Each season, UApresents goes out into the community to ensure that Tucson and Southern Arizona enjoy the benefits of arts education—from master classes and in-classroom work with touring performers to smaller community-based Arts Encounters and discussions. Through our School Matinee program, many K-12 students have experienced their first live performing arts event, while expanding their conception of the world and its diverse cultures. Likewise, we have provided the opportunity for teachers to learn more about how to integrate the arts into their classrooms and develop curriculum connections.

SCHOOL MATINEE SERIES

In previous years, more than 12,000 K-12 students from more than 100 schools have attended UApresents’ School Matinees. Students came from across Arizona, including Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pinal, Maricopa, Yavapai and Yuma counties to enjoy performances geared especially for them.

This season, due to limited access to Centennial Hall which is now being used as a classroom Monday through Thursday, and because reduced funding to the schools has severely limited bus transportation to Centennial Hall for School Matinees, UApresents has redefined our school programs in order to maintain our strong commitment to providing the experience of live performance to school children in our communities.

Though reduced in number, this year we are offering two excellent School Matinees at Centennial Hall as well as a new program in the schools along with other education and outreach activities we have planned.

UApresents Children’s Festival
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:30pm
Building upon the pre-performance event UApresents hosted last season in conjunction with “The Ant and the Elephant," many UA campus departments -- including Club Arizona, UA BookStores, Bio5 and School of Theatre Arts -- will again host activities and displays for children. Local artists and performers will also be on hand to entertain. Free and open to the public on the Centennial Hall patio preceding the performance of “A Year With Frog and Toad.”

ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET
Friday, February 5, 2010
“Mixed Repertory”
Founded in 1939 by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Farrally, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet holds the double distinction of being Canada's premier ballet company and the longest continuously operating company in North America. In 1953, the Company received its royal title, the first granted under the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The one-hour matinee performance will give a demonstration of excerpts from the Company’s repertoire.

Click here for Royal Winnipeg Ballet Study Guide.

UNIVERSE OF DREAMS
Friday, February 12, 2010
Neal Conan and Ensemble Galilei
This presentation will be a one-hour excerpt of the evening performance. Narrated by Neal Conan, host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, with projected images from the Hubble Space Telescope, this concert marries music to words. Inspired by pictures from the space telescope, the evocative music of the Celtic/early music Ensemble Galilei is a perfect backdrop for readings from a Navajo creation myth and the works of Stanley Kunitz, Jim Harrison and William Shakespeare. Audiences have been swept away by this extraordinary combination of lyrical poetry, images that transform our understanding of the universe and what critics have described as “music that speaks to the heart in ways that transcend mere language.”

Click here for Universe of Dreams Study Guide.

For more information on the UApresents School Matinee Series, please contact:
Petra Garcia • (520) 626-3560 • pgarcia1@email.arizona.edu
Centennial Hall Box Office • (520) 621-3341 • uapresents.org

Click here to download the School Matinee order form.

UAPRESENTS IN THE SCHOOLS

UApresents and TUSD have collaborated to bring performing arts events to Sahuaro and Tucson High School theaters. Elementary and middle school students will be walked, and in some cases bused, to the theaters for the programs. More than 4,000 students will be able to experience these wonderful performances that also will contribute greatly to maintaining the arts in the TUSD curriculum where those budgets have been significantly reduced in the new budget year. We hope to extend the program to other school districts in the future based on the success of this year’s program. All performances will take place at 10:30 am

Sahuaro High School

Garry Krinsky’s “Toying with Science”
Friday, November 20, 2009
Toying with Science was commissioned by the Boston Museum of Science and has since been seen across America. Exploring the principles of gravity, leverage, and balance, Garry Krinsky dazzles and educates audiences with juggling, illusions, & a big sense of humor. For grades 2 through 5.

Calle Sur
Friday, March 5, 2010
Performing music from all over Latin America on a large variety of instruments, Calle Sur brings to life the rich diversity of Latin American music, challenges cultural and ethnic preconceptions and lifts spirits with sheer musical energy and beauty. Appropriate for all ages.

Tucson High School

Northwest Professional Dance Project
Monday, November 23, 2009
Founded in 2004, the Northwest Professional Dance Project is dedicated to the creation and performance of innovative, contemporary new dance works from established and emerging dance makers. Appropriate for all ages.

Calle Sur
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Performing music from all over Latin America on a large variety of instruments, Calle Sur brings to life the rich diversity of Latin American music, challenges cultural and ethnic preconceptions and lifts spirits with sheer musical energy and beauty. Appropriate for all ages.

Master Classes with UA Students
Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, percussionists from various jazz and classical artists, Olga Kern and Christine Ebersole all will interact with UA Theatre Arts students. More than 250 university students will experience first-class instruction with professional artists and discussion regarding their future careers.

Rodell Foundation Exemplary Teacher Program
We will offer up to the fourteen current Rodell classes a performing arts experience as a part of their Exemplary Teacher Program. Up to 400 teachers, student teachers and students will be offered transportation and complimentary tickets to the “Universe of Dreams: Neal Conan and Ensemble Galelei” School Matinee on Friday, February 12, 2010.

Complimentary Tickets for worthy organizations
This past season we have distributed tickets to The Wildcat School, Pima Adult Education and The Haven. We would like to extend this program to other similar organizations to offer the opportunity for underserved populations to experience the transformational power of the arts. (See attached comments from recipients of this program).

UApresents Children’s Festival
Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 1:00pm
Building upon the pre-performance event UApresents hosted last season in conjunction with “The Ant and the Elephant” event, many campus departments, including the Athletics department’s Club Arizona, the education component of Bio5 and Theater Arts, will again provide activities and displays for children. This season’s Festival will precede our performance of “A Year With Frog and Toad.”

The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later… An Epilogue”

UApresents and the UA Theater Arts department are collaborating on the presentation of the reading of Moises Kaufman’s new work “The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later…An Epilogue” on October 12 2009 at Centennial Hall. Theater Arts students and local actors will perform the reading.

In September, a designated actor/teacher from the Tectonic Theater Project will come to Tucson for a two-day workshop in the technique of Kaufman’s “Moment Work” process to prepare the participants for the reading.

UApresents invites the community to join the campus in a range of activities – including discussion panels and film screenings – designed to bring diverse communities together to network, learn and share on matters of civil rights, violence and bigotry. All events are free and open to the public.

We will be announcing program details in the fall and also providing information to the schools at that time. Please watch our website, uapresents.org, over the summer and in the fall for updates and details on educational programs as they become available.

Educational Programs Sponsors:
• Texas Instruments
  
  
• Robert & Nancy Clark
• Joan Brown Diamond Charitable Lead Trust
• Clague A. Van Slyke III, Attorney at Law