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assemblies, workshops,
residencies, SUMMER camps,
AND aFTERCARE
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ASSEMBLIES
Dr. Craig Woodson presents five assemblies in the Ohio area. These
are best suited to the Pre-K to 8th grade audience. The assemblies
are as follows:
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A World Orchestra You Can Build - How to make 12
instruments including strings, winds, and percussion from Africa,
Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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Drum Lessons from Around the World - A demonstration of 16
instruments from his free, online Roots of Rhythm curriculum, illustrating music, science, culture and history. $250.00 is now
available to underwrite half of the assembly cost by the Percussion Marketing Council under its Percussion in the Schools program.
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To Mars with Music in 2030 - How instruments can found on a
spaceship and can be taken to Mars on a future trip, based on hiswork with NASA.
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Adowa - African Drumming and Dance from Ghana - Shows a
famous type of Asante performance, how drums can talk and howdance has special meanings.
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Build Your Own Symphony Orchestra - A look at the orchestra
and finding ways of making simple versions with homemadematerials and simple tools.
Learn more about the Student Assemblies.
STUDENT WORKSHOPS
Multicultural instrument making, performance, composition,
conducting, science, math, history, self-esteem building, all tools
and materials are provided.
Under Dr. Woodson's entertaining direction, each student makes a
grade-appropriate instrument, converting common items into
instruments the way children do in other countries. Students
decorate their instruments, compose and perform music, and selected
students even conduct their own music with the classroom “World
Orchestra.” Among the many instruments he offers, the “Drumpet” is a
favorite. It is a type of composite instrument, one that contains
several families of sound in one including a drum, trumpet, scraper,
percussion tube, and string sound. All materials and tools are
provided by Dr. Woodson.
Learn more about the Student Workshops.
RESIDENCIES
Opening assembly, instrument making, culmination assembly, for
integrating music with science, history, and multicultural
awareness, can add teacher in-service workshop!
This experience brings a combination of Dr. Woodson's programs into
a school for more than one day. The residency's theme will be based
on one of his assemblies in conjunction with teachers' needs.
Following the opening assembly, there are instrument-making
workshops for each participating class and one or more culmination
assemblies at the end. The residency can last from one day to one
week or more, depending on the number of students and types of
activities required. A teacher in-service is suggested but not
necessary.
A residency by Dr. Woodson can last from a single day to several
weeks depending on the needs and budget of the school. It consists
of an opening assembly, student workshops, and on the two or three
day residency a culmination assembly. Each grade level makes a
different instrument and all tools and material are supplied by Dr.
Woodson. Each workshop would have between 40 and 50 students.
Learn more about the Residencies.
SUMMER CAMPS
Dr. Woodson will present two five-day summer music camps on making
and playing simple musical instruments. One camp is for elementary
age students July 12-16, 2010 and another is for middle school
students August 16-20, 2010.
Presented through Kenston Community Education in the Chagrin Falls,
Ohio area, the camps will provide hands-on activities for students
to explore creativity and artistic expression. Based on ideas that
he has seen around the world and on many of his own, Dr. Woodson's
designs make use materials found around the house that reflect a
Green approach to musical instrument technology.
With over 30 years of experience making and playing musical
instruments for schools around the world, Dr. Woodson uses his
highly entertaining, grade-appropriate approach to bringing many
experiences to young people. During each week students will learn
about the science of sound, how easy it is to play one's own music,
how fun it is to perform in and lead a musical group, and above all
about the joy of being creative.
Learn more about the Summer Camps.
AFTERCARE
Dr. Woodson's student workshop programs are available as an Aftercare
activity in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. He brings his
time-tested, hands-on craft activities once or twice a month to your
school at the end of a school day for up to around 50 K-6 students
at a time.
Learn more about the Aftercare.
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