Schedule At A Glance

7:30 pm

Meet and Greet Dinner

9:00 am

Depart Bentonville

10:00 am

Performance: Miss Mouse

11:30 am

Performance: Bear State 

1:00 pm

LUNCH ON OWN

3:00 pm

Audience Relationship Panel

Panel discussion with the artists (about Bear State of Mind and Ms. Mouse's birthday)

4:00 pm

Experiential Theatre with Chris Parks (In The Theatre) @ Theatre2

Participatory theatre experience as we learn how to act/write in a way that authentically engages the young audience and amplifies their voice as characters during the production. If you're in the room, you're in the play.

5:30 pm

Drive to Bauhaus Biergarten - dinner

7:30 pm

The Band's Visit (optional)

8:30 pm

Drive to Bentonville

10:00 am

Accessibility & Audience Participation with Fran Sillau (In The Theatre) @ Trike Theatre

Join Fran Sillau, Trike Theatre Artistic Director and Kennedy Center VSA Teaching Artist to explore Bear State of Mind and Ms. Mouse’s Birthday Party through the lens of Accessibility. Participants will use the shows as case studies and learn ways to create participatory experiences for all young people.

12 pm

Lunch at Trike

12:45 pm

Travel to Crystal Bridges

1:15 pm

Visual Art & Audience Participation with Kassie Misiewicz and Chad Dike @ Crystal Bridges

Kassie Misiewicz (Chief Education & Outreach Officer - Ovations+) and Chad Dike (Education Director - TheatreSquared) will lead participants through the creative development of a participatory visual art tour (on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art). What if a “butterfly” lead a tour through the trail?

3:15 pm

Travel to Amazeum

3:30 pm

Interactive Theatre: Community Collaboration with Meg Greene @ Amazeum

Join TheatreSquared and the Scott Family Amazeum for a session that explores how a regional theatre and a children’s museum can collaborate to create interactive performance. We’ll share the behind the scenes look at the  process of co-creating Miss Mouse’s Birthday - focusing on how we infused the magic of interactive theatre performance with the hands-on pedagogy of STEAM education. This workshop will take place at Amazeum, where participants will get to explore various exhibits and use STEAM experiences to spark their creativity. In this workshop, you will participate in a site-specific devising experience, drawing inspiration from STEAM museum exhibits and interactive theatre strategies. On Sunday morning, we will share our performances with an intimate community audience.

5 pm

Devising in Museum

6:30 pm

Dinner at the Amazeum

9 am

Check-In

9:30 am

Rehearsal

10:15 am

Dress Run

11:00 am

Performance

11:30 am

Closing Reflection

12 pm

End of Conference