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Sarah Haskell
Read Between the Lines
This workshop integrates weaving with language arts. Using inexpensive, readily available weaving materials, students will create weavings that become a threshold for a piece of writing, as well as using a piece of writing or a story as an inspiration for a weaving. The process of moving from writing to weaving and back, promotes writing and reading skills, as well as fine motor skills, in students of all ages. Read Between the Lines is a magical process for self discovery, and will produce successful and surprising results for every artist/author.
*This workshop is also available as a teacher workshop.
Grade Levels: K-12
Participants: 24
Pricing: $530 a day for 4 workshops.
Travel Fee: $60 a day
Over and Under
Paper is a common material found in every culture. Using found papers such as postcards, calendars, and
photographs, students will learn creative ways of weaving. Further explorations of paper weaving include hand colored papers and linking writing and weaving. Themes that can be explored are family heritage, recycling, and poetry. Schools will be sent a list of supplies needed for the workshop upon scheduling
*This workshop is also available as a teacher workshop.
Grade Levels: K-12
Participants: 24
Pricing: $530 a day for 4 workshops.
Travel Fee: $60 a day
Mandala Community Weaving
Students weave togethe to create a circular weaving called a mandala. Each student will create a clothespin figure representing themselves or perhaps someone from another culture or time in history. These figures then join together around the woven mandala. Each student will also create a clothespin figure to take home with them. Themes for the mandala can be integrated into social studies, history, and science and language arts curriculum. As a creative process, each Mandala Community Weaving project grows from the spirit of the group that creates it. From the colors of the weaving, to the representations of people, to the texture of the weaving, the completed mandala is a true reflection and celebration of each community.
Grade Levels: K-12
Participants: 24
Pricing: $530 a day for 4 workshops
Supply Fee: $4 per participant
Loom Fee: $200 per loom
Travel Fee: $60 a day
RESIDENCY: It Takes a Community to Weave a Tapestry
The ancient Greeks believed that a woven cloth could tell stories in a unique and magical way. In this residency, students will contribute to a collaborative weaving project using the metaphor of weaving to share and tell stories. A woven fabric created by your school will be stronger and more beautiful when all the contributing strands collaborate, creating a true fabric of community. Themes for the actual tapestry can be integrated into social studies, history, science and language arts curriculum.
Grade Levels: K-12
Contact office for pricing information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks
English Language Arts
Visual Arts
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Tanglewood Marionettes
Tanglewood Marionettes
is a nationally touring marionette theater based in Massachusetts.
Classic tales are performed by skilled puppeteers who have spent
many years perfecting their art. Tanglewood Marionettes travels
with a self contained marionette stage that has integrated lighting
and sound systems. The programs are presented with the marionettists
in full view, so that the audience can witness firsthand the mechanics
of puppet manipulation.
The Fairy Circus
Tanglewood Marionettes' presentation of the "The Fairy Circus" begins with a demonstration of the art of puppetry. Through humorous interplay, the audience will learn about various forms of puppets, from the simple glove puppet to the sophisticated marionette. Then it's on with the show! Featuring over twenty beautifully handcrafted marionettes, "The Fairy Circus" is a showcase of turn-of-the-century-style trick puppetry. The puppets will dance, play instruments, juggle, contort, transform, and fly through the air with the greatest of ease, all to the best-loved music of favorite composers!
Performance Time: 40 minutes
Grade Levels: preK-3
Audience Limit: 250
Single: $495 Double: $792 Triple: $1,040
Travel Fee: based on mileage
Perseus and Medusa
Take a trip back in time to the dawn of civilization, to an ancient
world of gods, goddesses, prophecies and heroes. In this masterful
production, your students will accompany Perseus through personal
trials and glorious quests. Join Tanglewood Marionettes for its
lavish production featuring beautiful, hand-crafted marionettes,
scrolling sets, exotic music and much, much more. The ancient world
has never been so accessible!
Grade Levels: 1-12
Performance Time: 50-60 minutes
Audience Limit: 250
Single: $780 Double: $1,250 Triple: $1,640
Travel Fee: based on mileage
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
English Language Arts
History and Social Science
Theater
Visual Arts
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Kevin Hawkes
Imagine That! The Art of Writing and Illustrating
Experience an engaging journey through the process of writing and illustrating a book. Using sketches, dummy books, original paintings and proofs, Kevin Hawkes will walk students through the steps of creating a picture book. He begins with a segment of a manuscript and helps students use their imagination to visualize a story. Students will learn how to bring their ideas onto paper, make drawings come to life, and deal with drawing mistakes. Using random events, snippets of conversation and objects, students will explore where story ideas come from and how to use creative language to make a compelling story. During the presentation, Kevin will make 5-10 drawings that he will leave with the school.
Performance time: 45 minutes
Grade Levels: 1-2, 3-6
Audience Limit: 125
Price: $1,250 for up to 5 presentations in one day.*
Travel Fee: $100 a day
*May schedule in two locations within the same town.
Add a Family Event: Inside the Studio
From the wildly imaginative to the historically accurate, Kevin Hawkes' work spans a wide range of subjects and genres. Take a closer look at the books and the process of creating them in this presentation geared to all ages. You will see works in progress, the nuts and bolts of working with editors and get a sneak preview of upcoming titles. This program is a perfect conclusion to a day of school presentations and will bring staff, community and families together for a personal look at the life of a working illustrator.
Performance time: 45-50 minutes
Grade Levels: All Ages
Audience Limit: 500
Single: $500 each*
*Must be scheduled in conjunction with Imagine That! This presentation is offered as a culminating event to a day-long visit to your schools. Schools are encouraged to invite parents. Contact the YA office for more information.
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
English Language Arts
Visual Arts
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Behind the Mask Theatre
Cat Mountain
Adapted from a book by Francoise Richard and inspired by a Japanese folk tale, this is the story of Sho, a servant girl who journeys to a strange and far-off mountain where she hopes to find her freedom and her lost cat. But to her dismay, the people she meets on the way all tell her that no one has ever returned from Cat Mountain! Performed solo, the little girl’s special visitor, in the form of a sacred ancestor, tells the tale with an assortment of masks, original music, traditional Japanese songs and theatre-styles.
Performance Time: 45minutes
Grade levels: 1-12
Audience Limit: 200
Single: $415 Double: $660* Triple: $870* Quad: $1,040*
Travel Fee: based on mileage
*Add $35 for 2 locations.
The Woman Who Outshone The Sun
The Woman Who Outshone The Sun is a story about a beautiful and mysterious woman with magical powers who is exiled from her mountain village. The river, the village's only source of water, leaves as well as this is a magic river in love with the heroine of this tale. Through their suffering over what they have lost, the villagers learn important lessons of tolerance, forgiveness, and the frailty of the ecosystem. Performed as a bilingual play (Spanish and English), and adapted from book by Rosalma Zubizarreta, based on a poem by Alejandro Cruz Martinez, which is inspired by a Zapotec folktale.
Performance Length: 45minutes
Grade levels: 1-12
Audience Limit: 200
Single: $830 Double: $1,320* Triple: $1,740*
Travel Fee: based on mileage
*Add $35 for 2 locations.
Add a Student Workshop
Two Behind the Mask Theatre artists lead students in design and construction of shadow puppets of their favorite characters in the plays, The Woman Who Outshone the Sun or Cat Mountain.
Grade Levels: 1-12
Participants: 25 students
Price: $170 per workshop (includes two artists)
Massachusetts Curriculum Links
Asian-Pacific Studies
English Language Arts
Foreign Languages
History and Social Science
Multicultural Studies
Theater
Visual Arts
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