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We bring the arts to you!
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We believe in a balanced curriculum and the power of the arts to make the educational process more relevant and exciting. In these times of standards and testing, the arts can play a vital role in helping to enrich the curriculum. We hope your school can take advantage of these extraordinary artists and assemblies for the coming year. Each of the programs in this booklet comes with a special guide designed to help you prepare your students for what they will see as well as providing follow-up activities. Performances To Grow On looks forward to being part of your Arts-in-education program.
To schedule an assembly at your school e-mail info@ojaistoryfest.org or call 805.272.0072
Our touring performers are award-winning artists that perform all over the United States. The cost includes their travel and hotel accommodations. These artists are block booked throughout Ventura County making these shows quite affordable compared to a single booking.
Assemblies at your School
October 21-30, 2025
Regi Carpenter
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Jasmin Cardenas
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Minton Sparks
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Paul Strickland
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Josh Goforth
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Take the Ojai Storytelling Festival to your School!
Call for availability
Grades TK-12
Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Tall Tales, Oh My! From a world class whistler to a world class liar, we've got them all. Pick your favorite for one to three assemblies.
One Assembly $900
Two Assemblies $1400
For Reservations click the reservation button below or email
or call (805)272-0072
Sheila Arnold
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Ojai Storytelling Festival at Libbey Bowl, Ojai!
October 24th, 2025
Regi Carpenter
Minton Sparks
Jasmin Cardenas
Ojai Storytelling Festival at Libbey Bowl, Ojai
October 24, 2025
K-3 9:30am, 4th-8th 11:15am
$10 per ticket
Teachers Free
1 Chaperone per 20 students
For Reservations click the reservation button below or email info@ojaistoryfest.org
or call (805)272-0072
Sheila Arnold
Josh Goforth
Paul Strickland
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Norman Foote March 2025
Assemblies or Songwriting Workshops
Songwriting Workshops
Half Day workshop series $900, Full Day $1400
Join Multi-award Winner, Norman Foote’s popular songwriting workshop! Kids experience a captivating and highly engaging songwriter’s workshop, explore lyrical content, melody and song genre. Norman encourages kids to believe in their own ideas. Together (with Norman’s improv skills) they will create a finished song, which will be featured at your school or theater.
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Assemblies
1 assembly $900; 2 assemblies $1400
Norman Foote is an award winning entertainer from Vancouver, Canada who has received international acclaim for his song writing, creative props and offbeat sense of humor. His stage show is uniquely Norman and is innovative both musically and visually. When Norman comes to a school, he brings with him the joy of music and performance. The song list comes from his most recent albums Love My New Shirt, Always Be Yourself, along with some older Foote classics. What makes Norman so great is his ability to find subject matter that challenges and engages students of all ages. He puts his theatrical and comedic talents to use as he weaves stories and paints musical imagery that audiences respond to immediately.
For reservations call or email (805)272-0072 or info@ptgo.org
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Magical Tales of Latin America (Bilingual)
This bilingual production explores the rich Hispanic folklore and mythology of Latin America.
The stories include:
“Alegua – the trickster of the crossroads”
Afro/Cuban Rhythm and Song from the Afro-Cuban tradition of Santeria.
La Calavera
After using up everyone in his small village, an old father ventures out onto the road to find a godparent for his 12th child. He’s approached by Papa Dios and El Diablo, as well as a host of pre-Columbian deities who offer themselves for the job before he chooses Godmother Death.
Paco and the Witch
Paco is a good boy who likes to help his mom but when he goes to town to run an errand he has to pass through the dark forest where a bruja (witch) is waiting to snatch him up. She takes him prisoner but he is helped by some native animals of Puerto Rico who betray the witch and help set Paco free.
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Spring & Fall 2024
Boxtales Theatre Company
3 assemblies: $1650
2 assemblies: $1300
1 assembly: $950
Life Lessons from Around the World
This show features myths, folktales, and music from different cultures that were chosen with Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mind. The stories offer examples of the 5 SEL competencies of: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, responsible decision-making, and relationship skills.
The stories include:
The Hunterman and the Crocodile – Africa
(Responsible decision-making & Social awareness)
Sealskin Soulskin – Inuit/Pacific Northwest
(Self-Awareness, Self-Management & Relationship Skills)
Too Much Noise – Jewish
(Self-awareness, Self-management, Perspective, Inner voice)
Stand-Up Stories – Multicultural Tales to Live By
This show features a collection of multicultural folktales and myths which provide the listener with valuable messages and cultural wisdom they can use to live by.
The stories include:
PHAETHON
Greek Mythology
THE LIONS WHISKERS
Amhara Tribe of Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
This show features a collection of multicultural folktales and myths which provide the listener with valuable messages and cultural wisdom they can use to live by.
This dynamic production of Iron John, about a wild man and a prince, is based one of the best German fairy tales found in the collections of the Brothers Grimm. The story is a parable about a boy maturing into adulthood through meaningful rites of passage.
Spring and Fall 2024
Madrigali A Capella Singers
Living in the Renaissance
2 shows: $1300
1 show: $900
Have you ever wondered how they lived in the Renaissance? What did they eat? How did they bathe? Did they have playstations...? Well, with this program, you'll learn all of that and more plus hear some beautiful a capella singing.
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For Reservations email info@ojaistoryfest.org or call (805)272-0072
Scheduled Year round
Antonio Sacre
Assemblies & Workshops
Prices range from $2000 to $3500
Antonio Sacre is a bilingual Cuban and Irish-American writer living in Los Angeles. He works primarily in television, where his writing focuses on multicultural family dynamics. Antonio tells universal stories with a fresh, authentic voice and culturally-specific details. Antonio also offers programming for teachers and districts nationwide through live-streams, recorded courses, and in-person Professional Developments.
Antonio has created ten full-length solo shows and performed around the world, but mostly in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, to critical and popular acclaim. The Village Voice calls him “Remarkable… a serious artist.”
His show The Next Best Thing was chosen as one of LA Weekly’s Top 10 LA Theater Experiences. He twice won Best Storyteller at United Solo Theatre Festival Off-Broadway.
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For Reservations email info@ojaistoryfest.org or call (805)272-0072
Scheduled Year round
Esteban Ramirez
Assemblies, Concerts & Workshops
Prices range from $1500 to $6500
Esteban Ramirez is a neoclassical instrumental pianist/composer and free-verse poet whose vision is to provide people with a unique lens to experience life’s different facets by interweaving his neoclassical compositions with immersive poetic storytelling.
The youngest of nine children from Mexican immigrant parents, Esteban began piano lessons at the age of 10, soon thereafter evolving into a composer in his own right, and eventually releasing three albums of original music: Serenade to the Moon, Welcome Home, and Fly with Me.
For Reservations email info@ojaistoryfest.org or call (805)272-0072
Unlocking Creativity Through Music, Poetry, and Art
Welcome to a journey of creativity and inspiration where music, poetry, and art converge to form a beautiful tapestry of self-expression.
In this 60-minute workshop – designed for children from fourth to sixth grade and young-at-heart adults – participants explore the enchanting world of Esteban Ramirez' neoclassical solo piano music through poetry and art.
In this carefully crafted workshop, participants nurture their creativity, enhance their appreciation of music, poetry, and art, and encourage their self-expression.
Scheduled Year round
Michael D. McCarty
Assemblies & Workshops
Prices range from $800 to $1500
Michael is a multicultural storyteller of African, African-American and International Folk tales, Historical tales, Stories of Science, Spiritual stories as well as stories of the brilliant and "absolutely stupid things he has done in his life."
His stories inform, educate, inspire and amuse. His storytelling style is energetic and enthusiastic.
Michael specializes in stories of African and Afro-American history, multi cultural stories and personal stories. Since 2014, he’s been working in California prisons as part of the Arts In Corrections project. He gives a variety of workshops open utilizing the art of storytelling.
For Reservations email info@ojaistoryfest.org or call (805)272-0072
January 26-30
Leland Faulkner
Assemblies & Workshops
Prices range from $900 to $1500
World of Wonder is a program designed for the whole family. Beginning with the amazing and lost art of shadowgraphs or hand shadows, Leland conjures up an amazing menagerie of silhouettes using only his hands. He is recognized in conjuring circles as an expert on the history of this antique art. Imagine discovering twenty four comic characters from around the world in a matter of minutes. Discover classical magic from the Far East as a Japanese magician lets folded paper butterflies fill the air with color in a beautiful homage to Old Japan. Film and workshop series also available.