School Group Matinees

SCHOOL GROUP MATINEES

The PACE Center offers educators the opportunity to integrate and enrich their curriculum with live performing arts productions that make curriculum connections with science, physics, health, literature, language arts, history, social studies, social and family life skills, cooperation and teamwork, self-expression and performing arts. School Group Matinees are provided throughout the school year, and often include post-show “talk-backs” with actors, directors, writers or technical crew that allow students to ask questions and further enrich their theater-going experience. Most School Group Matinees include a study guide.

RESERVATIONS
Complete a School Group Reservation Form online to request your tickets. Student Group orders will receive confirmation by way of email invoice from the PACE Center Box Office. For questions or seating availability, please call the Box Office at 303.805.6800.

PAYMENTS
School Group tickets are only $10 (unless noted otherwise) and one complimentary chaperone ticket is available for every ten tickets purchased (up to ten chaperone tickets per school group). Payment is due 30 days in advanced of the performance. You may adjust your student counts up to your balance due date. Payments can be made by credit over the phone at 303.805.6800 or by mailing a check to:
PACE Center c/o Education
20000 Pikes Peak Ave.
Parker, CO 80138

SCHOLARSHIPS
Parker Arts is able to provide financial assistance to qualified schools for busing services. To apply for a busing scholarship please submit a completed Scholarship Application Form to PACEedu@parkeronline.org.

SCHOOL GROUP MATINEE GUIDE
Please review the School Group Matinee Guide before attending a school group matinee for questions from busing and seating to lunches and inclement weather.

Download the 2023/2024 School Group Matinee Flyer to share with your fellow teachers today!

Upcoming Student Matinees

Ten Things I Love About Shakespeare
February 27 | 10:00 am | February 28 9:00 am & 12:00 pm | The Schoolhouse
(Feb. 27 has limited availability.)

William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the English Language. His plays have been on stage for hundreds of years. They’ve also been the basis for many movies. This play showcases scenes from Shakespeare’s plays and the movies inspired by them, including: Ten Things I Hate About You & The Taming of Shrew; Forbidden Planet & The Tempest; The Lion King & Hamlet; West Side Story & Romeo & Juliet; and Men of Respect & MacBeth. Tickets $15. One complimentary chaperone ticket is available for every ten student tickets purchased, up to ten chaperones.

Tickets: $15 (Note, price differs from most student matinees.)
Grade Level: 6 – 12
Run Time: 90 minutes
Curriculum: Language Arts and Shakespeare, History, Film and Cinema, and Performing Arts.
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Doktor Kaboom! Look Out! Science is Coming! (Sorry, the 10am show is SOLD OUT.)
March 27 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | PACE Center

The original Doktor Kaboom! show in which the good Doktor takes his audience on an educational tour of the modern scientific method, using humor and comedy while demonstrating spectacular applications of the physical sciences. Doktor Kaboom performs a series of increasingly spectacular, and often successful, demonstrations of the physical sciences, with a focus on the scientific method. The performance includes an homage to Mister Wizard, a tabletop catapult, illusions of the mind, and chemical reactions.

Grade Level: 3-8 (Ages 8-13)
Run Time: 60 minutes
Curriculum: Science (Embedded Inquiry, Embedded Technology and Engineering) Physical Science (Matter, Energy, Motion, Forces of Nature), STEAM, Heath, Social Emotional Learning, and Performing Arts.
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Charlotte’s Web
April 12 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | PACE Center (Sorry, both 10am and 12pm shows are SOLD OUT.)

Charlotte’s Web is based on E.B. White’s loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte. Wilbur has a problem: how to avoid winding up as pork chops! Charlotte, a fine writer and true friend, hits on a plan to fool Farmer Zuckerman. She will create a “miracle.” Spinning the words “Some Pig” in her web, Charlotte weaves a solution which not only makes Wilbur a prize pig but also ensures his place on the farm forever.

Grade Level: PreK-5 (Ages 3-10)
Run Time: 60 minutes
Curriculum: Language Arts and Literature, Communication, Relationships and Family, Music and Performing Arts.
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Miss Nelson is Missing!
April 24 & 25 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | April 26 | 10:00 am only | PACE Center (Sorry, April 24 at 10 am has limited seating, April 25 at 10am and April 26 at 10am are sold out.)

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! With the Big Test approaching, the kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything — including hiring a private eye — to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

Grade Level: K-5 (Ages 4-10)
Run Time: 65 minutes
Curriculum: Literature and Language Arts, Math, Emotional and Social Learning, Teamwork and Expression, and Performing Arts.

2024 Summer Camp Matinees

Miss Nelson is Missing!
June 4 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | PACE Center (Sorry, June 4 10 am is sold out.)

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! With the Big Test approaching, the kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything — including hiring a private eye — to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

Grade Level: K-5 (Ages 4-10)
Run Time: 65 minutes
Curriculum: Literature and Language Arts, Math, Emotional and Social Learning, Teamwork and Expression, and Performing Arts.

Outreach & Residencies

Student and teacher workshops are occasionally available to support selected performances. National and local actors, writers, directors or technical staff bring knowledge and instruction inside classrooms supporting teachers in their efforts to enrich education with real-life experiences. Teachers, if you are interested in this level of engagement, we encourage you to ask what is available for your curriculum. Limited opportunities exist for students to work on-stage with professional actors and musicians.

Financial Assistance & Busing Scholarships

Thanks to Parker Arts Members and various local sponsors and donors, including the Greater Parker Foundation, Parker Arts is able to provide financial assistance to qualified schools for busing services. To apply for a busing scholarship please submit a completed Scholarship Application Form with a letter from your school’s principal stating your school’s qualifications or reason for financial busing assistance. Applications must be received no later than thirty days in advance of your field trip to the PACE Center. For qualifications and funding availability inquires, please contact Education Manager Kirstin Fletcher at 303.805.3364 or via email.