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Back To School! EbzB Arts Integration Showcase.

Watch EbzB’s Arts Integration Showcase - A Sampling of Live and Streaming Performances and Workshops for 2022.

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EbzB Announces Live and Virtual Performances For Students, Artists-In-Schools Programming, Educators, and Presenters.

BACK TO SCHOOL!

Watch EbzB’s Arts Integration Showcase - A Sampling of Live and Streaming Performances and Workshops for 2022. Contact Us for a Booking!

PERFORMANCES

EbzB offers arts-in-education performances, residencies, and workshops for students. Additionally, EbzB offers professional development for educators. 55-minute versions of most EbzB Productions performances are available for schools or special events. Study guides, audience etiquette tip sheets, and lesson plans are available to promote a deeper understanding of the theatre-going experience. Workshops and residencies are available in tandem with a performance or in stand-alone form. Special rates apply.

Integrated With National and State Education Standards

EbzB Productions will work with you to design live or virtual arts programming that supports your students, your goals, your tools, and your syllabus. All of our work offers lessons in Resilience and Hope.

Keeping in mind that Covid19 may alter your arts-integration planning, EbzB also offers performances via online streaming. If you book us for a live performance, and circumstances change, we can provide a virtual opportunity instead:

The Wrights of Passage (Grades 1-8)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.

War Bonds: The Songs and Letters of World War II (Grades 3-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.

The Night Before Christmas Carol (Grades 3-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.

In One Era and Out The Other (Grades 6-12)
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.

Native (Grades 9-12)
Closed Captioning in English and Spanish
Study guide and virtual post-show discussion with artists.

THEATRE ARTS RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

EbzB has adapted our in-school residency for virtual learning. Students will be guided in creating a devised performance from original oral histories that they gather themselves. As always, we do a needs assessment with faculty before we choose specific topics related directly to the curriculum. Our work helps to meet National and State Education Standards.

EbzB offers an Online Classroom that includes interactive assignments and lesson plans. Supporting materials are also available. Once we are contracted, you will receive an access code.

We are also offering offline options for remote learning.

We encourage School Cultural Representatives and Presenters to contact us for information and fees. In recognition of economic concerns due to COVID-19, we have reduced our rates. However, grants for bringing performances and residencies such as ours into schools are available through the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County and the Chatham County Arts Council.

We are all in this together. Please let us know how we may help you meet your arts integration needs.

-Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen
EbzB Productions

RDU Onstage: Live Chat With David zum Brunnen and Serena Ebhardt

EbzB was honored to chat with Lauren Van Hemert who hosts RDU Onstage - an online program highlighting the arts in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill region and beyond. Please subscribe to the RDU Onstage channel for many interesting Triangle theatre topics.

Watch EbzB's Interview Here: RDU Onstage with Lauren Van Hemert

EbzB Introduces "Mask Musings" on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook [Covid19 Virtual Care Package For Educators]

Follow EbzB Productions on Twitter (@ebzb), Instagram (ebzbproductions), and Facebook (@EbzB.Productions) for "Mask Musings."

EbzB Productions brings you "Mask Musings": A series of posts to inspire learners. We shall don our masks off-stage during the pandemic. Stay tuned for posts about the uses of masks in the history of performing arts. #artsintegration #mask #artseducation

Foul Weather: EbzB Arts Integration Residency with Silk Hope School, Chatham County, NC

"Foul Weather" - Silk Hope Elementary School fifth-graders in Chatham County did the research and wrote the script, but Covid19 kept them from performing it. So the leaders of our Chatham County Community put voices to the words, and images to the ideas to complete this arts integration residency with EbzB Productions. Sponsored by Chatham Arts. Voices by Allen Baddour, Ed Bronson, Dorrie Casey, Serena Ebhardt, Gina Harrison, Karen Allen Howard, Anne Kissel, Lesley Russell Landis, Greg Lewis, Gilda McDaniel, Sheriff Mike Roberson, Mike Wiley, Jordan Wiley, Coleman Wiley, Carlton Zum Brunnen, & David Zum Brunnen

Whatever The Weather: Siler City Elementary Residency

Partners in the Arts: Chatham Arts

https://vimeo.com/392046661

Watch what EbzB and other teaching artists are doing

through Chatham Arts and generous sponsors like Opus Financial.

Chatham County, NC

Curriculum Come To Life in Two Chatham County Elementary Schools

https://www.chathamartscouncil.org/artists-in-schools-ebzbproductions/

Artists-in-Schools: Curriculum Come to Life in Two Chatham County Elementary Schools

History, math, science – sometimes everyday curriculum can be difficult to grasp for elementary school students. The concept seems unfamiliar or too far removed from everyday life to grasp. But when a student becomes an integral part of dissecting and reconstructing it in a different way, the ability to connect with curriculum concepts is more within reach. This is the idea behind two recent Chatham Arts Council Artists-in-Schools theater residencies with EbzB Productions, founded by Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen. The residencies took place at Pittsboro Elementary School and Bonlee School, and proved to be successful tools in bringing history, math, science, language, and dramatic arts curriculum to life.

“This program provides a great way to reach kids who need other ways to learn – they need movement,” said Serena Ebhardt, the “Eb” in EbzB. “Some kids need to sing it, move it, feel it. Dramatic arts are the best way to get lessons to these students, who are less responsive in a traditional classroom.”

At Pittsboro Elementary School, third-grade students interviewed local business owners to create an original production on the history of economics in Pittsboro and Chatham County. These included Mike Dasher, Jennifer Gordiano, Grim Hobbs, Brad Johnson, Greg Lewis, Nina Lloyd, Ashley and Justin Palmer, Pam Smith, and Eric Williams.

EbzB makes an effort to work cross-generationally with interviews, helping bridge the gap in the community. The interviews created an oral history and allowed the young students to make a current connection between the local businesses they know and the economics behind them. With the help of EbzB and their teachers, students transcribed their interviews and worked together to create an educational performance called “People Make the World Go-Round,” sharing with an audience of peers and parents all they’d learned about supply, demand, wants, and needs throughout the three-months.

“Third grade is a year that has a lot of focus on tests, tests, tests,” explained Dara Platon, a participating third- grade teacher at Pittsboro Elementary School. “This program offered students a way to be creative, let loose, be interactive – but still get the history, language arts, and economics curriculum they needed to master.”

In addition to diving into the specific curriculum at both schools, EbzB conducted intensive workshops for weeks with the students to ensure they learned the basics of performance art. Students went through warm-up exercises from meditation, to physical and vocal warm-ups. Some students commented that their favorite part of the preparation was practicing how to avoid being distracted. As students held their position, focusing on a chosen spot in the room, Serena or David would slowly weave in and out through the students, working hard to distract them with funny faces or gestures. But the students had been taught very well how to recover from a distraction by breathing deeply and re-setting their focal point. This preparation was essential during their performances in front of parents, siblings, teachers and other students–and it can transfer to focus in other areas.

Bonlee School’s residency was with fifth graders and focused on technology. Through their interviews with Pittsboro Mayor Cindy Perry and Siler City Mayor John Grimes and the culminating performance, students worked to absorb information relative to their curriculum in a real and meaningful way. “Not only that,” Serena expressed, “but the process plants seeds through dramatic arts that grow over time.” Anyone watching their culminating performance, titled “Use Technology for Good – It’s Your Choice” could see their enthusiasm for the content, and for dramatic performance.

“The EbzB Production residency was student and community-driven,” said two participating teachers, Taylor Mushrush and Stacie Perry. “Students enjoyed conducting interviews with community members and extending their learning beyond the classroom setting, while practicing listening, speaking, and writing skills. It was a great experience.”

The Chatham Arts Council is able to bring professional artists into Chatham County schools because of our partners: Chatham County Schools, Chatham County, the North Carolina Arts Council, and a growing crew of businesses and individuals. It’s a collaboration that is incredibly worthwhile, exposing students to artistic forms that they may not otherwise encounter. For many, the arts are an incredible outlet where children can flourish and feel successful.

A HUGE thank you to our sponsors for powering this initiative in these two schools. The EbzB theater residency at Pittsboro Elementary School was powered by The Kindred Gallery at the Rosemary House B&B. The residency at Bonlee School was powered by Briar Chapel Friends and Neighbors.

We’re hoping to expand the AIS initiative to Chatham Charter School, Willow Oak Montessori, and Woods Charter School in 2020 to reach every public elementary school in Chatham County. Can you help us? We hope so! If you’re intrigued, click here.

Technology For The Greater Good - Bonlee Elementary Residency

"Technology is the pursuit of life by means other than life."

-Bernard Stiegler

We are having fun at Bonlee Elementary School in Chatham County, North Carolina this week!

Over the past few months, the fifth grade students have interviewed Mayor John Grimes of Siler City and Mayor Cindy Perry of Pittsboro for their thoughts on how technology has changed the county.

The students transcribed those interviews to create a script over the past week. We also incorporated technology into the artistic process, using it to record interviews, type the script, create projections, amplify the actors, and coordinate the choreography. We discovered that technology is everywhere. We discovered that not all technology is digital. We discovered that sometimes it is difficult to know whether technology rules over us or we rule over technology.

Throughout this process, students have learned that working on assembly lines, typing letters, processing water from a chicken plant and launching a rocket to the moon are just a few of the ways we use technology to improve our lives. Perhaps we would be wise to put down our smartphones and look for other technologies that surround us, specifically in healthcare, farming and sustainable energy.

Our performance is Friday, May 10. We are looking forward to a full house–and to inspiring people to think about the ways in which technology enhances our lives when we choose to use it wisely.

Sponsored by Chatham Arts Council.

Angels Among Us

EbzB Productions would like to Thank Nina Lloyd of Opus Financial Advisors for a lovely evening of meeting new friends and fund-raising for Chatham Arts Council's Artists-In-Schools Initiative.

There are angels among us.

Just Another Day At The Office...

Using Actors' Tools To Prepare for People Make The World Go Round

Using Actors' Tools To Prepare for People Make The World Go Round!

A presentation on Economics in Chatham County, NC

Created and performed by the Third Grade Class of Pittsboro Elementary School

Sponsored by Chatham County Arts Council

Exploring the Economy through Arts Integration at Pittsboro Elementary School

The third grade classes at Pittsboro Elementary School have been working with teaching artists from EbzB Productions to research, write, and perform their own presentation about Economics in their own community. Chatham Arts Council is the generous sponsor of this Arts Integration experience for the Chatham County Public Schools. Thank you for supporting our teachers and our schools!
https://www.chathamartscouncil.org

Staging A Little Battle at Moncure Elementary School #ebzb #chathamarts

The Battle of Alamance and The Regulators

are being given their due by Moncure Elementary School.

The students research, write and perform the history of our region.

Now in Rehearsal!

#ebzb #chathamarts

We're Not Gonna Take It, Anymore!

Thank you, Chatham Arts! Our Youth Are Thriving.

Our next generation is creative and thriving...

In March J.S. Waters School created "The Wonderful World of Goldston" with help from EbzB

In April, Moncure Elementary creates "The Regulators!"

Both projects are sponsored by #ChathamArts.

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