The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
The Caterpillar's Footprint
Professional Development
Join us for a series of quarterly professional development workshops for early childhood educators, teaching artists, and theatre and dance for the very young practitioners!
Workshops take place online (live only, no recordings). A Google Meets link will be emailed to participants one week prior to each workshop date (please be sure to check the time zone difference prior to registering).
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Registration is $15.00 per workshop. Please reach out if cost is a barrier to your attendance.
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Upcoming Events:
Play As Practice! - Participatory Invitations to Change the World
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Thursday, February 26
7:15pm - 8:30pm Central / 8:15pm - 9:30pm Eastern
Facilitated by Alyssa Vera Ramos
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Many plays for children invite some interaction from their youngest audiences. It's almost always simply FUN! (And fun is of the utmost importance.) But what if youth (and their carers) could actually practice the world we all wanna live in -- within the experience of a play? Come ponder the whys and hows of participatory design, including shared power, scaffolding, and intentionality. In this workshop, you'll also shape your own participatory theatre moments with youth audience-participants in mind. After all, children have the biggest imaginations, the truest emotions, the most inclination to love. With our own imaginations and a sprinkling of trust, participatory TYA can help those world-changing skills to grow.
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Who Should Attend?
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Kerfuffle's professional development workshops are geared for early childhood educators, teaching artists, and theatre and dance for the very young practitioners!
This PD workshop might be best enjoyed by artists interested in developing or producing participatory theatre; elementary or early childhood teaching artists; artists who self-produce or are interested in self producing; emerging theatre producers, directors, playwrights, devisers, and artists, and anyone interested in the greater field of theatre and dance for the very young. ​
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About the facilitator:
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Alyssa Vera Ramos is a theatre and teaching artist who trusts youth. She has directed and devised many audience participation-infused, original TYA plays, most notably EPIC TALES FROM THE LAND OF MELANIN, which she co-wrote (featured at Free Street Theater, AATE, Latinx Theatre Commons’ International TYA Festival). A former Artistic Director of For Youth Inquiry (FYI) Performance Company, she co-created the company’s participatory pedagogy. Recently, Alyssa assistant directed RAIN (for babies, at Filament Theatre) and co-directed UPSTREAM (with middle/high schoolers, at Mixed Blood Theatre). Alyssa creates silly, thoughtful spaces for youth to learn through play, collaboration, and being good to each other.
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Mark your calendars for our 2026 PD workshops:
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Collaborating with 1–3-Year-Olds:
Powerful Partnerships in the Rehearsal Room and On Stage
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September 2026
Playing with Partnerships: Process Over Product in Community Collaboration
Facilitated by Hannah Johnson