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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.
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Spring 2024
Norman Foote
2 shows or a full day workshop series: $1300
1 show or a half day workshop series: $900
This celebrated performer from Vancouver, BC has created a special niche in the music world and amassed a cross-generational following. His musicality is like no other, mixing clever hooks, witty wordplay and comedy all to great effect. His accolades include SOCAN’s Best Songwriter Award, US Parents' Choice Awards, and National Publications Parenting Awards' Gold Award, and most recently a JUNO for his cd "Love my new Shirt." Norman has written and recorded songs for Disney Records, Shari Lewis, CBC, Max and Ruby musical and many others. He has performed and worked with millions of people throughout North America, inspiring creativity through his songs, stories and innovative props.
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Songwriting workshop:
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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For Reservations email info@ojaistoryfest.org or call (805)272-0072
Join the Big Chorus with Norman Foote!
Children's Community Chorus
Award-winning singer-songwriter Norman Foote collaborates with large school choruses in an engaging and entertaining concert presentation for all ages. He has worked with and created chorus groups throughout North America and stages an excellent experience for youth. The students learn various parts of the songs and become an animated wall of voices, melody and actions.
An album and book are downloaded online which are easy for teachers and students to follow.
Note: The children don’t have to be well versed in choral singing and there is NO cost to the school. Norman offers 2 free rehearsal sessions at the school for participating classes.
For reservations call or email (805)272-0072 or info@ptgo.org
Concert at Libbey Bowl
Mar 8 @ 6:30PM
65 min
If your child is participating in this concert, please fill out this form.
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
Ojai Madrigali
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
Shows at Scherr Forum and Libbey Bowl are Back!
October 24th and 25th, 2024
Assemblies at Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
October 24, 2024
Assemblies at Libbey Bowl, Ojai
October 25, 2024
Kim Weitkamp, Diane Ferlatte, Motoko, Don White, Mo Reynolds, Bil Lepp & Andy Offut Irwin
For Reservations click the reservation button below or email info@ojaistoryfest.org
or call (805)272-0072
Andy Offut Irwin
Motoko
Mo Reynolds
Diane Ferlatte
Bil Lepp
Don White
Kim Weitkamp