LBC expands after-school offerings to include ballet folklórico; donations matched!

Always aiming to increase access to the arts for more schoolchildren, this fall LBC launched a free, afterschool ballet folklorico dance program to inspire and empower more children through arts.

Based on the successful model of our Mariachi Program, LBC’s Ballet Folklorico Program now welcomes 26 students from grades 5-12. A few years ago, the Mariachi Program launched with similar numbers and has grown to more than 140 students today. Those mariachi students have traveled throughout the community and 

Tomás and the Library Lady

by Childsplay

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

9:30 am & 11:30 am

Grades K-5

A bilingual musical, based on the beloved book and true story of the Mexican-American author and educator Tomás Rivera, who became the first minority Chancellor in the University of California system.

Young Tomás knows all his grandfather’s stories by heart. His thirst for knowledge expands upon meeting an inspiring librarian, and the two find themselves learning more about each other than what’s written in pages. This moving production shows how self-esteem, reading, and education make anything possible.

11:30 am added due to popular demand!

NORTH The Musical

Tuesday, January 30, 2024
11:30 am added due to popular demand!

Grades 4-8

A powerful new musical set in the 1850s about a teenage boy and his mother who escape slavery in the deep south through the Underground Railroad. With an original score steeped in jazz and other historically Black music genres, NORTH is a moving story that explores the multi-faceted reality of Black life during the antebellum period. Explore the realities of slavery with powerful themes of optimism, bravery, playfulness, wonder, suspense, and mystery. Journey from rural Louisiana to the bustling city of New Orleans, a Maroons community in the Louisiana bayous, and the young town of Lawrence, Kansas in this story inspired by true accounts of escape through the Underground Railroad.

ARTS FOR ALL RESIDENCY

Story Ninjas Improvised Tales: A Costumed Approach to Narrative Creation

Instructors: Bridget Palmer

Grades: K-8

Subjects: Drama, English Language Arts

Ignite your students’ imagination and give them a “Yes…And…” attitude with evocative props and costumes that will have them jumping out of their seats and into the action, creating funny, fantastical, and poignant stories and adventures. In this exciting residency, students will collaborate, imagine, improvise, plan, revise, and perform original narratives integrating grade appropriate English language arts standards. In accordance with the teacher’s goals, specific conflicts or challenges can be woven into the play-making process, providing a rich opportunity for creative problem solving and collaboration around a specific theme. Younger students will present their stories in action and older students will write scripts and perform them. Facilitated by Bridget Palmer, Executive Director of A Theater for Children.

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS

Acting Right: Drama as a Classroom Management Strategy

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

8:00 – 11:00 am

Instructor: Sean Layne

Grades: K-8

Subjects: Drama, Interdisciplinary

Brook Hill Elementary School

This workshop takes the foundational elements of acting such as concentration, cooperation, and collaboration and creates a structured process, which can become the basis for effective classroom management every day. This engaging, step-by-step approach empowers students to take ownership of and be responsible for their own behavior. Learn how to help students build the skills necessary to establish a sense of self-control, accountability, and teambuilding in your classroom. This workshop is recommended for any classroom based in active, social, cooperative learning.

TOOLS FOR TEACHERS

Classroom Management for Teaching Artists

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

4:00 – 7:00 pm

Instructor: Sean Layne

LBC Education Studio

What is the current thinking in the field of classroom management and how does it apply to the unique set of circumstances a teaching artist faces in the classroom? This seminar explores classroom management from a teaching artist’s perspective. Participants explore strategies that help students focus and participate meaningfully while preventing many unwanted behaviors as they engage in a creative process.