Provider Details
Provider: Yard Dramas
Contact Details
Address
MD
Primary Contact: Jennifer Ridgway (jennifer@yarddramas.org)
Cultural Organization
Yard Dramas partners with individuals, communities, and businesses to develop creative experiences designed in collaboration with our clients and participants to bridge connections, increase learning, and grow new ideas, pathways, and solutions to challenges. Our hallmark program is a customized, outdoor, interactive, and community-minded storytelling experience.
There are countless benefits and opportunities to telling stories and creating art in nature with community. Yard Dramas positively impacts participants' economic, health, environmental, educational, and social lives and the surrounding communities.
Built on community garden principles, Yard Dramas catalyzes collaborative art projects, inspires a renewed interest in preserving and revitalizing green spaces, and nurtures stewards of the natural environment of the Anacostia Watershed. But “yard” has another meaning (unit of measure), and Yard Dramas inspires self-reflection and care and fosters individual and collective responsibility.
Services include:
*indoor, outdoor, and virtual theater learning and making experiences for all ages, including intergenerational participants
*interactive storytelling performances
*arts-education and integration programs
*complete creative process from inspiration to development with a wide range of presentation and sharing opportunities
*program reflection and assessment
*do-it-yourself tools & resources
*professional development workshops for leaders, educators, and caretakers
Events and Programs Offered
A Theater-Learning & Making Experience
Looking for an in-classroom theatre-learning and theatre-making program tailored to your specific needs? Look no further! Jennifer develops a one-time or multi-session program to meet your unique classroom needs and learning goals using storytelling, theater, puppetry, music, and dance. Programs are age-appropriate experiences that engage…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, Dance and Movement
Performance: Star Light for Me and Us, a story about finding light in darkness
Jennifer’s interactive performance programs are stories that promote social-emotional learning in early childhood, elementary, and family audiences. The programs feature seasonal and nature-related content. In this intimate performance, audience members immerse themselves in the dark, night sky, coming together to explore constellations as a community…
Program/Event Format:
In School Performance
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry
Making the World Dramatic Experience: Becoming a Changemaker and Civic Hero
Students dive into the study of transportation, communication, farming/food, and fashion by examining materials and practices of 1776. They are tasked with developing a character and recreating the classroom environment as an early community in the United States. As the program progresses, students are introduced…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Creative Writing
Farm to Table Residency: Inspiration from Georgia Gilmore
Students will explore how Georgia Gilmore’s influential role in the Montgomery bus boycott can inspire the creation of a farm-to-table restaurant today. This immersive experience involves delving into the various roles required to successfully establish a restaurant, allowing students to transform their classroom into a…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling
Colorful Emotions Workshop: Exploring Our Feelings in Dramatic Play
El Monstruo de Colores by Anna Llenas inspires a multi-session social-emotional investigation that uses drama and puppets. We develop an imaginary world and explore a particular problem, situation, or theme. Your classroom becomes a rehearsal hall, learning becomes personal, immediate, and active, and students become…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Creative Writing
Performance: Butterfly Place, a story about Señorita Mariposa
Jennifer’s interactive performance programs are stories that promote social-emotional learning in early childhood, elementary, and family audiences. The programs feature seasonal and nature-related content. Join us on an exciting adventure as we explore the fascinating life of a monarch caterpillar! This interactive story will engage…
Program/Event Format:
In School Performance
Art Forms:
Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry
In Role Drama Sessions: The United Nations for the Stages of Debate
Students will be challenged to create and represent a fictional nation within a simulated United Nations General Assembly. This simulation will be structured like a three-act story. First, students will focus on developing their nation at the beginning, working independently or in a small group.…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency