Students explore the mechanics and physics of simple machines and discover how simple machines used in daily life make work easier and then design/build their own simple machines. (1 classroom period)
Fee: $125 plus mileage

Students examine the relationship between their left and right brains to explore the world through arts and science. Topics include perspective and optics, color and chemistry, and patterns and designs found in nature. (1 classroom period)
Fee: $125 plus mileage

Capoeira Mestre Joao Cascao from Portland’s Capoeira Senzala de Santos brings to students the rich cultural Afro-Brazilian background of capoeira: its movement, music, history, instruments, and forms. Students will be up and moving, and listening to or playing music that accompanies this intense and beautiful martial art. (1 classroom period)
Fee: $125 per classroom period

Actors from Knuffle Bunny give a lecture-demonstration on-stage at Merrill Auditorium highlighting the process of making this award-winning book come to life and giving students a behind-the-scenes peek at a live production. (1 classroom period)
Fee: $350

In this hands-on workshop, students assemble pre-designed puppets and create their own shadow puppet theater inspired by animal poems. From learning theater cues to creating their own animal puppet parade, students engage in the creative process and use their imagination while gaining a better understanding of poetry, puppets and animals.
(1-2 classroom periods)
Fee: $460 for the day

Mime artists from Imago Theatre present two interactive in-school classroom workshops that lead students through movement and theater exercises designed to make their own stories come alive. (1-2 classroom periods)
Fee: $350 per period

Students work with artist-educator puppeteers to design and create shadow puppets and then produce a performance based on animal poems either selected by the students or the teachers.
One-week Residency Fee: $2100 – for four classroom groups, one period a day for five days

Using the students’ own stories and experiences, the artists from Universes guide the crafting of spoken word poems celebrating students’ voices. The exciting and youth-resonating cultural form of hip-hop, poetry and music are brought together to create a singular, yet communal, theatrical moment. (1-2 classroom periods)
Fee: $350 per period

with Martin Steingesser from The Telling Room
Working with Portland’s first poet-laureate, students create poetry focused on the senses–creating and using imagery, simile, metaphor, associative thinking, repetition and variation, color and simplicity of style. Participants are encouraged to explore voice in their writing and the pleasures of speaking and hearing poems. (2 classroom periods)
Fee: $200 per classroom period