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  • 2025-2026 Season
    • Dance
      • Dominic Moore-Dunson | The Remember Balloons
      • Pilobolus | Pilobolus is a Fungus
    • Music
      • 123 Andrés | Around the Americas
      • Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards | The Riverboat
    • Theater
      • Theatre Heroes | Wind in the Willows
      • Tutti Frutti Productions | Hare and Tortoise
    • Visual Arts
      • Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks
      • Kalamazoo Calendar Project Traveling Exhibition
      • Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper
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Photo (detail) by Pam Rocker.

Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards
The Riverboat

December 2, 2025
9:45 AM & 12:15 PM
Miller Auditorium
Best for grades K-5

Jazzy Ash invites students to come along on a Crescent City inspired, jazzy music adventure with her band the Leaping Lizards. She’s a talented and prolific songwriter as well as a musical treasure hunter, highlighting traditional songs, rhythms and rhymes that have been handed down by African-American children, adults, and musicians for generations. The Riverboat concert features originals like “Throw Me Something Mista” that conjures the spirit of a Mardi Gras parade, as well as jazz standards like Louis Armstrong’s  “Heebie Jeebies” in front of gorgeous projected images of New Orleans, Congo Square, the Louisiana bayou, and even a field of fireflies. MORE

Photo (detail) by David Rugeles.

123 Andrés
Around the Americas

February 16, 2026
9:45 AM & 12:15 PM
Miller Auditorium
Best for grades K-6

This bilingual concert will be performed in Spanish and English. Christina and Andrés can’t find their friend Juana, and their only clue is that she’s somewhere in the Americas. Join GRAMMY and Latin Grammy Award-winning 123 Andrés in this lively, interactive concert to search the continents and learn about geography and music along the way. The audience will be a key part in this rich journey brought to the stage with colorful, exciting visuals. Andrés and Christina, both native Spanish speakers, incorporate language seamlessly, inviting students (and grown-ups!) to sing, move, and learn. MORE

EFA Wins Arts Innovation Award

In May, EFA was recognized with the Arts Schools Network 2024 Arts Innovation Award. Designed to recognize schools committed to taking innovative artistic risks, this award is presented to a school that has “broken the mold” in using the arts as a vehicle for teaching academics and/or making a positive difference in the lives of students and/or the community. MORE

About EFA

EFA enhances arts education for all K-12 and special education students in Kalamazoo County by making dance, music, theater, literary arts, media arts, and visual arts an essential part of comprehensive education. MORE

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