SPARX Audio Adventures!
Educational Programs with Tony "Sparx" Palermo
Assembly
The
Threshold of Sound
Audience-Participation Assembly
Sparx leads a fast-paced interactive exploration of sound and story—using
low- and high-tech wizardry. The entire audience joins in for this rousing
and informative audio adventure.
Take a
mind-boggling Sonic Safari!
Learn radio and movie sound effects tricks!
Create a fantastic world before your very ears!
Grades K–12 Time: 45 minutes. Audience size: Unlimited.
Cost: $600
for one assembly
$200 for each additional assembly on the same day
BONUS:
Free Family
Night show with booked daytime performance on the same day
Workshop
Radio-Active Theaterworks
Hands-on
Workshop
Sparx fuses sound effects
with improvisational methods to ignite creativity in this fascinating
workshop. Students create instant radio plays using “found” story elements,
including their own grade level subjects!
Learn narrative
and characterization shortcuts
Perform imaginative
and often hilarious sonic sagas
Build public
speaking skills, teamwork, and inventiveness
AUDIENCE:
Grades K–12 Time: 90 minutes. Audience size: 90
COST: $800
for one workshop. $300 for each additional workshop.
NOTE: This workshop is very popular for staff development.
Workshop
Radio Play-Ground
Hands-on
Production Workshop
Sparx guides student actors,
sound effects artists and engineers working as a focused team to produce an
exciting radio show using classic conventions and techniques. The cast and
crew can then present their show to other classes or the entire school.
Choose classic-genre
scripts--from comedy, mystery to Western, sci-fi to detective, historical
fiction to horror to super-heroes.
Sparx supplies all the scripts, scores,
microphones, mixers, and audio gear--including a public address system.
Grades 3–12 Time: 45-90 minutes. Workshop size: 10-20 students
Cost: $600 for one
workshop. $300 for each additional workshop.
BONUS:
Free Family
Night show with booked daytime workshop on the same day
Self-Produced Workshops/Shows
Do-It-Yourself Radio Theater
Packaged radio drama scripts, music cues,
and tutorials
Purchase scripts, music scores, and SPARX’s own How-to-Radio Play
production guide so your group can produce SPARX’s entertaining radio
dramas on its own. This is not a workshop. SPARX does not come to
your school to direct these shows—you do! Each package contains the
radio script, casting monologues, director’s notes, a sound effects
"cookbook" describing how to create the sounds, plus professional music
cues. Scripts and instructions are e-mailed to you—all ready for printing
and copying. Music cues are available on audio CDs or as downloadable MP3
files. See Radio Play-ground for details
on the many shows to choose from.
Grades: 3–to–Adult
Cost: $80 per show package (Master script, music cues,
How-to-Radio-Play production guide)
WORKSHOP
Sound Effects Craftiness
Hands-on
Craft-Making Workshop
SPARX demonstrates some of his ingenious old-time-radio sound effects and
then students use provided craft materials to make their own devices, such
as a cup-creaker, rattle-snaker, ghost moaner, wind whistle, etc. Then SPARX
leads the group in an audio avalanche for a short radio playlet.
Grades: 3–6 Time: 45-60 minutes. Workshop size: minimum of 25 students
Cost: $8 per student
(includes materials)
Sparx is also available for
multi-session residencies, fundraisers, evening performances, and teacher
in-service training.
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