MA’AT IS MISSING: Deciphering Manners
What happened to the Golden Rule? The audience is invited to journey with a zany (and not so polite) archeologist in search of the lost Temple of Ma’at, the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and civility. Ancient Egypt comes to life in a spectacle of magic, comedy, dance and hieroglyphics that urges us all to remember our manners. Grades 2 – 5.
THE GREAT LAW OF PEACE: Origins of the U. S. Constitution
Meet Ben Franklin, Hiawatha, Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Thomas Jefferson, Jacques Cartier and others while discovering the origins of our Constitution not in the European “cradles of civilization” but in the Iroquois Confederacy. Teachers have said this 700 year journey “Taught my whole curriculum in 45 minutes!” Q and A follows performance. Grades 4 to Adult.
MY NAME IS SACAGAWEA
Meet Sacagawea, a Shoshone Native American who traveled with Lewis, Clark, the Corps of Discovery and her baby. Join her in song and her story. Grades 3 and up.
SEEKING FREEDOM & THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
Learn the true story of Lucy Bagby, a runaway slave who was captured amid protests of abolitionists, and returned to her Master. She was the last fugitive to be surrendered by the North under the Fugitive Slave Law during the Civil War. Sing along with Wade in the Water, Follow the Drinking Gourd, and other period songs. Grades 4 to adult.