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Past Projects
Classes
INCLUSIVE PERFORMING ARTS CLASSES
These classes are specifically designed for the needs of adult actors with cognitive and/or physical disabilities.
Actors focus on character development, voice, improvisation, movement and other acting techniques. Sometimes music and visual arts are also offered as a part of these classes.
Classes have been offered since Spring of 2006.
Arlington Adult Inclusive Performing Arts Classes are offered in Spring and Summer.
Silver Spring Adult Inclusive Performing Arts Classes are offered in Fall, Spring and Summer.
Gaithersburg Adult Inclusive Performing Arts Classes are offered in Fall and Summer.
SUMMER PROGRAMS
The Roving Muse
Everyday is a new adventure with The Roving Muse Summer Program
The Roving Muse involves a morning cultural field trip, a lunch break and then an afternoon class in dance, drama or music. Designed for adults or older teens with developmental disabilities. The program was offered August 4-15, 2008.
View photos from The Roving Muse's 2008 adventures.
Outreach
CHILDREN
Bilingual Puppet Workshops
ArtStream partnered with Teatro de la Luna in the Fall of 2007 for a series of puppetry workshops. ArtStreamer Sally Kinka instructed bilingual students from a low-income neighborhood in script creation, puppet building, puppet manipulation, and rehearsals that concluded with a show for their parents.
The workshops began Sept. 9, with the final performance on Nov. 18, 2006. The classes were team taught in English and Spanish 
by Sally and a member of Teatro de la Luna's staff. The workshops were offered free-of-charge to the students thanks to a generous grant, written by the wonderful people at Teatro. We are very excited to have partnered with this fine theatre company. These Saturday morning activities provided a fun and creative outlet for some well-deserving kids.
Preschool Programs
February through May 2007, ArtStream provided dance and drama classes for preschoolers at the Shaare Torah Preschool in Gaithersburg, MD. Classes were taught by Jennie Lutz and Sally Kinka.
January through March 2006, ArtStream provided curriculum "Enrichment Arts Classes" for the Epworth Preschool and Kindergarten located in Gaithersburg, MD. Taught by Sally Kinka.
Elementary & Middle Schools
Katherine Thomas School
In 2008, ArtStream offered classes at the Katherine Thomas School in Rockville. Sally Kinka taught a Puppetry Class for Middle Schoolers there, with assistance by Kate Baasch. The students enjoyed making their own "latex head" hand puppets, as well as creating an original script for a puppet performance at the end of the school year. The class was quite enthusiastic, and the puppets looked fantastic!
DuFeif Elementary School
In Fall 2007, ArtStream began a new partnership with DuFief Elementary School in Gaithersburg, MD. Jennie Lutz taught drama to 1st and 2nd graders and Sally Kinka instructed 3rd thru 5th graders in drama techniques.
Fields Road Elementary School
In Fall 2007, ArtStream began a new partnership with Fields Road Elementary School in Gaithersburg, MD.
HOSPICE & GRIEF WORK
Knights of Glory Staged Reading
On May 1, 2008, ArtStream, in conjunction with Hospice Caring of Montgomery County, presented a staged reading of an original musical play, written by Sally Kinka, with music by Daniel Villar. The staged reading of Knights of Glory was made possible by a generous grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, presented to Sally as an individual artist. The work was written as a healing allegory, which traces the journey that a young person goes though when dealing with challenges such as life-threatening illness or grief. The reading was attended by invited guests in the Hospital and Hospice fields who provided feedback on its content.
Camp Caring
On May 20, 2006, ArtStream was invited back to provide entertainment for Camp Caring. ArtStream performed the interactive puppet show "The Pirate's Jules," written by Sally Kinka and performed by Sally Kinka and Emily Anderson. Everyone present was able play the "Pirate Crew" with their own, hand-made sock puppets, which ArtStream members helped them to create at a puppet-making workshop prior to the performance. 
The Pirate's Jules is a fun-loving look at the importance of play.
In May of 2005, ArtStream performed the Interactive Play "That Knights of Glory" for the campers of Camp Caring, a camp for children who have lost one or both parents, sponsored by Hospice Caring in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The play was written by Sally Kinka and its theme deals with coping with life's challenges. The children in the audience participated with puppets and helped to decide the ending.
Camp Friendship
On July 10, 2005, two of ArtStream's artists conducted a puppet workshop for Camp Friendship in Laytonsville, Maryland. This is a camp for children who have cancer and their siblings, sponsored by the Carol Jean Cancer Foundation. The children also made sock puppets. Then, on July 12, 2005, along with a professional puppeteer and musician, the children participated in an original interactive puppet show, The Pirate's Jules, providing relief from dealing with the stress of living with cancer.
DISABILITIES
Provider Agencies and Other Organizations
Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC)
ArtStream provided Dance, Poetry, Movement, and Yoga Classes for Adults with Autism in programs run by Community Services for Autistic Adults and Children (CSAAC),
a provider agency in Maryland from September 2005 through July 2007. The goal was to stimulate and encourage participation, communication and interaction, which are important for people with autism. The program was well received by the agency and clients. ArtStream is currently collaborating with CSAAC.
ArtStream can provide performing arts classes to interested provider agencies as a collaborative community project supporting the inclusion of individuals with disabilities. Classes in dance, drama, poetry, puppetry, music, and visual arts will be tailored for each agency and each group. Instructors are professional working artists with expertise in working with this population.
Kids Enjoy Exercise Now
ArtStream partnered with Kids Enjoy Exercise Now from September 2006 through June 2007 to teach once monthly music and movement classes to young adults with profound disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, mental retardation and other severe health problems. Taught by ArtStreamers Carol Gulley and Emilia O’Connor. Assisted by Malinda Ellerman, Jennie Lutz, and Iris Schwarz.
The ARC of Montgomery County
ArtStream partnered with the ARC of Montgomery County to offer Monday, Wednesday and Thursday Dance and Drama classes for adults with disabilities from April 2007 through August 2008. These classes focused on various forms of movement and dance and innovative drama techniques.
Arlington Therapeutic Recreations Department
ArtStream offered Inclusive Puppetry classes, titled "Puppets with Personality,", in partnership with Arlington Therapeutic Recreations Department for adults with disabilities for 6 weeks beginning in June 2007. Participants made their own puppets and then worked on characterizations through voice, puppet manipulation and movement. Taught by ArtStreamer Judy Brussell.
Puppetry Workshop and Performance
ArtStream brought some puppet magic to the campers at Arlington Therapeutic Recreations Department Camp. The campers, all with varying forms of cognitive and physical disabilities, made colorful wooden spoon puppets, then some were treated to puppet performances enacted by the rest of the participants. Together, campers ages 6-21 acted out The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff, with their puppets. Everyone's puppets enjoyed doing The Hokey Pokey and singing and dancing to The Green Grass Grew All Around. Taught by Co-founder and director of programs Sally Kinka.
Productions
INCLUSIVE THEATRE COMPANIES
What's the Frequency, Johnny? The Great Case Caper
ArtStream's Silver Spring Inclusive Theatre Company presented What's the Frequency, Johnny? The Great Case Caper at Round House Silver Spring, April 15-18, 2010. It was written and directed by Emilia O'Connor with music and lyrics by Alison Siegel.
view photos from What's the Frequency Johnny?
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or listen to Bob Madigan or WAMU's clips.
Those Were The Days... and HasBeenaLooza: The Benefit Concert
The ArtStream Arlington Inclusive Theatre Company and Arlington Actors Showcase presented a double bill of Those Were The Days... and HasBeenaLooza: The Benefit Concert at Gunston Theatre One on March 25-27 and April 1-3, 2010.
Those Were The Days...: 
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HasBeenaLooza: The Benefit Concert: order a DVD » view photos »
It's a Wonderful Pie! and A Mystery to Me
The ArtStream Gaithersburg Inclusive Theatre Companies presented a double bill of It's a Wonderful Pie! and A Mystery to Me at BlackRock Center for the Arts June 25-28, 2009.
view photos from It's a Wonderful Pie! and A Mystery to Me
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or read the The Montgomery County Gazette review.
Keep the Studio Rockin'
ArtStream's Silver Spring Inclusive Theatre Company presented Keep the Studio Rockin' May 1-3 and 8-10, 2009, at Round House Silver Spring. This production was scripted and directed by Emilia O'Connor. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos from the production.
Kickball The Musical!
Audiences enjoyed this musical by ArtStream's Arlington Inclusive Theatre Company. Kickball The Musical! played March 26 - April 4, 2009, at Gunston Theatre One in Arlington, VA. This production was scripted and directed by Patricia Woolsey. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos or read The Arlington Connection write-up.
The Curious Quest & Fast Times at the Woolsey High Breakfast Club
ArtStream's Gaithersburg Inclusive Theater Company presented the double bill The Curious Quest and Fast Times at the Woolsey High Breakfast Club June 20 - 29, 2008, at The Arts Barn in Gaithersburg MD. The Curious Quest was scripted and directed by Sally Kinka while Fast Times at the Woolsey High Breakfast Club was scripted and directed by Nicolette Stearns. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos of The Curious Quest and Fast Times at the Woolsey High Breakfast Club.
The Gaithersburg Inclusive Theatre Company was featured on WUSA Channel 9 News. Read the full article.
Mission: Environment
Audiences enjoyed this environmentally-friendly production by ArtStream's Silver Spring Inclusive Theatre Company. Mission: Environment played May 2 - 11, 2008, at Round House Silver Spring in Silver Spring MD. This production was scripted and directed by Emilia O'Connor. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon the ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos or read The Gazette review [6th paragraph from top].
Trouble at the No-Way Chalet
ArtStream Arlington Inclusive Theatre Company presented the original musical Trouble at the No-Way Chalet, a farcical comedy about the zany antics of the staff and guests at a very troubled hotel, March 6 - 15, 2008, at Gunston Theatre One in Arlington VA. This production was scripted and directed by Patricia Woolsey. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon the ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos or read The Gazette review.
That Thing Called Love!
ArtStream Arlington Inclusive Theatre Company (in partnership with Educational Theatre Company) performed the original musical That Thing Called Love!, an exploration of the pitfalls and successes in our quest for love, March 22 - 31, 2007, at the Thomas Jefferson Middle School and Community Theatre in Arlington VA. This production was scripted, directed and produced by Patricia Woolsey with musical direction by Carol Gulley. All Inclusive Theatre Company scripts are based upon the ideas and improvisations from the actors.
View photos or read reviews and interviews.
Lost in a Dream at the Super Hero Diner: Observations By A Fox
The 2006-2007 Silver Spring Inclusive Theatre Company finished a run of Lost in a Dream at the Super Hero Diner in June 2007 at the Round House Theatre Silver Spring. Audiences enjoyed the show about Tony and his Super Hero Friend's saving the world from villain Isayo Supremo! This production was scripted and directed by Emilia O'Connor with assistant directing by Erica Craig.
View photos of the show.
Saving the Starlight and Return to the Starlight
The 2006-2007 Gaithersburg Inclusive Theatre Companies finished their tremendously sucessful runs of Saving the Starlight and Return to the Starlight in June 2007 at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn. Audiences enjoyed the shows about a a group of performers saving an old theater and becoming a family in the process, and a woman determined to return the dilapidated old theater to its old glory despite some supernatural obstacles! Saving the Starlight was scripted and directed by Nicolette Stearns, assistant directed by Tulin Atakoglu, and choreographed by Patricia Krauss. Return to the Starlight was written and directed by Sally Kinka and Jennie Lutz choreographed and assitant directed.
View photos Saving the Starlight and Return to the Starlight
PUPPETRY PERFORMANCES
The Mystery of “The Pirate’s Jules” Strikes Again!
On January 17, 2007, ArtStream was honored to perform their original, interactive, live actor/puppet show, The Pirate’s Jules, to the employees at ROI (Rehabilitation Opportunities, Inc.) in Germantown. The crowd of approximately 60, roared their “arrgh’s” of approval throughout the 45 minute show, where eleven members of the audience got to participate with onstage roles, and the entire crowd participated verbally, from their seats. The ROI employees and staff enjoyed themselves immensely, as did actor/puppeteers Sally Kinka and Jennie Lutz. The show was made possible by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. We hope to perform for this group again sometime in the future.
PROFESSIONAL THEATER
The Arkansaw Bear
By Aurand Harris. Produced by special arrangement with Anchorage Press PLAYS, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
The Arkansaw Bear is a children’s theater classic which combines realism, fantasy, pathos and humor to tell the story of a young girl named Tish who is saddened and bewildered by her grandfather’s approaching death. She meets the World’s Greatest Dancing Bear who is running away from his imminent mortality. In trying to help the bear, Tish begins to grasp the meaning of both life and death and is able to face the future with a new respect and understanding for the cycle of life. The play is funny, musical, visually beautiful, and poignant. Recommended for ages 5 and older.
This production was directed and produced by Patricia Woolsey.
Presented April 7 through 23, 2006, at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in partnership with the City of Gaithersburg.
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