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  • 2024-2025 Season
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      • Inlet Dance Theatre | What Do You Do With An Idea?
      • Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company | Red Firecracker
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      • JazzReach | Hangin’ With The Giants
      • San Jose Taiko
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      • Manual Cinema | The Magic City
      • TheaterWorksUSA | Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical!
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      • Cross Currents: The Art Of Japanese Woodblock Prints Traveling Exhibition
      • Legendary Voices: Art For The Next Century
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Photo courtesy of JazzReach.
30th Anniversary Returning Artist

JazzReach
Hangin’ With The Giants

November 5, 2024
10:00 AM & 12:30 PM
Miller Auditorium
Best for grades K-5; older students are welcome
10:00 AM show is sold out

JazzReach presents Hangin’ With The Giants featuring Metta Quintet plus special guests. This fun, high-energy program is designed to promote the inclusiveness and accessibility of jazz while highlighting the legacies and music of some of the art form’s central contributors. Staged as a late night talk show, Hangin’ With The Giants features animated likenesses of jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk as show guests and offers numerous opportunities for students to interact and participate. MORE

Photo by Mark Shigenaga.

San Jose Taiko

March 25-26, 2025
10:00 AM (both days) & 12:15 PM (March 26 only)
Comstock Auditorium
Best for grades K-12
All shows are sold out

Since 1973, San Jose Taiko has captivated global audiences and critics alike with the powerful sounds of the taiko. Inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, company performers express the beauty of the human spirit through the voice of the taiko, creating a vibrant, contemporary art form as they strive to connect people through cultural understanding, creative expression, and rhythmic heartbeat. Known for synchronized choreography, eclectic musicality, and joyful spirit, San Jose Taiko performances and instruction are sought throughout the world by taiko fans and practitioners alike. 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

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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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