KIDSTUFF: Striking Viking Story Pirates

The 2009-10 Calhoun Performing Arts Series
KidStuff presents

Striking Viking Story Pirates
with Calhoun's own Micaela Blei

“It’s crazy entertaining." Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Story Pirates will perform a show comprised entirely of stories written by elementary school students.

While many children’s theater troupes tell stories to children, the Story Pirates believe that every child has a story to tell.  This New York City arts education organization exists entirely because of kids. The group of professional actors, improv comedians and teaching artists uses stories written by elementary students as source material for outrageous, over-the-top, side-splitting musical plays.  Adding songs, props, music videos and puppets, they bring to life on stage what children scribble down on paper.

At a typical Story Pirates show, story topics run the gamut, from kung-fu ninja babies fighting crime to the eternal love between the devil and a guy she meets at Starbucks.  It’s a world where cats sometimes fly and Tickle Monsters have been known to take over the world.      

Story Pirates Executive Director Benjamin Salka describes the experience as "genuinely funny. It's not preachy; it's not dumbed-down; it's not hammy. It's not just 'kid-oriented entertainment'. It's smart, it's silly – It’s our world, unfiltered, as only children could imagine.”      

For more info on the Story Pirates, contact info@storypirates.org or call (310) 880-4725. 

Milk & cookie reception follows the performance.

Tickets: $5/students & senior citizens; $10/adults
Location: Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center, The Calhoun School, 433 West End Ave. @ 81st St.
RSVP: www.calhoun.org/reservations


Calhoun's Performing Arts Series enters its sixth year with an exciting program of music, children's theater, documentary films and lectures. The series is open to the public. For a full schedule, click here.