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Drumming Traditions

Drumming Traditions

Drum for Change with Greg Whitt | (919) 696-0883 | gregory@drumforchange.com

Experiential learning through hands-on drumming with small groups.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, Caribbean
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Drums for All: A Music Program for Students with Disabilities

Drums for All: A Music Program for Students with Disabilities

Beverly Botsford | (919) 824-3821 | beverly.botsford@gmail.com

A hands-on musical  journey for students of any ability.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Multi-Disciplinary, Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, African-American, Caribbean, European, Latinx, North Carolina
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
  • Specifically adapted for students with disabilities
Dynamic Self-Portraits – Celebrate Diversity!

Dynamic Self-Portraits – Celebrate Diversity!

Anna Podris & Keith Norval | (919) 630-3430 | annapodris@gmail.com

A legacy project celebrating the strength in diversity and also adding some personality to the campus.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Visual Arts
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Earth Celebrations: Stories and Songs For Our Planet

Earth Celebrations: Stories and Songs For Our Planet

Rona Leventhal, Storytelling, Movement | (413) 586-0624 | rona@ronatales.com

Environmental, multi-cultural folktales told in a dramatic, participatory style. Rona embodies characters to engage the imagination….fun, thought provoking, curricular based!

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Storytelling
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Ego Tripping & The Marvelous “I”: An Introduction to Performance Slam Poetry

Ego Tripping & The Marvelous “I”: An Introduction to Performance Slam Poetry

Regie Cabico | (301) 916-6328 ext. 9 | program@storytapestries.org

A high-energy writing residency engaging students into spoken word by celebrating our fiercest selves with our dreams and fanciful urges.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Literary, Multi-Disciplinary
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Everybody Comes from Somewhere

Everybody Comes from Somewhere

Queen Nur | |

In this residency students will bring their individual cultures into the classroom through the art of storytelling, living traditions and ethnography techniques.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Literary, Music, Storytelling
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Exploring Communication and Cooperation with Mask

Exploring Communication and Cooperation with Mask

Doug Berky | (518) 647-5916 | susan@loydartists.com

Students learn and practice skills in better cooperation and communication.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Festival Of Drums

Festival Of Drums

Drum for Change with Greg Whitt | (919) 696-0883 | gregory@drumforchange.com

Group drumming in short sessions for quick turnover in festival settings.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, Caribbean
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
From Anansi to Zeus

From Anansi to Zeus

Donna Washington/DLW Storyteller, Inc. | (919) 471-3036 | dave@donnawashington.com

Donna Washington presents age appropriate stories from Anansi the Spider to Zeus for students K-12.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Storytelling
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, African-American, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, Native American
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
From Snapshot to Story

From Snapshot to Story

Diane Silcox Jarrett | (919) 397-9501 | ldjarrett169@outlook.com

Students will take an old photograph as inspiration and write their own creative story.

  • Program Type: Writer-in-Residence
  • Discipline: Literary
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
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