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"Super Me" Anti-Bullying

Assembly/Performance ; Virtual/Online Program

“Super Me” (Anti-Bullying Super Power Training) Available Live In Person or Virtually “Super Me! Live Immersive Adventure Highly Interactive Experience Utilizes CASEL’s Social Emotional Learning Framework Large Video Screen With Interactive Animation & Live Characters Puzzles Amazing Magic Movement Real World Solutions to Real World Problems “Super Me” is a fast-paced immersive adventure combining high-energy movement, puzzles astounding magic, interactive animation, and a live actor. Audience members are taken on an interactive journey into a comic book world to help a young boy escape from bullies. Kids interact with the animated and real-life characters. The audience must help the boy overcome obstacles and solve puzzles using superpowers (Superhuman Strength, X-Ray vision, Telekinesis, and Aquakinesis.) The show focuses on CASEL’s Social Emotional Learning Framework. Students observe and take part in theatrical games that teach competency in Self-Management, Self-Awareness, Responsible Decision Making, and Relationship Skills. The kids not only see real life examples of bullying but are given clear step by step actions to help them deal with real world situations. Secret messages giving kids methods for fighting against bullies are shown throughout the show. The messages can viewed with optional “Super Me!” X-Ray vision decoder glasses or the Super Me X-Ray Vision App. The message appears without the decoder glasses after initial viewing, so it is not necessary for every child to have the app or glasses to completely enjoy the show. The supporting free X-Ray vision app can be downloaded (For Android Devices / For Apple Devices) here. You can also download our X-Ray vision glasses template and watch a video on how to make them from the above links! Available LIVE AND IN PERSON or.. Through – Google Meet, Zoom, Facebook, Youtube and most all streaming portals.

Adventures of the Wild Wolf: Unleash Your Inner Reader & Author!

Assembly/Performance

Deep in the mystical mountains of western North Carolina, if you listen quietly at night, you might hear the ancient and enthralling sound of … a wolf! Although wolves no longer live in the wild in western NC, children’s author Tanya Gerard and her husband, Rob Thomas, have raised wolves and wolf-dog hybrids as pets for almost 20 years. Their pets – and their love of nature and storytelling – inspired Tanya to write a debut book, The Adventures of the Wild, Wild Wolf, and a soon-to-be-published sequel. Tanya and Rob are now on a mission to motivate children to practice reading and writing, and to unlock their own inner reader and author. In this engaging and fun K-5th program, Tanya and Rob will read and act out passages from her book, complimented by stunning photos and captivating videos of their wild pets. Throughout the program, Tanya and Rob will deliver motivational messages about reading, writing and life. Their messages are simple but important: Read as much as possible. Start by writing about what interests you. Keep writing, even if it’s not perfect. Follow your dreams! Tanya & Rob are a multi-talented duo that has performed at hundreds of schools, libraries and other venues nationwide. They also have recorded several CDs and have produced music for numerous films, including the IMAX movie Sacred Planet. Learn more about our school programs at www.didgedownunder.com/schools. Please view our promo videos at www.didgedownunder.com/gallery.

Arts Integration Workshops for Teachers

Professional Development ; Workshop

How can I use dance, drama, visual art, media, and/or music in my classroom to teach Math, English Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science? Will it help students learn? What research backs up arts integration as a way of learning? How can I engage students in holistic learning and global thinking? How do I foster 21st century skills? How can I get my students to move in the classroom without going nuts? How do I manage art supplies without a big mess? I’m not an artist–how can I feel comfortable using the arts in my classroom? How do the arts connect with what I need to teach? Will they help with Social and Emotional Learning? The Southeast Center for Arts Integration answers these questions through participatory workshops for educators. Our facilitators lead teachers through arts-integrated experiences that successfully teach curricular content to real public school students. These classroom-tested, arts-integration practices are geared for teachers who think of themselves as “not artistic”–they build on the many strengths that classroom teachers already have. Teachers learn how to manage arts supplies effectively, how to lead movement in the classroom safely, how to conduct dramatic activities so students approach them seriously, and how to make direct connections between the arts and the Standard Course of Study and Essential Standards. Teachers collaborate to create integrated lesson plans that are based on NC SCOS and Essential Standards. They comprehend how teaching with multiple intelligences in mind helps all students learn. They experience how the arts foster 21st century skills like creative thinking, critical thinking, collaborating, and communicating. They see how teaching with and through the arts aligns with current brain research; and climbs to the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. They make connections between the arts and SEL.

Children's Theatre of Charlotte Touring Company

Assembly/Performance

Children’s Theatre of Charlotte’s Resident Touring Company, (formerly known as the Tarradiddle Players) has performed throughout the Southeast for 40 years. The company tours from September through May, annually reaching 85,000 students and teachers as it delivers more than 250 performances in nearly 45 counties, 80 percent of which are considered rural. Children’s Theatre of Charlotte designs these shows toward a wide variety of ages, from as young as kindergarten to as old as eighth grade. Additionally, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte offers a separate preschool tour for children ages 3 to 5. Showcasing intimate storytelling at its best, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte performances build on simple but powerful theatrical styles, bringing characters to life with humor, depth and emotional understanding. * Our 2022-23 touring performances include: The Lion and the Little Red Bird Tour available January 23 – March 3, 2023 Prices start at $495 per performance Recommended for ages 3 and older A colorful tail of curiosity. This delightful play tells the story of an inquisitive bird and a compassionate lion, an unlikely friendship to say the least. Why does Lion’s tail keep changing colors? Little Red Bird’s curiosity is piqued, and she sets out to unravel the mystery! Preschoolers will love this charming story, told with a mix of actors and puppets – perfect for this young age. Theme: The Lion and the Little Red Bird focuses on friendship, art, and the beauty of nature. A Sick Day for Amos McGee Tour available Sept 2022 – May 2023 Prices start at $995 per performance Recommended for PreK – 1st grade Friendship can be the best medicine when you’re feeling blue. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In this heart-warming story about the joys of friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee knows friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, caring for a particularly shy penguin, and reading stories to an owl. One day, Amos is too sick to visit his zoo friends, but, fortunately, the animals know just what to do. Park of the Kindness Project. Themes: Compassion, friendship, kindness Confessions of a Former Bully Tour available Sept 2022 – May 2023 Prices start at $995 per performance Recommended for 3rd grade and up A tough subject takes center stage and explores how to hear after the hurt. When Katie, who never considered herself a bully, repeatedly teases classmate Monica, it pushes their friendship to a tipping point. Katie’s hurtful words and behavior lead her to the principals’s office to deal with the consequence of her actions with a counselor. Will se be able to salvage a friendship and regain the trust of her peers? Told from the perspective of the bully and the bullied, this story makes everyone consider how they treat others and want to be treated themselves. Themes: Bullying, friendship All productions meet specific language and theatre arts curriculum standards. We’ve designed resource guides, which provide innovative connections to additional Common Core and North Carolina Essential Standards, to complement each production, deepen the theatre experience, extend the educational value and spark classroom conversations. Guides include information about the author/playwright, discussion questions, vocabulary words, recommended reading lists and engaging activities.

Clay Animation (Grades 3-12)

Residency ; Workshop

Students will love building adorable clay characters and bringing them to life as animations. Students will work in groups and go through the process of developing their characters, setting, plot, conflict and resolution. Animations will be created using free apps and green screen technology. ASC Community Goals: Professional Development, 3rd Grade Reading

Diggery Digger's Dino Adventure Now In 3D

Assembly/Performance ; Out-of-School-Time ; Residency

While Paleontologist Diggery Diggers is showing his fossils to a live audience, he discovers a “top secret” box the museum accidentally packed. Curious, Diggery opens the box and unleashes the DinoSauroScope 3000 or DINA taking the audience back into time to interact with dinosaurs. All is well until they use DINA on a large dinosaur egg. The egg hatches and an amazing thing happens. The dinosaurs in museums around the world start to come alive! The only way to stop this dinosaur regeneration is to return the baby dinosaur back to it’s mother. Come along for a rocking dino adventure with Diggery and save the human race. The show has incredible props including large interactive animated characters, dinosaur bones, a giant dinosaur egg and beautiful puppets. Combined with intriguing magic and rocking music, this is the Story Ship’s most memorable adventure. Audience members constantly interact by digging up fossils, scanning with the DINA, helping solve puzzles and singing songs. Only you can help stop the dinosaur invasion and save the world! Book a show now!?

K-5 Assembly Programs and Residencies

Assembly/Performance ; Residency ; Workshop

Lona Bartlett, a former classroom teacher, has multiple arts integrated assembly, lessons and residency programs available . All presentations are connected to the Common Core and Essential Standards. Be sure to visit www.lonabartlett.com/programs/ for more information and additional programing. Don’t see what you need, give Lona a call and ask for a custom designed program for your students. Fairy Tales and Folk Tales: All around the world fairy and folk tales have been told for centuries. This literary art is of benefit to children in that it teaches and encourages life skills such as problem solving, character education, team building, social interaction, reading, writing, to name a few. Using puppetry and storytelling, this assembly program will include stories from variety of different cultures. From England, Africa, the Americas and beyond students will participate in creative fairy and folk tales that will spark the imagination. Short Vowel Sounds and Character Education: The presentation begins with Little Tiger telling a story and learning about the importance of the adults in his life. The story turns and a conversation begins about the importance of short vowel sounds in reading. Using interactive puppetry (students will manipulate puppets) and call and response technique, students will learn methods to remember short vowel sounds. Life Cycle of the Butterfly: Students will enjoy a story about life on a farm in Upstate New York and finding caterpiller eggs on a weed in a field. Not only will students learn about life cycles but they will also learn a little about life on a farm in New York during the summer and the winter. They will also learn vocabulary which is vital to reading. Understanding Place Value with Interactive Puppets: It’s easy to get excited about place value when you are learning with large puppets. Students will be called upon to operate number puppets and to participate in the presentation while being coached in stage presentation and dialogue. This fast moving presentation includes everyone as they will asked to participate by responding to the puppets. North Carolina History: Stories from Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plains. Students will learn about the amazing people who have inspired our unique state like Queen Charlotte, the Wright Brothers, and Carl Sandberg. Scottish Tales: Folk and Fairy Tales from the Scottish heritage. Many of these stories were brought to the United States by immigrants who settled here. Learn about Tartans (family plaids) and how they identified the families. There are so many descendants from Scotland who live in the Carolinas a special tartan has been woven for the Carolinas.

North Carolina History: Regional Stories

Assembly/Performance ; Residency

Designed to address a variety of learning styles. Having been a classroom teacher I understand that students learn more when they are having fun. North Carolina History: Students will actively participate in the stories about North Carolina. There is a story for each of the three areas of the state. Piedmont: Students will enjoy seeing some of their peers participate in the story of Charlotte’s Name and answer questions like; Who was Charlotte? Why was Charlotte, NC named after her? How was the city connected to England? Mountain Region: Jack Tales are part of history in the Appalachian mountains brought to this land by the Scotch-Irish. Students will learn a bit about the history of Jack and will be entranced by the oral presentation of one of these historical tales. Coastal Plain: Many people do not realize that Pepsi originated from the Coast of North Carolina. Students will discover how Caleb Bradham first introduced this beverage to the public. Or: Learn more about the Wright brothers and their family. Find out why the NC coast was chosen for their first flight, and how they transported their airplane from Ohio to Kill Devil Hills.

Professional Development:Using Puppets and Storytelling to Build Literacy and Communication Skills

Professional Development

Learn how to use puppets to increase literacy in multiple areas and develop language skills. Learn proper puppet manipulation of several types of puppets and how to help students to imporve development of fine motor skills. Learn to use movement and voice to communicate feelings and ideas and build confidence in public speaking. Those taking part in this workshop will use several types of puppets. Each type of puppet can be easily obtained by teachers. Examples of type of puppets will be big mouth puppets, hand puppets and puppets that can be made by teachers or students using simple materals such as paper plates, cereal boxes, socks, etc. There will also be examples of simple staging ideas that take only a few seconds to assemble and are easy to store. There will lso be a question and answer tie as well as a brainstorming time to help participants address the specific needs and concerns in their classrooms.

So Many Ways To Share A Story

Assembly/Performance

Susana and Timmy Abell’s concerts are diverse, interactive and filled with music and laughter. Their residencies and workshops foster deep creativity and enliven students’ natural curiosity. Multiple art forms including music, storytelling, puppetry and poetry demonstrate that there are “So Many Ways to Share A Story”. Performances include an original puppet fable (a captivating story without words performed to live music on the hammered dulcimer), dramatic storytelling, and award-winning original songs accompanied by music played on seven different instruments – including concertina, penny whistle, guitar, banjo and ukelele. There is even a Spanish-speaking sloth! The sheer variety of repertoire keeps Susana and Timmy’s audiences fully engaged from beginning to end. Their presentations are specific for all grade levels, K-2, 3-5 & 6-8. All programs address curriculum standards from elementary (writing narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events) through middle schools (use movement, voice, and writing to communicate ideas and feelings). Most importantly, Susana and Timmy’s concerts inspire students by offering a wide range of imaginative options for their own creative self-expression.

Storytelling and Masks with Doug Berky

Out-of-School-Time ; Workshop

Doug Berky’s performances are in intricately woven fabric of classic theatre forms: mime, mask, theatre, circus arts and storytelling. His large maskperformance GEMS: THE WORLD’S WISDOM STORIES uses storytelling styles from many cultures and includes masks, mime, inventive costumes and puppetry to introduce the audience to a collection of wisdom stories from around the world, teaching us to understand and trust one another. Each performance is tailored to the audience, with performances including up to four story productions: “The Lion and the Mouse” from Aesop’s Fables, “The Drip Nose Boy” a Native American traditional tale, “The Lame Man and the Blind Man” (Middle East). Mask and physical theater artist Doug’s newest large mask theatre production FOIBLES, FABLES AND OTHER IMASKINATIONS presents teaching stories including The Tiger’s Whisker, a Korean folktale about healing; Simple Gifts, a French story; The Crocodile and the Monkey, a Jataka Tale from India. The performance is appropriate for families and elementary to middle school student groups. NO SHOW is an all time school favorite. Doug combines the classic performance arts of mime, mask theater, and physical comedy into his hilarious performance of “No Show”, adaptable for elementary to early high school students.

The Circus King (Reading Language Arts)

Out-of-School-Time

“The Circus King” (Reading & Language Arts) A young boy is lost at sea and found by a baboon on a far away island. He is raised by a circus of misfits. The audience and cast of characters help the boy overcome personal challenges and discover his destiny. With a little magic, characters come right out of the screen as puppets! There is Ella the elephant with bad allergies. There’s a lazy lion with curlers in his hair and crossed eyed acrobats swinging through the air. The show combines hilarious puppets, beautiful animation, spellbinding magic, wonderful music with tremendous audience interaction. The set has big screen animation, lots of magical props and musical instruments. There is a digital companion book that the teachers can download and read to the students before the show. The students test out on grammar, reading comprehension and spelling. For ages: Pre-K – 5th Grade Duration: 50 Minutes (Shorter versions of the show are available.) Setup: 30 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending upon site. Tech Requirements: Two Chairs, One Table 6’X2′ and one Electrical Outlet (We bring the rest!)

The Wand Of Dreams (Math Show)

Assembly/Performance ; Out-of-School-Time ; Virtual/Online Program

“The Wand Of Dreams” (A Mathematical Fairy Tale) The land of “Happily Ever After” is in big trouble. The Wand Of Dreams has been stolen and everything is falling apart! Fairy Godmother or Godfather and the audience have to round up the usual suspects to solve the mystery. Each suspect offers an interesting mathematical problem to solve as the mystery unfolds. You’ll meet a Magic Mirror with a messy cold, a Dirty Rat with some pretty shady friends, a Troll that has traffic backed up for hours, a narcoleptic Sheriff that can’t stay awake long enough to figure anything out, Five Little Piggies with some really big problems, and a Dragon that loves bacon! The show combines hilarious puppets, beautiful animation, spellbinding magic, wonderful music with tremendous audience interaction. The set has big screen animation, lots of magical props and musical instruments. This is our best show yet! Duration: 50 Minute Show For Ages: Pre-K – 5th Grade Setup: 30 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending upon the performance space. Tech Requirements: One Chair, One Table 6’X2′ and one Electrical Outlet (We bring the rest!)

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