Our first workshop series of the year focused on basic, building block skills to set us up for success. Workshops like the “New Student Cohort” welcomed new students to KM Perform and helped them find their way through a new system. Other workshops, like “How to Paper,” taught specific skills that will help students throughout their high school careers. Still, other workshops looked ahead to future performances. For example, “Calling All Writers: Legends and Lore Script Writers Needed!” was an all-call for writers to craft scripts for the upcoming collaboration with Old World Wisconsin (“Legends and Lore” -- October 15, 16, 22, and 23). Additionally, the “Show Your Best” workshop focused on audition and presentation skills, just in time for musical auditions and the first set of seminars. “The Commemorating & Connecting to the Past: Oral Histories of 9/11” not only gave students practice in holding research interviews and working with primary sources but also invited students to produce their first interdisciplinary product and gallery walk showcase of the year. Several poems, artistic reflections, and a hallway mural came from that workshop.
