In-Class Offerings!
With over 30 years combined experience as teaching artists, Rachel and Liz love collaborating with teachers to craft an unforgettable experience. We regularly lead workshops based around the content and artistry in our shows. Below are some examples of workshops and residencies we have created for schools. Contact us to discuss your dream residency:
contact@grandpistachio.com / (917) 275-7050
Post-Show Workshops
Are you seeing Layer the Walls in the theater this season? Want to deepen content connection and activate art forms with your students?
Click the PDF to find out how you can bring company artists into your classroom.
Science-Focused
City of Trash Workshops:
Sustainability Education for Grades 2-5
This series of workshops utilize puppetry to explore topics related to trash and sanitation, with the goal of helping young people build awareness of waste and consumption. Workshops can be offered as a one time event or multi-part series. These workshops work well for curriculum about NYC systems and how the city works; Earth Day; and school sustainability initiatives.
Migration with Puppets
Hand and shadow puppets help young students understand the difficult journey birds make each year.
History & ELA-Focused Experiences
Activate a Classroom Text with Puppetry
Grand Pistachio can help students bring a text to life with shadow puppetry, bunraku or hand puppets.
Create Layer the Walls Part III
We can only highlight a few immigration narratives on stage in Layer the Walls. Our residencies can explore immigration experiences that did not take place in the Lower East Side tenements. These include more modern narratives as well as important historical experiences that took place in different areas of the United States, including Angel Island.
Time Travel With Goldine’s Story
Young people join in the drama and step into the world of the 1909 Garment Workers Strike. Through guided activities participants create their own characters, interact with shadow puppetry and performances, observe images, listen to recordings, journal in character, and create dialogue.
Arts- Focused
Puppetry and Mask Workshops
Our stage shows utilize a wide variety of highly stylized art forms including mask and multiple types of puppetry. Shadow Puppetry, bunraku puppetry and mask workshops give students a chance to engage in creating and performing these art forms.
