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A Busy Bee

A Busy Bee

Opera Carolina: Opera Xpress | (704) 332-7177x109 | education@operacarolina.org

Opera Xpress brings 35 minute educational operas into schools across the Carolina region, promoting education and student learning through engaging and educational operatic performances that increase students’ exposure to exemplary music and art.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Literary, Music, STEAM, Storytelling, Theatre, Visual Arts
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
A Child of the Times

A Child of the Times

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

This residency allows students to make history come alive with their own creative ideas and writing.

  • Program Type: Writer-in-Residence
  • Discipline: Literary
  • Grade Level: Elementary, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
A Wild Goose Chase: Puppets and Poetry!

A Wild Goose Chase: Puppets and Poetry!

Matt Sandbank's Shadow Factory | 505-816-8379 | sandbankshadowfactory@gmail.com

This interactive, wildly-entertaining shadow puppet show will send elementary students galumphing off to section eight-eleven–Poetry Heaven!–of the library.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Literary, Theatre
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Allan Wolf’s Voices from the Titanic

Allan Wolf’s Voices from the Titanic

Allan Wolf | (828) 772-7474 | allanwolf100@gmail.com

Experience the 1912 voyage of the doomed Titanic through poetry, storytelling, costume pieces & photos.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Literary, Multi-Disciplinary, Storytelling, Theatre
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Baba Got BARS – Interactive Assembly

Baba Got BARS – Interactive Assembly

Baba Bomani | (240) 486-7516 | bomani@babagotbars.com

Learn the ABC’s all the way to The Writing Process with Hip Hop & RAP!

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Literary, Multi-Disciplinary, Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, African-American
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Baba Got BARS – Workshop/Residency

Baba Got BARS – Workshop/Residency

Baba Bomani | (240) 486-7516 | bomani@babagotbars.com

Students learn creative writing using the Writing Process to structure a song written in the pattern of a well-written essay.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Literary, Music
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Cultural Context: African, African-American
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Bathtub Pirates!

Bathtub Pirates!

Grey Seal Puppets | (704) 589-1304 | drew@greysealpuppets.com

Using imagination to tell the story of pirates taking over a boy’s tub.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Literary, Music, STEAM, Storytelling, Theatre
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Cultural Context: Caribbean, European
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Chapters and Verses: Writing Poems Inspired by Books

Chapters and Verses: Writing Poems Inspired by Books

Michael Beadle | (828) 400-6374 | beadlewrite@yahoo.com

Students learn how to write poems based on texts they’ve studied.

  • Program Type: Writer-in-Residence
  • Discipline: Literary
  • Grade Level: Elementary
  • Cultural Context: African-American, Asian, European
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Coming to America

Coming to America

Mimi Herman | (919) 606-7686 | mimiherman@gmail.com

When students are transformed into immigrants to America in 1901, history comes alive through poetry and drama.

  • Program Type: Workshop/Residency
  • Discipline: Literary, Multi-Disciplinary, Theatre
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Cultural Context: European
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
Community Quilt: Stories of people who came to the US

Community Quilt: Stories of people who came to the US

Story Tapestries | (301) 916-6328 | program@storytapestries.org

Custom designed history of immigration in the United States told through Dance, Music and Story.

  • Program Type: Performance
  • Discipline: Dance, Literary, Multi-Disciplinary, Theatre
  • Grade Level: Elementary, High, Middle
  • Cultural Context: African, African-American, European
  • Accepts bookings in Johnston County
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Join us at Westgate Wine Bar & Store on 6/18 for a Join us at Westgate Wine Bar & Store on 6/18 for a fun evening of tasting wine and supporting the arts! All ticket sales go to United Arts along with 10% of any bottles purchased that evening. 

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