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Education and Community

Interactive Field Trips

Name: Paradigm Marketing and Creative
Price range: $

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Explore Creativity with Your Class

Keep your students highly engaged in creativity and fun at the Halloran Centre or at the Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center! Connected to Tennessee State Education Standards in both Fine Arts and English Language Arts, Interactive Field Trips offer hands-on workshops that serve students in Grades K through High School.

2026-2027 Interactive Field Trip Offerings

Available for bookings December 1, 2026-April 30th, 2027 by inquiry only.

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Stepping Into the Story: Thank You, Omu!

Grades K-2

Stepping Into the Story gives K-2nd grade students the opportunity to explore their favorite books through their bodies, voices, and imaginations. This field trip engages students in a hands-on, immersive workshop that explores the book Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora (Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award Winner).

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The Broadway cast of The Great Gatsby performs to an upbeat number with seven female presenting dancers centered in decadent black and gold flapper dresses, with two groups of male presenting dancers on either side in lavish, sparkling tuxes. All dancers stand in front of an illuminated purple wall with light pouring through. Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.

Broadway Basics: The Great Gatsby

Grades 3-12

This Interactive Field Trip introduces 3rd-12th grade students to music and movement inspired by The Great Gatsby, a dazzling musical that brings the Roaring Twenties of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel to life. This field trip builds students' speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills and is fun and engaging for all experience and ability levels.

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ACTivating Emotions: Theatre, Literacy, and Social & Emotional Learning

Grades 3-12

Infusing literacy and fine arts standards, an Orpheum Theatre Group Teaching Artist will guide 3rd-12th grade students through building an emotion vocabulary, telling stories to understand emotional responses, and standing in a characters’ shoes to imagine the causes behind feelings and reactions. Students will imagine and reflect on their own emotions in a culminating performance with their peers.

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Capacity

Please note, the maximum number of students we are able to host for an Interactive Field Trip varies based on a number of factors, including staffing and space availability. The Orpheum Theatre Group reserves the right to set the maximum capacity number for any Interactive Field Trip at registration based on these varying factors.

Accessibility

The Orpheum Theatre Group strives to make the arts available to everyone. We offer many services for patrons with special needs. When you register, please indicate any accessibility arrangements your group will require (i.e. wheelchairs, listening devices, ASL interpreter, etc.).

Arrival

We start promptly at the scheduled start time but encourage school groups to plan to arrive between 5-15 minutes before the start time. Classes will be held either in the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education (next door to the Orpheum Theatre) at 225 S. Main Street or Bartlett Performing Arts & Conference Center at 3663 Appling Rd, Bartlett, TN 38133. Education and Community Engagement Department staff will meet the group in the lobby upon arrival.

Policies and Procedures

BPACC Policies and Procedures

Tennessee State Standards for Interactive Field Trips