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Laura
Freeman – www.greenkid.com
Iris - Goddess of the
Rainbow
"
Iris Saves the Land of Black and White" story and music
by Laura Freeman, puppets and stage by Heather Jarry. Iris, goddess of the rainbow, must bring color to the land of
Black and White. The KING has banned all colors because of a "horrible
coloring accident as a child".
Laura and Heather take the kids on a marvelous adventure. They
will hear- a song for every color in the rainbow - they will
see a crying whale - they will fly with a purple dragon.
Laura Freeman,
Iris Visits the Land of Black and White Schedule
Pre K – 2nd graders
Artist will
travel to schools
Monday September 24th
8:15 am Fannin Elementary
10:30 am Kerens Elementary
1:45 pm Bowie Elementary
Tuesday September 25th
8:30 am Mildred Elementary
10:15 am Carroll Elementary
1:30 pm Rice Elementary
Wednesday September 26th
8:15 am Frost Elementary
10:15 am Blooming Grove Elementary
1:30 pm Dawson Elementary
Thursday September 27th
8:15 am Navarro Elementary
10:15 am Sam Houston Elementary
1:30 pm Collins Catholic School
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Art + Music =Math,
October Arts Festival, 3rd – 4th
graders
October 1 – 5, 2007
Directed by Julio Suarez
YMCA Optimist Room, Corsicana, TX
Teachers Guide
“ART + MUSIC = MATH” is a five day arts festival designed for
approximately 1800 third and fourth grade children in Corsicana and Navarro
County. The hands-on children’s festival integrates the visual arts and
performing arts in examining the relationships between the arts and the study
of mathematics! The goal of this year’s festival’s theme is to
appreciate the similarities between math concepts and art ideas. The very basic
elements of art (e.g. line, shape, form) and principles of design in art and
music (e.g. rhythm, pattern and perspective) parallel the basic abstract ideas
of math: geometry, symmetry, proportion and problem solving. Words like “elegant” and “beautiful” are
used constantly by mathematicians to describe paths of reasoning and proofs.
Artists and musicians create beauty and aesthetic harmony by creating works
derived from putting together “abstract organizations of details” into
meaningful order.
Guest artists Julio Suarez, VET and Michael Kenny will demonstrate the tie-ins
between math and the arts with festival activities to illustrate creative similarities
between the two. Julio Suarez, a professional visual artist, art educator and
festival director, will teach his students to create colorful “Number
Art” designs with stylized numerical shapes and mathematical symbols
associated with math operations. Using markers and cardstock, participants
will create original and personalized symbolic numbers in the style of Jasper
Johns and Charles Demuth.
VET, a professional mixed media artist and art educator (specializing in working
with children), will teach the students the art of quilt-making using construction
paper cut-out shapes that participants can manipulate into original patterns
to create small paper quilts. Using color, geometric repetition, composition
and organization, students will create unique quilt collages.
Michael Kenny, a board certified musical therapist and percussionist will
share his knowledge of music and a variety of musical styles and lead festival
goers through math-like exercises in repetition, rhythm, individual and group
participation and harmony.
The goal of “ART = MUSIC = MATH” arts festival is to enrich the
children with an appreciation for the relationship between the arts and math
and the connection between abstract symbols as meaningful tools for expression
and problem solving. The activities of the festival should inspire their own
growth in arts awareness, math appreciation and self-expression. Finally, the
skills to finding competency in art and math (creative thought vs. logical
thought, respectively) ultimately require using an integration of both school
subjects in effective learning and problem-solving applications.
October Arts Festival
October 1-5, 2007
3rd and 4th graders
YMCA Optimist Room Monday, October 1
8:45 – 10:00 Carroll 4th grade & Collins Catholic
10:15 – 11:30 Frost 3rd and 4th grade
12:00 – 1:15 Carroll 3rd grade
1:30 – 2:45 Mildred 3rd grade
Tuesday, October 2
8:45 – 10:00 Kerens 3rd and 4th grade
10:15 – 11:30 Rice 3rd grade
12:00 – 1:15 Rice 4th grade
1:30 – 2:45 Mildred 4th grade
Wednesday, October 3
8:45 – 10:00 Dawson 3rd and 4th grades
10:15 – 11:30 Fannin
12:00 – 1:15 Fannin
1:30 – 2:45 Fannin
Thursday, October 4
8:45 – 10:00 Blooming Grove 3rd
10:15 – 11:30 Blooming Grove 4th
12:00 – 1:15 Bowie
1:30 – 2:45 Bowie
Friday, October 5
8:45 – 10:00 Bowie
10:15 – 11:30 Navarro
12:00 – 1:15 Navarro
1:30 – 2:45 Navarro
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ScrapArtsMusic
(SAM) –
www.scrapartsmusic.com
November
13-15, 2007
SAM Study Guide About SAM's Instruments
SAM Media Kit
About ScrapArtsMusic
ScrapArtsMusic (SAM) is
the brainchild of Gregory Kozak, a multi-talented Vancouver-based
percussionist who learned the art of welding in order to create
new instruments and expand his compositional palette. He’s a composer
and musician schooled in jazz and world music, who draws inspiration from the
avant-garde composers of the 20th century.
Gregory had grown frustrated by the limitations of conventional percussion
performance. He set out to create new instruments and a ‘next generation’ ensemble
that would bring his unique and energetic musical vision to life. Along with
his artistic collaborator and ScrapArtsMusic co-founder Justine Murdy, he scoured
construction sites and scrap yards looking for great-sounding plastic pipes,
hoses, coils, plumbing fixtures, wooden planks, steel bowls and sheet aluminum—anything
with the potential to make music. From industrial surplus he fashioned over
a hundred beautiful one-of-a-kind instruments that gave him access to an entirely
new sonic realm. Intentionally wanting to explore the movement possibilities
embodied in percussion music, Kozak put the instruments on wheels, enabling
them to move with the players in fluidly synchronized choreography. Kozak then
invited a group of stellar percussionists to join him on stage, and SAM was
born.
SAM made its inaugural performance in Vancouver in 1998, and word quickly
spread about the local musicians with a unique spin on music, movement, rhythm
and recycling. Within short order, the group was invited to perform before
large crowds at NHL games, NBA games, Earth Day Celebrations, and the Pacific
National Exhibition*. Since then, SAM has developed 90 minutes of original
repertoire composed for mobile, invented instruments, and has thrilled thousands
of audience members across Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Australia
and China.
While SAM has become renowned for its energetic, highly-physical performances,
the group keeps its focus first and foremost on the music. Using hand-forged
instruments to play original music, SAM builds on the traditions of world percussion
and “outsider music” fuelled by genre-defying trailblazers such
as Harry Partch, Wendy Mae Chambers and the Baschet Brothers. SAM’s music
draws on established world music traditions and infuses it with 21st Century
sensibilities to create infectious music that sounds like nothing else. The
Belfast Telegraph praised SAM as “… both ear and eye boggling… original
music expertly played and choreographed into a remarkable show.” Australia’s
The Age declared “… an exciting sonic mix of rhythmic interplay
and juxtaposed sounds from the most finely polished scrap metal I ever seen.
... Even for the percussively jaded, this group is a knock-out.” And
the Topeka Capital-Journal noted “The quintet's emotionally stirring
music made the point that percussion music can be more than mere stomps or
bangs on cans."
In 2001, SAM released Phon, a CD of original music, and in 2002, the group
was nominated for a prestigious West Coast Music Award in the popular category
of Best Live Performance. In 2003, Gregory Kozak was commissioned to create
a new work-- Composition for Sighchordions and Strings-- for the Chamber Orchestra
of Philadelphia and SAM. It premiered to great acclaim at the Kimmel Center.
The high quality of musicianship and the energy and playfulness of the choreography
have given SAM surprisingly wide appeal.
Each year, SAM continues to bring its dynamic and bold performances to a growing
global audience. SAM has accepted invitations to perform at numerous international
cultural festivals, including the prestigious Belfast Festival in Northern
Ireland and Fórum Universal de las Culturas 2007 in Monterrey, Mexico.
SAM has also headlined at world-renowned percussion events including Big Bang
and Tromp Festivals in Holland, World Percussion Spectacular in Australia,
and PASIC in the USA. In 2008, SAM will bring its adrenaline-laced performances
and innovative workshops to festivals and theatres across Europe, the UK, Latin
America, China and the USA.
ScrapArtsMusic is represented by John Lambert & Associates. (http://www.johnlambert.ca)
*The National Hockey League (NHL) is the premier professional ice hockey league
in the world, and one of the North American major professional sports leagues.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the USA's premier professional
men's basketball league
Scrap Arts Music
6th-12th grades
Corsicana High School Auditorium
Tuesday November 13, 2007
| 9:00 am |
Collins Middle School |
| 1:15 pm |
Drane Middle School |
Wednesday November, 2007
| 10:15 am |
Collins Catholic School
CISD 5th graders
Blooming Grove (9th-12th grades)
Mildred (9th-12th grades)
Rice (9th-12th grades)
Dawson (9th-12th grades)
Kerens (9th-12th grades)
Frost (9th-12th grades) |
| 1:15 pm |
Blooming Grove (6th – 8th grades)
Mildred (6th – 8th grades)
Rice (6th – 8th grades)
Dawson (6th – 8th grades)
Kerens (6th – 8th grades)
Frost (6th – 8th grades) |
Thursday November, 2007
| 9:00 am |
CHS |
| 7:00 pm |
Concert |
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