Longer term Collaborations:
2017-2019: Common Ground/A Seat at the Table: IMLS Funded Project with Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose, CA.
Thrilled to be awarded a Museums for America grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services! Our two year Common Ground project will advance inclusion by engaging families from local immigrant communities in civic dialogue and creation of an original art installation revealing shared hopes and dreams.
Partners on the project include Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), Somos Mayfair, International Children Assistance Network - ICAN, and the India Community Center.
Thrilled to be awarded a Museums for America grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services! Our two year Common Ground project will advance inclusion by engaging families from local immigrant communities in civic dialogue and creation of an original art installation revealing shared hopes and dreams.
Partners on the project include Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI), Somos Mayfair, International Children Assistance Network - ICAN, and the India Community Center.
The NEST- Pop-up at the MAH
The NEST is popping up at the MAH during the month of June. Join Megan and documentary filmmaker, Alicia Rice for a rockin' week of play and learning.
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Have you SEEN it? Imagine for a moment that an unknown mythical creature has come to your town. A creature! You don’t know anything about this newcomer except that it’s shy and it needs your help. What is the creature’s identity? Where did it come from? What does it want? How would you welcome this unique visitor to help them feel at home?
Sunday Play Day: 6/24 11 am - 4 pm: The Nest Pop Up in Abbott Square: co-construct a space and story about the creature’s identity using creative play, storytelling, movement and art-making to solve the mystery of the creature’s identity.
Friday Make Night: 6.29 5 pm - 8 pm: The Nest Film Screening & Art Making
Join theatre artist Megan Flod Johnson and documentary filmmaker Alicia Rice for a night of play and discussion, as we explore provocations and stories to ignite imagination in participatory spaces. Through the screening of the short documentary Where Kids Meet a Creature and hands-on art making, fort-building and story play we'll explore how these questions and the open-ended play/making they prompt sets the stage for kids to ask big questions, reflect on their needs and the needs of others and become engaged community members.
Discuss the importance of imagination and risk-taking.
Brainstorm ways to bring creative experiences into the lives of adults and young people alike.
Learn how to express ideas using teaching tools from theatre, creative drama and movement.
But, play is not just for kids! This film screening and interactive workshop is for parents, educators, young people, artists, youth workers or anyone looking to reconnect with their playful side.
Sunday Play Day: 6/24 11 am - 4 pm: The Nest Pop Up in Abbott Square: co-construct a space and story about the creature’s identity using creative play, storytelling, movement and art-making to solve the mystery of the creature’s identity.
Friday Make Night: 6.29 5 pm - 8 pm: The Nest Film Screening & Art Making
Join theatre artist Megan Flod Johnson and documentary filmmaker Alicia Rice for a night of play and discussion, as we explore provocations and stories to ignite imagination in participatory spaces. Through the screening of the short documentary Where Kids Meet a Creature and hands-on art making, fort-building and story play we'll explore how these questions and the open-ended play/making they prompt sets the stage for kids to ask big questions, reflect on their needs and the needs of others and become engaged community members.
Discuss the importance of imagination and risk-taking.
Brainstorm ways to bring creative experiences into the lives of adults and young people alike.
Learn how to express ideas using teaching tools from theatre, creative drama and movement.
But, play is not just for kids! This film screening and interactive workshop is for parents, educators, young people, artists, youth workers or anyone looking to reconnect with their playful side.
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EGG is...was selected from a national juried pool of performances for the first ever MN Family Fringe Series in August 2018.
EGG is... a performance lead by scientific inquiry to discover an ever-changing egg. An immersive and sensory-charged experience explores unexpected friendships using music, movement and prop play. EGG is... explores the different ways young children gather information through their senses to understand the world. EGG unites scientific method (I observe, I ask, I test, I know!) with young children’s innate ability to experiment so that identity(ies) of EGG are discovered through trial and error. Audiences watch performers’ inquiry process shared through sound, light and expressive movement. Soon audience is invited to enter into an immersive story space to play and lend ideas to the story! Using a surprising combination of rhythmic beat boxing, puppetry, dance and invitations for creative play, EGG incorporates different storytelling disciplines to help young audiences imagine possibilities for their Art.
EGG is... a performance lead by scientific inquiry to discover an ever-changing egg. An immersive and sensory-charged experience explores unexpected friendships using music, movement and prop play. EGG is... explores the different ways young children gather information through their senses to understand the world. EGG unites scientific method (I observe, I ask, I test, I know!) with young children’s innate ability to experiment so that identity(ies) of EGG are discovered through trial and error. Audiences watch performers’ inquiry process shared through sound, light and expressive movement. Soon audience is invited to enter into an immersive story space to play and lend ideas to the story! Using a surprising combination of rhythmic beat boxing, puppetry, dance and invitations for creative play, EGG incorporates different storytelling disciplines to help young audiences imagine possibilities for their Art.