Center Stage: McCelvey Center Arts in Education

McCelvey Center offers quality performing arts programs to regional schools. For information or to make reservations, please call 803.684.3948, ext. 27 Monday-Friday between 10 am and 4 pm. Space is limited and reservations are strongly recommended.

This program is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant.

AIE Programming:

December 10, 2009; 9:30 a.m.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura and her family travel across America in search of a place they can call home. Facing obstacles such as scarlet fever and eviction from their land, their pioneering spirit and family bonds are tested but never broken. This uplifting story of one of America’s most beloved authors comes to life in ArtsPower’s popular musical.

ArtsPower
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$10 per person

October 16, 2009; 9:30 a.m.
Movin' Into Math

Kinetyx is a four member ensemble that links dance to Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies. Active Learning Performances include audience participation activities and choreographic works. Basic math skills such as division, multiplication, fractions, patterns and sequences, geometric forms and transformations, use of diagrams and how we apply these skills to the creation of dances.

Kinetyx
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$7 per person

March 25, 2010; 9:30 a.m.
New Kid

Has someone in your family ever felt different or out of place, maybe a little lonely or left out? How would you treat someone new, someone who might look or sound strange to you? New Kid is a unique, award-winning play that tells the story of a boy named Nick who leaves the fictitious country of Homeland and comes to America with his parents.

Tarradiddle Players
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$7 per person

January 21, 2010; 9:30 a.m.
Little Red Riding Hood

Porkchop Productions is a professional theatre company specializing in audience participation performances. Our interactive approach to our performances and residencies make for a one-of-a-kind theatre adventure! Our familiar tales, told with a modern slant, are designed in concordance with ELA standards and include creative problem solving, character development and assessment and provide academic rigor through higher order thinking skills. This unique approach to live theatre for children addresses student needs through tactile, aural and kinetic learning styles.

Porkchop Productions
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$5 per person

March 11, 2010; 9:30 & 11 a.m.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

Mike Mulligan and his beloved Steam Shovel, Mary Anne, have been together for many years. They’ve dug holes for famous canals, railroads, highways, airports and skyscrapers. But times have changed and newer, fancier shovels have become fashionable, leaving Mike and Mary Anne out of work and down to their last dime. Their final hope could be the little town of Poppesville, which needs a basement dug for its new City Hall

Tarradiddle Players
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$7 per person

April 25, 2010; 9:30 a.m.
Red Herring Puppets

Red Herring Puppets have created an original rhymed version of the classic tales told with music and large table top puppets. These timeless stories are simple to understand and address topics relevant to school age children such as bullying, selfishness, competition, ingenuity, and the affirmation that little beings can achieve great things. The show is designed for pre-K through 5th grade and includes The Lion and the Mouse, The Tortoise and the Hare, the Owl and the Grasshopper, The Fox and the Crow, The Crow and the Pitcher and The Stork and the Fox.

Red Herring Puppets
$5 per person

Chaperones

One chaperone is recommended for every 15 students and chaperones at that ratio are admitted free.