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Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-in class is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Come make a mess at our house!
Work with others to make a puppet show in three hours! Black Cherry Puppeteer, Michael Lamason will lead participants through the process of developing a simple script, planning the show, making puppets and sets, as well as rehearsing and performing a simple puppet show. While this workshop is geared toward teens and adults, teachers will also gain skills to use in their classroom.
Have you been interested in calligraphy but aren't sure how to get started? Join Brittany DeNovellis from Novel Letter Studio for an introduction to fundamentals of modern calligraphy, using a brush pen. This workshop series will teach you about the supplies you can use, the basic shapes you need to know to get started, and how to combine those shapes into letters and words. After the class, you’ll take home your workbook and pens for your ongoing practice.
Students will learn and practice the basic movements of capoeira, both solo and with partners, while following the teacher through movements and sequences. Students will also learn the songs of capoeira and, through them, the Portuguese language and Afro-Brazilian history and culture. Students will sing as well as learn to play instruments such as berimbau, pandeiro, agogo, reco-reco, and atabaque as part of the class.
Get up close and personal with a few native species and create a little friend to take home. Including the likes of our corn snake, terrapin, and box turtle (animal participation may vary), learn about how each animal plays a role in our ecosystem, and interact with our animals in a safe way. Then, use felt to create your favorite of our animal friends!
Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-in class is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Come make a mess at our house!
Make your own tote bag with multidisciplinary teaching artist Jesse Lentzwiler! Use hand and machine sewing techniques to make your own tote bag that suits your personal style, with customization options for straps and shape. Pick your fabric, design your pattern, and leave with your new bag. Sewing skills not required, but we encourage you to take Mending with Style: A Maker's Workshop on February 15th at Creative Alliance to prepare for this class!
Shake out your sillies with song, nursery rhymes, puppet shows, instruments, and, of course, a dance party! Each class begins with a breathing exercise before transitioning into music and movement activities. Taught by Eliza Adams, a Maryland preschool teacher and musician, this class is designed for children 5 and under. Caretakers are welcome to join or watch!
Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-in class is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Come make a mess at our house!
Two art forms COLLIDE for Baltimore City school students! Taking place on the Baltimore City Public Schools professional development days, these camps are chock-full of SPECTACULAR arts for students in grades 3-8. Join School of Magic Arts, one of the only 365 day-a-year stage magic schools in the world, for a half-day Build Your Own Magic Camp! That’s right, we’re back at Creative Alliance after our incredible Card Camp in October and mind-blowing Mental Magic in January. This time around, we’ll be building (and learning to perform) one of the coolest stage illusions ever: a Stratosphere! Colored balls appear to change places inside of a tube right before the audience’s eyes. Students will be able to take home the prop that they build during the session.
For the other half of the day, we have the joy of working alongside craft extraordinaire and camp maestro Jesse Lentzwiler to build tiny worlds that stem from imagination and observation! With these dioramic explorations, we study the textures, atmosphere, and composition of spaces, and how miniature creations can capture and reveal the wonder of the world around us!
Shake out your sillies with song, nursery rhymes, puppet shows, instruments, and, of course, a dance party! Each class begins with a breathing exercise before transitioning into music and movement activities. Taught by Eliza Adams, a Maryland preschool teacher and musician, this class is designed for children 5 and under. Caretakers are welcome to join or watch!
Kerplunk! Family Art Drop-in class is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Come make a mess at our house!
Yes indeed, step right up, juggle right now in these workshops for aspiring jugglers and all-around great human beings from ages 6 to 600. Learn the basics of juggling, gaining the techniques to build a traditional three-ball cascade! Brush up on your skills, stretch the ol' brainpan, and increase your coolness factor by at least 300% (claim not evaluated by FDA). Each session is standalone, or attend all three to become a certified JUGGLING JUGGERNAUT. No experience required. Come play; it's fun.
Printmaking allows you to create the same image over and over. Use carving tools and rubber blocks to try out lino cut printing! We will look at the history of the lino print, and play with techniques and styles to create stamps. Participants are provided one 4x6 rubber block and expert tutelage from multidisciplinary artist Jesse Lentzwiler. What you do is up to you! Create one piece or many small ones. Be prepared for experimentation! Materials provided, but bring your own design references.
Cantando aprendo Español gives parents and caregivers fun and easy ideas in Spanish of things they can do with their children that encourage interaction and early literacy in this new language. The more they sing, the more they learn, and the more parents and caregivers feel comfortable with this new language!
Go Around the World with professional yoyo-er Abby Brodsky! Learn the exciting, dynamic, and fast-paced art of the yoyo—one of the world's oldest toys! Abby will teach you how to bring the yoyo up and down, walk the dog, rock the baby, and more! This is a workshop for Ages 8 to 108 anyone can learn how with just a little patience and practice!
Kerplunk! is great for younger kids and families! Join us in the Creativity Center every Saturday to create fun seasonal crafts and art projects based on current exhibitions! Kerplunk! is always free! Join us in the theater after you make your Kerplunk! creation for a screening of Peter Rabbit (2018), popcorn, and other concessions! This is a ticketed event. Be sure to purchase in advance or at the box office.
This workshop is an interactive learning experience in which the performing arts are harnessed to explore the powerful genre of social justice theatre. Participants will explore WombWork Productions’ unique methodology of social justice theatre, which has been applied in urban communities to share unapologetic truths about the effects of poverty, addiction, institutional racism and trauma. This experience will give each participant the opportunity to have their voices heard, create community through collective expressions, and demonstrate how arts and culture can catalyze the change needed in the world.
Yes indeed, step right up, juggle right now in these workshops for aspiring jugglers and all-around great human beings from ages 6 to 600. Learn the basics of juggling, gaining the techniques to build a traditional three-ball cascade! Brush up on your skills, stretch the ol' brainpan, and increase your coolness factor by at least 300% (claim not evaluated by FDA). Each session is standalone, or attend all three to become a certified JUGGLING JUGGERNAUT. No experience required. Come play; it's fun.
Cantando aprendo Español gives parents and caregivers fun and easy ideas in Spanish of things they can do with their children that encourage interaction and early literacy in this new language. The more they sing, the more they learn, and the more parents and caregivers feel comfortable with this new language!
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