Bees That Dance with Sarina Condello and Bailey Davis
Grades JK to 8 | 3 to 4 visits/class, 1 class/session
Life Cycles, Structures & Mechanisms Movement, Earth & Space / Health & Physical Education: Active Living, Movement Competence, Healthy Living
Through creative movement students explore the collaborative nature of honey bees, how they communicate, travel and interact. Students learn basic elements of choreography and improvisation to express their learning as well as their thoughts and feelings about bees demonstrating an increased kinesthetic, spatial, and rhythmic skills and effort awareness.
Bees That Sing and Tell with Kathy Reid Naiman
Grades JK to 3 | 2 to 3 visits/class, 1 class/session or performance with 100 audience maximum
Life Cycles, Structures & Mechanisms Movement, Earth & Space
Songs, stories, finger-plays, silly rhymes, tongue twisters and chants introducing young children to the importance of bees in a world that is becoming harder for the bees to thrive. Learn about bee anatomy, beekeepers, the different kinds and colours of honey, the amount of honey a bee produces, the different types of bees, and their social aspect.
See IDEAS YouTube: Beautiful Sculpted Bees
Better With A Song with Ken Whiteley
Grades 3 to 8, 9 to 12, 150 performance or 2 classes per session, maximum 2 sessions/day
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History / Citizenship Education
Students come to understand how music can influence and propel positive change today with Ken’s rich repertoire of songs from the labour, civil rights, peace and environmental movements.
Chaos Theory – The Butterfly Effect
An Interdisciplinary program with Inner City Angels visual artists Pria Muzumdar, Moojan Nazmi and Paul Walty (in French) with Mariposa In The Schools dancer-choreographers Sarina Condello and Bailey Davis.
Grades JK to 8 | dance: 2 to 3 visits/class & visual art: 2, half-day visits/class
Science: Energy & Matter, Earth & Space / Healthy Living / Citizenship Education
What difference do we make in the world? What difference does it make if we don’t get involved or step up to an injustice. How much difference can one individual make in the wellbeing of a greater community, or in society in general? Heard of the Butterfly Effect? The scientific theory that the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas by creating tiny changes in the atmosphere that could accelerate or even prevent the tornado. Understanding the Butterfly Effect in nature and in social encounters and using it in our daily lives gives us a rare empowerment. With storytelling, spoken word, dance and mixed media we can examine one single choice and action that can impact our wellbeing and the world. And…we can learn a little about this well-known scientific theory.
See IDEAS YouTube: Butterfly Effect
Constructual Flow Theory
An interdisciplinary program conceived and led by Inner City Angels visual artist and designer Pria Muzumdar and with Mariposa In The Schools dancer-choreographers Sarina Condello and Bailey Davis.
Grade 3 to 8 | dance: 2 to 3 visits/class & visual art: 2, half-day visits/class
Science: Life Cycles & Systems, Earth & Space / Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History & Geography / Citizenship Education
Here we examine the universal presence of constructual flow seen in successful natural and social organizations and discover how these tree-like structures have core strength, are rooted with organic branches or split patterns that can adapt to environmental conditions. We can compare tree branching to our circulatory system, rivers, etc., and then to other social organization schematics such as families, schools, networks, communities and neighbourhoods. We can create a collaborative social system inspired by how nature ebbs and flows. Art-work is mixed media with colourful illustrations and paint.
Foolish Tales For Foolish Times with the Puppetmongers (Ann Powell and David Powell)
Grade K to 3, 200 audience maximum | Grades 1 to 6 mixes, maximum 250 | available April 2018
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments
Four classic tales of misadventure, full of venerable folk wisdom from around the world, are retold in a celebration of our shared humanity. Presented in a deceptively simple, low tech style, each story is told using a different style of puppetry and highlights how we humans can overlook the obvious when we worry needlessly about the impossible, take advice without thinking, or use yesterday’s solutions to solve today’s problems. This is a richly imaginative production that kindles creativity, inspires role play and encourages thinking outside the box.
One World, One Voice with Sheniz Janmohamed
Grade 7 to 8, 9 to 12 | 5 day residency, 1 class/session, maximum 3 sessions/day
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History / Citizenship Education
“One World with One Light/One Mission for One Fight/ The Fight to be One”. With repetition, rhyme and rhythm to drive her hard hitting poetry home, this inspirational spoken word performance and workshop features the political, social and humanitarian elements of spoken word where students will experience how powerful one voice can be in giving voice to a cause. Following the performance, the Voice Is Power workshop is available as a single session to a 5-day residency leading to a student showcase where students are given the opportunity to write and recite their own spoken word pieces while learning the art of recitation, gesture and delivery. They will also learn how to fuel their passion for a cause through creativity and performance. Themes can include social justice and civil responsibility to battling bullying.
Our Stories with Mariella Bertelli, Rita Cox, Marylyn Peringer, Esther Oshche, Itah Sadu, Dan Yashinsky
Grades JK to 8 | 45-60 minute performance for up to 150 students or classroom visits
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History / Citizenship Education
Family stories and memories are the primary link to the DNA of our personal identity and the stories that have been passed on from generation to generation in the form of folk tales, legends and myths form our collective identity. MITS master storytellers bring their vast repertoire of stories to illustrate the concept of how our personal and collective stories form our identity as much as the cells that make up our physical selves.
Seven Sacred Grandfather Teachings
An Interdisciplinary art project featuring storytelling with Esther Osche.
Grades 3 to 8 | 2 storytelling visits/class and visual art 2 full-days/class | minimum 4 classes
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History & Geography / Science: Life Systems / Health & Physical Education: Healthy Living
The First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples of North America were given Seven Sacred Teachings that form the foundation of their spirituality. The traditional concepts of respect and sharing that form the foundation of the Aboriginal way of life are built around these teachings where each teaching honours one of the basic virtues to achieve a full and healthy life and is represented by an animal whose characteristic serves to remind us of our connection to nature and to respect all living things.
This program brings Esther Osche into the classroom in partnership with Inner City Angels visual artist and sculptor Charmaine Lurch. Esther shares the Sacred Teachings to further students’ understanding of the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of balance and harmony in achieving a full and healthy life. Students listen to, discuss and reflect on the stories and then create a visual understanding of each.
See IDEAS YouTube: Seven Sacred Grandfather Teachings
Six String Nation with Jowi Taylor
Grades 4 to 6, 7 to 8, 9 to 12
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / History / Citizenship Education
Award winning journalist and radio producer, Jowi Taylor invites students and teachers to become citizens of the Six String Nation and witness, through story and images, the creation of the Voyageur, the remarkable guitar crafted from over 60 pieces of Canada’s heritage and history that serves as an allegory to the big question – what makes us a nation?
This multi-media presentation works well as inspiration for a interdisciplinary project integrating songwriting, spoken word, and visual art activities or, on it’s own as a keynote for a community celebration or professional development event. Contact us to customize your visit, as well as for availability and fee information.
Stories That Make You Holler! with Itah Sadu
Grades 1 to 4, 6 to 8 | maximum 150 | limited availability
Social Studies: Heritage & Identity, People & Environments / Citizenship Education
Highly theatrical, always inspirational! Itah shares contemporary and traditional stories and folklore from across the African Diaspora, weaving history, social justice and adventure in a spellbinding hour.