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Community Outreach
ArtStream can provide performing arts programming for your organization. We work in schools, provider agencies for persons with disabilities, senior facilities, hospitals and hospice organizations. We can also provide training workshops for your staff.
Contact us to see what we can do for you!
Disabilities
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN)
ArtStream continues its partnership with KEEN September 2010 through June 2011. Classes will be offered the third Sunday of each month starting Sunday September 19, 2010, from 3-4 pm at Tilden Middle School (11211 Old Georgetown Road Rockville, MD 20852).
view KEEN 2010-11 registration form
view pictures from the KEEN program
This is a music and movement classes are offered to young adults with profound disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, mental retardation and other severe health problems.
Instructor: Emilia O’Connor.
Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC)
ArtStream is once again partnering with Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC) to provide dance, yoga and visual arts classes for adults with autism.
view pictures from the CSAAC program
These powerful programs focus on increasing the communication abilities of adults with autism through movement, yoga, visual arts and music. The artists seek to establish comfortable environments in which to practice important relational skills such as eye contact, verbal and nonverbal skills, participation, communication and interaction.
This unique course works well with nonverbal and verbal adults with autism. The several nonverbal adults have smiled, laughed and danced at the possibility to communicate through the arts.
The ARC of Montgomery County
ArtStream will continue its partnership with the ARC of Montgomery County for the 2010-2011 season. We offer courses in movement and drama for adults with disabilities.
Langley Residential Support Services
ArtStream partnered with Langley Residential Support Services from 2009 to 2010, offering drama and movement classes for adults with intellectual disabilities.
The Fairfax Therapeutic Recreations Department
This partnership ran from 2009-2010 and culminated in an informal sharing of acting and improvisation.
Elementary & Middle Schools
Want ArtStream to come to your school??? We can offer dance, music, drama, and visual arts. Each class can be catered to your desired choices. Contact info@art-stream.org for more information.
The Forbush School
ArtStream has partnered with the Forbush School to bring classes to students with autism, ages 5-15. Classes met on Mondays from 12:00 - 2:00 pm, for Fall 2010 and Spring 2011.
ArtStream’s Music Classes at the Forbush School are a mix of songs and instruments, traditional and new, from cultures around the world. Time is spent exploring rhythms and melody while encouraging interaction and language use. Each class offers an introduction to new music, hands-on experiences with a variety of instruments, and opportunities for self-expression-- individually and as a group. The classes are taught by a professional musician.
ArtStream’s Puppetry Classes at the Forbush School give the students an opportunity to experience a variety of puppetry styles including hand puppets, rod puppets, and marionettes. Students develop fine motor skills through hands-on puppet manipulation. Puppetry also offers the students a creative outlet for self-expression; while encouraging positive interactions and language development; through storytelling, music and dance. The classes are taught by a professional puppeteer.
Past School Partners:
Dufief Elementary, MD
Field's Road Elementary
Glebe Elementary
Shaare Torah Pre-School, MD
Katherine Thomas Middle School, MD
View pictures from our Elementary School Programs
View pictures from our Middle School Programs
High Schools
Past School Partners:
Paul VI Catholic High School - Options Program
View pictures from our Paul VI original production - "First Day Jitters"
Want ArtStream to come to your school??? We can offer dance, music, drama, and visual arts. Each class can be catered to your desired choices. Contact info@art-stream.org for more information.
The Deborah Jean Arts in Hospitals and Hospice Program
Launched in the Fall of 2008, The Deborah Jean Arts in Hospitals and Hospice Program offers programming to area hospitals including NIH Children’s Inn, Georgetown Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children, Children’s Hospital, Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Allies in the Arts
In association with the American Red Cross, ArtStream brings the arts
to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Programs combine music, visual
art, poetry and storytelling all brought to bedsides of returning veterans who are recieving treatment. Wounded warriors and their families alike
benefit from active engagment in the arts, both creatively and
therapeutically. Research suggests active engagment in the arts helps
alleviate
anxiety and depression and may be able to shorten hospital stays.
Allies in the Arts Webinar
ArtStream's own Ermyn King will be joined by Judy Rollins of the American Red Cross to host a webinar for those people interested in bringing the arts to Wonded Warriors on July 20th at 2:00 pm. Hosted by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, this webinar will introduce participants to population-specific requirements for bringing creative expression to military hospitals. They will also explore common injuries from our current wars and the resultant issues they present for the Warriors, their families and the artist. Ermyn and Judy will share their experiences, their successes and their challenge in working with Wounded Warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with ArtStream's Allies in the Arts program.
Learn more about Allies in the Arts »
The Specialty Hospital of Washington
In Fall 2010, ArtStream offered hands on, multi-arts sessions for the Specialty Hospital of Washington, Capitol Hil Nursing Center. Residents were encouraged to let their creativity run free with sessions focused on visual arts, dance and movement.
We are looking for new senior facilities with which we can partner - classes are designed to fit your needs!
Please contact Ermyn at e.king@art-stream.org.
Knights of Glory Film and Web Project
Knights of Glory is a touring musical written specially for children and preteens who are living in hospitals and hospice care. Through the character Glory, children learn how to be strong through tough situations.
Knights of Glory toured local hospitals and hospice organizations in 2008 and 2009 and in the summer of 2009, it was turned into a full length movie-musical.
The film is currently in development as a ten-part interactive web series to be used by hospitals and hospice organizations throughout the country. It is designed to help children living in difficult situations make their own lives better through art.
To learn more about Knights of Glory, please visit our official Knights of Glory page.
Summer Grief Relief with Hospice Caring Inc.
ArtStream Inc. will be teaming up with Hospice Caring Inc. to present the Summer Grief Relief Family Program. These afternoon workshops are designed for children ages 4-14 and their parents/guardians to work towards a better understanding of their grief. Participants will be encouraged to share their stories through drama, visual arts, music and small discussion groups.
| Dates: | Saturday, July 23rd Sunday, August 14th |
| (register for one or both sessions) | |
| Time: | 1:00 - 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Hospice Caring Cottage in Bohrer Park 518 South Frederick Ave. Gaithersburg, MD 20877 |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Contact: | Toby Rabbin (301) 990-0854 |
Interactive Storytelling
Ermyn King, Art
Stream's Director Hospital and Hospice Programs, performs interactive
storytelling for small groups of patients and family members at local
hospitals. Ermyn's storytelling program has been spotlighted in
the Children's Inn Spring 2010 newsletter Innspirations.
"Through this
wonderful medium, Inn residents are given the opportunity to experience
empowerment and connect with heroes and heroines from traditional and
cross-cultural tales."
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Innspirations, Spring 2010
Puppet Show Series
ArtStream is proud to present our Puppet Series. We offer puppet shows for young audiences, each with a special healing or enlightening theme. Each show is between 30 and 40 minutes in length, and can be combined with a puppet-making workshop, for an additional fee.
Currently Booking
The Pirate’s Jules: Highly interactive, for kids age 3-12. Focuses on themes of the importance of the arts, play, fun, interaction with others, and setting aside the fixation on material things. Great for reminding us all to make the best of the here and now, and appreciate the treasure of family and friends.
Pursuing the Runes: Pursuing the Runes is a new interactive performance that explores ways to cope with grief and/or illness. In this production, the seven stages of grief are presented in a metaphor, which intrigue and captivate children of all ages.
The show gives life to the grief stages by representing them as characters that accompany a young girl on her journey to rescue her father from the clutches of a ferocious dragon. Set in front of the backdrop of Norse mythology, young Johanna sets out to track her father through the nine worlds with her dog, Knut. Along the way, they encounter a wacky troll named Steig Olafsen, who just won’t take “no” for an answer. Together they find clever ways to outwit the annoying and cunning Loki, the Norse god of mischief and the wicked minions he throws in their way.
Upbeat rock music accompanies this colorful, lively and exciting puppet and live-actor show. Recommended audiences, age 5 and up.
Next performance:
Thursday, June 30 at 5:30 pm
The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing Southeast
2041 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave SE
Washington, DC 20020
Lower Level Community Room
Available for booking for Spring and Fall 2011!
Email Ermyn at e.king@art-stream.org for details and pricing.
Check out this video trailer for Pursuing the Runes
Thanks to Patti Woolsey, Jose Diaz and Stephen Guidry for working to compile this preview!
Past Shows
Annie & Danny: based on a theme of diligence and perseverance in the face of adversity, while still giving of one’s self. Great for kids age 3-7, especially those dealing with disappointment or hardship. Highly interactive.
Emily’s Dragon: specifically written for children dealing with disabilities or illness. Deals with themes of “seeing your inner power, or magic within.” Appropriate for ages 5-10.
A Christmas Carol: the classic Dickens tale, told interactively, highlighting themes of caring, giving and selflessness. Great for helping kids become aware of reaching-out to those less fortunate. Appropriate for ages 5-12.
Adoption Support
Leadership, Empowerment and Action Program (L.E.A.P.)
L.E.A.P. is a youth development program that is open to middle school youth in Montgomery County who are adopted or in foster care with adoption plans. This project is funded by the Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation. It is a collaboration between the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.), Interages, Through the Kitchen Door and the Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts.
In November and December 2010, ArtStreamer Jennie Lutz led three drama based social skills workshops for these young people and it was a wonderful success. We look forward to working more with adoption support groups in the future!
Self-Advocacy Through the Arts
Self-Advocacy Workshops
These innovative workshops are specially designed for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to stand up for themselves. Through body-language and role-play techniques, a trained ArtStream teaching artist will work one-on-one to teach you and your group how to feel comfortable and confident in public and social situations. Self-Advocacy is a skill that many people struggle with, but the ability to make your own choices and stand behind them is vital to every day life.
ArtStream held its first Self-Advocacy Workshop on Wednesday, April 20th 2011 through the ARC of Montgomery County.
Want to bring Self-Advocacy Workshops to your community? Contact us at info@art-stream.org.
