Camp ARTSEDGE

Make the days of summer an art-filled adventure! From Podcasts to interactives, we've selected some of our favorite out-of-school resources for home, camp, family vacation and beyond.

Lessons:

Students study the elements of tall tales, write responses to these tales, and perform them as monologues.

Students learn about music's ability to convey elements of storytelling, such as plot, tone, and characterization, in the Kennedy Center's production of The Nightingale.

This lesson examines the mystique of rivers as inspiration for creative expression. It also provides students with a glimpse of the powerful influence the Mississippi River and its environs had on Mark Twain’s writings.

This lesson focuses on the content and style of development in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The book Harold and the Purple Crayon is used to launch an exploration of colors and neighborhoods.

Students will learn how light interacts with matter, by creating and performing shadow puppet plays.

in this lesson, Analyzing Photographs: Putting Theory into Practice, students will examine works of art and learn tools to analyze and discuss photography.

Look·Listen·Learn:

This multimedia slideshow brings to life the world of Kevin Bubriski's photography, a world that explores the people, landscapes, and traditions of global and local cultures, from India and Nepal, to rural Vermont.

Perfect Pitch

Batter up! This multimedia exploration introduces students to the most enduring all-stars of the orchestra: the instruments.

Discover the secrets behind the art of shadow puppetry in this multimedia exploration, designed for grades 5-8, which explores this age-old art form through animations, videos, interactive activities, and more.

This multimedia exploration, designed for grades 9-12, explores the science and art of pyrotechnics and chronicles the making of Cai’s Tornado: Explosion Project for the Kennedy Center.

In this audio series we explore unique aspects of Chinese music through sounds, performance and interviews. Users can listen online, download individual files, or subscribe to the Podcast.

Community PhotoWorks

Armed with cameras, seventh grade students from Mark Twain Middle School in Los Angeles, CA ventured out in their communities and came back to school with creative compositions. This online gallery displays the students’ photographic and literary compositions and offers a thorough method of analyzing photography that you can apply to virtually any classroom.

In this video presentation, students meet one of American musical theater’s most talented composers, Stephen Schwartz. Topics include his musical education, his break into show business, and the creative process behind his musicals.

Take a tour through jazz history in Washington, DC! Pianist Billy Taylor and saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess lead listeners through their hometown's music scene in this six-part audio series.

The Gulf Coast Highway knits together the rich music and cultures of communities across five states- from Houston, Texas, to Jacksonville, Florida. In this series of podcasts, high school students will learn how the diverse styles of blues, choral music, Cajun, zydeco, brass band, border music, and gospel meet and mingle in the Gulf Coast region. Students will hear anecdotes and insights from scholars and renowned musicians like Nanci Griffith, Grupo Fantasma, and Marcia Ball.

Learn more about this new Kennedy Center musical about a positively purple 10th birthday party and how two very different girls learn to understand each other.

Culture Connect is an interactive site supporting the Cultural Visitors Program (developed in partnership with Kennedy Center Education Department and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs).

How do composers hear space? What does space sound like? Is there music in space? Narrated by Roger Launius of the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, this series looks at the ways music and outer space connect.

Nationally-recognized NPR Morning Edition music commentator Miles Hoffman (and NSO alum) takes us on a tour through classical music in the United States from the 1720s to today.

This 6-part series is designed to introduce middle and high school audiences to the many aspects of musical theater. Using examples of the best that Broadway musicals have to offer, we'll talk about the history of musical theater in America; its structure and elements of a musical (do you know what an "I Want" song is?); musical theater's role in making social commentary, and its legacy.

This is your passport to the arts and culture of Japan as experienced through the Kennedy Center's Japan! culture + hyperculture festival (February 2008).

Coming to the Kennedy Center? Or just wondering what was there? ARTSEDGE, the Center’s educational media program, takes you in and around the building in this video series designed for kids and families.