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The Day the School Went Wild!
The Day the Library Went Wild!
Wild Songs & Natural Stories
The 12 Days of Recess
Halloween Afternoon
Creativity Workshops
True Stories From The Other Side
"The Grownups"
The Four Tale Tree

Download MP3 samples:
The Day The Library Went Wild (4.3 mb)
I Am A Dolphin (5 mb)
Wild Thing, Baby (1.9 mb)
Hibernatin' (3.8 mb)
Michael Recycles (1 mb)

JMP offers concerts, educational presentations, theater, and workshops, for a variety of venues.

We tailor our shows to fit your location, your theme, and your audience.

You'll find us at school assemblies, library summer reading clubs, camps, museums, festivals, parks, PARP programs, evening family nights or pretty much anywhere you find kids!

Our artists are friendly, reliable, and easy to work with. They travel with state of the art sound equipment to ensure the highest quality presentations.

We make booking easy, with simple contracts, and helpful pre-performance materials.

We'll send you teaching tapes, teachers guides, posters, and press releases; everything you need to help make your event a huge success!

We'll be happy to send you a full packet of information on all or any of our programs!

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We call it 'The Day the School Went Wild' when it's at a school, but at a library, it's
'The Day the Library Went Wild.'  Everywhere else, we take the same great show and call it 'Wild Songs & Natural Stories' . . .you get the idea! Three names for our most popular show...Jay Mankita's concert of ecologically oriented, interactive songs and stories...featuring a beautiful backdrop of hand-painted animal sculptures & colorful animal pictures. . .(plus a full day of optional 'wild' activities)

   
     

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Halloween Afternoon features Jay Mankita and Barry Kornhauser singing and telling Goofy and serious songs and stories in a not-so-scary show, featuring a huge backdrop of a haunted house! Classics like 'Monster Mash are featured alongside of new singable songs and stories like 'Are You Loathsome Tonight?' as well as the very danceable 'It's Just Your Skeleton". An exciting duo show!
The 12 Days of Recess is a fun, participatory, non-religious concert of seasonal songs and stories from around here and around the world, celebrating the changing of the seasons, and the holiday spirit of peace, generosity, goodwill, and community...A duo performance featuring beautiful harmonies by Jay Mankita and Katy Taylor!
     
Creativity Workshops encourage kids to take responsibility for their own creative processes. Using body-centered techniques, this sensory oriented workshop gets kids writing, acting, singing, and thinking right away, using tools they already have. These sessions are non-goal oriented and totally fun! Great as a residency or as an add-on  to another program.
 

 

 
True Stories From The Other Side is an intergenerational storytelling residency which features elder storytellers from your own community. Local elders tell true stories from their own lives illustrating ethical perspectives and wisdom gained, encouraging children to identify similar stories in their own lives. Stories are recorded, collected and archived.

 

 
"The Grownups" Funky, rhythmic, swingin' songs appropriate for grownups and kids of all ages!

Grownups know how to have fun! And these grownups have the most fun, while singing about important stuff - like learning to be ourselves, and helping to make a better world!

We took your favorite ingredients, like Jay Mankita, John Hughes, & Dagen Julty, and mixed them up with plenty of plump raisins, fresh salsa, and organic mustard greens. Yummy! Just wait till you try ä The Grownups' !

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The Four Tale Tree
3 short plays conceived and designed by Amy Dawn Kotel, produced by Jay Mankita, and featuring: beautiful masks & colorful puppets!

Appropriate for all E.S. grades, and available as an Assembly only, or with mask making, puppetry, and theater workshops!

Movement and Dance - Singing along -Signing - A beautiful set - costumes -puppets - masks --Theater-Fun!

           
Past shows
Amazing Time Travel Show
Global Expedition
   
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