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UD Announces Live at Heritage Center 2024-2025 SchoolBus Performance Series

By University Relations Staff
SchoolBus 2024-25

DUBUQUE, Iowa - The University of Dubuque Heritage Center's Live at Heritage Center 2024-2025 SchoolBus Performance Series will feature pirates, hair-raising science, and the Stinky Cheese Man!

Launched in 2014, the SchoolBus Performance Series is a daytime field trip program with professional guest artists open to all public, private, homeschool, and accredited preschool and daycare groups with students ages 4 and older. Most performances are approximately one hour in length and may include a question and answer period.

Performances complement classroom curriculum with creative and imaginative learning, critical thinking opportunities, and live performance experiences. Study guides are available to integrate performance topics into classroom activities.

Online reservation request forms are available at www.dbq.edu/HeritageCenter/SchoolBus. Seat pricing is $6 to $7 per seat, depending on the quantity purchased and an offering of one free seat for every 15 seats purchased. Seats are discounted by $1 if reservations are received by Tuesday, October 1, 2024.

For more information, please contact the Farber Box Office at 563.589.3432.

SCHOOLBUS PERFORMANCE SERIES SCHEDULE

A Pirate-y Peter Pan, Performed by The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, September 25, 2024, John and Alice Butler Hall, Heritage CenterRecommended Grades: K-8

Ahoy there, mateys! Hoist the Jolly Roger as we fly off to Neverland to explore J. M. Barrie's classic fairy tale - with a swashbuckling twist: everyone is a pirate! Shiver me timbers! This interactive story-telling experience brings members of the audience on stage to be a part of the action. Follow well-loved characters like Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, The Lost Boys, and even the villainous Captain Hook on this new, Arrgh-some adventure!

Mister C Live! Vol. 1 "Air is Everywhere"
9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Friday, October 25, 2024, John and Alice Butler Hall, Heritage Center
Recommended Grades: K-12

Are you ready for some hair-rising science, toe-tapping music, and mind-blowing media? Join Mister C for an amazing day of learning in the lab as he explores all things air! Mister C is no stranger to finding exciting and engaging ways to explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) in our everyday lives. Liquid Nitrogen, T-shirt cannons, toilet paper and ping pong ball launchers, plus much more are in this STEAM powered show! Mister C is a 20-plus year educator whose sole mission is to transform how everyone feels and thinks about learning.

The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Presented by the Griffin Theatre Company
9:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Friday, March 28, 2025, John and Alice Butler Hall, Heritage Center
Recommended Grades: PreK-3

Poor Jack. He's got to use his wits to save himself from the terrible Giant, but a host of familiar fairytale characters keep messing up his plans - and then there's that annoying Stinky Cheese Man! Based on the book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith and adapted for the stage by William Massolia, The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales deconstructs the tradition of the fairy tale. Characters slide in and out of tales: Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin and Goldilocks meets the Three Elephants. Nothing is quite the same as you remember it.