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
Top Youth Speakers
Depending on what speaker we can cover a broad number of topics. Check out www.topyouthspeakers.com for more details.
Eileen C. Mack – Voice of the Mountains
Storytelling: Mother Goose; Mother Nature: general telling; helping children become tellers; One woman program: Voice of the Mountains.: Jeanne R.Foster
Shaundra Bartlett Lerman- Children’s Author and Illustrator
Author visit with equal interactive focus on writing and illustrating.
Jackie Sweeney
Poetry workshops/grades K-12, hands-on writing in classroom/boosts ELA scores/ethical thinking
Paige Jaeger – Who Will Roar If I Go?
Author Visit
Tom McCabe, The Teaching Teller presents Write Now!
Motivating children to read and write through stories, audience participation and simple writing lessons. Day-long visits and week-long visits.
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.