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Kim brings these elements to a performance or workshop for your school, library, camp, or other community event:
Entertainment
Songs that engage the mind, involve the body, evoke the emotions
Information
Songs that tell stories about other people, places, times and experiences, accounts of courage and wild adventure, songs hand picked to suit your curricular needs or enhance your event.
Inspiration
Songs that encourage the imagination, that breathe fresh life into history, that help us see our own choices and experiences in a new way.
Community
Songs that have been sung for years, decades, centuries or only minutes, in kitchens, community halls, ceilidhs, coffeehouses and clubs. songs with irresistable choruses, for singing together is a shared experience that creates a communal memory, and the more you do it, the stronger the bond.
Program Concepts:
Gathering the Tools Together
4th grade through adult, songs of heroes, heroines, scoundrels, struggles and triumphs through history.
The Solar System
2nd through 5th grade. A science and literature program. the songs teach about constellations and planets, and each song represents a different literary genre: non fiction, science fiction, mythology, etc.
Building Blocks
Song writing workshops for any age, small groups only, great as a residency or series
All Around the Kitchen
Kindergarten through second grade. Songs about food, animals, color. Finger-plays and singing games for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and families - great for schools, libraries, picnics, celebrations!
Around the World in Songs, Stories and Games
Grades 1 - 5, preferably as a residency program.
Additional ideas: songs about weaving, factory weavers, early industry and union organizing; migration and immigration; seasons in the northeast
Teacher and counselor training: music to enhance your curriculum; portable games for building groups; bandanna games and singing games.
Programs are usually 45 minutes unless otherwise specified. Ideas for follow up discussions and activities are available on request.
Programs can not be recorded or videotaped without express permission.
Links:
The Children’s Music Network
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