About This Show
Arts 4 Kids Sake, a collaboration between Young Audiences of Massachusetts and Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY, is a free Saturday morning performance series for local children, specifically aimed to reach the Cambridge and Somerville communities. All shows begin at 10am.
Schedule
October 4
AFRICAN DANCE AND DRUMMING WITH BAMIDELE’S MARILYN MIDDLETON SYLLA
Travel across the globe and experience the dances, rhythms, folklore, and songs from West Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This program includes audience participation, authentic costumes and instruments and narration on African art, culture, and history.
October 11
WHY IS THE SKY? STORYTELLER JENNIFER JUSTICE
Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “Master Storyteller” Jennifer Justice offers Why is the Sky? in which Pour Quoi tales ask and answer questions, just like children. They engage the imagination and excite the creative desire of children to make up stories of their own.
October 18
CINDERELLA BY TANGLEWOOD MARIONETTES
Set in the eighteenth century and featuring a dozen richly costumed 30″ marionettes, the story unfolds as the pages of a giant book open to reveal each beautifully painted setting – the village square, the rustic kitchen, the magnificent ballroom, plus many more.
October 25
FOR HALLOWEEN: POEMS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, DAVID ZUCKER
David spooks and delights with a list of poems specifically tailored for the Halloween season by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Ogden Nash, Edward Lear, Hillaire Belloc and James Whitcomb Riley.
November 1
MOON STAR STORIES, STORYTELLER JENNIFER JUSTICE
Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “Master Storyteller,” Jennifer Justice shares Moon Star Stories from cultures around the world and explores where story ideas come from and how to create stories.
November 8
AMERICAN SAMPLER WITH MUSICIAN JEFF DAVIS
Relive our nation¹s heritage through songs of Revolutionary War heroes, Appalachian clogging songs, sailors¹ work songs, African-American banjo tunes, Irish fiddle tunes, cowboy ditties, and more! Jeff accompanies himself on myriad instruments, ranging from the nose flute to a one-of-a-kind fretless banjo.
November 15
AFRICAN DANCE AND DRUMMING WITH BAMIDELE’S MARILYN MIDDLETON SYLLA
Travel across the globe and experience the dances, rhythms, folklore, and songs from West Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This program includes audience participation, authentic costumes and instruments and narration on African art, culture, and history.
November 22
UNSEEN BORDERS, TONY TOLEDO AND KAREN ROSE GLICKMAN
As an American Sign Language Program, Unseen Borders presents students with an earful of stories and an eyeful of sign language, along with an international perspective on storytelling including stories from Finland, Germany and Italy.
November 29
PERSEUS & MEDUSA BY TANGLEWOOD MARIONETTES
Take a trip back in time to the dawn of civilization, to an ancient world of gods, goddesses, prophecies and heroes. Accompany Perseus through personal trials and glorious quests in this masterful production.
December 6
OREGON TRAIL WITH MUSICAN JEFF DAVIS
In 1846, Bostonian and historian Francis Parkman, then twenty-three years old and just graduated from Harvard, traversed the continent, returned, and then wrote his famous first book The Oregon Trail. Listens to songs of the people Parkman met on his trip: railroaders, immigrants on the Erie Canal, sailors on the Great Lakes, rafters on the Ohio River, African-American roustabouts steamboating on the Mississippi, pole-boaters struggling upstream on the Missouri, Sioux hunters, and pioneers plodding overland on foot, horseback and wagons.
