From Page to Stage Program: It’s Curtains-Up For Future Lifelong Readers Again!
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Since 2011, LBC’s “From Page to Stage” program has turned a lot of local third graders into lifelong readers. During the pandemic shutdown, however, 3rd graders at three local schools missed their turn to participate. This year, it’s curtains-up for the From Page to Stage program, as a new crop of third graders jumpstarted their literary lifespans with a lot of fun-filled reading!
Three times a year, LBC brings a select book into the classrooms and gives each student a copy to keep. Using arts education techniques, LBC staff guides them through the reading and then describes how a theater company might adapt the story. We also talk to them about what to expect at the theater, and the students discuss how to behave differently than they do watching a movie at home or in a movie theater.
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Soon after, the students arrive at LBC to see a live adaptation of the book and have an exclusive opportunity to meet the cast to ask
questions after the performance.They have a milk-and-cookie party in the lobby, complete with donated milk from Clover Sonoma, one of the Center’s sponsors. Thanks to LBC’s donors and members, LBC covers the cost of the books, transportation to and from the theater, the show, and the party afterward.
“Everyone was ecstatic when we announced that From Page to Stage was returning,” said Melanie Weir, Associate Director of Education & Community Engagement. “Teachers have seen clear and measurable results for their students. They often find students want to go back to the book to learn more about it, and many take it home to read to parents, grandparents, and siblings.”
“Personally, it’s one of my favorite parts of my job,” Melanie added. “To be able to watch third graders grow more sophisticated in their literacy and in theater etiquette is such a privilege. With the first book and stage performance, their questions start off silly. By the third, they are asking about techniques, other types of adaptations, and jobs in the theater.”
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Larkin O’Leary from Common Ground Society presents at LBC
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Check out our Professional Development on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access in the Classroom |
The work of being part of a healthy community, free of bias, micro-aggressions, and racism is the responsibility of each of us, as individuals and, at LBC, as an organization. To that end, for the last three years, Your LBC has provided professional development for staff specifically toward addressing and reflecting on our practice toward inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in our work.
Last year, in addition to continuing to provide on-going training for staff, LBC began offering
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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access workshops—"IDEA in the Classroom”—to support teachers, administrators, teaching artists, and arts administrators in their areas of impact. Last fall, in partnership with Common Ground Society, participants explored a paradigm shift from accommodating differences to embracing them to create a culture of belonging. This spring, working with Reyna Brown, the focus of a two-part series will be on “Exploring Bias and Community Accountability” through the lens of the arts.
The work isn't easy or quick, but it is necessary, and LBC is committed to being part of the change toward a better community through ongoing conversation, self-reflection, programming, professional development, and, to the best of our ability, our actions. See below for series details.
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Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume
by The Kennedy Center Theater for
Young Audiences On Tour
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
9:30 am & 11:30 am
Grades PK-3
A feathery adventure about being scared, being brave, and believing in yourself, adapted from two children’s books by Kwame Alexander: Acoustic Rooster and Indigo Blume. With special guests, like Duck Ellington and Ms. Dairy Parton, this musical adaptation will have children and families dancing in their seats.
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ARTS INTEGRATION RESIDENCYMath Dance
Instructor: Bridget Palmer
Grades: K-3
Subjects: Dance, Math
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Turn math into fun movement, and you’ve got a learning equation that can’t be beat! Speaking of beats… This delightful residency links creative movement, dance, music, and imagination to energize your students through a memorable embodied exploration of the central math topics they need to master this year. The residency’s goal is to make math learning fun and simple, while helping your students practice the Social Emotional Learning skills of spatial awareness, listening, and self-control.
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TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Addressing ELA Standards through Theatre
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
8:00 – 11:00 am
Instructor: Hannah Dworkin
Grades: Focused on K-4,
appropriate for older grades
Subjects: Dance, Music,
Trauma Informed Teaching Practices
In-person at Helen Lehman Elementary School, Santa Rosa
Registration just $10
As documented by the work of Nadine Harris-Burke and others, one in eight children experience significant trauma in their lives, and these numbers have been exacerbated by the pandemic. This three-hour workshop will introduce participants to best practices in the field of Trauma Informed Teaching Practices through music and dance. The workshop will begin with a demonstration of effective, developmentally appropriate music and dance activities that are presented using the techniques based on the most current research in the field. The demonstration will be followed by a hands-on workshop, where educators will work in partnership with Hannah to integrate the techniques into their classrooms. Developed for teachers of grades K-3 and adaptable for
older grades.
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TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING
Teaching Artists Open Call
Saturday, March 25, 2023
9:30 – 12:00 pm
Instructor: José Soto
In-person at LBC!
Free registration!
Come prepared with a 5-minute warm-up, exercise, classroom demo, or management trick to show off your knowledge and skills with your fellow TAs and local organizations. Attendees will learn more about hiring opportunities for teaching artists at both LBC and the organizations present.
Presented in partnership with:
Alchemia
Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
Charles M. Schulz Museum
Healdsburg Center for the Arts
Kimzin Creative
Museum of Sonoma County
Petaluma Arts Center
Play Marimba!
Raízes Collective
Santa Rosa Symphony
Sonoma Community Center
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
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MARIACHI INSTITUTE
Learn to Play Mariachi!
Tue., Mar. 28, 2023
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Instructor: José Soto
In-person at LBC!
Registration just $10!
This workshop will focus on two sections and their role in mariachi: armonia and violin. Participants will explore chords most common to mariachi and, by the end of the two hours, will be able to play a phrase as a mariachi ensemble. Participants who complete this workshop may be eligible to work in the Center’s summer camp program.
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IDEA IN THE CLASSROOM
Exploring Bias and Community Accountability Through the Arts
A two-part series. Participants should plan to attend both sessions.
Instructor: Reyna Brown
Registration just $20 for both sessions!
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Part I
Wednesday April 5, 2023
4:00 – 6:00 pm
In-Person at the LBC Education Studio!
Join us for an in-person immersive two-hour workshop to explore the emotional impact of unconscious bias using art, music, and poetry. This workshop is crafted to foster a sense of community while dramatizing certain experiences that can make people uncomfortable as a tool for personal growth. In this session participants can expect to share personal testimonies, engage in theater activities, and take-home tools for further reflection on our personal relationship to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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Part II
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Virtual!
Offered as a supplement to our first workshop, this 90-minute Zoom session will focus on sharing structures for communal accountability moving forward. Participants can expect to walk away with equitable communication techniques, an understanding of restorative practices, and a heightened awareness of one’s personal responsibility to cultivating equitable spaces.
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Active 20-30 Club of Santa Rosa #50
David and Deborah Ballati
Michael and Susan Barrett
Carol Beattie/Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Mike and Karen Bergin
Gordon Blumenfeld
Sanford and Jo Anne
Bressick
Sara and Dixon Browder
Carmen and Perri Castaldi
Rena Charles and Alex Klado
Jose A. Chibras-Sainz, M.D.
Anonymous Fund of CFSC
Bob and Sandy Comstock
Audrey Bush and Chris Crispo
Patricia Daniels
Wes and Carol Daniels
Albert and Sally Davies
Greg and Melinda Dexter
Joanne Dow/JPMorgan Charitable Giving
Herb and Jane Dwight
Carroll Estes
Ridgely Evers and Colleen McGlynn/DaVero Farms & Winery
Joel and Maureen Feldman
Kerry Francis and John Jimerson
G.C. Micro Corporation/Belinda Guadarrama
Kacy and Kenneth Gott
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Julia L. Grant/Community Foundation Sonoma County
Carol Hanes-Nason
The Robert and Shirley Harris Family
Foundation
Gary Heck/The Heck Foundation
Marilyn and Robert Heller
Gizz Howard
Jeff Hudson and Ann Lobdell Hudson
Jeff and Barbara Ireland
In memory and honor of Selma Mayer Isenberg and her son, Jean Isenberg
Tim and Ariel Kelley/The Foundation for Global Sports Development
Nick and Krissy Kyjovsky
Dina and Al Lopez
Lise L. Luttgens and Richard R. Johnson
Anonymous Fund of Marin Community Foundation
Frank Martin-Vegue
Jess and Debra Marzak
Cameron and Ashley Mauritson
Robi McMinn/Luxe Places Int'l Realty
Lewis Meyers
Bruce and Lauren Morrison
Bill and Christine Nelson
Rick Nowlin and Don Strand
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Kenneth A. Picerne Foundation
Carlo Proto and Sheila Abdallah in memory of Nathan Abdallah Proto
Bonnie Raines
Pierre
Ratte
Andrew and Monica Rowley/Goals Foundation
Santa Rosa Violence Prevention Partnership CHOICE Mini-Grant
Robin Seltzer and Bill Wertzberger
Rekha Skantharaja
Daniel T. Steele Jr. and Juneko Steele
Marlene and Martin Stein/Jewish Community Foundation
Sherry and Pete Swayne
Leticia Trevino and David Vandergriff
Ellen and Chuck Wear
John and Laura Whiting/Schwab Charitable Fund
Greg and Margie Yates
Anonymous (3)
A special thanks for this year’s very generous support from Norma J. Person, in Memory of Evert Person, and the Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation for Evert Person’s ArtReach and The Evert Person Bus Fund
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