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Library shows from past summers are still available!
Kaleidoscope program from FLYP2005:
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Take a Florida Story Cruise on the S.S. Kaleidoscope!
The Kaleidoscope Storytellers and their puppet partners are setting sail in the summer of 2005, sharing fresh stories from Florida's history, ecology and many contributing cultures as part of the Florida Library Youth Program.
Combining two popular programs from previous years, storytellers Terry Deer and Suzie Shaeffer invite audience members to spin the ship's wheel and choose the next "port of call." We might drop anchor anywhere from St. Augustine to Key West to Pensacola, including a few inland "harbors."
Suzie and Terry and their puppet partners have lots of stories on board the S.S. Kaleidoscope: "We've toured Florida libraries, schools and festivals for six years and still haven't told every story we know. Even after playing the Storying Around Florida game twenty-four times last summer, we still have a boat-load of Florida tales to share at a spin of the story wheel."
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Storying Around Florida!
The Kaleidoscope Storytellers will take children on a tour of Florida without even leaving their local libraries. From the Florida Panhandle to the Keys, stories wait around every bend in the road, and we'll have time to sample them all - provided that we land on the right space!
Volunteers from the audience play the "Florida S-s-s-Story Game" by rolling oversized, soft-sided dice and moving Flyp the panther along a track that covers the entire state. Colored spaces indicate whether Flyp has landed on "Farms and Groves" (stories about Florida landscapes, wild and cultivated), "Up, Up and Away" (flight and winged creatures), or "Alligator Alley" (Florida animals), among others.
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Pick
a Hat, Pick a Story!
Here's what Theresa Owen, Children's Coordinator of the Flagler County Public Library in Palm Coast had to say: "Your program this year 'Pick a Hat, Pick a Story!' was an ingenious way to incorporate the State theme [Hats Off to Libraries] into your storytelling and puppetry. Our audiences loved the fact that they could actively participate in the program. You provided many opportunities for audience participation, from selecting stories by throwing a ball at the hats hanging on the clothesline to actually taking part in the show."
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Spin the Kaleidoscope Story
Wheel
Children loved being the ones to choose the category of the next
story by spinning the Story Wheel. We had tales ready in each
of eight different categories, matching all the themes chosen
by the Florida State Library for "Color Your World With
Books - Florida Library Youth Program 2002."
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Join the Kaleidoscope Safari
@ the Library
Our puppet partners take over the show, as animals from around
the world clamor to tell their stories. Some are heroic, some
are full of tricks and some are just plain ridiculous. Don't
miss out on the furry fun!
Turn the Kaleidoscope for
Chills and Thrills @ the Library
We love a good mystery, and if there's a shiver or two in the
ending, so much the better. From twisty puzzles to graveyard
plots, the Kaleidoscope Storytellers are on the case. The fun
is elementary, my dear Watson!
Step into the Kaleidoscope
Time Machine @ the Library
Saddle up and return to those wild and woolly yesteryears when
the West was won. Or would you rather blast off and explore the
moon and the stars? Well, you can do both when you travel by
time machine. You might even discover a new frontier in your
own backyard.
Fly Off on a Kaleidoscope
Adventure @ the Library
In the realm of imagination, there are no limits. Ships can fly and wolves can talk, and magic is always close at hand. Whether you crave knights and dragons or outlaws and buccaneers, the adventure awaits - just spread your wings.
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Welcome to the Story Feast!
Come right in! You're invited to share a feast of delicious stories.
The menu offers everything, from "Friendship Soup"
to "Squash Pie." There's only one catch: a taste of
our stories leaves you hungry for more!
Take a Kaleidoscope Cruise!
Step this way, up the gangplank and into a voyage of adventure.
Meet Leopard, Crocodile and clever Ananse! Sail on and even under
the sea! Travel the oceans in the company of the S.S. Kaleidoscope
crew of puppets.
For Seeing Out Loud!
Art, music, poetry and craft are the grace notes of our lives,
treasured in the stories of every culture on earth. Celebrate
the mysterious, magical creative process in these tales of dancing
shoes, musical cats and drawings that come to life!
Spin the Globe for World
Tales!
Around the world in eighty tales . . . if only we had time for
them all! In every corner of the globe we find stories that bring
us back home again, whether they tell a Chinese variant on "Cinderella"
or a riotous debate in sign language.
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For more Kaleidoscope
themed programs, go to
school shows now on tour.
With enough advance notice, we can also build a custom program
for you, drawing on our repetoire of over two hundred stories.
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