K-12 Arts Programs
Check Yourself: Bullying Others is Bad 4 Your Health
Description In this powerful residency, WombWork utilizes an arts-based model and approach to changing behaviors and attitudes and heighten students’ awareness about the very serious issue of Bullying. Students will receive professional performing arts training in basic theatre, creative movement,…
Awakening the Gifts of Character
Description Imagine a world where no child is left without mentorship and friendship. Picture a community in which everyone, from parents to police, has the will and skill to teach respect, foster kindness, and model integrity. In this workshop, participants…
The Dragon Show: Share, Care, and Play Fair
Description “The Dragon Show: Share, Care, and Play Fair” promotes the social-emotional skills of empathy, respect, self-control, kindness, cooperation, and problem-solving through an interactive performance of the story/drama “Goodbye to a Greedy Dragon.” In this assembly, professional musician and Maryland…
Axé Puro: Folkloric Music & Dance from Brazil
Description Ologundê performs Axé Puro: Folkloric Music & Dance from Brazil, a diverse repertoire which includes the rituals associated with Candomblé, a synthesis of the Yoruba and the Catholic religions in which various orixas (gods) are invoked; the breathtaking capoeira…
Get C.R.U.N.K.!
Description This assembly is designed to get students enthused about the power of performing arts (hip hop, poetry, comedy, theatre, and parody) to entertain, educate, and express. After experiencing this multimedia assembly combining music, video, and live performance, students will…
The Proof Is in the Spoof!
Description This assembly is designed to introduce students to the Spoof School residency, utilizing a multimedia presentation of music, video, and live performance to get students excited about the possibilities of parody and how they can be applied in the…
Spoof School!
Description Welcome to Spoof School, where we make learning fun by ‘making fun’ of our learning! Professional parodist and veteran educator Drew Anderson will teach you how to help your students take their learning into their own hands (and lives)…
C.R.U.N.K. Academy
Description C.R.U.N.K. Academy is an intensive arts-integrated residency which utilizes performing arts (hip hop, parody, theatre, poetry, and comedy) to encourage self-expression, hone conflict resolution abilities, enhance public speaking and performance skills, and develop character. C.R.U.N.K. Academy can be themed…
Drawbots!
In the one-session design challenge, Drawbots!, young makers invent wiggling electrical creatures that draw fantastic geometric patterns. You and your students use engineering and design thinking to make a creature stand, its motor spin, and wiggle to make it move!…
Moving Through Shakespeare
Moving Through Shakespeare offers educators a “No Fear” approach to Shakespeare’s plays through Physical Theatre. Physical Theatre provides students with a kinesthetic approach to learning. It allows students to move through curriculum and digest the content into their muscle memory. From this workshop,…
Physical Theatre: Moving Through Curriculum!
Physical Theatre: Moving Through Curriculum introduces educators to various theatrical methods including viewpoints and staging to approach creative thinking, conflict identification, and resolution creation. Educators explore how to identify and physicalize character traits, points of view, and story structure through utilizing the fundamental…
Explore 21st Century Learning Skills Through Dance
Every African dance has a story, and every story can be turned into a dance. Any teacher in search of ways to creatively engage their students will greatly benefit from the workshop Explore 21st Century Learning Skills Through Dance. Dance…