Renu Ramakrishnan – Journey To India
Discover the vibrant and varied culture of India-Art, festivals, dance, music, dress, food,people, places, crafts and more!
Visits with Grama Tippy-Toes
Ready-to-go themes include Snowy Owls, Arctic Animals, Friendship and Feelings, Baby Chicks, Health and Exercise, Courtesy and Respect, Habitats around the World and Camping with Grama.
Tango Fusion Dance Company
The joy of dance and the cultural impact it has had on communities throughout history.
Veena Chandra – Dance and Music School of India
Indian customs, traditions, culture, music, dance and food
Kate Messner – Author Visit
Reading, Writing, & Research: A Book’s Journey
Albany Pine Bush
Environmental education where learning comes alive in a globally rare, locally distinct ecosystem.
Kevin O’Keefe – Circus Minimus
The One-Man Circus in-a Suitcase Circus Around the World Residency
Roger Day (Loyd Artists) – Musical Storytelling
Roger Day writes and performs award-winning children’s music that tickles the imagination with infectious tunes and rhythms and inspiring characters.
Billy Jonas (Loyd Artists) – Music and Storytelling
Billy Jonas believes that creating a bright future starts with kids. Using homemade and re-cyclable “re-percussion” instruments, songs that celebrate community, as well as personal and planetary ecology, his think-outside-the-box educational performances occur at schools, colleges, universities and libraries around the country. Billy’s goal is to plant musical seeds, that will help grow creative, open-minded, engaged and open-hearted citizens of the world.
Some ask: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Billy Jonas asks: “What is the sound of 600 sets of keys jingling on the downbeat? And how shall we inspire the audience to do it?” For 25 years, Billy Jonas, performer, singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator, has perfected the art of the neo-tribal hootenanny around the globe – original songs performed with a generous dose of audience participation. Jonas and his band perform using voice, guitar, and industrial re-percussion – homemade creations of buckets and barrels, keys and cans, bells and body percussion. Each concert is a soul-spelunking, heart healing, joy-filled journey of spirited music that is accessible to anyone and everyone, regard- less of age or cultural background.
Doug Berky (Loyd Artists) – Storytelling
Doug Berky has been creating and evolving his own brand of physical theater for over thirty years. His performances weave together classic theatre forms of mime, mask theatre, circus arts, physical comedy and storytelling. Doug is also known internationally for his mask construction. He designs and constructs the masks for his own performances as well as creates all of the sets, choreography, scripts and many of the costumes.
Hobey Ford’s Golden Rod Puppets (Loyd Artists) – Puppet Storytelling
Internationally renowned in the puppetry field, and an award-winning performer, Hobey Ford is known for his excellence in puppetry performance and craft as well as his skill as a master storyteller. He designs and constructs all of his Golden Rod Puppets as well as the beautiful sets that surround them, and he performs his original works all over the world. His performances incorporate a variety of puppetry styles: Bunraku, rod marionettes, Foamies and shadow puppetry.
Hobey has received the highest awards for his brilliant and priceless contributions to the world of puppetry: two-time winner of puppetry’s highest honor, the UNIMA Citation of Excellence, recipient of three Jim Hensen Foundation grants and The Hermitage Fellowship.
He tours a number of family and student performances as well as conducts community, student and teacher workshops. Mr. Ford tours one performance per tour.