SchoolTime

Cincinnati Arts Association is proud to present SchoolTime performances throughout the year! Bring your students to the Aronoff Center to discover the magic of live, professional theatre.  Since 1996, the SchoolTime series has welcomed nearly 500,000 youth, teachers, and chaperones. 

Ticket and transportation subsidies are available, and requests can be made on your SchoolTime Order Form.

2024/25 SchoolTime Season

The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Based on one audience suggestion (a title of a show that has never been written), The Improvised Shakespeare Company® creates a fully improvised Shakespearean masterpiece right before your eyes. Nothing has been planned out, rehearsed, or written.  All of the dialogue is said for the first time, the characters are created as you watch, and if ever you're wondering where the story is going...so are they! You've never seen the Bard like this before!

 

  • Friday, October 11, 2024

  • 11:00 AM

  • Recommended Grades: 9-12

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Mister C Live! Vol 3. When Science Goes Viral

Back by popular demand! Join Mister C in the lab for another amazing day of learning as he attempts the world's coolest and most popular experiments with YOU, his science crew! Combining Mister C’s love of science and making epic videos is sure to create an amazingly fun learning adventure.

 

  • Wednesday, October 16, 2024
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: 3-8
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Cirque Kalabante: Afrique En Cirque

Inspired by daily life in Guinea, Afrique en Cirque is a show by Yamoussa Bangoura that shares the beauty, youth, and artistry of African culture. Filled with color and impressive scenery, costumes and staging, the performance vibrates with energy and represents the strength, agility, and joys of young Africans. 

 

  • Thursday, October 24, 2024
  • 10:00 AM
  • Recommended Grades: K-12
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Reindeer Games

Come on down! YOU are the next contestant on Reindeer Games! Join in on the Holiday fun…game-show style! This interactive experience allows audiences to participate in holiday-themed games, songs, and commercials featuring Santa’s four-hoofed sleigh team as both hosts and contestants.

 

  • Tuesday, December 3, 2024
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: PreK-5
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Quetzali and the Comic Book Queen vs. The Alebrije of Darkness: Live in the School Cafeteria

Lali Marquez is just a normal teenager – until a mysterious Quetzal feather sprouts from her arm, cueing the start of her epic superhero journey. Teamed up with her comic-loving BFF Nicki, they’re on a mission to uncover ancient Aztec secrets and take down the baddies invading their school.

 

  • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: 3-12
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Step Afrika!

Founded in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, Step Afrika! is the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Step Afrika! promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people, focusing on teamwork, academic achievement, and cross-cultural understanding.

 

  • Tuesday, March 11, 2025
  • 11:00 AM
  • Recommended Grades: K-12
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Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System

When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip!  But when rivalries threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the solar system.

 

  • Tuesday, March 25, 2025
  • 9:45 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: K-5
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Starr Chief Eagle

Starr Chief Eagle provides an interactive and educational dive into Lakota Culture that will explore the language, art, and knowledge of the Lakota people.  Her performance features the rare tradition of Hoop Dancing in which she uses 22 hoops to create several designs, shapes, and creatures to tell a story. 

 

  • Thursday, March 27, 2025
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: K-8
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DOT DOT DOT: A New Musical

DOT DOT DOT: A New Musical is an exciting new musical based on the Creatrilogy trio of award-winning picture books by bestselling author Peter H. Reynolds- The Dot, Ish and Sky Color. The musical celebrates the power of originality, self-expression, and opening our eyes to look beyond the expected.

 

  • Wednesday, April 2, 2025
  • 9:45 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: 1-4
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123 Andrés: Around the Americas

123 Andrés’s catchy songs and lively performances get the whole audience dancing, singing, and learning! In Around the Americas, travel with song and dance through a lesson in geography that incorporates an introduction to a variety of musical instruments as well as Latin language, culture, and music.

 

  • Wednesday, April 23, 2025
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: PreK-5
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Goodnight Moon & The Runaway Bunny

Goodnight Moon is a celebration of familiar nighttime rituals, while The Runaway Bunny’s pretend tale of leaving home evokes reassuring responses from his loving mum. Both feature endearing rabbit characters, and the soothing rhythms of bunny banter and dream-like imagery never fail to infuse young readers with a reassuring sense of security.

 

  • Thursday, April 24, 2025
  • 10:00 AM & NOON
  • Recommended Grades: PreK-3
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THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EDUCATION SPONSORS
 

The Cincinnati Arts Association and its Education and Community Programs

are supported [in part] by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Ameritas

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