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Illstyle & Peace Production
CONTACT: Fatima Oladosu
Arts for Learning Maryland
Phone: 855-245-2787, ext. 145
Email: k12programs@artsforlearningmd.org
Website: artsforlearningmd.org/artists/

NO Bullying, STOP Bullying: Let’s Be Friends!
During the high-energy dance assembly students learn valuable lessons about positivity, fairness and working together. Illstyle acts out scenerios that place two school groups against one another in day-to-day life, and finally in a dance-off. With the help of a dedicated teacher, the students soon come together, discovering that they are more alike than they are different.
Grade Level: K–12
Fee: $937.14 single, $1,216 back-to-back (mileage fees may apply)

Hip Hop Added Up!
Using movement patterns and complex rhythms, Illstyle explains math concepts in a fun and engaging way. They cover addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions, and help kids associate positive messages with mathematics with audience participation throughout the program.
Grade Level: 3–8
Fee: $937.14 single, $1,216 back-to-back (mileage fees may apply)

The History of Hip-Hop
This high-energy program brings the history of hip-hop dance to life. The company shares this history through interactive lecture, jaw-dropping dance, and a compelling Q&A session. Students learn the positive aspects of hip-hop art and culture, technical elements of this dance form, and how the dance has evolved. DJing, the Human Beat-Box, and the MC are only a few elements covered.
Grade Level: K–12
Fee: $937.14 single, $1,216 back-to-back (mileage fees may apply)

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Janice the Griot, LLC
CONTACT: Janice Greene
Telephone: 443-253-1804 (w), 410-655-4904 (h)
E-mail: janicethegriot@aol.com
Website: www.janicethegriot.com

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
The performance is a costumed first-person re-enactment of the live trials and triumphs of Harriet Ross Tubman. It includes Underground Railroad and work songs, quilts, audience participation and movement. The program gives dates and historical content about the Civil War, Quakers, Underground Railroad codes and names of other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, William Still, Beth Van Lew, Levi Coffin, and Abraham Lincoln.
Grade Level: 3-12
Fee: $500 single, $800 back to back, $1200 for 3-day residency, $25 travel fee

Joe Romano, Ultimate School Shows.com
CONTACT: Joe Romano
Phone: 301-641-1862
Email: romanomagic@mac.com
Website: www.ultimateschoolshows.com

Books: The Magic is Real!
The #1 reading assembly in the Northeast. Recently chosen to open for First Lady, Michelle Obama at The Library of Congress! Joe Romano brings books to life through the art of magic and illusion. Over 4500 schools have experienced this amazing production filled with dynamic music, audience participation and jaw dropping magic!
Grade Level: K-5
Fee: $795 single, $1095 back-to-back

Take Me to Your Readers
Popular book magician, Joe Romano, returns with the most amazing show on the planet! “Take Me to The Readers” will transport your students to a world of space, planets, aliens, magic, and lots of books. This school year will be STELLAR, as Joe Romano DOCKS his all-new reading magic show that will BEAM young readers to library shelves everywhere!
Grade Level: K–5
Fee: $795 single, $1095 back-to-back

Superhero Math!
Educational Entertainer Joe Romano will Multiply your students’ excitement, in a Fraction of the time, with the Addition of “Superhero Math!” We’ve got your common core standards covered in this exciting assembly where magic, puzzles and tricks educate your students about fractions, orders of operation, measurement, estimation and more!
Grade Level: K–5
Fee: $795 single, $1095 back-to-back

Green Magic!
“Green Magic!” will grow your students’ minds as they learn how “going green” can be easy and fun! Using science and comedy, Joe Romano magically transports the audience to a world where Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling is the #1 way to protect our planet.
Grade Level: K–5
Fee: $795 single, $1095 back-to-back

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KanKouran West African Dance Company
CONTACT: Ali Rahmaan
Telephone: 202-518-1213
E-mail: akonte@aol.com
Web site: www.kankouran.org

Visit Africa
KanKouran, known internationally for its authentic traditional West African Dance, offers an electrifying display of choreography and polyrhythmic drumming from Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. In addition, the program offers an enhanced educational component that gives audiences an inside view of African history, culture, and customs.
Grade Level: K-12
Fee: $600 single, $800 back to back

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Leila Cabib
CONTACT: Leila Cabib
Telephone: 301-299-2659 or 240-421-5001 
E-mail: leila@leilacabib.com
Website: www.leilacabib.com

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4-Day Cartooning Residency 
Students will design original characters, script their own stories, and refine rough sketches into final artwork for a multi-panel cartoon page. Using the conventions of graphic novel storytelling—narration, dialogue, character design, dynamic page layouts, and cinematic techniques —they will bring their stories to life as they combine words and images. They will explore various pen-and-ink techniques and learn how to use color to evoke a mood or atmosphere
Grade Level: 2–5
Fee for 4 class sessions per day (16 total): $3500 (materials and travel fee additional)

4-Day Hands-On History of Animation Residency
Through the creation of three optical toys–thaumatropes, zoetrope strips, and flip-books–students will learn about the history, science, and creative possibilities of animation. They will progress from these 19th century pre-cinema toys to present day digital animation as they use their Chromebooks to create a stop-motion animated sequence.
Grade Level: 4-5
Fee for 4 class sessions per day (16 total): $3500 (materials and travel fee additional)

Lesole’s Dance Project
CONTACT: Artivate at Levine
Phone: 202-686-8000
Email: artivate@levinemusic.org
Website: www.levinemusic.org/artivate-at-levine-music

Dancing Through South Africa
Experience three dynamic dance cultures from South Africa! Start with modern Pantsula, an upbeat, urban dance similar to American Hip-hop-then explore historic Gumboat, with percussive sounds that helped gold miners communicate through rhythm – and traditional Ndlamu, a snapshot of Zulu village dance, customs, and high-energy drumming.
Grade Level: K-12
Fee: $770 single, $1020 back-to-back (includes travel fee)

Luis Garay Percussion World
CONTACT: Luis Garay
Phone: 202-246-5848
E-mail: luis@garaymusic.com
Web site: www.luisgaray.com/schools.htm

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The Passion and Inspiration of the Drums
Percussion World’s high energy blend of spicy Afro-Latin rhythms introduces audiences to exotic world percussion instruments including the balafone, djembe, cuica, and berimbao. Throughout this highly educational, fun, and entertaining performance, students and faculty participate with clapping and call and response, and are invited to play drums from a variety of cultures.
Grade Level: K-12
Fee: $900 single, $1100 back to back, $1300 split day, $900 family night
Multi-Day residencies available. Please call.

Rhythm Rocks! (workshop)
Luis Garay’s dynamic percussion workshop introduces students to the exciting and fascinating world of Afro-Latin, Jazz, and World percussion music and instruments including congas, djembes, bongos, balafones, shakers, and much more! His unique “hands-on” style of teaching encourages workshop participants to experience the exhilaration of being “in the groove” as they learn and perform rhythm patterns from different cultures on the actual instruments!
Grade Level: K-12
Fee: $450 single, $550 back to back, $600 split day,
Maximum Audience: 30