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Earth Celebrations: Stories and Songs For Our Planet

Earth Celebrations: Stories and Songs For Our Planet

Rona Leventhal, Storytelling, Movement | (413) 586-0624 | [email protected]

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
Earthbeat – Heartbeat – Drumbeat – Sing!

Earthbeat – Heartbeat – Drumbeat – Sing!

Billy Jonas | (518) 647-5916 | [email protected]

It’s about participation! Sing-alongs, bang-alongs, and an improvised song prove to each student that they are indeed a musician! Themes/skills include creativity, patterns and rhythm, ecological awareness, science and geography.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Music, STEAM
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • 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 | [email protected]

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
EOG EDITION | Number Drummer Live

EOG EDITION | Number Drummer Live

Number Drummer | | [email protected]

Drumming math! Testing strategies! Sample questions… and more! Perfect kick-off to the EOGs.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Music, STEAM
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • 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 | [email protected]

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 | [email protected]

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 | [email protected]

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 First Idea to Finished Song – Workshop

From First Idea to Finished Song – Workshop

Roger Day | (518) 647-5916 | [email protected]

Using techniques they’re learning in the classroom, students write & record a song in 1 class period

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Multi-Disciplinary, Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
From Snapshot to Story

From Snapshot to Story

Diane Silcox Jarrett | (919) 397-9501 | [email protected]

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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Wake County Visual Artists come on and raise up!! Wake County Visual Artists come on and raise up!! Our friends at South Arts have returned with the Southern Prize & State Fellowships. 

Nine visual artists across the South will receive $80,000 in awards. AL • FL • GA • KY • LA • MS • NC • SC • TN 
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* Application Deadline: March 18  @southartsorg
Larry (from Venezuela) and Joe (from Winston Salem Larry (from Venezuela) and Joe (from Winston Salem) shared so much bilingual, musical fun with these kiddos yesterday! #ais4all #wakearts #arts919
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 High Sc Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 High School Spoken Word Competition produced in partnership with the Raleigh Fine Arts Society.

1st place: Sophie Britton, Enloe High School, Marks/Not Alone

2nd place: Selina Sentosa Harmon, Green Hope High School, Invisible Hand

3rd place: Shia Raine Edwards, Enloe High School, A Taste of the Black Experience
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