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

Morphing between characters of multiple races, young to old, man to woman, Mike Wiley’s gripping stories enlighten and inspire audiences of every age to apply history’s lessons to gripping issues of today.

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

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

A Hip Hop performance using rhythm, rhyme and repetition to teach everything from early childhood math and literacy, to the five steps of the writing process, and the career of Frederick Douglass.

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

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

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.

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

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