentation pp. 12–13 Teacher Programs pp. 14–17
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
School Programs Registration p. 18
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SCHOOL TOURS AND PERFORMANCES Our tours and performances for Pre-K through Grade 12 students explore commonalities across cultures, transport students to key moments in history, and spark creativity and imagination. The tours are highly participatory, align with Common Core State Standards, and provide resources to connect the on-site visits to classroom learning. Performance programs invite students to experience dynamic and interactive music, dance, and theater from world-class performers, and encourage them to share their own stories and creativity in the classroom and beyond. School programs are offered September 2019 through June 2020. Programs in this section are organized by grade level, with tours listed first, then performances. For teacher guides, scheduling guidelines, program fees, admission and transportation scholarship information, and registration procedures, visit skirball.org/education/for-your-students.
“It was the best trip we have ever had. . . . My students still talk about the trip, and we are working on art projects using recycled materials as well as research projects about recycling.”—First Grade Teacher
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PRE-K–GRADE 2 PRE-K–GRADE 1 TOUR: Noah’s Ark at the Skirball™ 10:00–11:30 am | Limited to 50 students per tour
Ignite your students’ creativity and curiosity with a voyage aboard Noah’s Ark! Inside the Skirball’s award-winning destination—featuring whimsical animals crafted from repurposed everyday objects—students learn the values of community and collaboration through hands-on experiences. Incorporating storytelling, music making, and imaginative play, Noah’s Ark educators invite students to connect with one another and work together as they bring this timeless story to life.
Registration opens Tuesday, July 9, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADE 2 TOUR: Build a Better World: Noah’s Ark at the Skirball
10:00–11:30 am | Limited to 50 students per tour Winner of the California Association of Museums’ Superintendent’s Award for Excellence in Museum Education Travel through the story of Noah’s Ark and participate in a hands-on service-learning project designed to foster empathy, collaboration, and civic responsibility. In partnership with organizations such as LA Family Housing, Chrysalis, and Heirs to Our Oceans, this tour focuses on one of three themes—caring for the earth, helping people in need, and protecting animals—inviting students to take action on behalf of the greater good. Back in your classroom, take part in a service-learning project that builds on your visit. Select schools will receive an in-class follow-up workshop led by a Skirball educator.
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
Registration opens Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
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SCHOOL TOURS AND PERFORMANCES GRADE 2 TOUR: Journey Through Time: Stories of the Jewish People
10:00 am–12:00 pm | Limited to 50 students per tour Through storytelling, dramatic play, and exploration of objects in the Museum’s core exhibition, Visions and Values: Jewish Life from Antiquity to America, students gain a greater understanding of Jewish culture. Journeying back in time, they travel to ancient Israel, become merchants at a trading post along the Silk Road to China, visit fifteenthcentury Spain, and explore Jewish life in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Each class completes an art project inspired by Patricia Polacco’s book The Keeping Quilt.
Registration opens Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
K–GRADE 2 MUSIC: The Tinkers
Friday, September 27, 2019 | 10:00–11:30 am Enjoy stirring jigs and rousing reels from the Scottish Highlands in this upbeat and lively performance, presented in partnership with The Music Center. Students will be transported to the eighteenth century through rhythmic drumming and the sounds of the Great Highland bagpipe, while learning about the geography, climate, cultural dress, and history of Scotland.
Registration opens Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
K–GRADE 2 MUSIC: The Lucky Band
Friday, October 18, 2019 | 10:00–11:30 am Winner of three Emmy Awards and two Latin Grammy Awards, The Lucky Band is sure to get your students up on their feet with music that sparks wonder and joy! This exuberant group of performers brings imaginative bilingual lyrics with irresistible pop beats to every performance.
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Photo by Ben Gibbs
Registration opens Tuesday, July 16, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
Photo by Ben Gibbs
“Visiting [the Skirball] was an AMAZING learning experience, and I feel we all left with a deeper appreciation of all peoples’ cultures and traditions.”—Third Grade Teacher
GRADES 3–5 GRADE 3 TOUR: At Home in LA
10:00 am–12:00 pm | Limited to 50 students per tour This interactive program celebrates the incredible diversity of the City of Angels and the universal values of welcoming others, caring for each other and the world around us, and teaching and learning. Students make music together, discuss their own families’ cultural celebrations around a Jewish holiday table, explore major life events through everyday objects, and create a take-home project to inspire service learning.
Registration opens Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADE 4 TOUR: Architecture at the Skirball
10:00 am–12:00 pm | Limited to 50 students per tour Students discover the art and science of architecture by exploring the dynamic indoor and outdoor spaces of the expansive Skirball campus, designed by internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie. Students then act as architects and civic planners as they engage in a collaborative public building project.
Registration opens Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADE 5 TOUR: Americans and Their Family Stories 10:00 am–12:00 pm | Limited to 60 students per tour
Students explore the experiences of people from around the world who have immigrated to the United States. They delve into personal stories and examine objects from various cultures and across time periods to understand the striking commonalities and stark differences among immigrants’ experiences. Through immersive storytelling, students re-enact an American immigrant experience at the turn of the twentieth century by going through the process of entering Ellis Island and attending public school in 1908. They learn about the harrowing challenges many immigrants to the US have faced and the courage people bring with them on their journey to f ind a new beginning.
Registration opens Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 12:00 pm. skirball.org/education
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SCHOOL TOURS AND PERFORMANCES GRADES 3–5 DANCE/MUSIC: Goedel Hoop Dancers Friday, January 24, 2020 | 10:00–11:30 am
World champion hoop dancer Terry L. Goedel brings Yakama and Tulalip stories to life through the art, sport, and ceremony of hoop dance. Sharing the stage with his daughter and granddaughter, Goedel showcases the rich traditions of Indigenous Peoples at this multigenerational performance.
Registration opens Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADES 3–5 DANCE/MUSIC: Dana Maman and Capoeira Batuque Friday, March 13, 2020 | 10:00–11:30 am
This energetic performance will teach students the values and customs of Afro-Brazilian culture through the art of capoeira, originally developed by sixteenth-century enslaved African people as a form of self-defense and liberation ingeniously disguised as dance. By combining music, dance, martial arts, and acrobatics, Dana Maman (pictured below) and Capoeira Batuque will captivate your students at this lively production.
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Photo by Ben Gibbs
Registration opens Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
“The docents at the Skirball are always of the highest caliber. . . . [They] really ‘get it’ that the experience is about the students, and their enjoyment of the day is what supports their understanding of the concepts presented to them.” —Sixth Grade Teacher
GRADES 6–8 GRADE 6 TOUR: Archaeology of the Near East
10:00 am–12:00 pm | Limited to 60 students per tour In an immersive archaeological dig site modeled after ancient cities discovered in the Near East, students use authentic archaeological tools to excavate, collect, and analyze replica artifacts. Then they present hypotheses about the history, commerce, religion, and cultural practices of people from the Iron Age. Participants learn how archaeologists study objects from the lives of people who have come before us in order to appreciate their contributions to our lives today. Note: Dig activities may take place indoors due to inclement weather.
Registration opens Friday, July 12, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADES 6–8 FILM: Out of Plastic
Friday, November 1, 2019 | 10:00–11:30 am The documentary film Out of Plastic will enlighten, activate, and inspire the next generation of global citizens and change makers. Students will learn about the effects of plastics in our oceans, while also participating in hands-on activities that invite them to make a difference in our local community and beyond.
Registration opens Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 12:00 pm. skirball.org/education
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SCHOOL TOURS AND PERFORMANCES GRADES 6–8 MUSIC/DANCE: Bloco Obini Friday, March 27, 2020 | 10:00–11:30 am
This compelling all-female drum ensemble celebrates the music and dance of the African diaspora. Their rhythms tell stories and preserve the memories and traditions of West African, Afro-Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban cultures. This energetic performance aims to deepen students’ understanding of African traditions and promote unity through a community of strong women.
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Photo by Timothy Norris
Registration opens Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
Photo by Timothy Norris
GRADES 9–12 GRADES 9–12 SPOKEN WORD: Passing the Torch Friday, February 28, 2020 | 10:00 am–12:00 pm
Inspired by the film Passing the Torch: From Selma to Today, this program highlights key actions that led to significant civil rights gains in the 1960s and the lessons for us today. Students will enjoy a performance and hands-on workshop led by young spoken word artists, join civil rights luminaries for a rich and thought-provoking conversation, and share their own voices as they connect the past to the present and look ahead to the future. This program is presented in collaboration with the Gateway Educational Foundation and Get Lit–Words Ignite.
Registration opens Friday, July 19, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
GRADES 9–12 PUPPETRY/THEATER: Babylon Friday, April 24, 2020 | 10:00–11:30 am
Sandglass Theater’s action-packed, high-energy production is a response to the worldwide refugee crisis and its impact on communities in the United States. Babylon looks at the relationship of refugees to their homelands, lost and new, and the conflicts that exist within the countries to which they flee. Using puppets and moving panoramic scrolls, five actors, singers, and puppeteers from this acclaimed Vermont-based theater company tell these moving stories in original, four-part choral songs.
Registration opens Friday, July 19, 2019, at 12:00 pm. skirball.org/education
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RESIDENCY PROGRAM: STUDENT PRESENTATION Each year, the Skirball offers an in-school residency program that encourages students to engage with issues important in their lives and to explore art as a tool for civic and social action—igniting their self-confidence, imagination, and sense of agency. Students and teachers work intensively over the course of multiple weeks with a skilled teaching artist and Skirball educators to explore and express aspects of their own identity through collaborative creative practice. Each residency culminates in a professionally produced, student-created program for hundreds of students. For more information and to register to attend the student presentation, visit skirball.org/education/for-your-students#grades-9-12.
“The most memorable part was the actual day of our workshop. All our hard work had paid off and people actually cared about what a bunch of ‘kids’ had to say.” —2018–2019 High School Residency Student
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GRADES 9–12 Creating Unity Through Community December 2019
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
Join a group of high school student artists from Social Justice Humanitas Academy (SJHA) for their participatory presentation of original photography created as the culminating project of their 2019 Skirball residency program. The exhibition Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs—which features the photographs that seventeen-year-old Kubrick took of daily life in New York—will serve as inspiration for this year’s residency. After viewing the exhibition, the SJHA student artists will use the medium of photography to tell captivating stories of everyday life in Los Angeles. This presentation will engage attending students in an active, meaningful discussion with the student artists about their artistic process, storytelling, and social justice. Attendees will also visit the exhibition Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs.
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TEACHER PROGRAMS The Skirball’s teacher programs reflect our ongoing commitment to fostering community and supporting experiential learning. We believe that creative classrooms give students unique tools to develop their identities, deepen their understanding of core subjects, and become active members of their own communities. Our hands-on workshops for K through Grade 12 teachers focus on integrating the arts into classroom curricula—inspiring creativity and a love of learning in students and teachers alike. For more information about teacher programs, visit skirball.org/education/for-teachers.
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K–GRADE 8 TEACHERS THREE-DAY WORKSHOP: Teaching Through Storytelling
Tuesday, June 23–Thursday, June 25, 2020 | 8:30 am–3:30 pm Storytelling can serve as a powerful tool for inspiring students to express themselves and collaborate with one another. This three-day workshop serves as a platform for discovering the power of dynamic storytelling through photography, film, and theater arts. Teachers participate in hands-on, artist-led workshops and design interdisciplinary lessons that support language arts, social studies, math, science, and visual and performing arts curricula. Participants earn one LAUSD salary point and gain access to priority registration for the Skirball 2020–2021 school programs.
Registration opens in spring 2020.
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
“I feel more enlightened after coming to these classes.” —Elementary School Teacher
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TEACHER PROGRAMS TEACHING Our World
Teaching Our World Through the Arts introduces K through Grade 12 teachers to arts-integration teaching techniques that foster students’ critical thinking, creative problem-solving, collaboration, and civic literacy skills. Participants learn and practice strategies that use the arts to enhance core content and make curriculum more meaningful—engaging students in social activism and strengthening classroom communities.
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The series is divided into four strands. Each strand consists of four full-day Saturdays of training. FEE: $100 per strand SALARY POINTS: Multiple LAUSD salary points are available for participating teachers. Details will be made available upon registration. ELIGIBILITY: Workshops are designed for current classroom teachers. No prior experience in the arts is required for any of the strands.
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Photo by Mercie Ghimire
Visit skirball.org/towta to register.
Photo by Mercie Ghimire
“I think I can sum it up by saying that I came away a better theater artist, educator, and human, and it was only day one.”—Elementary School Teacher
STRAND 1: Theater and Language Arts
Four Saturdays: September 14, 21, and 28, October 5, 2019 | 8:30 am–4:00 pm Explore creative ways to use theater and language arts to support emerging bilingual students.
Registration opens Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
STRAND 2: Photography, Film, and Digital Media Four Saturdays: October 19 and 26, November 2 and 9, 2019 8:30 am–4:00 pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs, learn how film, photography, and digital media can become catalysts for collaborative student learning.
Registration opens Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
STRAND 3: Visual Art and Activism
Four Saturdays: January 25, February 1, 8, and 15, 2020 | 8:30 am–4:00 pm Artists and educators come together to model how visual art can initiate dialogue and serve as a tool for advocacy in the classroom.
Registration opens Wednesday, November 20, 2019, at 12:00 pm.
STRAND 4: Movement and Dance
Four Saturdays: March 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2020 | 8:30 am–4:00 pm Practice movement-based teaching strategies that encourage kinesthetic and collaborative learning to deepen student connection with curricular content.
Registration opens Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at 12:00 pm. skirball.org/education
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SCHOOL PROGRAMS REGISTRATION Teachers interested in bringing students to the Skirball’s school tours or performance programs must register online. Online registration for the 2019–2020 academic year begins on Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Please see the description of your desired school program to identify the date and time registration opens. On the designated registration date, please follow the steps below:
1. SELECT YOUR PROGRAM
Visit skirball.org/education/for-your-students and select your desired school program. For detailed program descriptions, please see pages 4–13 or view online.
2. SELECT A DATE
After clicking on the “REGISTER NOW” button for your desired program, you will enter the Skirball’s online registration system. If this is your first time using this system, enter your email address and follow the prompts to create an account. Once you are logged in, select the date on which you’d like to attend.
3. COMPLETE YOUR REGISTRATION
Once you have logged in and selected your program date, complete the registration form. Please follow registration instructions carefully and make sure to fill out all required fields; incomplete forms will not be accepted by our online system. You may log in to your account and update your visit information at any time. If you request bus and/or admission scholarships for your visit, you will be asked to submit additional required information regarding your request.
4. AWAIT YOUR CONFIRMATION
After you have submitted your request, you will receive an automated email indicating that you have completed your registration. Please note that this email is not a f inal conf irmation of your visit. It only indicates that your request has been received. Please allow up to four weeks to receive official confirmation of your scheduled visit.
QUESTIONS?
Registration procedures, scheduling guidelines, program fees, admission and bus scholarship information, and other helpful hints can be found in the FAQ section of our website at skirball.org/plan-your-school-visit. For other school tour and in-school residency inquiries, email education@skirball.org. For questions about school performance programs, email schoolperformances@skirball.org. Please remember that the only way to book a school program is to complete an online request.
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FREE FAMILY PASS
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All students participating in the Roslyn and Abner Goldstine School Outreach Programs receive a Family Pass good for one day of FREE admission for up to six people to the Skirball galleries, including Noah’s Ark!
TEACHER RESOURCES With valid teacher identif ication, teachers are eligible for complimentary admission to Skirball exhibitions, including Noah’s Ark, plus a 10% discount at Audrey’s Museum Store and a 25% discount off all Skirball Membership categories. Visit skirball.org/teacher-resources for more information or skirball.org/join to become a Member today! skirball.org/education
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Front and back covers: Photos by Ben Gibbs