Story Time with Hassan at Weathervane Playhouse
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.
To celebrate this new partnership, we will be having two performances on October 17th here at Weathervane.
Matinee Performance
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.
$7.00 per student/teacher group rate
$10.00 single tickets
Evening Performance
The Evening performance with feature Cleveland
percussionist, Bill Ransom
Wednesday, October 17, 7:00 p.m.
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!
To Learn more and get your tickets visit:
weathervaneplayhouse.com or call 330-836-2626
ABOUT HASSAN ROGERS
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.
Over the last two decades, Story Time with Hassan has played to more than 250,000 people.
Hassan is a proud recipient of the R. Joyce Whitley award for new playwrights, winning the award for his autobiographical work,
Mrs. Roger’s Back Porch. Hassan has shared folktales in over eleven school districts in Ohio and Georgia. Whether it’s vocal performances on the internationally syndicated radio show,
Your Story Hour, or sharing the stage with The Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Hassan has enjoyed local and national exposure as a performing artist.
WHAT IS
STORY TIME?
Story Time with Hassan 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.
Through
Story Time with Hassan, 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
The
Story Time with Hassan experience can be a valuable curriculum supplement for meeting children’s English Language Art needs.
Contact:
Lauren Sprowls
1301 Weathervane Lane
Akron, OH 44313
330-836-2626 x35
lsprowls@weathervaneplayhouse.com
Lauren Sprowls
Education Director
Weathervane Playhouse
330-836-2626 xt 35
