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:
Sueñitos Tiny Dreams
Creating Multilingual Work for the Very Young
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Tuesday, November 18
7:15pm - 8:30pm Central / 8:15pm - 9:30pm Eastern
Facilitated by founders of Jugando N Play, Sindy Isabel Castro & Madeline Calandrillo
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Sueñitos Tiny Dreams (ages 2-4) is a multilingual interactive theatre piece for the very young and their caregivers. Transporting families into a dream world, Sueñitos explores the journey of falling asleep and the magical world of dreams. This new original play was adapted and devised from Jugando N Play’s In My Dreams/En Mis Sueños (ages 4-7). The workshop will highlight Jugando N Play’s inquiry-based process leading to the creation and growth of this new play. Facilitators will discuss how curiosity, play, and rehearsal labs alongside long-term collaborators led to new artistic discoveries in shifting the lens to a younger audience.
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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 multilingual theatre, early childhood educators working in multilingual settings, 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 facilitators:
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Sindy Isabel Castro is a theatremaker, educator, and mother to a four-year-old. She is co-founder of Jugando N Play, a multilingual theatre for young audiences. As a LabWorks artist at the New Victory Theater from 2022-2023, she developed her play un lugar imaginario to meet a loved one. Her play I Am/Yo Soy: A Museum of Memorias was a Reimagine TYA Plays Finalist (2023) and a recipient of the Aurand Harris grant through the Childrens Theatre Foundation of America. Sindy is also a full-time bilingual theatre teacher making plays with elementary schoolers in Upper Manhattan. www.sindyicastro.com
Madeline Calandrillo (she/her) is a New York City–based applied theater practitioner, theatre-maker, and mom to a toddler. She currently serves as the Director of Education at New York City Children’s Theater, where she is passionate about creating accessible, inclusive, and diverse theatrical experiences for young people and their families. Madeline believes theater fosters a community where young audiences can become the experts of their own experiences. Madeline holds a Master’s degree in Applied Theatre from the City University of New York. Her thesis project explored how immersive theatrical experiences can support language development and community-building among early learners in Spanish Dual Language and General Education classrooms. This work led her to co-found Jugando N Play.
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About Jugando N Play:
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Jugando N Play are arts educators and theatre makers. We aspire to create multilingual and multicultural theatre experiences for young people that celebrate the diverse cultural and lingual communities of New York City and the United States. Our work ranges from performing original plays to customizing arts integrated residencies. We bring multilingual theatre programming to schools and communities in New York City.
