Greetings from Flow Circus
FlowCircusKids.com - A New, Free Resource
Special Offer for Summer 2011
Upcoming Flow Circus Tours
Greetings from Flow Circus: April has been a fun month full of school and library performances (watch a recent television news clip from National Library Week in Florence, SC), school workshops, and a Fundama staff training for over 70 librarians in Wilkes-Barre, PA (see the latest Fundama program ideas that they generated).
It's the work we have been doing behind the scenes that we are most excited to share with you this month. This newsletter is shorter that usual because we wanted to focus on a new website that we developed for you: FlowCircusKids.com. It's been a labor of love and we hope that you enjoy it.
Playfully yours,
Paul & Dawn
FlowCircusKids.com - A New, Free Resource: As we thought about the 2011 Summer Reading Program theme One World, Many Stories, we realized that skill toys tell captivating stories about culture, trade, natural resources, and human nature. People have been playing with skill toys for thousands of years! The more we explored the toys and their stories, the more we realized that as different as one culture may be from another, we are all connected by the desire to play.
FlowCircusKids.com provides information about more than 25 different skill toys from around the world. In addition to learning about the history of the toy and how it is used, visitors can:
- Watch: Videos introducing some of the toys and demonstrating how they are used
- Build: Do-It-Yourself instructional videos
- Play: Activities encouraging families to use the site, visit their library, and have fun together.
- Adults: Activities for programmers like you. Ideas are broken down into passive programs such as a Skill Toy Bingo card, and active group activities such as a World Map Mural and 21st Century Hieroglyphs.
- Other: Original drawings and photographs of the skill toys, categories of toys to help visitors see connections between various toys, and ideas for skill based play with everyday objects.
We are so excited to have all of this in one easy to navigate site. We originally created this for the summer reading program, but now realize that it serves as a year-round resource for libraries, schools, afterschool programs, and summer camps. Explore FlowCircusKids.com and see how you can use the resource to enhance your programs. Feel free to share it with your families, colleagues, and listservs.
Contact us if you have any questions or comments about the site.
Special Offer for Summer 2011: Can you believe summer starts next month?! We know that some of you have had to wait to book your programs due to budgets and other concerns. We do still have a few openings in our summer schedule so contact us soon to book Paul's new performance One Toy, Many Stories.
We also have a special offer for tween/teen librarians looking for engaging programs for the summer. For a short time, we will discount our Skill Toys from Around the World workshop if we have a show booked in your area on the same day and can fill in any gaps in our tour schedule.
Skill Toys from Around the World: Engaging hands-on workshop that introduces tweens/teens to 5 different skill toys. Workshop is fast paced as participants move through stations to try their hands at each. Ages: 10+ Group Size: up to 2560 minute workshop: Normally only book with a performance, but will book alone. $200 (normally $250)90 minute workshop: Includes a 15 minute performance & more time playing. $350 (normally $425)
Contact Dawn to check availability at dawn@flowcircus.com or (919) 604-3462.
Upcoming Tours: We have decided to keep this as a regular feature of our newsletters so you can keep up to date on when we will be in your area. These dates have been updated since the last newsletter.
Summer 2011:
June 7-10: Alabama (Birmingham area)
June 13-18: North Carolina
June 20-24 (mornings & evenings): Raleigh, NC area (*recently added)
June 25-July 1: New Jersey & New York
July 5-9: Maryland & North Carolina
July 11-15: North & South Carolina
July 18-22: New Jersey, New York, & Pennsylvania
July 25-29 (evenings only): Raleigh, NC area
August 3-19: Pennsylvania, New York, & Connecticut
Fall Tour Schedule: Coming soon
We are continually adding new tours to this schedule so feel free to contact us about setting up a tour in your area. To book a Flow Circus performance/workshop or schedule a tour in your region, contact Dawn at dawn@flowcircus.com or (919) 604-3462.
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