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Part A is a performance entitled "One World: A Multicultural Celebration of Story, Song, and Musical Instruments." At this performance, I take students on a whirl wind tour around the world. I tell f... Read more

Part A is a performance entitled "One World: A Multicultural Celebration of Story, Song, and Musical Instruments." At this performance, I take students on a whirl wind tour around the world. I tell funny and moving stories from many of the world's people and play fascinating/beautiful musical instruments from many of the places they come from. Stories, songs and music that tickle life's funny bone, touch the heart and celebrate with great gladness our common humanity.

Part B extends the learning from my performance with a "round the world musical instrument 'petting zoo"." Placed on 6 cloths, one for each of the world's peopled continents, will be around 100 irresistible musical instruments. First I give a quick "taste test of the amazing sounds they make. Next I teach students to gently and carefully handle them (in 34 years of sharing my instruments with children, never once has one been broken!). Then we set up a "freeze" signal, with a surprisingly realistic "bird whistle" with European/West Asian roots. Students are invited to try out the instruments (with the exception of those played in the mouth). At the end we regather, closing with a song.

Along the way I look to:
Share a "taste test" of our diverse multicultural world.
Help students grow their sense of our world"s geography.
Plant seeds of understanding, so that students consider how our difference help make us stronger and our similarities, the needs-hopes-laughter-tears we share, are universal.
Help students see that each one of us is a marvel and part of the tapestry that makes our one world beautiful.

34 full-time years of experience help me adapt my work to the wit and intellect of each age group.

The Performance: I prefer* the most comfortable, quiet space available with students pulled up close in a slightly rounded seating arrangement. The Workshop: I prefer* a place to spread o... Read more

The Performance: I prefer* the most comfortable, quiet space available with students pulled up close in a slightly rounded seating arrangement.

The Workshop: I prefer* a place to spread out 6 blankets and room around those blankets for the students to move (a gym, a stage, open library space...)

* No worries! I have worked with thousands of groups in many different situations, from hallways to auditoriums and most can be made workable.