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Left to Right: Arturo Hernandez, Sonia Roman, Markia Nicole Smith, Bryce Hayden, Sarah Hogewood, Wesley Slade. Photo (detail) by Jeremy Daniel.

TheaterWorksUSA
Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical!

November 6, 2024
10:00 AM & 12:30 PM
Miller Auditorium
Best for grades K-2
All shows are sold out

Whatever you do, don’t let the Pigeon star in his own musical production! With a script written by Mo Willems, the creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling, Caldecott Honor award-winning Pigeon picture books, and featuring music by Deborah Wicks LaPuma, TheaterWorksUSA’s Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical! is even more fun than staying up late and having a hot dog party! It’s not easy being the Pigeon-you never get to do ANYTHING! But when the Bus Driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers (gasp!) late, maybe that wily bird CAN do something. MORE

Photo by Charles Osgood Photography.
30th Anniversary Returning Artist

Manual Cinema
The Magic City

February 19, 2025
9:45 AM & 12:15 PM
Miller Auditorium
Best for grades K-12

Emmy award-winning Manual Cinema of Chicago has adapted Edith Nesbit’s 1910 novel The Magic City for a live, cinematic shadow puppet show. Using overhead projectors, paper shadow puppets, actors on camera, and live music, Manual Cinema’s adaptation updates the novel with a modern retelling. The Magic City tells the story of nine-year-old Philomena, whose great love is building miniature structures out of books, toys, and other found objects from around her house. One night, Philomena wakes up to discover that her city has come alive. As she steps through the city gates, her adventure begins. 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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