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SPECIAL PROJECTS & PRESS:
Samples of custom designed projects produced by Magical Rain Theaterworks
| 2003 New World Remix, Students at Covert Public Schools learned about the mix of cultures in the New World through a year long theater and creative arts project |  |
| 1999 "The Power of Place" children's play teaches lessons about respecting others. Grand Rapids Press. The earth is crafted from an Amana refrigerator box, but that makes the lesson in this play no less powerful... |  |
| 1997 "Stories of Prejudice Take the Stage" The Daily Telegram. Several area youths are learning that the best way to deal with prejudice is to act... |  |
2002 Summer Fair Theater, Students from the the Boys and Girls Club of Benton
Harbor performed a play with giant masks at county fairs
2001 Calling All Colors, Ensemble theater production with 300 fifth graders
from Benton Harbor (largely African American) and St. Joseph (largely white).2000
Emerging from the Cave Theater classes and a student production at the Kalamazoo
County Juvenile Home
1999 The Power of Place: Native American Culture Coordinated the collaboration
of Grand Rapids Public Museum, Academia de Espanol elementary school, Native
American artists and Magical Rain Theaterworks in this semester long arts education
program.
1996 - ’99 Caras y Mascaras (Faces and Masks) Hispanic American Council.
Theater arts classes for
middle school children with Latino cultural focus. Kalamazoo, MI
1998 Voices Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts. Theater classes for at-risk group
of 9-12 year old boys from Lakeside Home for Boys and Girls.
1997 Teens Against Drugs Chicago Youth Center. Theater classes for African American
high school students to create their own touring ensemble performing their own
play on issues of drug use and AIDS.
1997 Legend of the Fifth Sun Grand Rapids Summer Migrant Education Program.
Created theater production by training & consulting w/ entire staff and
student body (K-12).
1997 Diversity Theater Siena Heights College and M.S.U. Cooperative Extension.
Theater camp to train diverse group of middle school students to create their
own theater troupe performing on issues of diversity. Adrian, MI
1996 Teen Group Community Mental Health Services. Theater arts workshops for
teens with developmental disabilities. Kalamazoo, MI
1995 Children’s Creative Response to Conflict Three conflict resolution
workshops for elementary age children. Kalamazoo, MI
1995 Yo Puedo (I can!) Grand Valley State University. Theater retreat &
self discovery workshop for at-risk Latino high school students
1993 Ritual Theater Western Michigan University. Collaborated in design and
teaching of graduate level course in theater and ritual. Kalamazoo, MI
1991 Class Act Vine St. Alternative High School. Teacher in-service and classroom
instruction using theater improvisation to teach subjects. Kalamazoo, MI
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