Performances Slated for Young Audiences
Celebrate Black History Month with a Special Program on Diversity Featuring Author Michael Tyler
This program is based on the picture book "The Skin You Live In," which takes a cheerful look at human diversity by focusing on skin. Rhyming verses describe the many experiences that can be had in it ("The skin you have fun in; the skin that you run in; the skin that you hop, skip and jump in the sun in…"); the different shades in which it comes ("Your butterscotch gold skin, your lemon tart bold skin; your mountain high apple pie, cookie dough rolled skin!"); and the things that it is not ("It's not tall skin/or short skin,/or best in the sport skin").
Michael Tyler is a freelance writer specializing in fitness and social political commentary. Since age 8, he dreamed of one day becoming a children’s book author. That dream became reality with the release of "The Skin You Live In" in 2005, the first and only publication from the Chicago Children’s Museum.
February 12-15, 2008
Two performances daily at 9:30 and 11:00 am
Bachman Gallery in The Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Grades K-5
Tickets are $4 each for students and adults
Call 219/836.1839 ext. 100 to make reservations.
Dinosaurs!
Jim West and company are back with the puppet extravaganza Dinosaurs! It’s more than just dinosaurs, though. This show combines classical music, puppet construction and facts about dinosaurs into an engaging and funny
performance for children age 4-12. The show breaks down into four parts:
• Building a Tyrannosaurus Rex
• A shadow tale about the Overaptor
• A story of a little Brachiosaurus
• The construction of a huge Apatosaurus
As always, Jim presents plenty of creative puppet project ideas that can be carried out by students at home or in the classroom!
March 11–14, 2008
Two performances daily at 9:30 and 11:00 am
In the theater at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Grades K-6
Tickets are $5 each for students and adults
Call 219/836.1839 ext. 100 to make reservations.
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