- Saturday, November 4 | 1:30 – 4PM
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About The Program
StrikeTime Dance Theatre will celebrate Amanda Gorman’s Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem. Through dance and music, this interactive performance invites the audience to join in and embrace community and one’s individual voice. The audience will experience themes of change, hope, dream, unity and love. We can hear change coming. Won’t you dance along?
Following the performance, families will be invited to engage in hands-on art-making activities, movement and story together. Suitable for families with elementary aged children. One ticket includes supplies for up to 4, additional materials can be added on for $5/person.
About the Partners
StrikeTime Dance Theatre
Michael Belmore utilizes a variety of materials and processes that at times may seem disjointed, yet, the reality is that together his work and processes speak about the environment, about land, about water, and what it is to be Anishinaabe. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design, he completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University of Ottawa in 2019.
Practicing for over 25 years, Belmore is an internationally recognized artist and is represented in the permanent collections of various institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the National Museum of the American Indian – Smithsonian Institute. Belmore is a member of Unsettled Ground Artists Inc and is currently involved in the creation of a multi-year public art project for four light rail stations as part of Phase 2 of Ottawa Light Rail. His exhibitions include: Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art at the Peabody Essex in Salem, MA and HIDE: Skin as Material and Metaphor at the National Museum of the American Indian – George Gustav Heye Centre in New York.
Seemingly small things, simple things, inspire his work; the swing of a hammer, the warmth of a fire, the persistence of waves on a shore. Through the insinuation of these actions, a much larger consequence is inferred.
Little Read Lakeshore
Hope College’s Little Read Lakeshore is an annual, month-long community-wide reading program that creates and fosters a culture in which reading matters to children, families and those who support, advocate for and work with children. Little Read Lakeshore is made possible in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.