Programs

Teens and adults 13 & older, groups welcome.
Sundays, 4:30 to 6 pm at MPT's Artivity Place
Shops of Grand Avenue, 161 W. Wisconsin. Call 414-347-1685

Original Theatreworks: Available for Touring

Original Theatreworks:
PIECES: In My Own Voice (2012)
FLOW (2011) From the Start (2011)

Healing Arts: EAP Conference Keynote, Pieces and other wellness programs

Healing Arts: Tap the Potential Disability Awareness Month

Educational Workshops & Arts Residencies

Featured Arts Residency: Puppets, Dance at Keefe Ave. School

Special Events & Custom Programs

Artcorps Creative

Cultivating Community through Public Art: Parades, Festivals, more

Milwaukee Public Theatre is one of the area's few professional nonprofit touring companies that increases awareness of current social issues, promotes cultural diversity, and provides healing arts and wellness resources.

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Artists & Performers include:

musicians - classical, jazz, hip hop, pop, world cultures, drummers, Broadway, opera, operetta

dancers - all styles

actors - classical characters, historical impersonators, improv performers

scriptwriters
craft & workshop artists
jewelry makers
face and body painters
dollmakers
caricaturists
chalk artists
muralists
martial artists
flag & fire spinners
puppeteers
fortunetellers
magicians
storytellers
clowns
balloon clowns
mimes
ventriloquists
jugglers
stiltwalkers
designers
costumers

Milwaukee Public Theatre 2012 Arts Residencies

Learning through the arts develops vital communication and team-building skills, increases emotional intelligence and awareness, and brings curriculum areas to life! Milwaukee Public Theatre artists come from diverse cultures and arts disciplines--theatre, music, dance, circus, puppetry, visual arts--and we work with people of all ages, incomes and abilities in all settings from neighborhoods to schools to work sites to convention centers and more. Contact us for more details.

Puppets come out to play on Spring Gallery Night & Day, April 20 & 21, at Walker's Point Center for the Arts. Students at Keefe Avenue School created the puppets for traditional tales such as "Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears", "Who's in Rabbit's House?" and "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters". See them (almost) live at WPCA's Community Room, 839 S. 5th St. and enjoy the photos below.

2012 arts residencies recently conducted by Milwaukee Public Theatre included:

CLC Art Classes with Petra Press at Thoreau Elementary School: providing twice-weekly visual art classes

Theatre Residency with Azeeza Islam at Custer/SCTE: creating an original play emphasizing African history, moral and spiritual goals

African Drumming with Jahmes Finlayson and African Dance with Beverley Moore at Engelburg Elementary: expanding students' awareness culturally, musically and creatively.

Old School Crafts with Angela Smith, Kung Fu with Nae Li-Wandrick and Yoga/Movement with Kenya Evans at Thurston Woods: incorporating arts and crafts, playful movement, and aerobic exercise.

African Dance with Ndongo "Lucky" Diop at Mitchell St. CLC: providing traditional African dance training

Creative Aerobics with Nae Li-Wandrick at Next Door Foundation: bringing fun, interactive exercises emphasizing team-building, self esteem and cooperation.

Music Appreciation with Azeeza Islam at Neighborhood House: focusing on classical music, lullaby time, dance, music beat and accompaniment.

and our two residencies at Keefe Avenue School, featured in photos above:

Puppet/Play Production Residency
with Jeff Holub, Max Samson and Andrew Parchman

Visual artist Jeffrey Holub leads a puppet-making residency with over 100 students, creating individual rod puppets that each student personalizes. Each class chose an African folk tale and developed a script. Each student created a small rod puppet. As a group, they identified a main character and collaborated on building a larger puppet. They worked together to develop sets, props and staging. The 12-week residency will culminate in a school-wide performance for other students. Lessons on African history and folklore, puppet mechanics, creative writing, theatrical presentation, discipline and teamwork are integrated into the residency.

Aerobic Dance Residency with Steven Hunter

Movement/fitness coach and performer Steven Hunter developed energetic dance routines for each of four classes in a performance piece for the school. Using movement concepts from African dance, Capoiera, Shaolin Gung-Fu and fitness routines, the students created a fully integrated classroom dance performance celebrating their shared experiences.

Each of these Arts Residencies result in school-wide presentations for parents and other students at the end of the sessions.

"This has been a great project, the artists have been wonderful, the students are really getting a great experience. The dance section seems to be going well, I know that the 7th and 8th grade boys are lovin' it."
~ Mark Eary, Arts@Large Coordinator, Keefe Avenue School

Milwaukee Public Theatre artist/teachers worked at Keefe Avenue School in collaboration with Arts@Large-funded in this specialized intensive residency to produce memorable artistic creations.

Additional info on other available arts workshops and residencies.

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