About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsThe American Shakespeare Center comes to the APPlause! Series with a streaming performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Oct. 5-11 in partnership with the Office of Arts and Cultural Programs’ Schaefer Center Presents 2020-21 season. See a Midsummer romp full of “humor and wonder” with […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsAn APPlause! Series favorite, Billy Jonas believes that creating a bright future starts with kids. Using homemade and re-cyclable "re-percussion" instruments, songs that celebrate community, as well as personal and planetary ecology, his think-outside-the-box educational performances occur at schools, colleges, universities and libraries around the country. […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsWe're sorry, but this workshop is full and is no longer accepting registrations. Join us online "live" via Zoom with Billy Jonas for an exciting workshop where you will discover that everyone is a musician, and that music can be made “Anywhere, Anytime, with Anyone, and […]
This APPlause! event, available to enjoy for a full week, is an abridged version of the full-length concert that is part of the main Schaefer Center Presents Series. In its 28th year, coordinated by Dr. Stephen Hopkins, Director of Choral Studies in the Hayes School of Music, the Holiday Scholarship Concert offers this compilation of past […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsFlamenco Vivo Carlota Santana — Virtual Lecture Demonstration Join Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana for a 40-minute story-based presentation where we follow our main character, Sol, on a journey of discovering Flamenco. The audience will hear the story, see a series of colorful video clips of live […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQs Get ready to laugh out loud, play with language, and enjoy some great stories about foolish choices, bravery, a tiny ghost, and a boy who might not have the sense he was born with! These iconic stories from American folklore will stay with you. Once […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsIn this workshop, we explore 30 years of research that inextricably links language and literacy. We will discuss ways to increase a youngster’s aptitude in both. Using activities from finger games to beginning stories, we will look at ways of using familiar tales in the classroom […]
All photos by Lynn Willis This APPlause! event, available to enjoy for 10 days for viewers of all ages, is an abridged version of the full-length event that is part of the main Schaefer Center Presents Series on Thursday, March 25 at 8pm. Click HERE to register for the main stage event. This virtual best-of […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsHOBEY FORD'S GOLDEN ROD PUPPETS:THE RAINBOW BRIDGE AND OTHER TALES This shadow puppetry production brings to life three folktales through Ford’s unique presentational style combining stunning puppetry, storytelling, and topical educational themes. The stories include “The Rainbow Bridge," “El Coqui,” and “The Three Billy Goats Gruff,” with a finale […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsWhen teaching children about different cultures we frequently turn to folktales. These stories can illuminate many facets of a people and their culture. Story activates our imagination, draws us in, and opens the doors of learning. Often we learn best that which we can hold in […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsARTSPOWER THEATRE ON DEMAND presents THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER Based on the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, this musical adventure follows two children who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves working to […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsSONIA DE LOS SANTOS:EN CASA CON SONIA Join Sonia from home! Sing along to her beloved songs, learn about the stories that inspire her music, and get to know the work of some of her favorite artists. • • • • • Acompaña a Sonia ¡desde […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsREGGIE HARRIS: MUSIC AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD The Underground Railroad is one of the most important chapters in American History. This engaging concert of songs, stories and narratives about slavery and the quest for freedom reveals the hope, power and eventually, the triumph that was accomplished […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsMUSIC AND STORIES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD In this live, in-person 90-minute workshop for educators, Reggie Harris will share his Kennedy Center Teaching Artist workshop, "Music and Stories of the Underground Railroad." This workshop will compliment Harris' virtual APPlause! Series performance, Music and the Underground Railroad, […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsTHE HERO IN YOU WITH ELLIS PAUL Heroes change the world. They do something nobody else had the courage to do. Whether they discovered a way to harness electricity or invented a new flavor of ice cream, each of them started as a kid with a […]
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR THE 2022-23 APPLAUSE! SEASON. A Schaefer Center Presents and APPlause! K-12 Performing Arts Series event In partnership with Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, the Western Piedmont Symphony brings Link Up: The Orchestra Sings to the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts for a live performance for family […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsThis one-hour workshop for educators will explore using music and songwriting in the classroom. Ellis Paul is an award-winning singer-songwriter who has been a key figure in contemporary folk music for over 20 years, with more than 19 albums in his catalog. The first of his […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsphoto by Mitchell D. Wilson CONTRA-TIEMPO ACTIVIST DANCE THEATRE CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual, Los Angeles-based dance company that creates electrifying, politically astute performance work that moves audiences to imagine what is possible. The company engages diverse audiences, cultivates dancer leaders, and centers stories not traditionally […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsSPECIAL OFFER!Buy One Ticket, Get One FREE A Schaefer Center Presents and APPlause! K-12 Performing Arts Series event This 50-minute performance features excerpts from The Little Prince, designed for our youngest audience members. (The full-length ballet is featured at 7pm as part of The Schaefer Center […]
About Events Registration Educator Resources FAQsphoto credit: Will CrooksGLENIS REDMOND: TELLING STORIES THROUGH POEMS In Telling Stories, Glenis shares her origin story. She reads poems connected to her Carolina heritage as she uplifts people and places. She also honors teachers who ignited her poetic fire when she was in middle school. […]