Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Packed with social and emotional learning, this residency offers children from different backgrounds or neighborhoods a space and a way to bridge cultural and linguistic barriers using Latin dance as the messenger.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Celebrate the traditions of Latin percussion with this display of Samba to Salsa’s syncopated sounds and powerful rhythms.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–8th This is a universal story about a not so ordinary life. In this warm, smart, and engaging autobiographical program, David Harrell delivers a hilarious and insightful look at living with a disability.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
When starry-eyed young lovers and zany would-be actors cross paths with mischief-making fairies in a magical forest, the result is one of the world’s most uproarious comedies.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 2nd–12th Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company
This program is an intense study of the elements of various Diaspora West African drum, dance, song, storytelling, and masquerade traditions from Mali, Guinea, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Ghana.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company
Join Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company as they explore some of the ways West African Diaspora cultural practices are used to affirm community, communicate values, enhance cultural sensitivity, and...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 2nd–8th When a child tells his aunt about a bully on his bus, she gives him advice by recounting the tale of Rosa Parks and the events that led to a revolution in racial justice.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th In this workshop, students will learn a little bit about the history of mosaics and their importance in telling the stories of past civilizations.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–8th Daryl Cobb will take the kids on a journey that is so much fun, that the kids won’t realize until it’s over, that the whole assembly was one giant writing class.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th In this professional learning workshop Soul Steps company member and founder Maxine Lyle will guide dance educators to experience the stomps, claps, and dynamic rhythms of the rich African American cultural tradition...
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–3rd A zoo full of animals comes alive in this fast-paced performance that teaches children about sharing and friendship.
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center
Segunda Quimbamba is a cultural gem based in Jersey City.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Two versatile dancers the OKRA Dance Company take you on a cultural tour through three centuries of American history to explore how the combination of migration, culture and communication created the popular American...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th An entertaining, informative, and eye-opening show that celebrates the rich tapestry of African American music, from Spirituals, Gospel, and Jazz to Soul, Hip-Hop, and R&B.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Karim Nagi is a native Egyptian and performs on multiple percussion and string instruments from around the Arab world.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Critically acclaimed Heidi Latsky Dance is passionately dedicated to reflecting the true diverse nature of the world we live in through accessible, thought-provoking, dynamic and rigorous dance works.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th 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...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 4th–12th Students are taken on a fun, multimedia trip through the world of creative writing where they discuss the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing).
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–4th In this classic story by Jean de Brunhoff with music by Francis Poulenc, children discover the instruments of the woodwind quintet, learn to recognize instrumental sounds and moods, and hear the difference between...
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Students complete a beadwork project that they can share with their classrooms, guided by We Are the Seeds’ Indigenous educators.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th The Beats Beneath my Feet assembly features award-winning performing artist Quynn Johnson.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 1st–12th In Beats Beneath My Feet 101, students enjoy learning ways to create their own rhythm with tap dance. Students learn basic tap steps and explore the elements of dance and music.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This energetic and engaging exploration of percussion and poetry introduces students to how rhythms and spoken word can awaken their inner artists.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Bollywood films are world-famous for their incredible dance numbers, a fusion of traditional Indian dance with jazz influence and modern technique.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Bollywood films are world-famous for their incredible dance numbers, a fusion of traditional Indian dance with jazz influence and modern technique.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Students discover the art of drumming! Participants have a blast playing everyday objects like buckets and garbage cans while they develop essential aural musical skills and learn how to read basic musical notation.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 5th–12th Branching patterns can be found throughout the natural world- from leaf veins and root systems, to coral, mineral dendrites, and a single brain neuron.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th In this playful performance, Rand Whipple combines chemical reactions, solutions, molecules, and phase changes with a great sense of humor, and with a lot of help from the audience! This program is a fun and informative...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th This program is designed to introduce educators (K-12) to the fascinating history, culture, and rhythmical magic of the cajón (box drum).
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th This program is designed for participants to experience the rhythmical magic of the cajón (box drum) and become acquainted with its fascinating history.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Spectacular athleticism one moment, pure grace and precision the next.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 1st–5th Students explore the history and culture of traditional Chinese shadow puppet theatre and learn about characteristics of the mythological Chinese dragon.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th The circus comes to you in this hands-on, engaging workshop! Through circus skills like juggling, tightwire, plate spinning, and stilts, students experience fitness in a fun, non-competitive, and creative way.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 2nd–12th Hip Hop Fundamentals , Hip Hop Fundamentals
Kids learn best when they can actively take part in what they’re studying.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th The Evolution of Classical Music — Renaissance to Today Classical-ish offers students an engaging exploration of the evolution of Western classical music from the Renaissance through contemporary styles.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th In this workshop, participants will explore the power of collaborative art making as a vehicle for expression, communication, and teamwork through an SEL lens.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 6th–12th What was it like to grow up in Nazi Germany? What was it like to be drawn in by Hitler’s words and then choose another path? In this program, meet Hans and Sophie Scholl, brother and sister.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th In this workshop the art forms of storytelling, dance, poetry, and music will help educators to bring the culture and language of students into the curriculum.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Integrating fractions and mathematical communication, students create math-based murals using simple art materials and techniques.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th This workshop introduces AI image generators and their potential to enhance creativity across subjects, including art, literacy, science, and math.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th Witness a vivid picture of the people and rich cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with colorful tales from the Caribbean, South America, Spain, and the Bronx.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) in Action will provide teachers with sequential learning to merge arts and culture for greater student engagement.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 1st–6th This delightful program with Mexico Beyond Mariachi showcases the vast cultural expressions of our neighbor to the south, Mexico.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th In this professional learning program teachers will learn how to use basic elements and principles of design as a means of communicating ideas.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This workshop provides K–12 teachers with practical strategies to strengthen teaching and learning in drawing.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 5th–12th Award winning presenter and percussionist Josh Robinson will deliver an exhilarating, unifying, and interactive presentation called “Drum it Out!” Josh will share some of his personal way-finding story of how music...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Award-winning Percussionist and Facilitator Josh Robinson will lead interactive workshops titled “Drum It Out!” showing participants how to use drumming and music as a wellness tool, a vehicle for healthy...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This brain-based rhythm program uses the music ensemble as a metaphor for teaching students how healthy brains and bodies work together in harmony.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th Using the format of Box of Light’s humorous theatrical science shows, this program looks at water as a molecule.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Experience astounding puppets that come alive through stories of China and America with Hua Hua Zhang. With stunning visuals and graceful movements, this program presents the ancient art form of Chinese Puppet Theater.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This jubilant assembly introduces students to the artistry of East African cultures through dance, music, and storytelling.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–6th This engaging and interactive program comes to life under the guidance of the Artistic Director, who skillfully navigates the vibrant world of dance with the students.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This interactive workshop introduces mindful visual arts practices that support emotional regulation and student well-being.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–8th This professional learning workshop provides educators with fun and engaging rhythm and music activities designed to support classroom management and Social-Emotional Learning.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Stereotypical images have negatively impacted the self-esteem of people for hundreds of years. We will examine how these negative images are used in media, cartoons, and in art.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Join Science Heroes as we experiment with adventure! In this exciting STEM assembly, we’ll explore physical and chemical changes, the laws of motion, air pressure, and more! Volunteers will help conduct some of our...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–8th In this workshop, teachers and related services professionals will learn up to three process-based art making techniques which foster social skills, encourage social-emotional learning, and encourage life skills.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th In this dynamic and fun, hands-on workshop, fine art photographer Erik James Montgomery introduces students to both historic and contemporary photographic practices while building visual literacy and creative confidence.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th By connecting engaging and fun movement activities to the Social Emotional Learning competencies of identity, belonging, and agency, students have opportunities for making creative choices, developing their individual...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 2nd–8th This Soul Steps program explores the rich African-American cultural tradition known as step.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Musiquita is a bilingual (English/Spanish) interactive educational music experience made of the wife/husband duo features Blanca Cecilia González (violin/voice/uke/percussion) and Jesse Elder...
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–6th Clever spiders, signifying monkeys, and grinnin’ buzzards are just some of the intriguing characters in Folktale Fun. This interactive program is ideal for preschoolers and elementary school-aged children.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Gifted storyteller TAHIRA shares tales of freedom fighters in this dramatic performance.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Afro-Brazilian Cultural Center of NJ
This folkloric performance remains true to the roots and traditions of the Afro-Brazilian culture. Performance includes Maculêlê, Samba, and a look at the development of Capoeira in Brazil.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th In From Page to Stage, students learn to adapt their favorite stories (or original written work) for a theatrical performance.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th Folk music has had a vital role throughout American History in creating community through song, story, and dance.
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: 2nd–5th Connections to world cultures are made to demonstrate that math has been at the foundation of art and culture for millennia, and students learn more in-depth about conceptual art and the work of Sol Lewitt.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Students will amaze themselves as they learn basic moves and create their own choreography by exploring the American art form of Breakin’.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 6th–12th In Gargoyles: From Gothic to Grotesque, students construct gargoyles using pinch-pot construction and basic hand-building pottery techniques.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–8th In this professional learning program, teachers will experience and understand the Elements of Dance as they explore their individual creativity.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 4th–12th This poetry performance workshop offers a dynamic and interactive learning experience.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th In Gift of Story, TAHIRA shares stories of hope, triumph, and tragedy, drawn from a diverse repertoire of original works and those based on African oral tradition.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–9th This performance includes a series of interactive stories about good character told by Muslim grandmothers to their grandchildren.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 4th–12th This workshop integrates poetry and sensory exploration with Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies to promote emotional wellbeing, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th Hiawatha, a curious young boy, decides to disobey his grandmother and seek a vision alone in the forest.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–3rd Hip Hop Fundamentals , Hip Hop Fundamentals
This performance inspires young people to eat smart, drink healthy, and keep their bodies moving.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 4th–12th In this professional learning program Baba Bomani will support teachers to be able to use aspects of hip-hop art and culture to create an engaging learning environment.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This professional learning program will introduce hip hop dance into the classroom space as a tool to explore thematic content and assess student understanding.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 7th–12th In this provocative workshop with Rebecca Kelly, students reflect on symbols of the Holocaust, creating their own poetry and art in response.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Rochel Garner Coleman plays the Black cowboy Nat Love. The performance chronicles the journey of a former slave who joined thousands of others to explore and settle the West.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Who knew that building student confidence and social skills could be so much fun? The most basic rules of improvisation – Always Say Yes, Always Make Your Partner Look Good – train students to build a...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: K–12 Developed in Brazil by enslaved Africans during the 16th century, the martial art of Capoeira, disguised as a dance and including acrobatics, music, and the Portuguese language, was used as a means to resist oppression...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Chinese Calligraphy is a treasured art form that holds a distinguished place in traditional Chinese culture, blending language, history, and visual expression.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th In this popular workshop, students gain hands-on experience doing origami, the Japanese art of paper folding that is currently practiced in many Asian countries.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Students build films together while developing their media literacy, visual arts, ELA and social skills. Participants sculpt or build stop-motion characters and sets.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–6th Jammin Djembe Folktale Sizzle carries the audience on a storytelling journey across Africa, the Caribbean and the Canary Islands.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th The music of Taikoza personifies power, grace, pulse, and driving rhythm.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Join the Celtic Revival that’s sweeping the country! Try your hand (and feet!) at Irish set dancing—a form of social dancing similar to square dancing.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Jeannine Osayande & Dunya Performing Arts Company
Uncover how Diasporic African Polyrhythms from Africa, Brazil and America create mechanisms for place-making.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th It is often impossible to pinpoint the exact origin or creator of a folk song. This makes folk songs, unlike pop songs, belong to no one person, but rather have a group ownership by the people who keep them alive.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th In her interactive performance, TAHIRA, shares the seven principles (Nguzo Saba) of Kwanzaa. She does this through storytelling and music.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Explore the myth and magic of everyday Irish life.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Latin Rhythms is a dynamic percussion residency designed to introduce students to the rhythmic foundations of Latin American music while fostering creativity, collaboration, and cultural understanding.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Lessons in Tolerance is an examination of the causes and social costs of the Holocaust, and other examples of genocide and persecution, followed by the development of positive artistic and intellectual responses to...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Sharing stories from several Latin American countries infused with dance and music, Liliana Attar introduces students to cultures of Latin America while encouraging awareness, appreciation, and respect for different...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 4th–12th Do you love Pixar, Disney, or anything animated? Then this is the class for you! In this beginner’s animation course, students learn the basics of 2D animation using some of the 9 principles established by classic...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 4th–12th Do you love Pixar, Disney, or anything animated? Then this is the class for you! In this beginner’s animation course, students learn the basics of 2D animation using some of the 9 principles established by classic...
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–2nd Dramatic play is one of the richest learning experiences for young children.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th In this professional learning, teachers will learn how to use the elements of storytelling to engage and expand student learning.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This introduction to Chinese culture uses a diverse and authentic selection of dance, costumes, music, artifacts, and historical information to immerse students in China’s ancient and vibrant culture.
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This professional learning program will use theatre, visual art, and poetry to explore personal perspective, the perception of others, and consider the ways in which imagination can console, heal, and liberate.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–8th This entertaining mix of world tales and personal stories addresses the universal experience of standing up for yourself in the face of adversity and bullying.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 5th–12th Through a series of exercises leading to the creation of handmade books, students use the elements and principles of design to create compelling images in the way that a writer uses letters and words to compose stories...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Unlock the power of the lens to transform your classroom culture.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Join Mary in exploring medieval music and instruments and their continuing influence today! This fascinating collection of chants, ballads, recorder melodies, troubadour songs, and stories—through Mary’s vivid...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th The virtuosic Garden State Percussion Trio literally marches in with drum loads of fun, humor, and information about the art, acoustics, and history of percussion instruments.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Explore the power of music through the lens of movie-making. Students will travel from the silent film era to today’s movie blockbusters in this interactive program.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Mindful Melodies is an interactive concert program that uses the universal language of music to inspire mindful action, focus, and social-emotional learning.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th This STEAM focused workshop gives students hands-on experience with modular Origami, by having them fold multiple simple Origami pieces, that when assembled form a beautiful 8 or 10 point star.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th “More Than True:” Once upon a time, there was a girl—or a boy—or a dog, or dragon, or fairy, or giant.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 5th–8th An inspiring assembly performance that celebrates the power of movement as a form of expression.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: K–12 Experience the music and movement traditions of Islamic communities. Karim Nagi guides students in a participatory experience of music and dance from different Muslim communities around the world.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–Kindergarten A 90‑minute, music‑centered professional development for preschool and kindergarten teachers that shows how songs, rhythm, and movement can deepen early math learning, especially counting, quantity, and spatial...
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This program is designed to equip music teachers with the skills to integrate mindfulness practices with music in their classrooms.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This workshop provides students with a fundamental understanding of painting, exploring its physical characteristics and expressive capabilities.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This interactive program is filled with story, rhythm, history, and song.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Observational Drawing and Arts Integration will provide teachers with strategies for using observational drawing and art critique to support learning across content areas.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th This one is for all the Marvel, DC, and manga fans! In this comics studio, students learn the basics of comic storytelling – both written and visual – to bring a sequential story to life.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th This one is for all the Marvel, DC, and manga fans! In this comics studio, participants learn the basics of comic storytelling – both written and visual – to bring a sequential story to life.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Students learn traditional drum rhythms and dances from different regions of Uganda in this workshop with Ssuuna.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th From Bach to Beethoven, Django Reinhardt to Jethro Tull! Combining the virtuosity of world-class artists with the energy of rock stars, the performers from Project Duo remix traditional ideas of chamber music.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 5th–12th Students will build their personal artistry by creating original artwork inspired by a piece of music or a poem.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Originating in 17th-century Europe, paper quilling is the art of rolling, shaping, and gluing thin strips of paper together to make complex designs.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 5th–12th This workshop (or series of) will focus on the beauty, design and function of patterns, forms and structures found in the natural world.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th This classic musical story is brought to stirring life by the Phoenix Woodwind Quintet as instruments “play” the voices of Peter and his animal friends.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 8th–12th Develop drawing as an expressive, mental health, and community-building practice, unplugged from electronic input.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Experience and explore different ways in which percussion music can enrich Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) practices in your classroom.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Literature comes to life through this engaging creative movement experience with Laura Marchese.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Our daily lives are immersed in rhythm—aural and visual, temporal and spatial, and at times invisible.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th The drum is the heartbeat! Percussionist Senfu Stoney and other world-class musicians teach students about varied instruments and diverse cultures around the world.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th Students will learn the language of rhythm from acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer Maurice Chestnut. Each session begins with a rhythm stretch and a percussive call and response warm-up.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th In this program educators will learn to collaborate with acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer Maurice Chestnut to develop an understanding of the complex history of tap dance as a distinctly African American art form...
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th Experience the music and rhythms of our world community. Students travel to an array of cultures through songs, instruments, legends, and history.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th The AL’s (Alice Leon and Al Greene the BOOM BOOM Machine)
Jump, clap, play air guitar and sing along to super fun songs from Baby Shark to The Jackson 5 to Happy by Pharrell.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 6th–12th The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
Never was there a story of more woe! Immerse yourself in one of Shakespeare’s most renowned tragedies and find out just how powerful the forces of love and hate truly are in this Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Science and the natural world come to life through this engaging creative movement experience with Laura Marchese.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Collaborate with a school-wide or class-wide project to create a school mural or mosaic! The teaching artist leads students in a collaborative process to design a mural, and then paint a cohesive design, or construct a...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Join us for a drawing workshop focused on self-portraiture.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–8th Shadow Ball pays homage to the men who played in Negro League baseball and paints a picture of America’s suffering during the Great Depression.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th What happens when Shakespeare meets jazz, funk, salsa, and pure musical joy? A high-energy, sing-along celebration! In Shakespeare in Song, famous lines from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and more, are...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This highly interactive, comedic show uses traditions from vaudeville, circus arts, theater, and music to create a captivating and inspiring performance.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Students learn simple silkscreen printmaking in a one-day or series of workshops that offers many possibilities.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–2nd When glistening Sister Rain becomes jealous of shining Brother Sun and stops watering the Earth, wise Mother Nature must step in to save the day.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Historically general and instrumental music education in the United States has been influenced most by Western and European cultural traditions and art.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th In this interactive and energetic program, students brainstorm and contribute to “hit” songs. Songwriting is a joyous way to reinforce and learn curriculum concepts.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th In this interactive and energetic program, students brainstorm and contribute to “hit” songs that reinforce curriculum concepts.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This performance includes high-energy original music, classical pieces, and contemporary cover songs. This cutting-edge cello trio’s original and organic crossover sound bridges classical and rock music.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Soul Steps speaks the language of rhythm! This showcase of the African-American dance tradition known as “stepping” explores how step started among African-American fraternities and sororities on college...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This professional learning session provides a dynamic exploration of the sonic spaces and rhythmic worlds in which we inhabit through deep listening, sensory play, and hands-on collaborative learning.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This interactive 45-minute assembly introduces students to the music, traditional instruments and cultural traditions of the Silk Road and Anatolia through live performance and storytelling.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 5th–12th This workshop will focus on spiral forms found in the natural world. Examples of this expanding growth form will show its beauty, efficiency, and mathematical sequence such as the Fibonacci.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Trace the lineage of Irish dance from its traditional role in 18th-century Ireland to its success on the international stage.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Students will work with burlap fabric stretched on embroidery hoops to stitch a simple symbol.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th “Stories in Motion” is an engaging and educational assembly performance that combines the expressive power of dance and movement with key principles of SEL and storytelling techniques of ELA, creating an...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–8th In Stories of Africa, students take a journey through the African Diaspora via story.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th In this interactive program, Queen Nur embraces Social-Emotional Learning through storytelling.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Students engage in storytelling techniques that highlight cultural responsiveness in the classroom.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 4th–12th This STEAM focused workshop introduces students to the art of creating complex geometric designs using only colorful embroidery thread and straight lines.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 1st–6th Ridiculous Nicholas: Super Science Show! is an action-packed, educational one-man comedy variety show which utilizes circus tricks as a way to make learning more fun and uses plenty of audience participation.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Empathy in Action! For this one-day workshop, students will learn first about shape and color language.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–6th Queen Nur, an international storyteller and Dwight James, renowned jazz drummer present a flavorful seasoning of interactive tales from the African and African American Oral Tradition that will ground you in tradition,...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th Many Native Americans refer to North America as Turtle Island. Storyteller Rob Aptaker shares traditional Native tales, including Earth on Turtle’s Back (Iroquois), The Coming of Stories (Lenape), and more.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: K–12 Using vocal and songwriting techniques rooted in the traditions of Soul Music, students will learn how to express and celebrate themselves through song.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Are you ready to jam? Environmental sustainability and social responsibility take center stage in The Junk Jam Band’s high-energy educational program featuring found objects and homemade instruments.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th The Art of Bharatanatyam Dance provides an active form of exercise that has positive effects, for physical, mental and emotional well-being.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Are your students inventive? Through hands-on engineering with simple materials, Molly Gaston Johnson helps students explore cause and effect in artistic sculptures, simple machines, and elegant design.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th In this professional learning workshop educators will enhance their abilities, skills, and repertoire to create culturally inclusive learning environments through the exploration of “percussion of the world”.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–2nd David Harrell always wanted to be a part of playground games, but was only included when the other kids recognized that his prosthetic hook made him perfect for the part of Captain Hook in Peter Pan.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–4th The story of Frida Kahlo, one of the most famous painters in History is told through music and puppetry in this colorful bilingual production.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th In Enchantment Theatre’s telling of this classic Grimm fairy tale, a fisherman and his family live in a tiny hut by the sea.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Frederick Douglass Writing Club brings history to life and ignites students’ creativity. Baba Bomani opens by introducing himself and his community through music, setting an energetic tone.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Segunda Quimbamba Folkloric Center
This workshop, taught in both Spanish and English, provides educators with a fundamental understanding of Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drum culture through the rich musical heritage of Bomba y Plena.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This professional learning workshop introduces mindful art techniques using visual art and poetry to support well-being for K–12 teachers and their students.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th In this professional learning program, TAHIRA will illuminate practices that center the stories of African Americans by offering an opportunity for participants to explore the art of storytelling and active listening.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Combining acrobatics with clever choreography and jaw-dropping weight-sharing, these three performers create gravity-defying poses with their bodies.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–5th From simple, silly, small-scale and shadow, to large, satirical and structurally complex paper-mache creations, puppets can help students grapple with emotionally challenging and/or autobiographical concepts.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th This story is based on an Ethiopian folktale in which a stepmother, desperate to win the heart of her husband’s little boy, consults a wise man.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th The Little Circus bring the WOW factor, with Cirque-Du-Soleil style aerials! This interactive and captivating show features juggling, vaudeville acts, jaw-dropping aerial acts, and lots of audience participation as it...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Through the art of oral tradition, Tchin tells stories portraying the creation of the world and how things came to be.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Peace, love, unity and having fun: our flagship program brings the energy of Hip Hop culture straight to your school community.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th The REMIX is an action-packed, rhythmic roller coaster, that explores the five elements of percussive dance (rhythm, energy, musicality, improvisation, and our x-factor).
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This workshop will introduce participants to the world of quilting.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This workshop will introduce the world of quilting to students. First, a brief discussion of the history of quilting and some of the ways quilts are used (wall hangings, lap quilts, beds, clothing, etc.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Who were the Lenape Native Americans of New Jersey and Pennsylvania? Following years of conversation and relationships with Native people, Rob Aptaker gives students the opportunity to explore the tools, clothing, toys,...
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: 3rd–12th Designed by a language arts specialist, this workshop with Freestyle Repertory Theatre applies improvisational techniques to free the creativity of young authors.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This high energy, participatory program explores the often forgotten element of creative writing: spontaneity! Freestyle Repertory Theatre encourages audience volunteers get involved in the whimsy and fun of creating...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This program is jam-packed with music, entertainment, and education! Through contemporary & classic cover songs and original works, Ball in the House (BitH) will discuss and teach many aspects of music and...
Program Type: Assembly Performances / Early Childhood
Grade Levels: K–12 Ball in the House is excited to offer workshops and master classes. Please call or email for details and pricing.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th This is a mesmerizing one-woman acrobatic performance. Li Liu performs hand balancing, plate spinning, artistic cycling, ribbon dancing, foot juggling, and more.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th Originating in Hindu temples more than 2,000 years ago, traditional Indian dance combines fluid movement with complex melodies and rhythmic patterns.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–8th Entertaining, educating, and exciting, the Mexico Beyond Mariachi experience ignites the imagination.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th The drums of Korea tell the story of the country.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th Collaborate to make a giant woven tapestry using upcycled materials! This program can be school-wide or class-wide, students will work together on giant looms to construct a collaborative weaving using upcycled...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th In this professional learning program with visual artist Molly Gaston Johnson, teachers will learn how to use basic elements and principles of design as a means of communicating ideas.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Vamos a Jugar is Musiquita’s joyful, high-energy introduction to bilingual music-making.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: 6th–12th Boxes and bags transform through paper mache into precious containers symbolizing the self.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–6th This moving tale dramatizes the story of a young Chinese girl whose family immigrates to California during the Gold Rush.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–12th This hands-on workshop equips K–12 teachers to incorporate wood scrap sculpture into their classrooms, fostering student engagement, problem-solving, imagination, and thoughtful reflection on their work.
Program Type: Professional Learning
Grade Levels: 2nd–12th Heidi Latsky Dance’s Education Program, “Dancing Ourselves” was designed to enhance an individual school’s curriculum needs through classes incorporating music, self-expressive dance, social interaction, and...
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: K–12 Students are led in a collaborative musical and songwriting experience where they learn SEL techniques to improve focus and relieve anxiety, as well as creative visualization and mindfulness meditation.
Program Type: Workshops / Residencies
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th This high energy, participatory program explores the often forgotten element of creative writing: spontaneity! Freestyle Repertory Theatre encourages audience volunteers get involved in the whimsy and fun of creating...
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Kindergarten–12th Thunderbird American Indian Dancers
Yah-Oh-Way means “It is good” in Hopi. This exciting and athletic performance by the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers highlights the depth and complexity of several Native American societies.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
Grade Levels: Pre-K–5th Bobby Beetcut’s program, Your Life is A Work of Art, uses music to immerse students in motion, rhythm, and mindfulness.
Program Type: Assembly Performances
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