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Taking place during the week of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival, these hands-on workshops with Twin Cities artists last one-hour and cost just $3 per student! All Global Arts workshops go on sale on August 31, 2008 with the rest of the school performance season.
- Hip-Hop Dance
Engage in this all abilities workshop where students learn the cultural origins of hip-hop and practice the fundamental dance styles of poppin,’ lockin,’ uprockin,’ and breakin.’
Wednesday, May 28 at 9:15a.m. and 10:30a.m.
Suggested Grades: 3-8
- SteppingStone Theatre’s Mask-Making Workshops
Mixed-Up Beasts
Students will mix-up different animals to create masks for mixed-up beasts like the Bumblebeaver, Kangarooster, or the Camelelephant! Take out your imagination and hop/fly away!
Wednesday, May 28 at 9:15am
Suggested Grades: 2-3
African Masks
Focusing on the importance of masks in African culture, students will
analyze different examples and then create their own mask out of cardboard, raffia and imagination.
Wednesday, May 28 at 10:30am
Suggested Grades: 4-5
- India: a culture alive with art!
Students will learn north Indian storytelling and percussive Kathak dance as Rita Mustaphi dances, sings, and tells the stories of myths and legends from epics and folklore of India.
Thursday, May 29 at 9:15a.m. and 10:30a.m.
Suggested Grades: 2-6
- Taiko Drumming
Learn the techniques and history of taiko drumming with a taiko performing artist and instructor. Students will get the opportunity to play on a taiko practice drum!
Thursday, May 29 at 9:15a.m. and 10:30a.m.
Suggested Grades: 2-6
- Schubert Club’s Indonesian Gamelan
Discover a fascinating musical tradition with this mostly percussion orchestra from Java. Students take off their shoes and sit cross-legged to play a variety of rhythmic patterns on large hanging gongs, metal-bar instruments, and rows of pot-shaped gongs!
Friday, May 30 at 10:30a.m.
Suggested Grades: 3-8
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