Nocturnal Creatures and Constellations
2012 Library Themed Show!
Take your children on a nocturnal journey this Summer!
Night Creatures and Constellations will transport your audience via celestial navigation to our planet’s most famous night creatures.
The show includes a story about an isolated young stargazer’s relationship with an owl whose dream is to meet the other night creatures of the World.
Together they visit nocturnal creatures in: Australia, Amazon Rainforest, Africa, & China. Each place they visit, an audience volunteer representing the local culture, introduces them to their native night creature.
By the end of the trip, the Owl has fulfilled his mission and the boy has learned how to both be a friend to the owl, and how to ask others for help. (25 minutes)
The audience volunteers will be given exotic percussion instruments from these four cultures with which they can “jam” with the audience. (10 minutes)
The program ends with a 7 minute film documenting the diverse constellations located over each continent, as well as the animals themselves. (7 minutes)
- Program length: 45 minutes
- Maximum Audience Size: 100
- Appropriate for all ages
Summer Olympics/ Sports Show
We introduce the London Summer Olympics, and discuss some of the olympic events most popular with the audience.
We tell a story:
A boy needs to find “four sports-stars that are completely different but exactly the same” He travels to Mexico, China, Africa, & America, where he finds Olympic athletes involved respectively in Soccer, Diving, Long distance running, & Baseball. He sees how each culture has many differences in their food, language, clothing, and even in the games they play.He learns that even they are different, they all maintain their health through good diet and proper exercise. Plus he learns “that they are all human beings.” Volunteers from the audience are used throughout the show. The story is followed by a film of Olympic sports through the years demonstrating a huge variety of different sporting events.