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


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Performer	Program	Category	Description	Fee
Basini, Lisa	3-D Winter Wonderland House Cake: Family Craft	Life Skills- Food	Decorate a 3-D house cake to take home and enjoy. Create some snow and have some fun.	$201- $350
Murphy, Rohan	No Legs, No Problem	Disability Awareness, Health & Fitness- Other, Life Skills- Other	Rohan Murphy, who lost his legs at birth, started to wrestle his freshman year of high school. After a successful high school wrestling career he went on to wrestle at Penn State University. In addition to wrestling, Murphy is also an accomplished powerlifter, competing in international competitions all over the world representing the USA. Rohan has been featured in publications such as ABC news, Sports Illustrated, and many more. He was even featured in his very own Nike commercial to motivate and inspire people to exercise and live a healthy lifestyle. Now Rohan is a professional motivational speaker. He lived his whole life motivating people by his actions, he is now motivating the youth of America by his words. Rohan’s life story is a gripping tale of adversity, dedication, and living life with a purpose. Rohan founded the inspirational social networking community CatchSpark.com. Speaking Topics: Overcoming adversity; embracing differences; anti-bullying; motivational; self-esteem building; goal-setting; and living life with purpose.	$501- $1000
Basini, Lisa	Cookies For Camping	Life Skills- Food	Make some No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookies in a skillet and S'more on a stick. Yummy!!	$201- $350
Merklein, Paul	Draw Funny, Make Money	Life Skills- Finance, Visual Arts- Drawing, Visual Arts- Cartooning	Artist & speaker Paul Merklein demonstrates how Adults & Teens who like to draw can earn money right away – this month, this week or even today! Students learn: 1. What you need to start making money, and what you don’t need, 2. Where you can start making money right away, 3. How much money you can make in which markets. This is NOT a drawing class. This program shows Adults & Teens how to make money by drawing.	$351- $500
Maurer, Jim	Beat Box Workshop	Life Skills- Other, Music, Performing Arts- Other	Ever wish you could play the drums, with your mouth???? Well Jester Jim is teaching the art of beatboxing to all young and old. A great introduction for kids to learn about tempo, and the sounds of music. Check out video clips of Jim doing his beatbox show on the website www.jesterjim.com.	$101- $200
Basini, Lisa	Apple Strudel	Life Skills- Food	Create a classic Apple Strudel ready to bake in the oven at home!	$201- $350
Paul, LoriAnn	Zinnia Presents Puppeteering Workshops!	Life Skills- Other, Performing Arts- Storytelling, Performing Arts- Puppetry	Zinnia (LoriAnn Paul) is a children’s entertainer, puppeteer and clown, as well as a certified yoga teacher. She enjoys creating custom workshops, which are as fun as they are educational! Zinnia is offering unique puppeteering workshops for students of all ages, which will teach students about the ancient art of puppeteering by allowing them to experience it firsthand! Furthermore, these workshops will help to improve students’ motor skills, increase their language and social skills, and help to develop self-confidence among other things. Students will have the rare opportunity to play with some of Zinnia’s beautiful professional puppets. They will also learn a variety of different puppeteering techniques such as gesturing with arm rods, puppet and voice manipulation, script writing, character development, creative role playing to help foster improvisation and collaboration skills, prop/costume design and construction, as well as set design and construction, and more! During these workshops, students will have the unique opportunity to write and perform original puppet plays of their own! Each student will develop a puppet character from the depths of her/his own imagination, and bring it to life. Depending on time allotted, students may create puppets of their own upon completion of the workshop(s).	$351- $500
Montanaro, Lisa	American Sign Language and Deaf Culture	Disability Awareness, Life Skills- Parenting, Life Skills- Other	American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Learn one of the most beautiful and expressive forms of communication -- sign language! This workshop introduces the hearing adult to the manual alphabet, finger spelling, and basic conversational vocabulary. It also covers common myths about deafness and sign language, and raises awareness about the Deaf community. Whether you are interested in communicating with deaf and hearing impaired individuals personally or professionally, or just want to have fun learning a new form of communication, this workshop is a real eye-opener	$501- $1000
TheatreworksUSA, -	Queen Nur's BULLY-FREE ZONE	Life Skills- Other, Music, Performing Arts- Storytelling	Folk tales, fables and hip-hop take center stage in Queen Nur's inspiring show about accepting each others' differences.	$501- $1000
DeLuca, Michael	Yello Dyno	Health & Fitness- Other, Life Skills- Other, Other	Our program instructors educate children in grades 4-6 with the use of the Yello Dyno award winning video "Tricky People," audience discussions, role-playing and more.	$351- $500

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* Inclusion in this database does not indicate endorsement of any performer or program by the NYS Education Department, the Office of Cultural Education, the NYS Library or the participating library systems, nor does it eliminate the need for reference checks and appropriate standard screening procedures.