Residencies and Workshops
Would you like Grand Pistachio to use drama and puppetry to activate a portion of your classroom curriculum? With over 30 years combined experience as teaching artists, Liz and Rachel 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:
(917) 275-7050 / contact@grandpistachio.com
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History & ELA-Focused
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.
Science-Focused
Waste Exploration
Our Trash Master residency is based on the content of Grand Pistachio’s show City of Trash (currently in development). In this residency, puppetry and role play are used to explore the history of human trash, the daily challenges of sanitation workers and the difficult decisions communities have to make about what to do with trash now.
Migration with Puppets
Hand and shadow puppets help young students understand the difficult journey birds make each year.
