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Community Workshops in-Residence

These residency projects are inter-active hands on, in classroom activities. All activity choices are suitable for all benchmarks (I, II & III) for all grade levels that are referenced with the essential learning requirements.

Outline of activities

•  Introduction – A call and response of singing and greetings with each other in another language. Understand arts concepts and vocabulary.

•  Dance – The student make connections within and across the arts to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work. The dance tells a story of a tradition. To understand and demonstrate their interpretation of dance within a cultural arts concept.

•  Drumming – Simplicit drum patterns in orchestration will be introduced. To apply to a responding and creative process in the arts. To Understand an apply arts styles from various artists, cultures and times.

•  Various Percussion Hand Instruments – The student communicates through the arts. To refine and extend arts skills and techniques.

•  African Games, Histories (Stories) and Song – The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes. To apply a creative process in the arts; conceptualize the context or purpose, gather information from diverse sources, develop ideas and principles for the purpose of elaboration and refine work based on call and response feedback.

•  Costume / Prop Making – Choices of making costumes, Jewelry. To compare and contrast specific attributes of artworks that reflects culture and history and the world of work.

Workshop Plan

Based on 20-40 one hour sessions  

Cost:
$75.00 per hour session (minimum 20 hours)

$150.00 per hour session (if less than 10 hours)

Outcomes:
In community partnerships, each participating presenter of this project would highlight their experience during an Annual African Drumming & Dance (Spring) Recital. Each group of performing students would also exhibit their experience during the school/community day as a way of sharing this project with the entire school/community.

These activities integrate an arts curriculum, by teaching west-African dance, rhythms, music and song. Connecting it to the schools and/or classrooms curricular areas.

Folkloric presentations express the historic contributions to the cultural arts traditions as a whole.

Classroom/Workshop Choices :

•  Drumming

•  Song & Percussion

•  Dance

•  Costumes & props

•  African Games & Songs

•  Teacher In-Residence sessions (can also include weekends)

 

This Residency is suitable for all ages, all grade levels including special populations and at risk/ special education settings.

These activity choices are integrated with the EALR's