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Givens Performing Arts Center
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372

Phone: 910.521.6287
Fax: 910.521.6552
Email: gpac@uncp.edu

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Educational Outreach

Enrich classroom curriculum by integrating materials from performances in the 2007-2008 Professional Artist Series at Givens Performing Arts Center.

View list of integration ideas for professors and instructors

Study Guides for On Stage for Youth will be updated by September 2007

On Stage for Youth Study Guide Information for students: click on highlighted area for study guide.

TEACHER DISCOUNTS

Teacher receive faculty/staff rate of $15 for tickets at Givens Performing Arts Center through North Carolina's WE SAVE program.

All dates and artists subject to change due to availability.

The Velveteen Rabbit
Thursday, October 11
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: 1st & Up

Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)

Presented by the Enchantment Theatre Company. When a child loves you for a long, long time...then you become Real." So says the Horse to the Velveteen Rabbit in Margery Williams' famous and much-loved literary classic. A stuffed toy rabbit, given as a gift to a young boy, yearns for the day the boy will choose him as his special playmate, so that he can become real. Through love, devotion and a little bit of magic, he not only becomes a truly beloved toy, but is miraculously transformed into a real woodland rabbit.

Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble
Tuesday, November 13
9:30 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: All ages

Kevin Locke presents virtuoso traditional, flute, song, historical and cultural narratives, native sign language, hoop dancing, audience participation, and humor. A Kevin Locke concert consists of: Flute and vocals interspersed with entertaining, informative and inspirational stories of native culture, and interactive native sign language. The hoop dance, with introductory and concluding narrative explanations, and an onstage, mini-workshop in hoop dancing in which Kevin invites 15 to 25 audience members to join him to participate. If time permits, a traditional friendship round dance that brings people together in a heart-warming celebration of community. Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)

Katie Couric’s Brand New Kid
Thursday, March 20
10:30 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
For ages 5 and up

Study guide available at The Givens Center

Presented by the Kennedy Center's Imagination Celebration on Tour. New teachers… new books… new faces! It's the very first day of second grade, and Lazlo S. Gasky is the new kid in school. He's your typical seven-year-old boy, but because he doesn't look or speak quite like the others, the teasing and taunting begin. When Ellie McSnelly realizes how tough Lazlo has it, she risks being ridiculed herself to spend an afternoon with him. After playing soccer, eating strudel, and making new friends, the two teach their classmates a valuable lesson--one that's not in their schoolbooks--about the need to give others a chance. Adapted from Katie Couric's popular children's book, this uplifting new musical proves that being yourself is the best way to be.

Alexander and the Very Bad Horrible Day
Thursday, April 24
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: 1st & Up

Study Guide Availabe at The Givens Center

Presented by Theatreworks USA, in conjunction with Two Bean Productions.
From the moment he wakes up with gum in his hair, things just do not go Alexander's way. At breakfast, Alexander's brothers Nick and Anthony reach into their cereal boxes and pull out amazing prizes, while all Alexander ends up with is . . . cereal. The situation does not get any better at school, in fact it gets worse. No wonder Alexander wants to move to Australia! In Australia, everything is upside down, so maybe a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day can become a wonderful, terrific, really good day. Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)

Click here for Board Game (Opens as a pdf)

Arthur - LIVE! "Arthur Tricks The Tooth Fairy"
Tuesday, April 29
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: 1st & Up

This all-new Arthur LIVE production "is" based on the award-winning book series by Marc Brown and a top-rated PBS TV series. D.W. is jealous when her big brother Arthur loses a tooth and gets a visit from the Tooth Fairy. Arthur explains that the Tooth Fairy comes only when you lose a tooth and put it under your pillow at night, so D.W. dreams up some hilarious (but unsuccessful) plans to trick the Tooth Fairy into coming. Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)
Sponsored by Ransom-Locklear Dental Services

Updated: Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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