Out of School Time Programs
Many of our residency programs are available not only during the school day, but after school as well. InterAct artists conduct arts-based workshops for child care providers and extended learning programs throughout Maryland, Virignia, and Washington, DC. Please contact us for more information!
We also frequently design workshops by request to fit the theme, content area, or skillsets being taught at an event. If you'd like us to design a unique experience for your family learning event, please contact us or request more info!
Sample Programs
Creative Kids
Ages 3 and families
A teaching artist leads groups ages 3-6 years old in exploring
and dramatizing children's stories from around the world,
specially selected for the age and stage of the participating
children. The children then create and act out their own
original stories based on these books.
STEAM Story Explorers
Ages 4-6
Children ages 4 - 6 explore a science, math, or engineering concept through drama activities, experiments, games, and a specially selected book that relates to the topic of the day. Children have a chance to explore the world around them through STEM and the arts!
Improv for Actors
Grades 6-8
In this exciting and fun-filled residency, one or more InterAct teaching artists lead students in a variety of increasingly challenging improvisation and activities over the course of the session. The program can include an optional culminating event showcasing original scenes developing from our improvisational work. Students explore character and scene work as they engage in a program designed to promote concentration, collaboration and teamwork, cooperative learning, critical thinking and creative problem solving.
Devising and Playbuilding After School
Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8
In this drama-based writing residency, students use creative drama techniques and group writing strategies to write and perform original stories and scenes. In doing so, students learn and apply basic acting tools and elements of story structure as they practice collaboration and appropriate peer review. This process builds prewriting skills, oral language and presentation skills, problem solving skills, and teamwork. Themes can be drawn from a variety of character education topics.