School Matinee Series Performance for Grades Pre-K–2: This internationally-acclaimed puppet theater company returns to the Hop with a double bill of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s beloved bedtime classics.
India Jazz Suites
School Matinee Series Performance for Grades 4-12: Two master "hoofers” riff on each other's rhythmic imaginations in this joyous collaboration between Pandit Chitresh Das and Jason Samuels Smith.
Everett Dance Theatre
School Matinee Series Performance for Grades 6-12: Critically acclaimed Everett Dance Theatre takes audiences on a journey into the universe’s most complex structure: the human brain.
SamulNori
School Matinee Series Performance for Grades 3-12: SamulNori takes the concert hall by storm with thrilling percussion and acrobatic dance rooted in Korea’s traditional agrarian culture.
Skippyjon Jones
School Matinee Series Performance for Grades K-3: Perennial Hop favorite TheatreWorks/USA (Junie B. Jones, The Berenstain Bears and others) returns with the tale of a young Siamese cat with big ears and an even bigger imagination.
The Hopkins Center for the Arts School Matinee Series connects children, teachers, and schools with the performing arts in profound and meaningful ways, enhancing school curriculum and introducing students to worlds they have never known before.
According to national standards in the visual and performing arts, each school is encouraged to provide a high-quality experience in the arts for its students. The Hop is committed to helping your school meet this goal.
The Hopkins Center’s Outreach and Arts Education Department offers Study Guides with classroom activities and other curriculum suggestions to prepare students for live performances at the Hop. Study Guides are available on-line approximately one month prior to each performance.
Bringing your students to a live theatrical performance challenges them to watch and reflect critically—and to connect personal experience to universal themes, via the arts. Exposure to live theater ignites a child’s imagination in a unique way, opening the door to a greater understanding of the world and a life-long love of the arts.
Your students can experience all of this for only $6 per ticket because the Hop believes that an education is not complete without the arts!
“Engagement in the arts nurtures the development of cognitive, social, and personal competencies by reaching disengaged students, encouraging self-directed learning, and connecting learning experiences to the world of real work.” Champions of Change: The Impact of Learning
Funded in part by the Brown Foundation Arts Education Fund and the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation, Inc. Fund
Hopkins Center for the Arts
