Browse from our catalogue of Assemblies and Performance delivered by Arts for Learning Teaching and Performing Artists!
Audience Size
Unless otherwise listed, the maximum audience size for all programs is ~300 students. Any size audience below this is considered acceptable. In the few cases wherein a program's maximum audience is fewer than this threshold, the appropriate figure is clearly indicated.
Price
Performances and Assemblies are offered at specific price points for each listing below. In many cases, performances may be booked back-to-back. The first price listed shows the base cost of booking this program and the second shows the cost for booking back-to-back.
Example: $685 | $840
$685/one performance $840/two performances
Venue
Most programs are best suited for large open area like auditoriums, gymnasiums, or similar spaces. Specific needs such as access to power, indoor vs outdoor adaptability, and further stage/space requirements will be communicated at the time of your inquiry.
Assembly and Performances Offerings
How to Catch a Mouse
How to Catch a Mouse
This is a presentation that combines math, science, art, and fun. Balloons are used to construct a Rube Goldberg-style mousetrap intended to solve the problem of a mouse on the loose. Student volunteers are invited to participate in building the working machine. It’s a dynamic way to teach kids how machines work and inspire them to eagerly set the trap in motion for themselves. The show is ideal for elementary school assembly programs and children’s museums.
Teaching Artist: Airigami
Grades: K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $685 | $840
Magic, Danger, Suspense and Silliness
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Magic, Danger, Suspense and Silliness
You can expect ear to ear smiles and laughter from the audience! From wacky antics to impossible stunts, this show has something for everyone! Every member of the audience gets to be involved. Whether helping up on stage, contributing from their seat, or learning how to fool their friends, the whole audience leaves having been part of the fun!
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This show is designed to be performed on a stage. It is easily adaptable to a gym/cafeteria or other large room. Performers bring all equipment needed.
Teaching Artist: Airigami
Grades: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $685 | $840
Bubble Mural
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Bubble Mural
A creative 2-D art installation designed to be built by students and teachers using biodegradable latex balloons! Designed by Airigami, this hands-on exhibit engages participants in a communal project with maximum impact and minimal mess.Installations are typically built over a few hours, and can usually last indoors for a week.Most kids have the dexterity to tie the necessary knots by 3rd or 4th grade.
Slightly modified activities allow younger kids, with the help of either older kids, teachers, or parents, to participate in the creation of the work.
Teaching Artist: Airigami
Grades: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $1,600 (this is a full, day-long program)
Making Pie with Pi
Making Pie with Pi
STEM to STEAM: In this performance, students use balloons and math to build a massive blueberry pie in the classroom.Younger students can work on their counting and arithmetic skills while older students get to use their knowledge of more advanced mathematics to calculate all of the elements of the pie, and get to see in a very tactile way, how well their calculations worked.
Teaching Artist: Airigami
Grades: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $1,600
Andy Parker's Weather Machine
Andy Parker's Weather Machine
Created by Meteorologist Andy Parker, this performance will quite literally bring the weather into your school! The auditorium presentation is upbeat, edge of your seat and filled with energy as weather elements are demonstrated with the assistance of student volunteers. The Weather Machine is capable of producing all types of weather, from actual tornados & lightning to snowstorms and just about anything in between.
The entire audience will be engaged by the “Unanswerable Weather Question,” prompting creative thinking about the ways weather affects every aspect of our lives. The impact of weather on everything from history to music, art and poetry is also explored.
The Weather Machine is sure to bring a unique, exciting, educational experience to your school.
Teaching Artist: Andy Parker
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $1,000 | $1,100
Circus for All
Circus for All
Benjamin Berry (they/he) is a teaching artist and circus performer who specializes in making creativemovement
accessible for all ages and levels of ability. Their movement journey began when they first picked up a hula hoop in 2013 and were instantly inspired by what would become their primary artistic discipline.Their signature program, “Circus for All,” blends elements of creative dance, prop-based circus arts, and social emotional learning.
Since moving to Buffalo in 2017, Benjamin has presented their eclectic curriculum in over 70 local schools, libraries, and other community-based facilities. In 2021 they launched Accessible Circus Project, an initiative in partnership with the non-profit Accessible Festivals. This project aims to provide free and subsidized circus props and accessible movement instruction to individuals, families, and organizations who have been financially
impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teaching Artist: Benjamin Berry
Grades: K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $600 | $900 | $1,200
*Maximum of 25 strudents*
Interactive Dance Party
Interactive Dance Party
Dance your Heart Out! This fun-filled, interactive dance-along with dancer/choreographer Cindy Hanna includes movin’ and groovin’ to upbeat tempos along with contemporary styles reflective to the audience. Dance moves anyone can do, and the students participate in every dance during the entire interactive performance. Getting our hearts pumping sending oxygen through out the entire body. Together Cindy and the students will exercise their bodies and at the same time exercise their brains, brain neurons used for cross-over body movements are the same as those used in critical problem solving. So move your bodies to think, learn and problem solve, and just feel good!
Teaching Artist: Cindy Hanna
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $500 | $650
Phonic Program: Fundamentals
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Phonic Program: Fundamentals
The Phonics is an innovative approach to teaching reading readiness. Using songs, dances, American Sign Language and visuals, the program, created by Cindy Hanna, uses multiple stimuli to teach phonics to pre-Kindergarten through first grade students. Each letter of the alphabet has a dance, song, visual and sign, to establish and reinforce the connection of the letter to its corresponding sounds. The Residency culminates in a celebratory performance by all participating students.
Teaching Artist: Cindy Hanna
Grades: PreK; K-2
Pricing: TBA
Echos of Africa
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Echos of Africa
Echoes of Africa” takes audiences on a journey from Guinea and Ghana in West Africa to Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil in the New World, following the paths of instruments and musical styles along the way. Performing traditional music on authentic instruments from three continents, members of Diaspora Drumming introduce listeners to pattern-based percussion, improvisation, and musical call-and-response. This exciting performance culminates in a group Brazilian carnival dance!
Teaching Artist: Diaspora Drumming
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $550 | $800
The BubbleMan
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The BubbleMan
"BubbleMan Doug Rougeux" is a 30 to 50 minute live or virtual assembly Arts in Education program that can focus on any combination of Science/STEAM, Reading/Library use Encouragement, Visual Arts Making/3-D Sculpture.
The program is available for indoors or outdoors presentations and works best for groups of 200 or less Pre K-8th grades.
Teaching Artist: Doug Rougeux
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $650 | $925
Songs and Life on the Erie Canal
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Songs and Life on the Erie Canal
The Erie Canal experience comes alive through songs and discussion about the history of the Canal, the people who brought the canal from an idea to a reality, and the legacy of the Canal. We discuss the pros and the cons of building a waterway from Albany to Buffalo in the early part of 19th century America and the men and women who lived life on the canal and who’s lives were shaped by the Canal. The importance of the Canal on America’s development is discussed.
Teaching Artist: Doug Yeomans
Grades: 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $350 | $425
*Maximum of 30 strudents*
The Reading Show
The Reading Show
Get your students really excited about reading with this high-energy assembly program from The Hill Brothers.
Perfect to kickoff or conclude PARP, RIF, Accelerated Reader and other reading incentive programs, or simply as a fun concert with an all-important message.This 40-minute show uses irresistably singable songs, comedy & loads of audience participation to get your students really fired up to read!
Special theme for your reading incentive program? We’re glad to work with it!
Teaching Artist: The Hill Brothers
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $595 | $695
The Bully Show
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The Bully Show
A high energy concert of participatory songs, games and dance designed to help students understand that There's No Place for Bullies In Our School!
Designed with the help of school counselors and administrators, this program perfectly complements Olweus and other anti-bullying programs you may be using.
Classic Hill Brothers comedy and full-tilt fun combine to show students what bullying looks like in all its forms, and offer strategies for dealing with it as both a victim and a bystander.
Teaching Artist: Judd Sunshine of the Hill Brothers
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $595 | $695
The Character Show - Respect, Responsibility, Teamwork
The Character Show - Respect, Responsibility, Teamwork
A fun-filled, entertaining concert which promotes the principles of respect, responsibility and teamwork, and
emphasizes the message that Good Character is Cool!
The Hill Brothers use original songs, interactive dialogue, belly-slapping humor and tons of audience activities
to rally your school around the concept of Good Character and highlight the many positive things (age-appropriate) that can happen for students through very simple actions on their parts.
Teaching Artist: Judd Sunshine of the Hill Brothers
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $595 | $695
Erie Canal Show
Erie Canal Show
Enrich your social studies curriculum through song and story! This program focuses on music and folklore from
New York State’s history with a special emphasis on the Erie Canal. The Hill Brothers use humor, great songs from
the period and lots of audience participation in this fun-filled musical trip across the state.
This program perfectly complements 4th and 7th grade New York State social studies curriculum, but is fun for all grade-levels.
Teaching Artist: Judd Sunshine of the Hill Brothers
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $595 | $695
Safe and Healthy Choices
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Safe and Healthy Choices
Get your students really excited about taking charge of their own wellness with this high-energy, uplifting
concert program!
Comedy, lively upbeat singalongs and loads of audience participation combine with powerful messages in
this rollicking pep-rally-of-a-show.
Topics covered include smart nutrition choices, good hygiene, plenty of exercise for everyone and staying
drug-free for life!
Very popular for Red Ribbon Week – please reserve your date early!
Teaching Artist: Judd Sunshine of the Hill Brothers
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $595 | $695
Fun-damentals: Balloon Art
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Fun-damentals: Balloon Art
Fun-damentals are workshops in a variety of fun artistic disciplines. Students are motivated to learn exciting
new skills and encouraged to continue their progress even after the workshops are completed. The goal is to
introduce a variety of concepts in fun and enriching ways.
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In this workshop students work as a group to create a temporary piece of art made from twisted balloons.
They will begin thinking in terms of shapes and patterns as they are opened up to the unlimited possibilities
that can be achieved in this art form. Students will watch and learn as we discuss how proportion can turn
simple shapes into recognizable creations. The large finished piece can be displayed in the classroom for
everyone to enjoy.
Teaching Artist: Janice Spagnola
Grades: K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $390 | $590
"I Can Reach My Goals & Dreams" Show
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"I Can Reach My Goals & Dreams" Show
This show will get your students excited about setting goals! Are you too young to set goals and work toward your dreams?
Kevin first discusses that you are never too young or too old to have dreams and work toward your goals. He has real life stories of young people who decided to follow their dreams and become very successful in grade school and shows students how they can begin working on and achieve their goals now – not “someday”. He shows how pursuing worthy goals can greatly increase your self-esteem. Drawing on personal experience, Kevin reveals the many secrets of his successes and how he worked toward achieving his goals and dreams starting at a young age. He inspires students to understand how to believe in themselves, be consistent in their action, and move a step closer everyday toward reaching their goals.
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"I Am Healthy!" Show
"I Am Healthy!" Show
This show will get your students excited about health! Kevin combines his love of music with his extensive wellness background for this unique and engaging program. With the steady rise of childhood obesity, it’s no secret there is a wellness crisis among young people in our country, including Western New York. Kevin teaches and inspires students by combining practical information on health and wellness with proactive steps that are easy to understand and follow.
Students learn to apply and establish these life-long habits to take charge of their own personal good health in an energetic and enjoyable way.
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"Friends Forever" Show
"Friends Forever" Show
This show will teach your students that to have friends you have to be a good friend! Building solid friendships is one of the most important keys in a happy and successful life. This program teaches students how to make friends, be a good friend, and how to develop lasting friendships for life. Most people are ever taught how to be a good friend. Kevin reveals a number of simple but important keys to friendship so that students may make many “friends forever”!
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"I Love to Read" Show
"I Love to Read" Show
This show will get your students excited about reading! It’s a perfect kick-off to PARP and other reading programs at your school. Kevin will first discuss why reading is important for everyone in life. He also discusses how reading can be fun, not just educational and that you can learn to read better while reading about things you enjoy! He bring examples of his favorite books, from the first books ever read, to current books he now enjoys.
Students will get a renewed excitement for reading and leave with a few gems that teachers can use in the classroom right away.
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"I Believe in Me" Show
"I Believe in Me" Show
This show will encourage and excite your students to believe in themselves! One of the most important life lessons in a young person’s development is building self esteem. “Believing in Yourself” is the first step towards happiness and a rewarding life. More than just “feeling good”, students will learn the building blocks of life-long self-esteem in a simple, easy to understand approach. Drawing on personal experience, Kevin reveals the many secrets of his successes and inspires students to understand how to believe in themselves.
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Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"The Fun" Show
"The Fun" Show
There are a number of reason schools choose the Fun Show including a reward for good behavior, beginning or end of the year, post-testing. This show will still include a positive character education message but much more time devoted to controlled fun!
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"I Respect Everyone" Show
"I Respect Everyone" Show
This show will get your students excited about respecting others! This show was developed by Kevin specifically for a school in the Clarence district using “RESPECT” as their main theme for the year, and the show was a big success!
The students learn important lessons on how to be respectful to everyone, not only teachers &parents, but fellow peers as well. Kevin shows students why it is important to be respectful and outlines the key ways of giving and showing respect. Kevin discusses how everything you will want in life requires getting along with other people. Learning how to give and show respect is one i important key to life-long success.
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
"We are Bully Free" Show
"We are Bully Free" Show
This program begins with students understanding what bullying is, how to identify bullying, and then discusses what to do in a bullying situation.
Students are taught a simple, yet powerful, 4-Step process which they quickly learn and can apply immediately in any bullying situation. There is an important section on what to do if you witness bullying and how bystanders can – and should – help!
Kevin excites audiences with fun, familiar, and upbeat songs and actively engages the students for an enjoyable and memorable learning experience.
Teaching Artist: Kevin McCarthy
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5
Pricing: $885 | $1085
Greetings from Guinea
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Greetings from Guinea
A high energy, interactive performance highlighting the music, dance, songs, history, a variety of traditional instruments and costumes from Guinea.
Mohamed is committed to providing the historical and cultural relevance of each rhythm and dance he shares.
He performs with 1 other drummer and 1 dancer and the audience is invited to participate.
Teaching Artist: Mohamed Diaby
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $970 | $1,235
PUSH Physical Theatre Performance
PUSH Physical Theatre Performance
Intense athleticism, gravity-defying acrobatics, and soulful artistry – award-winning PUSH Physical Theatre, the genre-defining masters of physical storytelling, express what it means to be human: the joy and sorrow, humor and tragedy, the big questions and the simple things.
PUSH’s repeated sold-out performances have led to projects such as choreographing the Pulitzer-nominated cantata "Comala" which resulted in a Mexico and US tour. TruTV’s national series, Fake Off, in which PUSH
became the season finalist, elicited this from judge and Glee star Harry Shum, Jr.: “You guys are superhuman!”
Teaching Artist: PUSH Physical Theatre
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $1,075 | $1,375
Boomerangs Around the Room
Boomerangs Around the Room
The Boomerangs Around the Room show is built on the principles of gyroscopic stability, precision, and aerodynamics. These concepts are presented through comedy and good humor to make them accessible to students.
Skills utilizd to present these concepts include: spinning tops, frisbees, beach ball, leaf blower, and boomerangs.
Teaching Artist: Ted Baumhauer, Ed.D
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $800 | $1,300
I Can't Yet! Show
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I Can't Yet! Show
I Can’t Yet! Show is about turning failure into success. This show is a comedic look at learning. Mistakes are not permanent! It is an audience participation show that teaches goal setting, learning step by step, and challenging yourself to do amazing things.
Ted uses the skills of manipulation and balancing to bring these concepts to life. I Can’t Yet has been performed at
the Strong Children’s Museum, Trinity Montessori in East Rochester, NY, and a number of other schools in the Rochester and Buffalo areas.
Teaching Artist: Ted Baumhauer, Ed.D
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $800 | $1,300
Reading is Magic!
Reading is Magic!
Well...actually it isn’t magic. Reading is a skill very much like juggling because it is a skill you can get better at it.
This fun filled show is full of parallels between juggling and reading like: Practice is important, challenging yourself can be fun, and teaches can help you surprise yourself! Other messages include reading can let you learn about anything you’re interested in knowing about or doing and it’s fun to surprise yourself and others!
This show is perfect for grades 1-8.
Teaching Artist: Ted Baumhauer, Ed.D
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $800 | $1,300
1927: A Year to Remember
1927: A Year to Remember
It has been 100 years, but this was one amazing year in America! A fun engaging multi media history show that brings that remarkable year to life with juggling, ukulele, balancing, comedy and storytelling!
Meet legendary jugglers and discover the crazes of 1927: ukulele, straw hats, and vaudeville. Revisit Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs, the Great Mississippi Flood, Lindbergh’s flight, the first Harlem Globetrotter’s game, the world of entertainment after Houdini, what children did for fun and more! Fun, fascinating, and educational, it’s history you can see, hear, and catch!
Teaching Artist: Ted Baumhauer, Ed.D
Grades: PreK; K-2; 3-5; 6-8
Pricing: $800 | $1,300
Taylor Made Jazz Live Performance
Taylor Made Jazz Live Performance
The 4 to 6 jazz musicians with vocalist will introduce students to the truly American music art form of Jazz and blues through performance and audience participation.
The Musicians will each explain their instruments.
Audience participation is encouraged through vocal warm-up exercises, singing, dancing and with qualified students joining the band in the performance.
Teaching Artist: Taylor Made Jazz
Grades: 3-5; 6-8; 9-12
Pricing: $325 | $500
Catch the Reading Bug!
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Catch the Reading Bug!
Catch the Reading Bug focuses on the fun we can have with reading books and demonstrates, through story theatre, how to act out the stories that we read.
This highly interactive presentation features movement, mime, character work, and humor and can be used in conjunction with the Parents as Reading Partners program or as a stand alone presentation.
Three stories are performed; each story features a “bug” along with other colorful characters.
Teaching Artist: The Wondermakers!
Grades: PreK; K-2
Pricing: $325 | $500
Erie Canal Adventures
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Erie Canal Adventures
This 45-minute long interactive story theatre program is perfect for children ages 3-10 and their families.
This audience-participatory show includes songs, a dance, and lots of Erie Canal vocabulary. Children will learn about “tall tales” and Joshua the Frog, and they will help The Wondermakers act out folk tales about canal life and personnel. Audience volunteers get to “barge up on stage” and perform with The Wondermakers playing a host of roles including canallers, wolves, travelers on the Erie Canal, a dog, a mule, and a rooster.
This is fun “edutainment” for the whole family!
Teaching Artist: The Wondermakers!
Grades: PreK; K-2
Pricing: $325 | $500