Education and Outreach

Fall 2011 Opportunities

Rock the Pen! is an interactive poetry workshop for middle and high school students and we bring this program directly into your classroom.  The Bride has partnered with regional and nationally recognized spoken word arts to provide students with a forum to expound on issues they face in their daily lives.  Students are introduced to and learn about spoken word structural and aesthetic forms.  Each program includes a presentation of original work by a featured poet, Q&A exploring the themes presented in the work and the poet’s creative process.  Students are given a writing exercise and offered an opportunity to share the work they created.

To schedule a visit to your school, class or afterschool program, call or email, Lisa Nelson-Haynes, Associate Director, 215-925-9914, ext. 21 or lisa@paintedbride.org.  Requested donation is $50. per visit.

 

Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra is a hand-drumming percussion ensemble rooted in rhythm traditions from four corners of the world.  It features 12 of the region’s most disciplined and renowned hand drummers who join together rhythms of the North Indian tabla, Afro-Cuban bata, west African djembe and Afro-Brazilian samba.  The day’s activities will also include a Q&A with the musicians and students.  Spoken Hand consistently offers an energetic and educational experience loved by children and adults.

Ed Day performance with Spoken Hand at the Painted Bride is Thurs., Oct. 27, 10:30am – 12 noon. Tickets are $7.  per student.

HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS, co-presented with Gas & Electric Arts and inspired by the award-winning children’s picture book of the same name by author Eric Kimmel and illustrator Trina Schart Hyman, this artful stage adaptation is told through innovative physical theater, live klezmer music and hand-crafted puppetry. Warmth and humor prevail in this spine-tingling alternative holiday tale for elementary and high school students.

School performances are Tues., Dec. 20 and Weds., Dec. 21 at 10am at the Painted Bride.  Tickets are $10. per student.

To learn more about these programs and the Painted Bride Art Center call Lisa Nelson-Haynes at 215-925-9914, ext. 21 or lisa@paintedbride.org.

 

Thank you to our generous supporters who fund our Education and Outreach programs:

The Douty Foundation

Dolfinger McMahon Foundation

Elsie Lee Garthwaite Foundation

Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Fund

Lindback Foundation

Lomax Family Foundation

PECO

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Samuel S. Fels Fund

Union Benevolent Association

Verizon Foundation

Walter J. Miller Foundation