Training, Demonstrations, and Workshops

Creating Arts for All	Jellybean Conspiracy
CAA Evaluations/Comments	Rhythm Weaving
Workshops at Schools	Families with a Beat
Arts4Learning	Careers in the Arts
Disability Awareness Training - for the Media and others

CREATING ARTS FOR ALL TRAINING FOR ARTISTS & TEACHERS

What is Creating Arts for All?

Professional development training in arts and disabilities focusing on:

• Adaptations for arts activities (music, creative dramatics, movement, visual arts)
  
• Universal Design
  
• Arts integration across curricula
  
• Strategies to reinforce classroom and IEP goals

Who Should Attend?

The workshop can be customized for any group of people that wants to make the arts more accessible for children of all abilities. It has been well received by:

• Classroom teachers
  
• Art teachers
  
• Artists
  
• Special Education teachers
  
• Paraprofessionals

  How Much Does It Cost?

  Costs vary depending upon location, population and number of participants. Creating Arts for All can be booked at your school, service center, or agency for:

  2-4 hour Workshop — $750
  Full-day Training — $1,000

Trainings for the Artists and the Teachers will include the following:

• Discussion and demonstration of the etiquette of working with children with disabilities. Multiple populations will be covered, including but not limited to learning disabilities, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and children with visual, hearing, mobility and cognitive impairments.

• Demonstration of various adaptations for arts programming including children with disabilities.

• Hands-on experience in developing programmatic and physical adaptations that address the individual needs of children with disabilities.

• Interactive techniques including role-play, hands-on arts projects, group problem-solving and visual mapping will be used to engage the participants in assessing and improving the accessibility of their own arts programming.
  

  Outcomes

  Training Participants will:

• Demonstrate how to make adaptations for children with disabilities in arts activities
  

• Use multi-disciplinary projects to accommodate children with disabilities and stimulate children without disabilities

• Advocate for the inclusion of children with disabilities in arts activities

• Discover that adaptations are a natural outgrowth of the artistic process.

Trainers include AAI Executive Director Martin English and/or AAI Program Director Kit Bardwell (see Who We Are). Detailed bios on request to Accessible Arts by phone: 913/281-1133 or email.

A summary of evaluations for Creating Arts for All.

Previous locations and clients:

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Past Creating Arts For All Workshops.

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Workshops at schools with teachers and their students

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The Jellybean Conspiracy Project is intended to create partnerships with high school theatre and special education departments to produce The Jellybean Conspiracy play. The play helps students in schools develop an appreciation for all people, especially those with disabilities. Through theatre, dance, music, and visual art, it helps participants and their audiences recognize the gifts that all of us bring to this world. The Jellybean Conspiracy play, which tells the story of a teenage girl and her relationship with her brother who has Down Syndrome, will be produced by a local high school. The cast includes performers from the high school’s theatre program and special education classes. Middle school students from the district will be invited to see matinees, and members of the surrounding communities will be encouraged to attend public performances in the evenings.

Accessible Arts, Inc. provides the educational component for the project. Martin English (Accessible Arts Executive Director) and Barry Bernstein (Music Therapist & Performer) conduct interactive music and movement workshops with the middle school students who have attended The Jellybean Conspiracy play. A family workshop is also provided for the community. These workshops are free of charge and are an integral part of the Jellybean Conspiracy project. To learn more about The Jellybean Conspiracy,

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Rhythm Weaving—Threads of Diversity is a companion workshop for The Jellybean Conspiracy for middle school students. Diversity and disability themes come alive as Bongo Barry and Cowbell Martin engage the students in this interactive rhythm, music and movement workshop. Using theme-based phrases, students chant, use body percussion, explore movement and play hand percussion instruments.

Accelerated Learning Theory states that information connected to movement and rhythm has a greater chance of being assimilated. The process begins on a very literal base using language to express the message. By the end, students are expressing the message non-verbally using musical instruments and the rhythms they have created to express feelings from a less literal, more creative level.

Families with a Beat, features drumming, dancing, and singing. This highly interactive workshop is designed for parents and young children in the school district, giving them the opportunity to explore diversity issues in a non-threatening community setting.

The workshops focus on themes including diversity, tolerance, and respect. They also demonstrate music and movement as sources of creative expression and help participants develop positive attitudes towards people with developmental disabilities.

For additional information about arranging for these programs, contact Accessible Arts at 913/281-1133 or accarts@accessiblearts.org

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Disabilities Awareness Training: Talking, Writing and Reporting about People with Disabilities, will provide simple, practical nuts and bolts of how you can talk, write and report about people with disabilities in a professional, empowering manner. You will learn about: