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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 2008-2009 Professional Artist Series at Givens Performing Arts Center.

(Coming soon) List of integration ideas for professors and instructors.

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

TEACHER DISCOUNTS

Teachers 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 Cashore Marionettes
Friday, September 12
9:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: Ages 5 and up

Click here for Study Guide (Coming soon)

Unmatched in artistry, grace and refinement of movement, the Cashore Marionettes redefine the art of puppetry. Award-winning artist Joseph Cashore creates and manipulates these amazingly lifelike marionettes in a performance of brilliance and beauty. The program is a series of touching character portrayals and scenes from everyday life set to a succession of stunning original and classical music including Vivaldi, Strauss, Beethoven, and Copeland. The original vignettes celebrate life and explore a range of emotions.

Max and Ruby
Thursday, January 15
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades:All ages

Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)

Based on the top-rated Nickelodeon television show inspired by the series of books by Rosemary Wells. Ruby, a seven-year-old-rabbit, loves her Grandma and very much and wants to do something special for her. She gets the brilliant idea to put on a show, with music and costumes, a castle and everything! She’ll need a little help, so she tries to enlist the help of her little brother Max. When Max proves no help at all, she enlists the help of her Bunny Scouts and madcap adventures ensue.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Monday, February 2
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades:All ages

Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)

This enchanting musical is based on C.S. Lewis’ adventure story about four children of war-torn England, who accidently enter the land of Narnia by climbing through a magic wardrobe. This strange and wondrous place is rules by the cold-hearted White Witch, who makes the winter last year round. Although they seem unlikely saviors, the children fulfill an ancient prophecy by defeating the witch, thus restoring sunshine and peace to the spell-bound Narnia and returning the great Lion king Aslan to his throne.

Junie B. Jones
Monday, March 16
10:00 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: 1st & Up

Click here for Study Guide (Opens as a pdf)
Based on Barbara Parks wildly popular books, and published by Randomhouse, Junie B. Jones is a rollicking and comical one-of-a-kind musical adventure. Junie B. Jones exemplifies many of the comical aspects of childhood; fear of monsters, grammatical errors, dealing with siblings, the first day of school, and innocent crushes.

The North Carolina Dance Theatre: Presenting the American Masterpieces
Wednesday, March 25
10:30 a.m.
Students: $7
Adults/Teachers: $8
Grades: 1st & Up

Click here for Study Guide (Coming soon)

North Carolina’s own! The works of classic choreographers George Balanchine, Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharp, set to the music of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Frank Sinatra. American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius is an initiative to acquaint Americans with the best of their cultural and artistic legacy.

Updated: Monday, June 30, 2008

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