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Programs
Original and Adapted Theatreworks
Special Events & Custom Programs
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies
Artists & Performers Include:
Balloon Artists
Caricaturists
Chalk Artists
Clowns
Comedians
Costume Artists
Craft Artists
Dancers
Dollmakers
Facepainters
Flag & Fire Spinners
Fortune Tellers
Jewelry Artists
Jugglers
Magicians
Mimes
Musicians
Puppeteers
Stiltwalkers
Storytellers
Ventriloquists
Visual Artists
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies:
Express the artist in you! Engage in hands-on learning through creative activities while having fun!
The Milwaukee Public Theatre has a strong education/ outreach component, collaborating with artists of many different cultural backgrounds and media expertise. Workshops have been regularly held in conjunction with the Summer Touring Project in Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Drama and Puppetry. Workshops are also staged in hospitals, Senior Centers, Businesses, Schools, etc.
Milwaukee Public Theatre workshops can be brought to any site and tailored to fit all ages and abilities andyour business, school, community, or personal interests with over 50 professional artists offering a diverse range of activities from which to choose.
"Applied Theatrics" works with the business & corporate community to utilize theatrical techniques into the training environment, focusing on such areas as diversity and sensitivity and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Theatre has been "in residence" at Lincoln Middle School of the Arts since 1979.
Fees vary depending on artist, activity and supplies. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- MULTI-CULTURAL VISUAL ARTS/CRAFTS: Activities include paper and fabric arts, painting, jewelry and beadwork, maskmaking, facepainting, and costumes/sewing.
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESIDENCY: Ten to twelve participants work with an MPT artist in six to sixteen 90-minute sessions, learning the basics of running their own business by making and selling craft items such as hand-made paper cards, tie-dye t-shirts and pillows, candles, soap, etc. This has been a very popular program developed in collaboration with the Hillside Boys and Girls Club, Children’s Outing Association, Westside Academy, the Lisbon Avenue Neighborhood, etc.
- PERFORMING ARTS: MPT can provide training in a number of performing arts disciplines, including Music, Dance, Theatre, Circus and Puppetry. If a performance is desired, we suggest scheduling an arts residency of AT LEAST ten hours of hands-on workshops and preferably more. Examples of Performing Arts Residencies include:
- CIRCUS ARTS: Participants learn a variety of circus skills that may include juggling, tumbling, clowning, stilt-walking and specialty acts.
Storytelling/Creative Dramatics involves participants working on dance, music, singing and acting skills, developing their ability to work together and to communicate a wide range of characters. Longer Arts Residencies can result in the creation of a show performed for their whole school and parents. Themes relate to curriculum areas such as Environment, Health, History, Science, Social Studies.
Creativity/Theatre Improvisation involves participants working on improvisational theatre skills, learning to think-on-their-feet, and develop themes that are relevant to the group. Arts residencies can result in the creation of an original show.
STORYBRIDGE--A new project that offers storytelling workshops for seniors and teens to develop a core groups of storytellers of multicultural tales that can work with libraries, schools, parents and children to encourage a love of stories and of reading.
- MUSIC RESIDENCIES: Residencies are varied. Examples include: a) Percussion workshops with youth learning the art of drumming and typical rhythms, songs and chants from African, Latino and Native American cultures; b) Music Composition, in which youth compose their own songs and record them on a CD; c) making and playing simple percussion instruments: drums, shakers, shakeres, etc.
- DANCE: Classes in African, Latin, Stepping, Hip Hop, Tap, and Ballroom are all available and taught by professional dancers from various cultures and traditions.
Capoeira is a martial arts/dance form developed in Brazil that incorporates music and gymnastics.
Examples of Arts Residency sponsoring organizations in 2005-2006 include:
AGAPE, Aurora Weier Education Center, Carleton Elementary School, Carver Academy, Children’s Outing Association, Engleberg School, Fratney School, Green Bay Avenue School, Hartford Avenue University School, Hillside Boys & Girls Club, Housing Authority-City of Milwaukee, Kosciuszko Middle School, Latino Community Center, Lincoln Center of the Arts, Longfellow Middle School, Mary Ryan Boys & Girls Club, Milwaukee Christian Center, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Neighborhood House, Next Door Foundation, Pierce Elementary School, Project UJIMA, Riverside High School, Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, St. Joseph Academy, United Community Center, Vincent Family Center, and Walker’s Point Center for the Arts.
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