Schools & Educators
Expand curriculum beyond your classroom and enhance education with Learning Live from the WCU Bardo Arts Center.
Learn more about our 2018-2019 educational performance series below! More details
on upcoming WCU Fine Art Museum tours and workshops coming soon.
Click here to download our 2018-2019 Season Preview Flyer.
Learning Live 2018-2019 Performance Series
Learning Live is a series of matinees that introduces Bardo Arts Center's younger audiences to
the performing arts. Featuring high quality, curriculum-related performances by professional,
nationally touring companies, Learning Live, brings literature, history, drama, and
music to life on stage. Each performance is only $3 per student and free for teachers
and chaperones.
September 28, 2018 | 9AM or 11AM
Bullysaurus Rex
December 14, 2018 | 9AM or 11AM
World Songs of the Season
February 1, 2019 | 9AM or 11AM
Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart
February 15, 2019 | 9AM or 11AM
Black History Hall of Fame
March 8, 2019 | 9AM or 11AM
Aesop’s Fables
Learn more about each production by clicking on the dates below.
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
september 28, 2018 | 9AM or 11AM
Bullysaurus Rex | PreK-5th
Anti-Bullying and Character Education
Our dino-themed anti-bullying adventure, perfect for younger audiences. These dinosaurs
learn to recognize, report and stand up to bullying while learning to be a great friend.
This performance is from Bright Star Touring Theatre. Available curriculum resources
below:
STUDY GUIDE CURRICULUM STANDARDS
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
december 14, 2018 | 9am or 11am
World Songs of the Season | Prek-5th
Multi-Cultural Holiday Exploration
Take a trip around the world through this musical adventure and hear popular songs
of the winter and holiday season from all over the globe. Great for audiences to listen
and enjoy, as well as sing along!
This performance is from Bright Star Touring Theatre.
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
FEBRUARY 1, 2019 | 9AM or 11am
Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart | 3rd-8th
A Game Apart provides a glimpse of Jackie Robinson's life during a bygone era of separate
and unequal locker rooms, of whites only hotels, and of restaurants with only a back
door for colored athletes to enter. Witness the hopeless humiliation of a star player
who was showered with adulation on the field and became a second-hand citizen when
he walked off the diamond. Meet Jackie's compatriots fighting the same battles between
the end zones, inside the ring and around the track. A Game Apart is a powerful lesson
of courage through dedication, perseverance, and leadership.
This performance is from Mike Wiley Productions. Available curriculum resources below:
DISCUSSION GUIDE
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
FEBRUARY 15, 2019 | 9am or 11am
Black History Hall of Fame | Prek-5th
Black History & Social Studies
Maya Angelou, Aretha Franklin, Mae Jemison, the Buffalo Soldiers...these are just
some of the famous people that come to life in this fast-paced celebration of Black
History.
This performance is from Bright Star Touring Theatre. Available curriculum resources
below:
STUDY GUIDE | CURRICULUM RESOURCES
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
MARCH 8, 2019 | 9AM or 11AM
Aesop's Fables | Prek-5th
Literature and Literacy
Perfect for younger audiences, these classic tales entertain but also share a strong
message about treating others fairly and knowing right from wrong. Share stories like
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" "The Tortoise and The Hare," and "The Lion and The Mouse."
This performance is from Bright Star Touring Theatre. Available curriculum resources
below:
STUDY GUIDE CURRICULUM STANDARDS
To reserve seats for your school, click here to access our contact form.
FREE OPPORTUNITY
North Carolina Symphony Education Concert
Bardo Arts Center Performance Hall | Cullowhee, North Carolina | October 18, 2018
at 10:30AM
Experience an interactive Education Concert with North Carolina's state orchestra,
the North Carolina Symphony, featuring a special appearance by the Cherokee Chamber
Singers. Conducted by NCS Music Director Grant Llewellyn, the Symphony and the Singers
will perform selections from a brand-new work by Brooklyn-based composer and Western
North Carolina native William Brittelle—a work reflecting Cherokee identity through
the perspectives and poetry of its youth. This is a free educational matinee. Seating
is general admission.
WCU Fine Art Museum’s school tours are image-focused and inquiry-based experiences
for K–12 students. Led by museum staff and educators, tours encourage students to
look closely, share personal perspectives, and build connections to their own lives
and learning. Art workshops give students an opportunity to get creative and work
in our art studio alongside WCU’s Art Educators in training.
Self Guided Tours
Self-guided visits are for educators who wish to customize their museum experience
by leading their own tours through the museum’s galleries. All self-guided visit groups
must register with the museum in advance.
Curriculum Resources
Bardo Arts Center education programs are linked to North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction’s Standard Course of Study. In order to integrate your visit to the Bardo Arts Center seamlessly into the curriculum,
teachers may receive pre and post-visit curriculum materials to strengthen and deepen
student’s experience
Thanks to our generous supporters
Learning Live is supported by the Walnut Cove Association and The Ascent Partnership,
the formal collaboration between Western Carolina University, Harris Regional Hospital and Swain
Community Hospital.
K-12 tours of the Museum and hands-on art activities are supported through a partnership
with the School of Art & Design Art Education Club and a Grassroots Grant from the
Jackson County Arts Council through the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department
of Natural & Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
