Triple Play: Literacy and the Arts
January 23-25, 2009
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Explore the worlds of opera, orchestral music and visual art in a joint teacher workshop with The Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra and the Weisman Art Museum.
Attend an intensive weekend of concerts and sessions, designed to reinvigorate your teaching with new ideas and practices for supporting critical and creative thinking in the classroom. With a focus on critically responding to works of art, this weekend provides tools and materials that can help students practice making meaning from a variety of art forms. We'll explore literacy beyond the boundaries of written text to look at the literate skills and habits built and deepened through visual and performing art experiences.
The workshop is recommended for all K-12 educators and currently enrolled education majors. This workshop presents insights from empirically based educational research in literacy learning and requires a commitment to participate in all three sessions.
Workshop outline
Friday, Jan 23
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis (5:30-10:30 pm)
Introductory reception and session: What is Literacy?
Minnesota Orchestra: Bernstein's Mass
Saturday, Jan 24
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota campus (10:00 am-2:00 pm, lunch served)
Session: Critical Response and Making Meaning
Session: Artful Writing at the Weisman
Ordway Center, St. Paul (6:30-11:00 pm)
The Minnesota Opera: Gounod's Faust
Sunday, Jan 25
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis (12:00-4:00 pm)
Session: Bringing different art forms together and reaching across the curriculum
Session: Meet Jamie Bernstein, host of “The Bernstein Beat” and daughter of Leonard Bernstein
Minnesota Orchestra: “The Bernstein Beat” Family Concert
To register: Click here and select Triple Play from the menu on the left.
Cost: $150/educator (Fee includes tickets to all performances)
*OPTIONAL*
Continuing Education Credits and a Graduate credit are available through the University of St. Thomas.
$100/graduate credit
To earn graduate credit, participants are required to write a reflection paper following the weekend.
