Workshops, Lessons & Classes
The Franke Center for the Arts Education program offers classes, workshops, and lessons in various arts disciplines including music, writing, theater, and more. Our teachers are dedicated professionals who excel in their field and make learning fun!
Theater Workshops
The Franke Center offers acting, audition, and movement workshops during the year, facilitated by local, professional directors, choreographers, actors, writers, and theater teachers. Some workshops are designed to prepare students new to theater for their first auditions. Others give more seasoned young performers a chance to grow in confidence and technique.
Educational Outreach
The Franke Center for the Arts Education program offers enrichment programming for schools.
Expert Artist Program
For the past several years, The Franke Center’s Expert Artist program has brought writers and visual artists in to work directly with students and teachers in Marshall and Battle Creek Public Schools. Teams of teaching artists specializing in creative writing, poetry, theater games, music, and visual art conduct in-school workshops in core curriculum classes. Teachers and students alike have responded brilliantly to using creative expression as a new tool for learning.
Educational Outreach Program with Young Michigan Dances
Each year, the Franke Center’s Youth Theater collaborates with Young Michigan Dances, a Coldwater-based non-profit, to create an original piece of theater that is then shared with children from area schools. The performance hits curriculum tie-ins with elementary and middle school teachers and allows students to experience the work of talented guest artists. All students are brought to The Franke Center as a field trip. A post-show Q&A is provided so the students and teachers may ask questions of the cast and crew. This program is proud to serve approximately 1,600 students each year.
