ImaginOn

There is something for everybody at this wonderful facility which provides both theater and library related activities.

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• Artopia Middle school students will enjoy this interactive website on the visual and performing arts.
• ArtsWork Arts resources for teachers and students including standards, curricula and lessons for teachers and online tutorials for students.
• Aaron Shepard's RT Page - Scripts and Tips for Reader's Theater Children's author Aaron Shepard offers resources for reader's theater including ready-to-reproduce scripts.
• Lesson plan: Feel In The Blanks The following lesson is designed to function as a review of beginning, middle, and end and an introduction to individualized imagination, creativity, and perspective as it relates to the development of dialogue (i.e. improvisation).
• Lesson plan: An Introduction to Stanislavski's Method This lesson plan provides basic guidelines of the Stanislavski system. Exercises are offered to help the student to think creatively and apply this plan to develop their own acting techniques. This plan can be introduced in one class period and practiced throughout the term. Follow these exercises with improvisation. It will help students focus and begin to think on their feet. This plan deals with concentration.
• Lesson plan: Improving fluency through group literary performance Bill Martin Jr.'s picture books provide opportunities for students to hear fluent reading modeled then to join in the readings through literary performance.

Related pages

• Harvey B. Gantt Center for African- American Arts + Culture : This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with “over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers.” It also offers art classes to all age groups.
• Indian Museum of the Carolinas: This Native American museum features the Indians of the past, present day Indian groups and Indians of North America.
• Paul Green's The Lost Colony: On the Fourth of July, 1937, a new form of American drama was born on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, as a part of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first English settlers in North America.

Related topics

• Learn more about Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, arts, drama, reading, storytelling, and theater.

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A collaborative venture of The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County and The Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, ImaginOn brings together the arts, education, and learning in this facility which is actually much more than a library/theatre.

The theater program areas include “MainStage productions, Tarradiddle Players, the professional touring company, Community Involvement Program, and a full scope of classes for both community and schools. The Children’s Theatre also works in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, with programs that address important issues in the lives of young people, such as substance abuse and relationship violence.” The library provides story times, classes, and lends books and movies to the public. Interactive games and exhibits make this a truly exciting place to visit.

Field trip programs are available for students of all ages. Storytimes, Children’s theater workshops, technology workshops, and Studio 1 animation tours are just some of the programs offered to Pre-K to Secondary students. There are fees for some programs. See the Teacher Section for more information.

To schedule a visit to ImaginOn call (704) 973-2780.

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