Bring the Arts to your students!

Five ways to engage with Versa-Style Dance Company at LBC

While LBC brings hundreds of performances to our community every year, occasionally we get to do something extra special. Sometimes, the opportunity presents itself for us to also offer a School Show for grade school students, or a Master Class to allow for direct interaction and training from those artists, or even a Community Dialogue that sparks meaningful conversation on timely issues and topics. This is just one of the ways we strive to fulfill our mission to bring outstanding presentations to every corner of our community. That being said, it’s a tall order to ask all of those things from an artist. It’s never been done!

Until now. This November, LBC is proud to present Versa-Style Dance Company, part of the Rodney Strong Dance Series. Versa-Style uses street dance vernacular as a vehicle of expression. Their work dives into the concept of freedom from all angles, exploring questions from an evolutionary and ancestral lens, and how art is infused in the fabric of who we are. In addition to a public performance, Versa-Style will perform a School Show performance for middle and high school students, a Master Class , AND a Community Dialogue with a special focus on young people and educators. In addition, LBC is offering a special Teacher’s Night Out through our TEAM program, with a limited number of free tickets to the public performance for local educators!

Through the five different opportunities to engage, Versa-Style Dance Company has helped Your LBC provide something for everyone!

Enjoy a night out on us!

Teachers Experiencing Arts Meet-Up (TEAM) serves as a teacher’s night out, while also introducing educators to aspects of the Center’s programming they may not have experienced. It also gives teachers the chance to help us shape our programs to better serve them and their students. Each event revolves around an arts activity tied to one of our Education and Community Engagement program.

Coming soon!
LBC is offering a limited number of free tickets to the public performance of Versa-Style Dance Company with pre-show reception for local educators!

Rodney Strong Dance Series

Versa-Style Dance Company

Thursday, November 10, 2022, at 8:00 pm with post-show discussion

Pre-show reception for educators participating in TEAM!

For more information, email Chrystie Prokopakis, Education Operations & Services Supervisor, or call 707.800.7504.

The Pout-Pout Fish
by TheaterWorksUSA

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
11:30 am
Grades PK-2

The poutiest ever fish frown turns upside down in this new musical, featuring whimsical puppets and live performers in a sweeping oceanic adventure. When Mr. Fish sets out on a quest to find Miss Clam’s missing pearl, he discovers there is more to him than his permanently plastered pout. Swim along with live actors and puppets in this colorful adaptation of The New York Times [ital] best-seller.

Hangin' with the Giants
by JazzReach

Tuesday, February 21, 2023
9:30 am
Grades K-4

This enthusiastic multi-media program introduces students to the rich history of jazz and to the names, faces, and music of some of its many masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie. Your students will love when the jazz greats come to life before their eyes as cartoon characters on an energetic talk show, with a live band on stage to play their greatest tunes! The fun, highly engaging presentation also features a charismatic host.

Yes Indeed!
Celebrating the Great American Blues Tradition
by JazzReach

Tuesday, February 21, 2023
11:30 am
Grades 5-8

Instill a greater appreciation, awareness, and understanding of the rich history of the blues in your students with this interactive program. Yes Indeed! demonstrates the blues’ roots in work songs, spirituals, hymns, field hollers, and chants of 19th century southern U.S. The distinct sound emerged as a creative expression for persisting through hardship and prevailing over adversity. In discovering this uniquely American musical style, students will identify the blues as the inspiration for R&B, funk, gospel, rock, and hip hop.

ARTS INTEGRATION RESIDENCY
Ecosystem in a Box
Instructor: Bridget Palmer
Grades: 3-5
Subjects: Drama, Science

This imaginative, immersive residency uses theater techniques to invite students into a personal exploration of organisms, ecosystems, and the vital role human impacts on natural resources play in the balance of nature. Working in small groups, students will use research skills, imagination, and oral speaking skills to present a short performance in which they embody the animals in the eco-system that they are studying. Then they’ll share their discoveries with their classmates. Classroom teachers are invited to suggest specific units to explore through this fun and memorable residency. Artist will provide simple costume elements.

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Combining Arts Education with Social Emotional Learning Techniques
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
8:00 – 11:00 am
Grades Covered: 3-6
Instructor: Jess Mercer
Steele Lane Elementary School
Santa Rosa

Explore the techniques in combining artistic expression with Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in a classroom setting. The workshop will begin with a trauma-informed SEL-based demo lesson, combining art, the five senses, and SEL techniques. The end of the session will allow time for feedback, best practices for implementing techniques, and questions.

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING
Lesson Planning for In-School Instruction
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Instructor: Hannah Keefer
Virtual

Designed for teaching artists new to working in school settings or just new to the craft, this session will cover the key elements of a strong lesson, how to build a curriculum plan, working with a classroom teacher, and tailoring your work to a teacher’s expectations. Bring a short lesson as practice material and plan to leave with a flexible template for classroom teaching.

Defining ableism: Disabilities take many forms, including visible and invisible ones. The same can be said about discrimination against individuals with disabilities. In this session, we will start the conversation about ableism from the perspective of disabled people. We will learn from the personal journeys of parents and educators confronting their own ableism. Through these conversations, participants will come away with tools to recognize and challenge ableism within their entire school community.

Aerena Galleries & Gardens

Ann Allan/Schwab Charitable Fund
Hon. David and Deborah Ballati/Schwab Charitable Fund
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
Tim and Mary Louise Bucher/Fidelity Charitable Fund
Carmen and Perri Castaldi
Rena Charles and Alex Klado
Jose A. Chibras-Sainz, M.D.
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
Ridgely Evers and Colleen McGlynn/DaVero Farms & Winery
Joel and Maureen Feldman
Kerry Francis and John Jimerson

Kacy and Kenneth Gott
Julia L. Grant/Community Foundation Sonoma County
Belinda Guadarrama/G.C. Micro Corporation

Ed and Kathleen Hamilton/Tekberry Staffing

Carol Hanes-Nason

Heffernan Insurance Brokers

Marilyn and Robert Heller

Gizz Howard

Jeff Hudson and Ann Lobdell Hudson

Christopher and Amy Hunsberger

Jeff and Barbara Ireland

In memory and honor of Selma Mayer Isenberg and her son, Jean Isenberg

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
Grace Navarro and Ed Ticoulat
Bill and Christine Nelson
Rick Nowlin and Don Strand

Norma J. Person, in Memory of Evert Person
Carlo Proto and Sheila Abdallah in memory of Nathan Abdallah Proto

Pierre Ratte

Andrew and Monica Rowley/Goals Foundation

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

Andy Tautges and Mary Sandberg

Leticia Trevino and David Vandergriff

Jim and Kay Vick

Ellen and Chuck Wear

John and Laura Whiting/Schwab Charitable Fund

Greg and Margie Yates

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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