Coool!! Schools Program 1:
Theatre In Education (TIE)
WoToDo - Watch One, Try One, Do One
This is a brand new program from Vox Bandicoot. WoToDo is based on the highest of education principles, namely, that when learners use their learning to "teach others", the highest order cognition is achieved.
WoToDo is an integrated, hands on, opportunity for your students to "create and own" a piece of theatre designed to express their passion to the world. It involves three core experiences ...
Watch One: A Performance From Vox Bandicoot
Try One: Workshops to explore both an environmental theme and theatric interpretation of it by you students resulting in their creation of drama, comedy, music performance to share and influence others with their environmental passion.
Do One: Students perform their masterpiece to others in the school, to parent and friends at assembly or to the wider community at a local festival or other venue.
A Little Bush Magic ...
"Ein klein bush magic"
Focus: Celebrating nature with positivity, slapstick, participation, magic and stacks of humour
Suited to: Written specificaly for littles. Ages 2 - 7 ... and up to 107 for the young at heart. Comes with a curriculum support package.
CV: Literally hundreds of schools and tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of students have helped Wombus and Wobbly "bring the magic back to the bush".
Wombus J Wombat, the world's first marsupial Yuppie is frustrated because Wobbly Wallaby (ABOVE) has not shown up for the meeting scheduled in his BlackBerry iPhone device. The situation is dire. It seems that the magic has whooshed from the Bush. If only Wombus could find Wobbly and then, if together they could find the ancient lost bush cooker, which would then of course, become the ancient found bush cooker, because it wouldn't be lost anymore ... and then lastly, if all the bandicoots (the audience) could join in the bush coroboree - well - the magic would surely be returned.
In a riotous blurr of slapstick, the marsupilas at last "run into" each other - and then, only with the enthusiastic, 100% participation of the audience, who become the Bush Symphony Orchestra, the secret to returning the magic to the bush is revealed. And the secret revealed will bring a wee tear of joy to your eye
This famous children's theatre performance is a bubbling celebration of nature. Full of music, slapstick, magic and meaning! A Little Bush Magic is accompanied by curriculum activities unit which enables both pre-visit concept intro activities and dozens of post visit ideas and activities to foster the most important of objectives of environmental education ... building a deep sense of joy, love and deep respect for nature ...
More Than Meets The Sky
Focus: Energy use, greenhouse gas pollution, global warming and climate disrtuption. Sounds ghastly, but it is done with intelligence and a where to next thrust.
Suited to: Mid to Senior Primary and Junior Seconday. Comes with a curriculum support package. Can also be adapted for an adult family audience.
CV: We wrote this in 1989. Way ahead of its time it is now more relevant than ever. Literally hundreds of schools and tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of students have helped Justice Water Table collect the video evidence in the case against Con/ie Sumer.
The Court room drama which pits the Earth against Con/ie Sumer, who has been accused of wasting energy and so causing the greenhouse effect. Ommaaaaaa! Your students join the film crew to gather the video evidence then, as members of the jury decide on Con/ie's guilt or innocence. Or just maybe the defendent can be redeemed? Watch the extremely funny resolution of the case as Justice Water-Table delivers a lifestyle changing sentence!
Kung Fu DaPu … (pronounced Du Pwa of course) … SewerPerhero
Thanks to SA Water, the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Arts Festival includes the Vox water recycling show, Kung Fu DaPu. Amazingly, 99.9% of "the sewer" started out as fresh drinking water! Our "SewerPerhero" Mr. DaPu is dedicated to removing the "yuk" factor using no less than 176 puns. You count 'em.
Focus: Recycled water. The sewer is 99.9% fresh drinking water. Debunking the "yuk factor" you can see the sewer is a valuable, if stinky, bit of the water cycle.
Suited to: All ages but especially senior primary junior secondary and all ages with adaptation. Comes with a comprehensive, integrated, inquiry approach curriculum support package.
CV: Numerous schools performances, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the 2009 Adelaide Fring Festival. People are flocking to see this one with bowells on!
Kung Fu DaPu … (pronounced Du Pwa of course) … Sewerperhero, is a dramatic. "Hip Hopera", puppet show and karaoke tale … about … the sewer! No, no - stay with us here! The future of Australia - and the world - is critically dependent upon the degree to which we become supremely smart with water, it cleanliness, allocation and sustainability.
The sewers, which gurlge away loyally under our city streets each day are actually comprised of 99.9% water, which, prior to the cistern, was perfectly wonderful, sparkling, clean fresh drinking water! This amazing system, which we all take for granted, is seriously threatened. Unbelievably, the threat is from little bits of plastic - like cotton bud stems, fruit lables and that silly little plastic gift from last Christmas.
Entre` KungFu DaPu protector of truth, liberty - and the SewerAge! Kung Fu Da Pu cares! Really cares. The Sewerperhero's message is simple,"it don't go down the loo unless it's been through you!"
The Last Shower
From, some people think water came down in the last shower…
Focus: Cultural attitudes to water, reverence for water and digging deep into the imagination to ensure water sustainability is achieved
Suited to: Schools & comes with a comprehensive, integrated, inquiry approach curriculum support package.
CV: More than 1000 performance around Victoria
