We cannot wait to welcome your students into the Halloran Centre for the Orpheum Theatre Group's Interactive Field Trips!
Connected to Tennessee State Education Standards in both Fine Arts and English Language Arts, these hands-on workshops are designed to keep your students highly engaged while exploring their creativity and having fun in a live, in-person arts setting!
New this 2024-2025 School Year:
Broadway Basics: Hamilton (grades 3-12) can now be booked for select dates throughout the school year. Stepping Into the Story: Your Name Is a Song (grades K-2) and ACTivating Emotions (grades 3-12) can be booked via inquiry for dates December 2024 - April 2025.
To fill out a registration inquiry, click HERE or contact Verity Hwang at hwang@orpheum-memphis.com or (901) 529-4242 with any questions or concerns.
Interactive Field Trip Program Policies and Procedures can be found here.
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.
For Grades K - 2
Stepping Into the Story: Your Name Is a Song
Length: 3 Hours
Location: In-person at the Halloran Centre
Cost: $300 (or for Title I Schools: $250) for each classroom of 35 students or fewer
Stepping Into the Story gives K-2nd grade students the opportunity to explore their favorite books through their bodies, voices, and imaginations. This field trip engages students in a hands-on, immersive workshop that explores creativity, literacy, and critical thinking as they take the story off the page and onto the stage. Classrooms will explore the book Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins Bigelow. In the book, a little girl is frustrated that teachers and classmates mispronounce her beautiful name. When she tells her mother she does not want to return to school, the little girl’s mother teaches her the beauty, history, and magic behind her name. Using the performing arts, students will explore themes of cultural acceptance, belonging, and kindness through students’ names and identities.
Available for bookings December 2024 – April 20
Stepping Into the Story integrates Tennessee State Standards in Fine Arts with Tennessee State Standards in English Language Arts.
For Grades 3 - 12
Broadway Basics: Hamilton
Length: 3 Hours
Location: In-Person at the Halloran Centre
Cost: $300 (or for Title I Schools: $250) for each classroom of 35 students or fewer
This Interactive Field Trip introduces 3rd-12th grade students to music and movement inspired by Hamilton, the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. This Broadway musical comes to the Orpheum stage February 18 – March 2, 2025, but this special Interactive Field Trip experience is available to school groups on select dates throughout the school year. This field trip builds students' speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills and is fun and engaging for all experience and ability levels.
Limited dates available:
December 16 – December 20, 2024
March 17 – March 20, 2025
April 7 – April 11, 2025
Broadway Basics integrates Tennessee State Standards in Fine Arts with Tennessee State Standards in English Language Arts.
ACTivating Emotions: Theatre, Literacy, and Social & Emotional Learning
Length: 3 Hours
Location: In-Person at the Halloran Centre
Cost: $300 (or for Title I Schools: $250) for each classroom of 35 students or fewer
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.
Available for bookings December 2024 – April 2025 by inquiry only
ACTivating Emotions integrates Tennessee State Standards in Fine Arts with Tennessee State Standards in English Language Arts.
To register, click HERE or contact Verity Hwang at hwang@orpheum-memphis.com or (901) 529-4242 with any questions or concerns.
Interested in bringing your students to see a show? Check out our 2024-2025 Student Matinee Series!
