Workshops

Educators & Administrators Workshops

Urban Gateways is an approved provider of professional development through the Illinois State Board of Education. Through these intensive workshops, teachers, principals and school administrators expand their knowledge of the arts and learn how to build the arts into their teaching strategies and curriculum.

Teachers can receive Continuing Professional Development Units (CPDU) for their participation, if workshops are scheduled at least 30 days in advance.
 

Parent & Community Workshops

Urban Gateways offers workshops designed to cultivate parental and community involvement by providing participants with strategies to incorporate the arts into everyday life.  Family and Community Workshops offer an opportunity for adults and children to engage in the artistic process together.  Arts learning experiences of this kind foster relationship-building, open communication, and the meaningful interaction between adults and children desired to support creativity, wonder and imagination in both the classroom and home environments.

Workshops are especially effective when paired with an Art-in-Residence program, allowing the work of our teaching artists to continue in the school, at home and in the community, long after the program ends.
 

Immersion Workshops

Immersion Workshops extend and deepen the experience of a touring show by taking students through a hands-on exploration of the art and culture they have just seen on stage. After the performance, Urban Gateways artists and/or staff lead students through discussions and interactive exercises that expand students understanding and allow them to experiment with the style or technique of the performance for themselves.

Workshops can be one to three days in length, range in price from $900-$2950, and are completely customizable.