Laughing Together: An Introduction to Improv Comedy

Laughing Together introduces students to the fun of improv comedy and collaboration. Ti Malik stars as Malik, a grumpy out of work actor who recently was removed from a movie set for not working well with others. Through a series…

Bead Making of Indigenous People

Students will learn how to make beads (jewelry) from air-dry clay and review 2D and 3D shapes. How jewelry and adornment communicate our Identity, Virtues, and/or Cultural norms will be discussed. We will be manipulating air-dry clay to imitate tribal…

Swan Lake

A company of dancers brings a full-fledged ballet into your school! Experience the classical ballet “Swan Lake” in a nutshell, with excerpts from the full-length ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s famous score. Students experience how costumes, props, ballet, and music work…

Elias Schutzman

I’ve Got a Feeling

We will take an exciting and meaningful journey into social/emotional learning, to discover strategies for expressing big emotions in a healthy way. Using my original song, “I’ve Got A Feeling (Down In My Toes)” as a musical foundation, we will…

Dancing Stories

Our assembly is based on the South Indian dance style Kuchipudi, which is inherently a dance drama form. We introduce Kuchipudi to the students as comprising three main elements: 1) rhythm and footwork, 2) hand gestures, and 3) facial expressions,…

Where Do Clothes Come From?

Description Designed especially with the youngest learners in mind, this program offers a hands-on examination of plant and animal sources of fibers that become cloth. Students will learn two different techniques for making fabric: wet felting (a centuries-old technique for…

East Meets West

East Meets West is a collection of wonderful vignettes guaranteed to delight audiences. Presented with string puppets, hand puppets and rod puppets, the audience is sure to be enchanted and amazed. The short stories offer both Eastern and Western characters…

Dreams of Land

Dreams of Land is an innovative, cross-cultural puppetry performance. Artist Hua Hua Zhang and her performance team explore relationships, emotional states, and ways we process them using her unique lens of both Asian and Western viewpoints and attitudes. We learn…

Mr. Phelps’ Word Game Boxes

It all starts with a box of magnetic words and phrases. With accompanying pre-recorded video and a 16-page activity booklet, students (grades 2-7, or younger with more hands-on help) can sing and write rhymes and songs along with Mr. Phelps.…

The Frederick Douglass Writing Club Assembly

Students learn the importance of literacy by following the life and career of Frederick Douglass through multimedia presentations and song. This assembly takes students from Frederick Douglass’s humble beginnings on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to the cities of Baltimore,…

BARS: The ABC’s of Hip Hop Assembly

Baba Bomani’s program uses rhythm and rhyme to explain basic reading and math concepts such as how to recognize syllables and showing how a rapper’s flow is simply a number bond math equation! Students have fun breaking and learning how…

BARS: Writing Process Assembly

Students are taken on a fun, multi-media trip through the world of creative writing where they discuss the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing). Students will rap along to original, professionally released music created by Bomani, as well…