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Programs
Original and Adapted Theatreworks
Special Events & Custom Programs
Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies
Artists & Performers Include:
Balloon Artists
Caricaturists
Chalk Artists
Clowns
Comedians
Costume Artists
Craft Artists
Dancers
Dollmakers
Facepainters
Flag & Fire Spinners
Fortune Tellers
Jewelry Artists
Jugglers
Magicians
Mimes
Musicians
Puppeteers
Stiltwalkers
Storytellers
Ventriloquists
Visual Artists
Healing Arts
MPT has a strong commitment to increasing the access to effective programming for seniors and caregivers through workshops, DVDs, books and touring shows in addition to providing workshops for artists working with special-needs populations and creating new works for children and seniors with a focus on health education.
Thanks to support from the Faye McBeath and Helen Bader Foundations, Children’s Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin, MPT is expanding our healing arts programming to include:
- UNCLOTHED: The Naked Truth, Survivors’ Stories of Sexual Abuse-- A play written by local playwright La’Ketta Caldwell that is based on hundreds of interviews with women who have been sexually assaulted and ways they have been able to find healing.
- CAPAZ--A collaboration with Latino Health Organizations to incorporate theatre to reach and empower Latino families of children with disabilities in Milwaukee.
- TASAWARI--Interactive theatre works that focus on health issues of central center African-American families of children with disabilities.
- APPLIED THEATRE TROUPE--5 interactive plays developed by a multicultural troupe under the direction of Mark Weinberg and Jenny Wanasek dealing with violence, bullying, ATODA, staying in school, and pressures to have sex.
- IN THE MOMENT--An educational arts program begun through Barbara Leigh’s experience with spinal cord injury and the healing process and developed by Associate Director Karen Stobbe and writer/performer Mondy Carter. The program incorporates workshops and keynotes that specifically address Alzheimer’s Disease/dementia and other chronic diseases or traumatic conditions. The “In the Moment” training curriculum has been highly acclaimed by professional and family caregivers throughout the country. A DVD for caregivers is available through Karen’s website in-themoment.com.
- SURVIVAL REVIVAL REVUE--Barbara Leigh’s one-woman musical comedy about the healing process. Dr. Leigh also gives keynotes and workshops for people suffering from serious injury or illness as well as for health care professionals, teachers and the general public.
- HUMOR AND HEALING--Humorous monologue/performance on the value of humor and the arts in the healing process following a serious accident. Performances are 20-60 minutes with a 1-person presentation. Space/technical needs: 20’ x 20’ with 1 wireless mic and a tape player; for audiences high school thru adult.
- FAIRYTALE SHADOWS--A new work for children and general audiences as well as seniors to help counter stereotypes of the elderly through shadow puppets, comedy and a new take on old stories to show how growing older can become growing more full of stories. Available by 2007.
- DRUM CIRCLES AND RHYTHM WORKSHOPS--Involves people of all ages and abilities in the listening, leadership, team-building and empowering experience of making music together.
- STORYBRIDGE--A new project that offers storytelling workshops for seniors and teens to develop a core groups of storytellers of multicultural tales that can work with libraries, schools, parents and children to encourage a love of stories and of reading.
- F.A.Q.S--An original show with music by and for young people that deals with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Created in collaboration with MPS, Fighting Back and Running Rebels, performances are 30 minutes with a 20-30 minute talk-back. Space needs: good sightlines for classrooms of 25-30; for audiences in middle & high school.
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