PERFORMANCES FOR STUDENTS
WELCOME BACK TO IN PERSON PERFORMANCES!
MACC Education is proud to announce the return of in-person Performances for Students!
The upcoming season will feature not only some new talented artists, but we've added a couple of returning, familiar faces!
This year, the cost of admission is FREE to all students & teachers who register before each performance's deadline!
Please review these helpful guidelines before and after registering as it may answer any questions you may have.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
This performance will highlight a Youth Spoken Word Cultural Exchange honoring the land, HĀ and Spoken Word Poetry in the Pacific, featuring Pacific Poets, Urban Word, the 2023 Hawaii State and U.S. National Youth Poet Laureates.
This program is partially funded by a grant from the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
22-23 SY COMPLETED PERFORMANCES
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO
CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY
Show Date: Mar 2, 2023
Show Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle Theater
Recommended Grades: K-12
For 45 years, Hubbard Street has been one of the most original forces in contemporary dance – bringing top choreographers and works to Chicago and beyond. Hubbard Street’s ever-evolving repertory, created by today’s leading choreographic voices, makes us a company that dancers aspire to join and performance venues all over the world are eager to host. To date, the main company has performed globally in 19 countries and 44 US states.
At home in Chicago, Hubbard Street performs 20 times a year and delivers renowned education programs in 50 classrooms across 17 Chicagoland schools. HSDC Education utilizes the choreographic process to teach essential problem-solving skills, creativity, and collaboration - expanding our reach beyond traditional concert dance audiences, ensuring that everyone has access to world-class dance and instruction.
THE PEEK-A-BOWS
EARLY EDUCATION MUSICAL GROUP
Show Date: Feb 3, 2023
Show Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle Theater
Recommended Grades: PK-5
"The Peek-a-Bows" is a fun, musical, and educational group for young children created in 2008 by Gerilyn Hewahewa and Cyndi Mayo-Akeo. The two women met while performing together at the award-winning theatrical production entitled ʻUlalena in Lāhainā, Maui.
The mission of The Peek-a-Bows is to serve as an engaging and educational component of early-childhood development for young keiki from a place-based lens through song and dance, storytelling, and Hawaiian cultural integration. They have been entertaining keiki for over 14 years. The Peek-a-Bows is a performing group that also offers animated/live-action episodes, free to view on their website and streaming platforms.
RAYE ZARAGOZA
RECORDING ARTIST
Show Date: Nov 1, 2022
Show Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle Theater
Recommended Grades: 6-12
Raye Zaragoza is a galvanizing presence, a self-assured artist making music to fight for, represent, and celebrate those left too long outside the spotlight. Known for tenacious feminist anthems and fearless protest folk, her stage presence teems with determined morale. As a Japanese-American, Mexican, Indigenous woman, Zaragoza spent much of her early life trying to assimilate with the world around her, to meet punishing standards of beauty synonymous with just one color of skin—and not her own. She has come a long way from that youthful pain, proclaiming “I am proud to be a multicultural brown woman with insecurities and a vibrant intersectional identity that I continue to grapple with. I hope young girls of today will know that the It Girl is whatever they want to be.”
THE ALPHABET ROCKERS
TWO-TIME GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE
Show Date: Oct 21, 2022
Show Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle Theater
Recommended Grades: PK-5
ALPHABET ROCKERS make music that makes change. Founded by Kaitlin McGaw (she/her) and Tommy Shepherd (he/him/they), this intergenerational group creates brave spaces to shape a more equitable world through hip hop. Their GRAMMY-nominated albums inspire American kids and families to stand up to hate and be their brave and beautiful selves.
Our families need content that is healing, that reflects who we are and empowers us—that embraces Black liberation, Queer liberation, Indigenous rights, immigrant rights, and intersectionality. Alphabet Rockers curates this content with the community, centering children’s voices. We amplify authentic stories and interrupt the patterns that got us here. Witness how we do this collective work—Join us in the embodiment of real change.
FRANK LETO
AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL MUSIC
Show Date: Oct 18, 2022
Show Time: 10:00am
Location: Castle Theater
Recommended Grades: PK-2
Frank Leto is an early childhood educator, a musician, a composer and a Montessori teacher who has been working in Montessori schools throughout the country for over 30 years. He is also a professional musician, Orff music teacher and steel band director. He brilliantly combines his skills as both teacher and musician to create a sound that your children will love! Frank's music for children is exceptionally popular with teachers and parents throughout the United States. His music is designed to encourage children’s participation through singing, dancing, fingerplays, games and exercises.
Frank’s clinics promote his own approach to imparting the love of music on to children. His interactive workshops for teachers are designed for non-musicians. In the course of a single workshop, attendees are singing, dancing and playing instruments with a new sense of confidence. With newly learned skills, they enthusiastically return to the classroom and enrich the children’s musical environment.
MOTIVATIONAL MELE & MOTIVATIONAL MOMENTS
If you've missed out on our previous virtual
offerings or if you would like to watch them again, they are still available & FREE to view!
