Student Programs

Deepen the arts experience in your classroom.

In addition to our Performing Arts Classroom series, Ordway offers a variety of opportunities to enhance your performance experience and extend the performing arts into classrooms.

All Grades

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ARTwalk
The ARTwalk is an exhibition of children's artwork collected from schools and community organizations across the region. The public exhibit celebrates the achievements of young people's visual creativity as part of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, produced annually by the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. All young artists are invited to participate in this unique visual arts experience. The 2011 Deadline for Submission of Intent is February 28, 2011.
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Global Arts Workshops
Taking place during the week of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, these workshops with Twin Cities artists last one hour and cost just $3 per student! All Global Arts Workshops with the rest of the school performances. Learn More >

Student Perspectives
Instead of leaving your fieldtrip at the theater door, take the time to hear what your students noticed about their Ordway experience. Using the Artful Tools Protocols, Ordway staff and peer coaches using the Artist to Artist collaborative inquiry model, will lead students through a thoughtful discussion on students’ observations, reactions, and unanswered questions. Learn More >

High School

Teen Media
Teen Media brings a resident media artist into Twin Cities’ classrooms to lead classes through filmmaking process. Students in the program will: explore representation in the media and how film can be used to create positive social change; learn and implement digital videography; create their own short films on issues of social justice that resonate with them personally; participate in the curatorial process of their films through live screenings and online showings, identifying the connection between form, message and audience.  As material for this year’s films, participating students will explore social justice issues world-wide through UNICEF and through the work of musician and activist Angélique Kidjo. Check out the student’s final creations on the Education News Blog >