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EbzB Announces Live and Virtual Performances For Students, Artists-In-Schools Programming, Educators and Presenters.
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Watch EbzB’s Arts Integration Showcase - A Sampling of Live and Streaming Performances and Workshops for 2022. Contact Us for Booking!
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-Terry Smith, Cultural Representative, Davis Drive Elementary School
PERFORMANCES
EbzB offers arts-in-education performances, residencies, and workshops for students. Additionally, EbzB offers professional development for educators. 55-minute versions of most EbzB Productions performances are available for schools or special events. Study guides, audience etiquette tip-sheets, and lesson plans are available to promote deeper understanding of the theatre-going experience. Workshops and residencies are available in tandem with a performance or in stand-alone form. Special rates apply.
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Watch EbzB’s Arts Integration Showcase - A Sampling of Live and Streaming Performances and Workshops for 2022. Contact Us for Booking!
Integrated With National and State Education Standards
EbzB Productions will work with you to design live or virtual arts programming that supports your students, your goals, your tools, and your syllabus. All of our work offers lessons in Resilience and Hope.
EbzB also offers performances via online streaming.
The Wrights of Passage (Grades 1-8)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.
War Bonds: The Songs and Letters of World War II (Grades 3-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.
The Night Before Christmas Carol (Grades 3-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.
In One Era and Out The Other (Grades 6-12)
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.
Native (Grades 9-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.
THEATRE ARTS RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
Students will be guided in creating a devised performance from original oral histories that they gather themselves. As always, we do a needs-assessment with faculty before we choose specific topics related directly to the curriculum. Our work helps to meet National and State Education Standards.
EbzB offers an Online Classroom which includes interactive assignments and lesson plans. Supporting materials are also available. Once we are contracted, you will receive an access code.
LESSON PLANS FROM EBZB PRODUCTIONS
Devised theatre (also called collaborative creation, particularly in the United States) is a form of theatre where the script originates not from a writer or writers, but from collaborative, usually improvisatory, work by a group of people (usually, but not necessarily, the performers). By the time a devised piece presents itself to the public, it usually has a fixed form: the improvisation is confined to the creation process, and either a writer, a director, or the performers themselves, will have decided exactly what is to be included and the running sequence.
Contact us to create devised theatre in your own classroom with these lesson plans from EbzB…
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS & THE HISTORY OF AERONAUTICS
EbzB Devised Theatre Workshop Handout – Flight Connections (K-8)
EbzB Devised Theater Lesson Plan Materials – Flight Connections (K-8)
National Park Service – From Wheel To Wing – Wright Brothers Lesson Plan
IN ONE ERA: THE GREENSBORO SIT-INS & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
EbzB Devised Theatre Workshop Handout – Greensboro Sit-Ins (5-12)
EbzB Devised Theater Lesson Plan Materials – Greensboro Sit-Ins (5-12)
Example Curriculum Connections…
North Carolina Essential Standards Eighth Grade Theatre Arts
North Carolina Essential Standards Eighth Grade Social Studies
SCHOOL RESIDENCIES
EbzB always does a needs assessment with the faculty of each school in advance of a residency. This allows teachers and staff to shape the goals and design of the integrated arts experience. Residencies usually take the form of collecting oral histories on a topic, transcriptions, arranging a script, and helping participants to discover theatre as a tool for communication and performance. Residencies emphasize the effective use of acting tools: research, imagination, sense memory, synthesis, breath, body, eyes, face, and voice.
Trauma Informed Schools: Please ask us to create a residency with you to address the specific needs of your students. We can create performances based on topics of abuse, bullying, illness, immigration, natural disasters, parental military deployment, and more.
Browse through our previous residencies...
Take A Stand!
War Is Never Civil
To Be: United
Beyond The Color Purple
Siler City Elementary School, Siler City, North Carolina - Whatever The Weather (Interrupted by Covid-19) (Mashup Video)
Silk Hope Elementary, Silk Hope, North Carolina - Foul Weather (Interrupted by Covid-19) Video
Whiteville High School Students in Whiteville, North Carolina expose racial intolerance in Time for Tolerance, a performance based on oral histories from Whiteville residents and news reports from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Whiteville News Reporter.
North Chatham Elementary, Chapel Hill, North Carolina – War Is Never Civil is a performance based on the historical research on the American Civil War with a focus on how it affected Chatham County, NC and the current controversy regarding the civil war memorial at the Pittsboro, NC county courthouse. Photos
Virginia Cross Elementary, Siler City, North Carolina – Checkpoint is a performance based on oral histories of immigration to Chatham County, North Carolina. Photos
Margaret B. Pollard Middle School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Take A Stand! is an anti-bullying performance based on oral histories from Chatham County residents. Photos | Blog
Columbia High School, Columbia, North Carolina - MythUnderstandings is a performance based on the myths and legends of Tyrrell County in which students explored how quickly we misinterpret meaning based on lack of context. Based on oral histories from citizens of Tyrrell County, North Carolina. Photos | Blog
Anson New Tech High School, Wadesboro, North Carolina – In Beyond The Color Purple, an oral history created from interviews with Anson County residents, the Ansonia Theatre and Anson County struggle to make a comeback as a community. Photos | Blog
Gates County High School, Gatesville, North Carolina – Open Now Thy Gates Of Beauty is a defense of Gates County performed in the historic Gates County Courthouse and based on oral histories from Gates County residents. Photos
Jones County High School, Trenton, North Carolina – Jones County – Past, Present, and Future is a look at the history of Jones County seeking to inspire hope for the future from oral histories by elders. Photos
Chatham Central High School, Bear Creek, North Carolina – Let It Rock! is a poetic status report on Bear Creek based on oral histories from local residents. Photos
Chowan Middle School, Edenton, North Carolina – To Be United | Photos
J. S. Waters School, Goldston, North Carolina – The Wonderful World of Goldston
Moncure Elementary School, Moncure, North Carolina – The Regulators
Pittsboro Elementary School, Pittsboro, North Carolina – People Make The World Go Round
Bonlee Elementary School, Siler City, North Carolina – Technology For Good
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS
Teachers’ Workshops
Arts Integration
United Arts Council Institute
EbzB Productions offers on-site professional development workshops for educators who want to learn and experience arts integration lesson planning. CEU Credits Eligible.
- Trained in workshops from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Lincoln Center Institute’s International Educator Workshop, and the National Center for Creative Aging, Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen have extensive experience working with students, teachers, elders, and business professionals in on-site residencies and workshops.
Serena Ebhardt provides private coaching for business professionals to enhance their public speaking and interpersonal communication. She is appreciated for her work as the director of the Provincial Drama Academy in Newfoundland, Canada; and as a visiting professor with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William Peace University and St. Mary’s College. Her work with students includes directing at Sanderson High School and serving as a guest artist on two extended occasions with Raleigh Charter High School. Serena also designed residencies for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina as part of an outreach program for Opera Carolina. The Chatham County Arts Council in North Carolina relies on EbzB Productions as part of their Artists-In-Schools initiative each academic year.
Ebhardt explains and models arts integration for educators. She uses visual art, music, found objects, text, speech, and movement to create a devised drama presentation incorporating curriculum connections.
Participants are asked to mindfully and physically engage with the lesson, to synthesize personal connections to the material, and to work as an ensemble.
Creating devised theatre inspires inclusivity and self-esteem. Physicalization and vocalization enhance memory, useful for recall on tests. Ebhardt also incorporates the basic tools of an actor (breath, body, eyes, face and voice), which will serve teachers and students in effective everyday communication.
David zum Brunnen is well-known for his performance work in the schools. He has toured schools extensively with The Night Before Christmas Carol, The Tender Nights of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wrights of Passage, and with Serena in Nicholas Nickleby in One Hour with Two People. David has coached students at schools where he has performed on the realities of becoming an actor and running a small theatre company so that students interested in the arts can learn the value of a well-rounded education including STEM and the humanities. In addition, David is available to teach business classes for the artist.
EbzB Professional Development workshops include work for many public school systems in North Carolina, including the Chatham County Arts Council, the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County’s Arts Integration Institute and the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government’s workshop, “Beyond The Founding Fathers: African-American History and the Constitution.”
Contact EbzB to tailor a workshop for your needs.
Photos - United Arts Council's Arts Integration Institute