In-School Arts Education

Performances, workshops, and residencies for grades K-12!

Bring Looking for Lilith
to your classroom!

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Jennifer Thalman Kepler, Co-Artistic Director
502.638.2559 | [email protected]

ALL IN-SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Discounted block booking rates are available for multiple performances or residencies at any one school.
Base pricing applies to venues within 60 miles of Louisville, KY.
For bookings outside this radius, additional fees may apply.

Funding and/or subsidies may be available. Contact us for more info.

Even Puppets Have Problems

Grades K-2

Performance Workshop and/or Residency
45-60 minutes
$600 per workshop for up to 30 students
$1000 per 3-session residency for up to 30 students

Even Puppets Have Problems: interactive drama for managing conflict

Empower your students with essential life skills in a fun and engaging way. Step into the world of our puppeteer's interactive show, where puppet friends grapple with their emotions and conflicts. Students help by offering solutions to help our puppets manage their anger and resolve their differences.

 

Grades 3-5

Performance Workshop
70-90 minutes
$900 for up to 120 students

Mac’s World: an interactive play on resisting bullying and cyberbullying

Students see a 30-minute play about a student who is grappling with an online and in-person bully, afterwards intervening to give the character advice on how to cope. Students are then guided to come onstage and replace the main character to try out their ideas in real time!

Grades 6-12

Performance Workshop (In-Person or Virtual)
60-90 minutes 
$750 for up to 100 students

CHOICES: an interactive play on cyberbullying and suicide

Based on real-life stories, this play follows the story of Hannah, a victim of cyberbullying. CHOICES empowers the audience to stop the action, talk about the problems, and explore solutions, strategies and choices. Experience includes a 20 performance with 30-60 min of interactive participation from the audience.

Grades K-2

Workshop and/or Residency
45-60 minutes
$300 per workshop for up to 30 students
$750 per 3-session residency for up to 30 students

Monsters Under the Bed: Coping with Fear and Anxiety

Ever met a Monster...? Join us for an adventure that works well in-person or virtually! Our teaching artist guides students in exploring their own environment and discovering a friendly monster that lives there. This workshop and/or residency addresses issues of fear and anxiety, and introduces coping mechanisms through creating a character. 

Grades 1-2

Workshop and/or Residency
$300 per workshop for up to 30 students
$750 per 4-session residency for up to 30 students

A Community Unites: The 1937 Flood

In this one hour workshop or four-day residency, students look at photographs of and read letters by Louisville citizens during and after the 1937 Flood, then use physical theatre to create a “living timeline” of the flood recovery. Students use local history to reflect on ways a community can unite, survive, and thrive. 

Grades 3-5

Residency
45-60 minutes  
$750 per 3-session residency for up to 30 students

Exploring Perspectives: Native Americans Encounter Europeans

This 3 day drama residency uses Jane Yolen’s book Encounter to explore perspective and foster empathy. Exploring Perspectives offers the Taino people's perspective of Christopher Columbus landing on the island of San Salvador in 1492. 

Grades 4-12

Residency
45-60 minutes
$750 per 3-session residency for up to 30 students

YouthSpeak: An Intro to Devising Residency

LFL artists guide students through a collaborative playwriting process (devising) to create scenes on a topic that is important to them. Topics can also be chosen by the teacher, in collaboration with the teaching artist, to fit curricular content of the class.

Grades 4-12

Residency
45-60 minutes
$1950 per 10-session residency for up to 30 students

YouthSpeak: A Devising Residency

LFL artists guide students through a collaborative playwriting process (devising) to create scenes on a topic that is important to them. Topics can also be chosen by the teacher, in collaboration with the teaching artist, to fit curricular content of the class.

Grades 9-12

Virtual Pre-Recorded Performance
45-60 minutes
$250 video with talkback

Racial Dynamics Within the Suffrage Movement

Pre-recorded excerpts of our devised play exploring women's suffrage in Kentucky within the context of the national movement. This intersectional production lifts up suffragists of color, looking specifically at the racial tensions within the movement. Experience includes a live virtual talk back with artists who created the scenes.

Grades 9-12

Virtual Pre-Recorded Performance
110-130 minutes
$500 video with talkback

Prevailing Winds: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisville

Prevailing Winds is focused on environmental issues in relation to Rubbertown and its surrounding communities, as well as how race and class have played into the Louisville community's dialogue and action around these issues.

Grades 9-12

Virtual Pre-Recorded Performance
15-35 minutes
$200 video with talkback

What My Hands Have Touched: U.S. Women in WWII

This play shares the compelling stories of a group of women friends during the war, exploring their myriad roles as factory workers, nurses, pilots, USO performers and homemakers. Includes a lesson plan to accompany the pre-recorded performance. A live 20 min talk back with LFL artists can also be included.

Grades 9-12

Virtual Pre-Recorded Performance
10-30 minutes
$200 video with talkback

Fabric, Flames, and Fervor: Girls of the Triangle

This production explores the lives of the women and girls who were tragically killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, the trial against the owners, and how the labor rights movement was galvanized by this event. Includes a lesson plan, pre-recorded performance and option for live talk back.

Grades 9-12

Virtual Pre-Recorded Performance
15-35 minutes
$200 video with talkback

Crossing Mountains: The Hindman Settlement School

This devised production traces the beginnings and development of the first hundred years of the Hindman Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky. Told through the words of founders, teachers, students, and community members, this powerful story uplifts community and perseverance. Includes a lesson plan to accompany the pre-recorded performance and option for live talk back.