Upcoming Events

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 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!

2023/2024 Student Matinees

Giraffes Can’t Dance
October 9 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | PACE Center

All the animals in the jungle know their own special dance, but Gerald the Giraffe can’t seem to move without a clumsy step. But with the help of a wise cricket, he finds his own song, and dances to the beat of his own drum! In this stage adaptation of the beloved children’s book, with puppets, African rhythm, and lots of dancing, Gerald learns that his differences are what make him special.

Grade Level: PreK-2 (Ages 3-8)
Run Time: 60 minutes
Curriculum: Language Arts and Literature, (emphasis on Reading and Vocabulary), Creativity, Social Emotional Learning, Relationships and Family, Music and Performing Arts.
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Pete The Cat’s Big Hollywood Adventure (Limited availability for both the 10am and 12pm shows.)
November 1 | 10:00 am & 12:00 pm | PACE Center

Lights! Camera! Action! When Pete the Cat and his buddy Callie sneak into the Hollywood Studios, they get lost in the world of the movies. Join Pete, Callie, Ethel the Apatosaurus, and Robo-Pete in this rockin’ new musical adventure that features several fun-filled Pete the Cat books including Cavecat Pete, Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map, and The Cool Cat Boogie.

Grade Level: PreK-3 (Ages 3-8)
Run Time: 60 minutes
Curriculum: Language Arts and Literature, Communication, Relationships and Family, Music and Performing Arts.
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Eyewitness to History: A Holocaust Survivor Speaks
November 8 | 10:00 am | PACE Center

Students in 6th-12th grades will have the unique and profound opportunity to learn more about the Holocaust via recorded, first-hand testimonies from local Holocaust survivor Jack Adler. Led by an onsite educator from the Mizel Museum, students will engage in discussion and reflection to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust and consider the dangerous impact of hate on humanity as they make connections between the past and today.

Grade Level: 6-12 (Ages 11-18)
Run Time: 90 minutes
Curriculum: World History, Social Studies, Economics, Human Behavior and Antisemitism.

School of Rock (Sorry, both shows are SOLD OUT.)
February 2 & 9 | 10:00 am | PACE Center

Rock got no reason, rock got no rhyme…You better get me to school on time! Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock – The Musical, based on the hit movie. The tuner follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn an extra bit of cash by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. There he turns a class of straight–A pupils into a guitar-shredding, bass-slapping, mind-blowing rock band. But can he get them to the Battle of the Bands without their parents and the school’s headmistress finding out?

Grade Level: All Grades *Mild Adult Themes
Run Time: 120 minutes
Curriculum: Social Emotional Learning, Moral Ethical Emphasis, Social Studies, Film and Cinema, Language Arts, Music and Performing Arts.

Ten Things I Love About Shakespeare
February 27 | 10:00 am | February 28 9:00 am & 12:00 pm | February 29 9:00 am & 12:00 pm | The Schoolhouse

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.

Grade Level: 6 – 12
Run Time: 90 minutes
Curriculum: Language Arts and Shakespeare, History, Film and Cinema, and Performing Arts.

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.

Doktor Kaboom! Look Out! Science is Coming! (Sorry, both the 10am and 12pm shows are 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.

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

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.