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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt">Story Time with Hassan at Weathervane Playhouse<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Weathervane Playhouse is excited to announce a new partnership with Story Time with Hassan! This program has been around for over two decades serving students in the Cleveland area. We are excited to bring this program to Akron.
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<p class="MsoNormal">To celebrate this new partnership, we will be having two performances on October 17<sup>th</sup> here at Weathervane.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Matinee Performance <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$7.00 per student/teacher group rate <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">$10.00 single tickets <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Evening Performance <o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Evening performance with feature Cleveland <span style="font-size:10.5pt;background:#F8F8F8">
percussionist, Bill Ransom </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pre-show activities for kids will start at 6:00 p.m. where kids will get to make their own instruments, enjoy light refreshments, and more!
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To Learn more and get your tickets visit:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">weathervaneplayhouse.com or call 330-836-2626<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ABOUT HASSAN ROGERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After working in the East Cleveland Special Education Early Childhood Program, Hassan joined Karamu’s Drama Theater for Youth Project, enjoying success as an actor,
writer and director, and in 1993, the DTY Project garnered the Anne Flag Award for Excellence in Theater Arts Education.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over the last two decades, Story Time with Hassan has played to more than 250,000 people.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hassan is a proud recipient of the R. Joyce Whitley award for new playwrights, winning the award for his autobiographical work,
<i><u>Mrs. Roger’s Back Porch</u></i>. Hassan has shared folktales in over eleven school districts in Ohio and Georgia. Whether it’s vocal performances on the internationally syndicated radio show,
<i>Your Story Hour</i>, or sharing the stage with The Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Hassan has enjoyed local and national exposure as a performing artist.
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">WHAT IS
<i>STORY TIME</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Story Time with Hassan</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> is theater through participation that meets Early Learning Development and
State Standards. It engages students, from toddlers to school age, in life sciences, gross motor skills, counting and memorization to rhythm and movement, just to name a few learning experiences.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Through
<i>Story Time with Hassan</i>, the audience becomes an actual facet of the story. With one sweep of his hand all the hundreds of little feet suddenly become one of the many migrating herds along the Serengeti or in a river in Alaska, with a bear, as they catch
salmon leaping upstream. As a result, students find themselves involved in cooperative learning and fantastical expedition in geography. Hassan is a modern-day griot
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
<i>Story Time with Hassan</i> experience can be a valuable curriculum supplement for meeting children’s English Language Art needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lauren Sprowls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1301 Weathervane Lane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Akron, OH 44313<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">330-836-2626 x35
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:lsprowls@weathervaneplayhouse.com">lsprowls@weathervaneplayhouse.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Lauren Sprowls<br>
Education Director <br>
Weathervane Playhouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">330-836-2626 xt 35</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><br>
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