Capital District Region: New York State Performers, Programmers & Related Resources for Public Libraries & Groups


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Performer	Program	Category	Description	Fee
DINOSAURS, ROCK	OCEANS ROCK Prehistoric Sea & Marine Biology Adventure	Museums, Nature- Environment, Science	Exhibit and show covering over a billion years of geologic time in less than 1 hour! Show uses expansive exhibit of modern day Marine Life along with Giant Fossil Prehistoric Sea Life Creatures, Menacing Mosasaurs, Amazing Ammonites, Prehistoric Alligators, Giant Fish, Fascinating Trilobites, Deadly Sharks, and much more. Students are active participants during show and hands-on activities such as seashell art project and sea life dig or excavation. Students take home many types of fossil shark teeth, fossil clams and marine life as well as modern day shells.	$351- $500
Hoyt, Lisa	Know Your Trees	Nature- Environment, Science, Visual Arts- Crafts	Is it a deciduous or a conifer? Learn to identify five common trees. Create a leaf rubbing, nature mobile or start your own Tree Identification booklet.	Up to $100
Plock, Ellen	Reigning Monarchs	Nature- Animals, Science	Live Butterfly Exhibit Participants experience the World of Butterflies. Audience participates in a 15-minute Dress the Butterfly lecture designed to teach butterfly anatomy, followed by The Life Cycle Game (an active game similar to Simon Says). Following the presentations, participants will be put in groups of 8-10 and enter the Butterfly World where they interact with living butterflies. While waiting for their turn in Butterfly World, participants listen to a butterfly story, view various life stages of the butterfly, or do a butterfly craft.	$201- $350
Hoffman, Bernadette	Burrowing Animals-The Diggers!	Nature- Animals, Science	Live animals & specimens. Learn about burrowing animals from different orders & families. Get the opportunity to touch the pelts of a badger, woodchuck and mole! Learn about the diet of a badger and why they are so fierce. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck? Well, at least find out how much dirt this little guy can push. And what about the life of a mole? Live animals include the prickly African Hedgehog, soft & plush South American Chinchilla and the social digger Chilian Degu. Program includes facts about the live animals, specimens, an educational game ending with touch time and questions. Please visit my website for further information.	$201- $350
Hoyt, Lisa	Bats	Nature- Animals, Science, Visual Arts- Crafts	Bats are misunderstood animals with bad reputations. They actually have an important role in the ecosystem and are at risk from white-nose fungus. Learn about how this animal lives, its behavior and why they are important. Play bat games and make a bat mask.	Up to $100
Smalley, Carol Parenzan	Engineering the Underground	Nature- Environment, Science, Visual Arts- Other	Join Carol Parenzan Smalley, a civil engineer focusing on underground investigations and a published children's author of non-fiction books, as you explore underground construction by animals and humans. Parents and children will work together using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills to "engineer" a 3-D "star" book depicting scenes from the underground. Smalley will share information about the science behind underground explorations and her latest works-in-progress.	$201- $350
Boyer, Jeff	Simple Machines - Mad about Science Show	Performing Arts- Theater, Performing Arts- Theater, Science	Learn about simple machines in all their different forms with Professor Von Schmartkopf. A wacky and fun-filled educational show.	$501- $1000
Novogrodski, Marvin	How The Body Works	Health & Fitness- Other, Life Skills- Food, Science	“How the Body Works” brings to life the wonders—and fun! —Of physiology. Included is a six-foot tall house that unfolds to 25 feet wide. Behind each panel is a surprise: human-cell micro-photographs, a giant brain, a chorus of skeletons, a ten-foot tall circulatory system, and an eight-foot blinking nerve cell. Discover the digestive tract! Hear the heart pump! Watch the blood flow! Check out the streaming video on www.marvmarv.com. This show contains circus arts, magic tricks, intriguing visuals and upbeat music. Both are scripted with a humorous, rhythmic rhyming text, and were created with support from The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Marvin is now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey.	$501- $1000
Gertsacov, Adam	Exploring With Henry Hudson	History, Performing Arts- Theater, Science	In this exhaustively researched show by actor, director, and performer Adam G. Gertsacov, Henry Hudson comes to life in a thrilling re-telling of his adventures on the high seas. Full information at http://www.henryhudson.info. The show imagines Hudson having just returned from his fateful third voyage and giving a presentation to “investors” (the audience) about his fourth voyage to continue his quest for the Northwest Passage to China. Through the course of the show, audience members will have the opportunity to “join” his crew, learn a sea shanty, learn how to navigate using state of the art sixteenth century instruments, and hear his thrilling tale of landing in the New World and visiting this strange new island named Manna-Hatta. At the end of the performance, audience members are encouraged to ask Henry any questions they like about his rich and varied life as a sea captain, explorer, navigator, and Elizabethan gentleman. Hudson lived during the age of Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Galileo, El Greco, and Queen Elizabeth. This 40 minute educational performance is suitable for all ages, and is available for extensive touring during the Henry Hudson Quadricentennial (Summer 2009).	$501- $1000
Smalley, Carol Parenzan	Create Living History Books	History, Literature- Creative Writing, Science	How big does an oak tree grow? In this workshop, Carol shares a story within a story. In The Growing Story of Milton Hershey School, students observe the growth of a tree on a hill overlooking the town of Hershey (PA). While the tree grows, so does the community, park, chocolate factory, and a special school. Students use the book as a starting point to write their own growing stories, where they parallel the growth of a plant with the history of their community, school, or family. You can view her work on these books here: http://www.mhs-pa.org/100years/celebration/photo-gallery/	$201- $350

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