Even when Maya valiantly-and heartbreakingly-tries to fit in and entice the girls to play with her, she is rejected. Review our Pre-Visit Story: Coming to the Kennedy Center-School Performance.When a new and clearly impoverished girl named Maya shows up at school (“Her coat was open and the clothes beneath it looked old and ragged”), Chloe and her friends brush off any attempt to befriend her.Please bring any tools that will help make the experience comfortable for you! Some suggestions are: noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses or visors, fidgets, and communication devices.You can raise your hand to volunteer if you want to. The musicians may ask for volunteers to come up on stage.They will also ask the audience to answer prompts (call-and-response) or to mimic their actions. At times during the performance, the musicians will invite the audience to sing along and dance to the music.Visuals from the book Each Kindness will be projected onto a screen above the stage.There will be some moments when one part of the stage is darker than another in order to feature the actively playing musician or musicians.When the show begins, all music will be live, played by the musicians on stage. There will be recorded music playing as the audience enters the theater.And sometimes, the music is loud and exuberant. Sometimes, the music is soft and slow.

The musicians will interact and speak with the audience throughout the performance.Seven musicians from Rootstock Republic perform: Juliette and Monique on violin, Jarvis on viola, Malcolm on cello, Chris on double bass, and Cassie and Olivia on harp.In this show, the book Each Kindness is read out loud while live music is performed and illustrations from the book are projected.

This performance is approximately 50 minutes and features six musicians and a narrator.Terrace Theater, recommended for grades 2-6Įstimated duration is approximately 50 minutes. With this live musical exploration of Each Kindness, the story’s powerful anti-bullying message will resonate with audiences long after they’ve left the theater. Jones and performed by six members of celebrated string production company Rootstock Republic, along with projections of E. This world premiere concert features Education Artist-in-Residence Jacqueline Woodson reading Each Kindness onstage to music composed and orchestrated by Juliette M. What if you’re cruel to someone and never get the chance to make it right? When Chloe’s teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by a lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she’d shown a little kindness.

It is a story that could take place anywhere. Learn that a little kindness goes a long way. A WORLD PREMIERE KENNEDY CENTER COMMISSION Each Kindness

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