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Abrakadoodle Art Education

OUR PROGRAM HAS BEEN RUNNING IN AUSTIN TEXAS FOR MORE THAN 6 YEARS AND WE HAVE BEEN THE #1 FRANCHISE IN OUR SYSTEM THREE YEARS RUNNING AND TOP 5 FOR 5 YEARS. RECENTLY WE WERE VOTED BEST PLACE TO LEARN ART IN AUSTIN BY AUSTIN FAMILY MAGAZINE READERS FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW AND THIS HONOR COMES AS A RESULT OF OUR INCREDIBLE STAFF. WE SELECT THE BEST STAFF AVAILABLE WHO GENUINELY CARE ABOUT OUR STUDENTS AND WANT TO SEE THEM SUCCEED IN THEIR CREATIVE ENDEAVORS. WE USE A MONTESSORI, HANDS-ON BASED APPROACH AND A MIXED AGE GROUP SETTING, AS WELL AS TESTED AND PROVEN CURRICULA AND HIGH-QUALITY CRAYOLA MATERIALS TO PROVIDE THE RICHEST ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCE POSSIBLE FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN AND ENJOY BUILDING THEIR CREATIVE SKILLS.

Academy for Young Artists

The Austin Chamber Music Academy provides small ensemble opportunities during the fall and spring semesters. Professional musicians coach chamber ensembles and teach theory and composition classes for intermediate and advanced musicians of all ages. Participants experience the joys of studying and performing chamber music with enthusiastic musicians of comparable proficiency. As an indispensable member of an ensemble, students will make new friends while improving their sense of rhythm, musical confidence, intonation, and performance skills. Students will also participate in theory and composition classes with their peers.

Accessible Arts in Schools

Accessible Arts in Schools demonstrates the integration of music, dance, and art therapy into special education curricula. Expressive arts therapists, with their additional training in psychology, child development and counseling, model effective strategies for improved behavior management as well as group dynamics skill building. There are two basic program components: teacher training and therapist-lead in class arts activities. During the semester, arts therapists lead weekly residency sessions with teachers and aides participating alongside their students. The arts activities and exercises are integrated into the TEKS curricula and geared toward improving student academic and social skills.

AFS Film Club

Through projects incorporating digital filmmaking, animation, scriptwriting, and other media skills, AFS Film Club Workshops strive to: – Empower students to express themselves creatively through filmmaking; – Cultivate artistic and technical skills so students can explore and communicate issues in their own lives, community, and world; – Build creative and critical thinking/writing skills through new media literacy; – Promote students’ personal development through introspective and team-building projects; and – Raise young people’s awareness of college and career opportunities in film and new media. The AFS Film Club Workshops provide young people in grades 4–12 with a yearlong curriculum of filmmaking workshops, film appreciation programs, and mentorship activities led by talented community film artists. With attention to artistic and personal development, AFS Film Club Workshops engage students in a safe, fun and nurturing environment where they can develop and share their creative voices.

After-School Enrichment

CST offers quality theater, dance and visual art classes to students from low-income families.

Art Acrross the Curriculum

Arts Across the Curriculum is an arts integration and professional development program that uses theatre to infuse excitement into learning. A ZACH teacher will come to your school and get students out of their seats and act out social studies, literature, and science. Students will go back in time to learn about history, meet a pirate to learn about maps and directions, travel into the earth to learn about rocks, and interview characters and act out scenes from literature to further their reading comprehension. Not only do students learn material presented theatrically, ZACH also offers a professional development component to the program so that teachers can continue to use these techniques to engage their students in the future.

Arts Alive - Artist Residencies

The Arts Alive! model incorporates intensive professional development for educators and teaching artists, teaching artist placements in the classroom, and in-school performances and arts-rich field trips

Austin Chamber Music Workshop

The Austin Chamber Music Workshop provides small ensemble opportunities during summer. Professional musicians coach chamber ensembles and teach theory and composition classes for intermediate and advanced musicians of all ages. Participants experience the joys of studying and performing chamber music with enthusiastic musicians of comparable proficiency. As an indispensable member of an ensemble, students will make new friends while improving their sense of rhythm, musical confidence, intonation, and performance skills. Students will also participate in improvisation, percussion, and composition classes with their peers.

Austin Community Steelband's Workshop

The steelpan musical instrument is a cross-cultural magnet. It is fun and easy to learn to play quickly, well enough to perform a song. The students will learn to play steelpan in groups of 10 in a steelband in Austin Community Steelband’s workshops. Each student will play a professional quality instrument in varying musical voice ranges equivalent to conventional musical instruments in other bands or orchestras that is provided by the workshop. During the class students will develop the skill to play a song together well enough to perform.

Ballet Austin's The Nutcracker School Shows

Each year over 13,000 Central Texas elementary school students and teachers attend Ballet Austin’s The Nutcracker School Shows. The mission of these shows is to provide one act of a live ballet performance in a large theater at a minimal cost for local elementary-aged students. To enhance this live ballet experience, we also offer The Nutcracker Docent Program (see below), an optional in-school pre-performance educational program geared towards 3rd-graders that includes engaging activities for the classroom. Teachers are provided with resources such as Ballet Austin’s The Nutcracker Footnotes, a production-specific performance guide with pre- and post-performance details, activities and discussion points. 2016 Dates & Times Each group is welcome to attend either Act I or Act II. For groups wanting to attend both acts of The Nutcracker, please contact our Box Office at boxoffice@balletaustin.org or 512.476.2163 for tickets to one of our public shows. Dec 6: 10:00am (Act I), 12:00pm (Act II) Dec 7: 10:00am (Act I), 12:00pm (Act II) Dec 8: 10:00am (Act I), 12:00pm (Act II) Location: The Long Center for the Performing Arts 701 West Riverside Drive, 78704 (Riverside at S. 1st) Ticket Prices: Students $5 for one act (minimum group size of 10 elementary-aged students) $4 for students of Title I schools Adults (All teachers, administrators and other necessary chaperones) 1 free adult chaperone per every 22 students Additional necessary chaperones are $25.00 each All additional chaperones must be pre-approved through Ballet Austin All additional chaperones must accompany the school to and from the theater – they cannot arrive separately School Shows Timeline: Registration Wednesday, September 7, 2016: Registration opens for 3rd grade Monday, September 12, 2016: Registration opens for all elementary grade levels (Kinder – 5th grade) Registration Deadline Friday, October 28, 2016: Registration closes on this date or when all shows are full, whichever occurs first. Payment Deadlines (cash, check, or credit cards are accepted – no purchase orders are accepted) Friday, November 4, 2016: All payments due. If your school’s payment is not received by this date, your School Shows spot may go to another school. Friday, November 4, 2016: All registration changes due. Attendance numbers are sent to the theater for seating on this date. If you submit changes after this date we cannot guarantee that your school will be seated together. Any changes submitted after Nov. 4 that result in additional charges must be paid immediately with the school’s credit card. Friday, December 2, 2016: All outstanding payments due by 4:00pm. If your school’s payment is not received by this time, a $20 late fee per week will be added to your balance beginning on Monday, December 5, 2016. Additional Information: – Individual tickets will not be sold for these performances. – A minimum of 10 elementary-aged students (Kinder–5th grade) per school is required for registration. – Admission is limited to elementary school students and their teachers and chaperones. – All reservations must be confirmed by Ballet Austin. After you submit this completed registration form, you will receive a confirmation and invoice with your attendance and payment information. – All adults attending The Nutcracker School Shows with a school must be present to help escort students to and from the theater. For the students’ safety, all adults must be approved through the school, be included in the school’s attendance numbers by November 4, and must purchase a ticket for the show through the school. For more information and to register please click here.

Build-a-Ballet / Carnival of the Animals

Build-a-Ballet introduces elementary-age students to the process of creating a work of art. Dancers from Ballet Austin’s Professional Division Trainee program perform nine excerpts from The Carnival of the Animals with choreography by Ballet Austin’s Artistic Director, Stephen Mills, and original music by Camille Saint Saëns. Students participate in choreographing a movement phrase that is eventually incorporated into the ballet. We also discuss elements of choreography, including use of space, rhythm, timing, and partnering. This 50-minute program is presented at Ballet Austin or in schools. To find out more information or to register click here.

Building Blocks

The Building Blocks program gives Pre-K -3rd graders their first up –close and personal introduction to the instruments of the orchestra. Designed especially for the young listener in an innovative and entertaining way, these in-school performances feature ASO ensemble or soloists (strings, woodwind, brass, percussion or harp) playing familiar children’s tunes and classical favorites. Students learn basic musical concepts, how the instruments work and the deferent sound each makes. An interactive segment between the students and musicians concludes the visit. Educational and entertaining Building Blocks is a cornerstone for later ASO education programs and is an important beginning of music appreciation.

Chamber Music Concerts in Schools

The Austin Chamber Music Academy provides 45 minute long interactive professional performances in schools. Performance is made to be age-appropriate for the grade level(s) in the audience.

Club Arthouse

Club Arthouse is a free, intensive program at Arthouse for Austin-area high school students who have a strong interest in visual arts, allowing them to delve more deeply into contemporary art one afternoon each week. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm.

Courage in Action

Tap Actor/Teachers visit 5th and 6th grade classrooms for an interactive, multi-day residency that teaches students how to be courageous leaders and community organizers. "Special Agents of Courage" have a special mission for your students. By examining leaders such as Cesar Chavez students apply skills and knowledge to their own lives. On the final day of the program students are inducted as Agents and emerge with clear strategies for affecting positive change in their community.

Courage to Stand

Tap Actor/Teachers visit 4th and 5th grade classrooms for an interactive, multi-day residency that teaches students how to be courageous bystanders and stand up to bullying in their community. We start with a scene familiar to all elementary school kids — there is a bully at the bus stop! Our protagonist, Alex, sees a friend being bullied, but doesn’t know what to do about it. With the help of Buster, a time-traveling bus driver, and crucial input from the audience, Alex races back in time to learn how to stand up for others! In this interactive performance, students are challenged to look at the problem of bullying in a fresh, new way. By exploring acts of courage throughout history, including moments from the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Era. Students learn to examine the choices, risks, and consequences of intervening to help the target in a bullying situation. This innovative program teaches young people to creatively investigate the idea of courage—what it is, where to find it and how to act as a “courageous bystander”.

Creativity Club @ the Dougherty Arts School

The Dougherty is excited to expand Creativity Club as an onsite after school program option. Creativity Clubs includes visual arts, theater and digital media using a process-oriented teaching approach. Van transportation is currently being offered for students enrolled at Matthews and Zilker elementary schools. A local area elementary school with 5 or more students enrolled in C-Club @ the DAC may request van transportation. Parents and guardians are welcome to enroll children and provide their own transportation to the Dougherty. Creativity Club @ the DAC is an after school program that is held onsite at the Dougherty. Students explore arts educational programming through lessons taught in various artistic mediums and disciplines. Creativity Club’s curriculum follows a process-based learning model with lesson plans developed by our Instructors in response to monthly themes that emphasize cultural studies, art history, and creative techniques. This method allows every project to be responsive to the students’ creative interests as well as incorporate the Instructors’ own artistic expertise. Instructors are carefully chosen so that each site provides diverse cultural arts experiences for all participants in the areas of visual, performing and media arts. The goal of Creativity Club is to provide students the time and space to develop individual creative expression through group participation in structured and intentional recreational activities and arts lessons. The small groups of one teacher per 10 students allows more time for each student to participate in the artistic process. Enrollment is set on a monthly basis. Each student is guaranteed a spot in the next month’s class as long as tuition is paid by the deadline.

Dance in the Classroom

Dance in the Classroom brings a weekly pre-ballet lesson directly to students on their school campus. This program is led by Toni Bravo, the Director of Pre-Ballet at the Ballet Austin Academy. Ms. Bravo also founded and leads the Leaps and No Bounds program. This school-based dance program focuses on using kinesthetic learning as a means of reinforcing the skills necessary for success on state curriculum standards and has served the students of greater Austin since 1995. The Pre-Ballet curriculum is a prelude to formal ballet instruction and introduces children to music and movement through a structured progression that stresses creativity and group interaction. An excellent and fun introduction to classical ballet and fine arts, the syllabus supports the refinement of fine and gross motor skills. By introducing students to the basic shapes, positions, postures and traditions of classical ballet, the Pre-Ballet curriculum enhances both cognitive and physical development at this important time. The program will conclude with a student presentation near the end of the school year. Click here for more information.

Dance in the Classroom

Underwritten by A Glimmer of Hope Austin Dance in the Classroom brings a weekly pre-ballet lesson directly to students on their school campus. This program is led by Toni Bravo, long-time faculty member at the Ballet Austin Academy. Ms. Bravo also founded and leads the Leaps and No Bounds program, a school-based dance program that focuses on using kinesthetic learning as a means of reinforcing the skills necessary for success on state curriculum standards that has served the students of greater Austin since 1995. The Pre-Ballet curriculum is a prelude to formal ballet instruction and introduces children ages 5–7 to music and movement through a structured progression that stresses creativity and group interaction. An excellent and fun introduction to classical ballet and fine arts, the Pre-Ballet syllabus is introduced at a time when fine and gross motor skills are becoming more refined. By introducing students to the basic shapes, positions, postures and traditions of classical ballet, the Pre-Ballet curriculum enhances both cognitive and physical development at this important time. The students participating in Dance in the Classroom study the Pre-Ballet curriculum during Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade. At the end of 2nd grade, students who have completed the in-classroom program are invited to attend a summer program at Ballet Austin. Upon completing the summer program, the students are eligible for a scholarship to study Level 1 Ballet at the Ballet Austin Academy during 3rd grade. Current studies* show that the impact of the arts on education clearly indicate that arts experiences do play a significant role: enhancing academic achievement, reaching students on the margins of the educational system, creating an effective learning environment and helping learners connect experiences to the world outside of school. The arts help students build skills that are essential for success in the 21st-century workforce. *Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning, 1999 and Issue Brief: The Impact of Arts Education on Workforce Preparation, 2002

Dance Revolutions

Dance Revolutions is a 45-minute educational performance offered to elementary, middle school, and high school students at Ballet Austin or in schools. The performance includes works from multiple dance genres, including ballet, jazz, musical theatre, and modern, and also involves the audience using improvisational movement activities. The dances are placed in historical context via interactive discussions throughout the performance. To find out more information click here.

Dance Revolutions

diyYOUTH

The diyYOUTH program is youth driven. We do not utilize a “curriculum” but rather get input each semester from students about what they want to learn and what types of artistic mediums they want to explore. This ensures student engagement and participation. Utilizing local artists also enhances the program through community involvement with an emphasis on entrepreneurial skill development. Artists are coached in using a strengths based approach as well as allowing for youth voice/youth leadership in programming.

Docent Program - The Nutcracker

Just prior to The Nutcracker School Shows, Ballet Austin Guild members and other volunteer Docents visit schools that will be attending The Nutcracker School Shows to help students learn more about dance and professional ballet dancers, including topics and materials such as: the history of dance dance shoes ballet costumes the athleticism of dance the life of professional dancers the history of The Nutcracker the story of The Nutcracker proper theater etiquette Our 30- to 45-minute multi-media Docent presentation fits neatly into one class period. It meets 3rd and 4th grade TEKS for Fine Arts, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies, and includes fun elements such as video excerpts, simple dance activities, real pointe shoes and ballet slippers, actual costumes from past productions, and a Q&A session during which your students can have all of their questions answered! The Docent program is offered only to those schools attending The Nutcracker School Shows as the pre-performance educational component to those shows. Ballet Austin and its Guild and volunteers have been providing this free in-school educational program for students throughout Central Texas for more than 25 years. The Docent program will help make a field trip to the ballet a meaningful and enjoyable educational experience for Central Texas students and educators. Additional Information for schools requesting Docents: To request a Docent, you must first register for The Nutcracker School Shows. Docent requests for the 2016/17 season may be submitted when school shows registration begins in early September 2016. Availability is limited. We will do our best to fill your request. Docent requests are accepted for Central Texas schools within a 30-minute drive of Austin city limits. Teachers must be present in the classroom during the Docent presentation in order to help with equipment and maintain discipline. Teachers are responsible for insuring that the classroom and equipment are ready for the Docent presentation prior to the arrival of the Docent. Preferred equipment for the multi-media Docent presentation is a computer with PowerPoint capabilities and a CD-rom drive, a projector connected to the computer, and speakers for the computer. An overhead transparency projector is required as backup for all Docent presentations. If your school does not have PowerPoint capabilities, the Docent can give the presentation using the overhead transparency projector. To find out more information click here.

Drama for Schools

Drama-based arts integration training for K – 12 teachers

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