TICKETS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC In the event that a performance is not sold-out, tickets will be made available to the general public two (2) weeks prior to the performance. Please call the main box office at 413-545-2511 or 1-800-999-UMAS (8627). Tickets will not be made available for programs that have an evening performance option. This does not pertain to families that homeschool. Homeschool families may book just as a school would.

PERFORMANCE LOGISTICS Performances, unless otherwise noted, begin at 10am and run for approximately one hour. Performances take place in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall or Bowker Auditorium in Stockbridge Hall. Performances are rarely canceled. If the local schools are closed, the performance will be canceled. A Fine Arts Center staff person will call you to inform you of alternate plans and schedule.

Both performance theaters are accessible for the mobility impaired.An Infrared Listening System is also available. If you require ASL interpretation please contact us at least 3 months prior to event. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

To serve you better, we must know of any special needs in advance.

Need financial assistance? All school events are eligible for the Performing Arts Student Subsidy (PASS) administered by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. PASS grants are available to both public and private schools. The application deadline is October 15th of each year. For more information on the PASS program, please contact your Local Cultural Council or visit http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/programs/pass.html

RESERVATION INFORMATIONOur mission is to provide unique cultural and artistic enrichment opportunities that enhance class curriculums (pre-K through 12th grade). Therefore, our daytime events are designed and suitable for schools and home school groups alike. Please check grade level guidelines listed for each event to determine the appropriateness for your group. We have also included Curriculum Connections to give you a quick guide to possible topics to explore with your children and classes prior to the performance.

Many of our events sell-out quickly. We recommend that you reserve your seats for the event/s as far in advance as possible to avoid disap-pointment. Groups of 15 & under require payment at time of booking.

TO MAKE RESERvATIONS:

PHONE call 413-545-2116

ONLINE at www.fineartscenter.com/schools

FAX download order form from our website and fax to 413-545-0132

When placing your order please be prepared to provide the following information:

1. Name, address and phone number of the school 2. Teacher contact3. Number of students 4. Number of adults (includes teachers and chaperones)5. Grade level of students6. Any accessibility services required7. Number of buses that will be used

PAyMENTSPayment is nonrefundable and may be made by check, credit card or purchase order. We cannot process online credit card payments at this time. However, we can take credit card payments over the phone. All payments or copies of purchase orders must be received two weeks prior to the performance and made payable to the University of Massachusetts.

All children must have a paid seat regardless of age. Admission fee is per student with one complimentary chaperone admission for every 15 paid students. Additional chaperones pay the listed adult admission. Special needs student groups are offered one complimentary chaperone admission for every 5 paid students. As our primary goal is to provide unique educational experiences for student audiences, please purchase only the number of chaperone tickets required by your school.

Your reservation is not complete until you receive confirmation.your reservation notice will be confirmed by mail and/or via email. Each confirmation notice includes a deadline by which we must be informed of any changes in reservation numbers (no significant increases, please). This is your only opportunity to make changes on your reservation. After the deadline passes, your school is committed to purchasing the number of seats indicated on your reservation confirmation.

Invoices, study guides (one per reservation), and maps are mailed four weeks prior to each performance. Study guides are also available on the website.

GLOBAL ARTS:Performances for Schools

2009-2010Theatre EtiquettePlease read and review the following information with your students.

WE expect everyone to be a good audience member.

Good audience members………..

• Are good listeners

• Keep their hands and feet to themselves

• Do not talk or whisper during the performance

• Do not eat gum, candy, food or drink in the theater

• Turn off all cell phones and do not use portable music players, cameras or any other recording devices

• Stay in their seats during the performance

• Do not disturb their neighbors or other schools in attendance

“Theatre is not theatre without an audience.” Live theatre differs from watching television or movies. Remember that performers can see and hear you. As an audience member you are a vital contributor to the performance experience that you and those around you will have. How you behave and how you react to the show will affect the artists’ performances. That is why each performance is a unique experience, it will never be repeated exactly the same. Talking to your neighbor, sending text messages, and other similar behaviors are distracting to the rest of the audience and to the artists. Please be respectful of the artists on stage performing for you by listening quietly. Of course, it is appropriate to react to what you are seeing – some things may make you laugh, gasp out loud, or you may be asked to respond by answering questions from the performers, singing along or clapping. Most of all, it is important to be present “in the moment” by being attentive and enjoy the performance. And of course – show your enthusiastic appreciation by applause at the end of the performance!

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Thursday, October 23, 2009Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Cuban jazz percussionist Bowker Auditorium at 10am

Friday, October 30, 2009Paul Taylor: Rainbow Serpent Stories from Down UnderBowker Auditorium at 10am

Wednesday, November 4, 2009American Shakespeare Center presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietBowker Auditorium at 10am

Tuesday, November 10, 2009Cirque Mechanics – Birdhouse FactoryConcert Hall at 10am

Tuesday, November 17, 2009Chinese Theater Works: Tiger TalesBowker Auditorium at 10am

Tuesday, February 8, 2010 Tomie dePaola’s Strega NonaConcert Hall at 10am

Wednesday, February 24, 2010The RFK Project Concert Hall at 10am

Friday, March 5, 2010Indonesia: Gamelan and Vocal Music of BaliBowker Auditorium at 10am

Thursday, April 8, 2010Kenichi Ebina & Company: New MovesConcert Hall at 10am

Friday, April 16, 2010Dallas Children’s Theater presents Most Valuable PlayerConcert Hall at 10am

Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia presents Goodnight Moon and The Runaway BunnyBowker Auditorium at 10am and Noon

www.fineartscenter.com/schools413.545.2116

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Dafnis Prieto Sextet: Cuban Jazz Percussionist Bowker Auditorium at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; All ages

Take your students on a multicultural music journey! Cuban percussionist Dafnis Prieto’s revolutionary drumming techniques have had a powerful impact on both the Latin and jazz music scene, locally and internationally. Experience an eclectic mixture of traditional, Latin and world rhythms. He exhibits a forceful yet flexible sense of groove, derived from traditions of Afro-Caribbean hand percussion but also informed by polyrhythmic post-bop. This program demonstrates how jazz has bridged cultural, ethnic and economic differences; exemplifies democratic ideals; and influences other genres of music, both in the U.S. and abroad. Blending sounds from diverse cultures fused over time, the music created is truly unique.

Curriculum Connections: Jazz and Latin jazz music, Cuba and US relations, Improvisation and Composition

www.dafnisprieto.com

Friday, October 30, 2009

Rainbow Serpent Stories from Down UnderBowker Auditorium at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; Grades K-6

Paul Taylor celebrates the culture of his Australian homeland through story, song and music of the didjeridoo in a show for all ages. The Rainbow Serpent is the giant multi-colored snake of great power and significance for Australia’s Aboriginal people. It is one of the Supreme Creators, the Spirit Ancestors of the Dreamtime for tribal groups throughout the country. These stories and images are paralleled in ancient mythology throughout the world. Join Paul in learning about the cultural richness of Aboriginal Australia and hear the stories of his Wardaman tribe.

Curriculum Connections: Musical Instrumentation, Aboriginal Culture/Cultural Diversity, Ecology, Geography, Myth, Storytelling and Oral Traditions

www.paultaylor.ws

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

American Shakespeare Center presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietBowker Auditorium at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; Grades 7 - 12

This performance is 120 minutes in length

Dance, athleticism, and swordplay share the stage with sonnets, bawdy wit, and soul-searching speeches in this profoundly human and always surprising masterpiece. The American Shakespeare Center recovers the joys and accessibility of Shakespeare’s theatre and gives its audiences some of the pleasures that an Elizabethan playgoer would have enjoyed: universal lighting, doubling of parts, fun with gender confusion, minimal sets, familiar costumes and the use of music throughout.

Co-presented with the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies.

Curriculum Connections: Shakespeare, Elizabethan Theatre, Love, Fate, Revenge, Social and Familial Expectations

www.americanshakespearecenter.com

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cirque Mechanics: Birdhouse FactoryConcert Hall at 10am $6 students, $8 adults; All ages

When world-renowned circus stars dream up a factory, it is no ordinary industrial plant. It’s a wild and wonderful workshop where the machines are circus props and the workers are acrobats, dancers, contortionists, and clowns. It’s Birdhouse Factory by Cirque Mechanics, an extraordinary troupe of Cirque du Soleil, Pickle Family Circus, and Moscow Circus veterans who transform the mundane into the magnificent. Don’t miss a performance that’s perfect for audiences of all ages: mesmerizing, passionate and joyous!

Curriculum Connections: Circus Arts, Physics, Diego Rivera, the Great Depression, American Industry

www.birdhousefactoryshow.com

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Chinese Theater Works: Tiger TalesBowker Auditorium at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; Grades 2 - 7

A wise old rabbit tells her grand-daughter some of her adventures, recounting with verve and a sly, subversive humor some of the episodes surrounding Tiger’s rise to power, his abusive rule and ultimate downfall. This shadow theater piece, using figures modeled on antiques from the Pauline Benton collection, deals humorously with issues of power and survival of the small and powerless in today’s modern jungle.

Curriculum Connections: Chinese Culture/Cultural Diversity, Folktales, Puppetry, Visual Elements

www.chinesetheatreworks.org

Friday, April 16, 2010

Dallas Children’s Theater: Most Valuable PlayerConcert Hall at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; Grades 4 – 8

This triumphant story of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play professional major league baseball, chronicles the young athlete’s nonviolent struggle to integrate what was then considered a “white man’s game.” Through it all, Jackie’s courage, intelligence, leadership, resilience and athletic skill propelled him to become a national hero. Advanced in-class reading of books on Jackie Robinson is a great way for students to make historical connections.

Curriculum Connections: Baseball, Segregation, Resilience, National Heroes, Race Relations

www.holdenarts.org/youth2009.htm#mvp

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Kenichi Ebina & Company: New MovesConcert Hall at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; all ages

Complete with sound and lighting effects this exciting new dance group fuses Freestyle Hip Hop with Poppin’, Lockin’, Mime, House, Jazz, Contemporary and Ethnic dance with martial arts, comedy and visual illusion. Kenichi & Company’s unique dance show, “New Moves,” successfully introduces students to the world of dance by using elements from current youth culture.

Curriculum Connections: Japanese American Culture/Cultural Diversity, Movement Elements, Shape and Space

www.ebinaperformingarts.com

Friday, March 5, 2010

Gamelan Galak Tika: Dance & Music of BaliBowker Auditorium at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; All Ages

Gamelan Galak Tika will demonstrate the mystical music of the Balinese shadow puppet plays, the enchanting vocal rhythms of the Kecak (monkey chant) and movements of Balinese Dance in an interactive performance for students. Legendary Balinese dancer and choreographer, I Madé Bandem will lead students in a fun filled Kecak demonstration where students will learn the basics of Balinese kotekan (interlocking rhythms) and the facial movements that makes Balinese dance so enticing.

Curriculum Connections: Indonesian Culture/Cultural Diversity, Movement Elements, Choreography, Rhythm and Tempo

www.galaktika.org

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

L.A. Theatre Works: The RFK ProjectConcert Hall at 10am$8 students, $8 adults; Grades 9 - 12

This performance is approximately 2 hours in length.ASL interpretation will be provided

The 60’s in America was a decade of heroes, violence, love, death, progress, and disappointment. The “RFK Project” chronicles Robert Kennedy’s dramatic transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights movement to a champion and crusader. This docu-drama brings to life this compelling and dramatic illumination of this crucial decade, enabling a new generation to hear the words, feel the tension and explore the issues that still resonate today. This production is a perfect experience for history, social sciences, government, media and theater students.

Curriculum Connections: Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, Personal and Political Convictions, Theatre, Radio Theatre

www.baylinartists.com/digitalpresskit/la-rfk.pdf

Monday, February 8, 2010

Tomie dePaola’s Strega NonaConcert Hall at 10am$6 students, $8 adults; Grades PreK – 4

Based on the children’s book by Tomie dePaola, Strega Nona is the musical tale of a friendly magical witch who strives to cure the ills of her tiny Italian town. The baker has bunions (“As big as an onion”), his daughter wishes for witchery, and the local single ladies are always unlucky in love. When a local lug named Big Anthony fools with the magic pasta pot, and can’t figure out how to turn it off, pasta threatens to engulf the whole town – unless Strega Nona can save the day. With a fantastic cast and brilliant lyrics, this musical will transport your students to a magical place. Encourage your students to stretch their imagination by exploring the book, Strega Nona prior to your FAC visit.

Curriculum Connections: Theater, Music, Magical Illusions, Literature, Storytelling Role-playing, Concepts of Imagination and Problem Solving

www.bsoinc.com/family/artist.php?artist=streganona

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia: Goodnight Moon and The Runaway BunnyBowker Auditorium at 10am and Noon$6 students, $8 adults; PreK – 2

Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Both tales feature endearing rabbit characters, and the soothing rhythms of bunny banter and dream-like imagery never fail to infuse young readers with a reassuring sense of security and peace. Whimsical puppetry and evocative original music will bring a new sense of appreciation to stories that have delighted several generations. This first-rate presentation will inspire students to stretch their imaginations when you encourage them to draw, write or tell short stories in the classroom.

Curriculum Connections: Literature, Family Security, Imagination, Storytelling, Drawing, Puppetry

www.kidsentertainment.net/goodnightmoon.htm

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