outreach

Student reflections on a weeklong residency:

I want to remember concentrating so I can focus on reading.

Now I can use my imagination for when I write and I can use my voice when I read to be more spontaneous.

I felt happy because I learned how to focus and control my body.

     I know that if you cooperate you will feel much better and your shyness will go away.

     In reading, concentration will help me. In writing, imagination will help me.

     I want to remember the actor’s tools because that’s what I can do to concentrate every day.

     I feel really good working with other people.

     I feel great when I did the focused controlling.

     My imagination was incredible. It felt “wow” because imagination is incredible. All kids must use their imagination for something.

Trike Theatre Outreach programs travel to you!

Whether it's preparing students to see a professional theatre for youth performance at Walton Arts Center, expanding an Arkansas History lesson or visualizing essays from benchmark tests, Trike Theatre teaching artists use hands on collaborative learning activities to engage and connect students to core curriculum. Teaching artists work with teachers to develop an arts integration residency that meets the schools' unique curriculum, benchmark and budget goals.

Our Outreach programs integrate drama and literacy strategies that help students
Comprehend, Collaborate & Connect.

K-8th grade residencies: Trike Teaching artists teach one or more hours in the classroom

Participants explore core curriculum through tableau, a drama technique that strengthens community and deepens students’ comprehension of and connection to a text. When students collaborate to create frozen pictures with their bodies, they stregthen individual concentration, expand imagination and visualize their ideas. All residencies are tied to benchmark skills.

FEE: $60/hour

Professional development workshops: Trike Teaching artists work with K-8th grade teachers, specialists and administrators

Trike teaching artists arm teachers with techniques that embolden kinesthetic learners while embracing visual and auditory learners. The workshop gives teachers solid rehearsal activities that strengthen the classroom ensemble and tableau techniques that deepen students’ learning in all subject areas.

FEE: $125/hour--minimum 2 hours

Organizations may be eligible to receive an Arts in Education Mini-Residency grant from the Arkansas Arts Council.

Elizabeth Murfee writes about the benefits of arts integration in Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning. Trike Theatre also believes that:

*    The arts are serious and rigorous academic subjects. They are an essential aspect of human knowing.
*    The arts have far-reaching potential to help students achieve education goals.
*    Reading, writing and math skills can be enhanced through the arts.
*    Creativity is naturally developed through the arts.
*    Student engagement and persistence improve with an arts-based curriculum.
*    High-risk students are engaged through the arts.
*    Understanding of one's self and others expands with arts education.