The Lied Center of Kansas education program provides exciting learning opportunities for all ages … from performances designed especially for K-12 students, to pre-performance lectures for concert-goers, to master classes with visiting artists. You’ll be amazed at what you can discover … follow the links below to learn more.
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School Performances
Educator Workshops
Studio Lied
Lied Family Series
School groups from all across Kansas are invited to attend specially designed,
school-only performances that support classroom curriculum and arts-in-education.
These performances take place during the school day. Study guides will be available
online for each school performance. To provide teachers with tools to further
integrate the performing arts into the classroom curriculum, an educator workshop
is offered several
weeks prior to each performance.
Education Brochure
[.pdf]
06-07 School Performance Flyer[.pdf]
• Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), A Civil Rights Reader
•If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
• A Midnight Cry - The Underground Railroad to Freedom
Reservation forms are available for download:
USD497
Ambassador Reservation Form [.pdf]
Non-USD497
Ticket Application Form [.pdf]
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These professional development opportunities are designed to expand teachers’ understanding
and knowledge of the performing arts and reinforce the classroom curriculum.
By providing "hands-on" arts education experiences for educators,
the participatory workshops focus on ways to integrate the arts into the curriculum
and develop strategies for a team approach to teaching. To register for a workshop,
please print this form and mail it to the Lied Center along with the registration fee.
An educator workshop will be offered several weeks prior to each school performance,
and will present tools that educators can use in the classroom throughout the school year.
• Reaching the Kinesthetic Learner Through Creative Movement
• Next Stop: Freedom - Giving Students a Ticket to the Underground Railroad
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With focused lectures and online study guides, the Studio Lied program offers
secondary teachers and students additional opportunities at the Lied Center.
Performances and lectures take place outside of the school day, allowing teachers
and students to schedule around class times.
There will be four Lied Series events to choose from during the 2006-2007
season. Educators and their students are eligible for $5 tickets to each of
these performances. Online materials will be accessible on this site one month
prior to the event, and there will also be a lecture held at the Lied Center
one hour prior to the performance. This season’s four performances will
provide you and your students exposure to some incredible, world-class performing
arts including ballet as well as contemporary dance, classical music, and
theatre. We hope you take advantage of this fantastic opportunity to experience
these wonderful performances … and for only $5 per ticket!.
Studio Lied Events:
•L.A. Theatre Works in
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Friday, October 27, 2006
Study Guide: Studio Lied - L.A. Theatre Works
Lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Performance: 7:30 p.m.
•Miami City Ballet in Don Quixote
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Study Guide: Studio Lied - Miami City Ballet
Lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Performance: 7:30 p.m.
•Inspired by America Cypress String Quartet
Friday, January 26, 2007
Study Guide: Studio Lied - Cypress String Quartet
Lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Performance: 7:30 p.m.
•Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
The Jacob Lawrence Project
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Study Guide: Studio Lied - Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
Lecture: 6:30 p.m.
Performance: 7:30 p.m.
To register for Studio Lied:
• USD 497 teachers, please contact your
school’s Ambassador for the
Arts,
or download the available form:
Studio
Lied Ticket Application Form [pdf]
• non-USD 497 teachers, please download and fill out this form. If you need assistance, please contact the Lied Center Director of Education at (785) 864-2795.
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Lied Family Series
performances are designed for family participation and provide an environment in which
children and adults can learn together. This is a great way for parents to spend quality
time with their children. Performances include:
• Fireworks in Cartoon
• Burning River Brass
• Riverdance
• David Gonzalez in The Frog Bride
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Pre-performance Lectures
Creativity and Change Project Lectures (World Series)
One hour before most Swarthout
Chamber Music Series events, all are invited to the Lied Center’s
Oldfather Dance Studio for a fascinating and enlightening discussion about
the upcoming performance, often with a performing artist as a guest. Lectures
will precede the following performances:
•Pacifica Quartet
•Cantus
•Inspired by America Cypress String Quartet
•Emerson String Quartet
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Change and Creativity Project Lectures
The Change and Creativity program examines the impact of economic and social
turmoil on young artists, art and the creative process. Public lectures, co-sponsored
by the Lied Center and the Hall Center for the Humanities, will take place
1-2 weeks prior to each World
Series performance, and will explore the geo-political, cultural and artistic
environments of each country represented by the artists.
•Simon Shaheen & Dr. A. J. Racy
with members of the Near Eastern Music Ensemble
•Ratan Thiyam’s Chorus Repertory Theatre in
Nine Hills One Valley
•ULALI
•Merita Halili & the Raif Hyseni Orchestra
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Post-Performance
" Coffee & Conversation with the Artists"
The innovative performances that characterize many of the events in the Lied
Series often evoke questions. After each World
Series performance, join us in the second floor lobby (Seymour Gallery)
to participate in a question and answer session with the artists. Hear them
speak about their performance, their art and the creative process. "Coffee
and Conversation with the Artists" will take place after the following
performances:
•Simon Shaheen & Dr. A. J. Racy
with members of the Near Eastern Music Ensemble
•Ratan Thiyam’s Chorus Repertory Theatre in
Nine Hills One Valley
•ULALI
•Merita Halili & the Raif Hyseni Orchestra
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Residencies provide a wide range of interaction between the artists who perform on our stage and people curious about learning more from these artists. Activities include lecture/demonstrations, master classes, workshops, visiting scholars and artists, seminars, community projects and panel discussions. Events are planned for the Lawrence area and statewide.
Arts Across Kansas, the Lied Center’s statewide outreach initiative, brings the performing arts into rural areas and small communities in Kansas. Statewide residencies, from Great Bend to Garden City, from Holton to Hutchinson, have included the Latino comedy trio Culture Clash, the dance troupe Ballet Hispanico, the chamber ensemble Hutchins Consort, classical guitarist Robert Bluestone, Native American flutist-dancer Kevin Locke, and chamber ensemble Cypress String Quartet.
Since the program began in 1998-99, education workshops and performances have been presented in 16 counties and have involved more than 12,000 people across Kansas and the region. In April 2007, the Lied Center will welcome the Sphinx Quartet, who will participate in Arts Across Kansas at the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kansas.
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Learn more about the artists of selected Lied Series performances by reading our online study guides that accompany Studio Lied performances. Students and teachers attending School Performances will find grade-specific study guides that help make the most of each performance and provide resources for integrating the performance in classroom curriculum.
Studio Lied Study Guides:
•L.A. Theatre Works in
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
•Miami City Ballet in Don Quixote
•Cypress String Quartet Inspired by America
•Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
School Performance Study Guides:
Archived Guides:
• Alexander Who’s Not, Not, Not, Not, Not, Not Going to Move
• Art of the Groove by Turtle Island String Quartet
• Avishai Cohen Trio
• Beijing Modern Dance Co.
• Cypress String Quartet
• Drum Drum
• Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul
• Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers
• Pilobolus Too
• PingChong ’s Native Voices – Secret History
• Twelfth Night
• The Rainbow Fish
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales
• Tiempo Libre
• Trout Fishing in America
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The Lied Center Series and the Lawrence Schools USD 497 were chosen in 1991
to become members of the Partners in Education Program of the John F. Kennedy
Center for Performing Arts. Selected because of our demonstrated commitment
to the improvement of education in and through the arts, the partnership team
participates in collaborative efforts to make the arts integral to education.
As a part of this partnership, educator workshops are arranged throughout the
year to encourage the use of the arts as a creative tool throughout the curriculum.
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Adventures in Imagination was formed in the fall of 1994 as a three-way business/education
partnership between U.S. Bank, Lawrence Public Schools, and the Lied Center.
The partnership creates opportunities through the arts that enhance reading,
writing, critical thinking and creative expression for students and teachers
in our community. Adventures in Imagination was named the 1995 Outstanding
Kansas Partnerships in Education, was awarded the 2000-01 Best Integration
of Curriculum in a Partnership Award and the 2004-2005 LEAP Achievement Partner
Award from the Lawrence Public Schools Business/Education Partnership (now
L.E.A.P.: Lawrence Education Achievement Partners) and is recognized in "Acts
of Achievement: The Role of Performing Art Centers in Education" (released
October 15, 2003) by Dana Press, the publishing division of the Dana Foundation.
Events for USD 497 teachers and students are available through this partnership;
please contact your school’s Ambassador for
the Arts for more information. Teachers and students from non-USD 497 may
also participate; please contact our Director of Education for more information.
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• Education Brochure [.pdf]
• 06-07 School Performance Flyer [.pdf]
• Workshop Registration Form [.doc]
• USD 497 Ambassadors for the Arts
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For more information on any of our Education & Outreach programs, please contact our Director of Education by calling (785) 864-2795, or e-mail:liededu@ku.edu.
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