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Innovative Juggler
Greg Kennedy

www.innovativejuggler.com
Friday, Nov. 13th, 1 p.m.
At the High School Auditorium

Kinetics is an educational show based on physics for middle school students. Using Greg’s outstanding juggling performance inter-spliced with video projection, it illustrates and explains the principles of motion, light, energy, and
gravity. In an effort to change preconceptions about juggling, Greg Kennedy, fuses logic and creativity into new forms of manipulation. Trained as an engineer, Greg has always been
fascinated with geometry and physics. This led him to groundbreaking work with original apparatus, expanding the realm of juggling.

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Magicians without Borders

www.magicianswithoutborders.org
Tom Verner-magician
Janet Fredericks-Mime/Clown
Friday, May 14th, 8 am & 9 am
At the Middle School Auditorium

Magicians Without Borders performs magic shows for children in refugee camps, orphanages and hospitals around the world -often in war torn places where love, laughter and magic are desperately needed. (School assemblies include Magic and a video journey from Tom’s & Janet’s performances around the world.) "I like to think that the magic brings not only laughter and surprise, but on some deeper level perhaps, magic plants seeds of hope. Hope that the impossible is possible. Hope that after years of waiting in a refugee camps, the waiting will end and the people will go home again."
-Tom Verner

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Musicians:
Bruce Daigrepont
Cajun Band

www.brucedaigrepont.com
Friday, December 4th, 1 p.m.
At the High School Auditorium

Mr. Daigrepont, will perform Cajun/Zydeco music, indigenous of Louisiana, and, in addition, he will talk about the history for his people from their expulsion from Canada to their migration to the south, particularly to the area of Louisiana. He will also speak about his personal experience with hurricane Katrina and its effects of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

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Birds of Prey
Bill Streeter

www.dvrconline.org
Tuesday, March 2nd, 9 am
At the Middle School Auditorium

"Close Encounters with Birds of Prey" brings five live raptors, a hawk, a falcon, two owls, and an eagle to our school. Talks cover predator/prey relationships, wildlife rehabilitation, specific adaptations of the birds present, and various issues facing wildlife today. Students will have
opportunities to explore science concepts through the arts. Some of the concepts the birds help to teach:

predator/prey relationships, the "evil" predator myth, behavior, raptor identification, survival, adaptations, the hawk migration phenomenon, endangered species, raptor conservation, rehabilitation, the ancient art of falconry

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Renaissance Man
Chris

www.renaissance-man.com
Life in Medieval &
Renaissance Times
TBA

The Renaissance Man will lead the assembled on a hysterically historical journey through a day in an average person's life. This program covers elements of the period such as hygiene & health, romance & religion, science, superstition, and the stage. Shows are gladly tailored to the individual
interests of your group. Throughout the
production, students will be invited onstage to emphasize and enact the events; playing
characters from the Queen and her courtiers, to the animals and spectators at a bear-baiting!

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Musician Dan Kelly

www.doctor-is.com
www.danielkellymusic.com
TBA

Doctor IS will take your students on a musical adventure connecting sounds with story all while satisfying music literacy requirements! SEE THE MUSIC - Students will begin to see stories unfold in their minds as they listen and their imagination becomes activated. Mix together a combination of wild creative music, toe-tapping music and LOTS of student participation for a fun and educational visit to the musical laboratory of Doctor IS!!!

Artist in Residence

Visual Artist
Ron Gee

TBA

Artist Ron Gee’s presentation and workshops introduces students to traditional Chinese culture through the art of calligraphy and the unique movement exercise known as taichi, also called taijiquan. The presentation begins with a discussion about the special qualities of the Chinese language. Using brush-andink technique, the origins of the Chinese writing system in pictorial images is explained, with particular attention given to the esthetic qualities of Chinese writing. The close relationship of calligraphy to Chinese painting and the role of the imagination will also be demonstrated through traditional subjects such as bamboo and fish. Students will be invited to participate in a series of simple Chinese exercises, followed by a performance of the tai-chi form emphasizing the slow, gently flowing movements that typify Chinese health practices. The presentation
concludes dramatically, with the painting of a dragon executed with a mop-like brush on a large piece of paper secured to the floor.