Rooftop Alternative K-8 School
ART IS INNOVATION
Rooftop writes a new chapter with the literary arts. K-5 students will go to the “Sendak on Sendak” at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and grades 6-8 will see the African American Shakespeare Company’s production of “Mac B.”
MAURICE SENDAK “Sendak on Sendak” at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
September 8, 2009-January 19, 2010
MAURICE SENDAK has written or illustrated more than 100 picture books over his 60-year career. A number of those books, including Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Chicken Soup with Rice, inspired generations of children and changed the landscape of picture books. Included in the exhibition are original watercolors, preliminary sketches, drawings, and dummy books from more than 40 of Sendak's books, all from the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, the repository for Sendak's artwork and working materials. This major retrospective sheds light on the many mysteries of his life and art by exploring the intensely personal undercurrents in his work; and it does so using Sendak's own words, insights, and remarkable stories.
THE EXHIBIT: “SENDAK ON SENDAK” AT THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY “Othello”
This AASC production of Othello is part of the NEA's Shakespeare in American Communities initiative, Shakespeare for a New Generation targets middle and high school students, introducing young people to the power of live theater and the masterpieces of William Shakespeare.
THE COMPANY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
THE PLAYWRIGHT: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There Shakespeare,
on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world;oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
“You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”
MAURICE SENDAK
"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me, who neither beg nor fears your favors or your hate."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
from MACBETH, ACT I, SCENE III
From SENDAK to SHAKEPEARE
