Activating emotions interactive field trip orpheum theatre group memphis

ACTivating Emotions: Theatre, Literacy, and Social & Emotional Learning

Name: Paradigm Marketing and Creative
Price range: $

Dec 1, 2026 - Apr 30, 2027

This interactive field trip teaches students how to build an emotional vocabulary, use stories to understand emotions, and explore what drives characters’ feelings and reactions.

Halloran Centre or Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center

Registration Opening Soon

Pricing: $325 (or for Title I Schools: $275) for each classroom of 35 students or fewer
Time: 3 hours
Ages or Grades: Grades 3-12

About this Interactive Field Trip

How do we give students permission to feel? Young people need tools to name, express, and regulate complex emotions and feelings. Actors are experts at using the tools of body, voice, and imagination to walk in a characters’ shoes and express emotions. Infusing literacy and fine arts standards, an Orpheum Theatre Group Teaching Artist will guide 3rd-12th grade students through building an emotion vocabulary, telling stories to understand emotional responses, and standing in a characters’ shoes to imagine the causes behind feelings and reactions. Students will imagine and reflect on their own emotions in a culminating performance with their peers

ACTivating Emotions integrates Tennessee State Standards in Fine Arts with Tennessee State Standards in English Language Arts.

Available for bookings December 1, 2026 – April 30, 2027 by inquiry only.

Policies and Procedures

BPACC Policies and Procedures

More Information

Please note, the maximum number of students we are able to host for an Interactive Field Trip varies based on a number of factors, including staffing and space availability. The Orpheum Theatre Group reserves the right to set the maximum capacity number for any Interactive Field Trip at registration based on these varying factors.

Halloran Centre

Classes begin promptly at the scheduled time. We recommend arriving 5-15 minutes early. All sessions take place at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education, 225 S. Main Street, next to the Orpheum Theatre. Our Education and Community Engagement staff will greet the group in the lobby.

BPACC

Classes begin promptly at the scheduled start time but school groups are encouraged to plan to arrive between 5-15 minutes before the start time. All Interactive Field Trips at BPACC will be held in the Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center at 3663 Appling Rd, Bartlett, TN 38133. BPACC's Education and Community Engagement Department staff will meet the group in the lobby upon arrival.

The Orpheum Theatre Group strives to make the arts available to everyone. We offer many services for patrons with special needs. When you register, please indicate any accessibility arrangements your group will require (i.e. wheelchairs, listening devices, ASL interpreter, etc.).