||| FROM EMILIE GINCIG for FUNHOUSE COMMONS |||
Turning the Wheel Productions, a national non profit arts and education organization, visited with The Funhouse kids last month to offer a week long afterschool arts program culminating in a performance. Their mission is dedicated to making body-based creative expression and play accessible to individuals of all ages, experiences, genders, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Participants got to make beautiful masks using gems, sequins, pompoms, feathers, pipe cleaners, paint and stickers. They were encouraged to add everything and anything they wanted to their creations making their masks vibrant and amazing.There was also lots of music, dance and smiles!
“Our organization brings movement, play and creative expression of all kinds,” said Suzanne, one of the program’s coordinators. “This is our very first visit to Orcas and this week we are doing a school residency at both Salmonberry and The Funhouse.”
“We did some writing, movement and theater games. We even travel with our own musician to inspire the movement that the kids generate. Then we made masks that the kids will use in their performance at the end of the week here at The Funhouse for their friends and family.”
Turning the Wheel has been around for 33 years and offers programming around the country. They are committed to being a contributing force in fostering vibrant, healthy communities nationwide.
The Funhouse kids really enjoyed letting their creativity soar and performing for their family and friends at the end of the week! We hope to have our friends at Turning the Wheel back again soon.
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