Moon Jelly Arts Collective

Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Homebase: Vancouver
Regions Available: Lower Mainland

The Moon Jelly Arts Collective provides intensive arts-based learning experiences for Grades K-7. Our team of creative educators includes award-winning children’s authors, playwrights, theatre and TV actors, visual artists, editors, and storytellers. Best of all, we are all educational experts, with twenty years of experience delivering detailed arts-based programs and residencies to schools in Canada and internationally. Our programs are immersive, interactive, and fun, and designed to nurture and ignite creativity. Our educational team will come right to your school to work with students over a series of days or weeks to deliver hands-on activities that will expand curiosity and promote critical thinking. End products may include theatre performances, printed storybooks, and visual arts displays—all crafted by the students and led by our amazing artists.

Classroom Residency(ies)

Better World Laboratory

School Year: 24-25

Better World Laboratory Welcome to the Better World Laboratory, where big dreaming is encouraged! It’s a bubbling hub of innovation and creativity that will ignite students’ imaginations through thought-provoking and socially conscious activities involving the arts, storytelling, and performance. In our multi-day curriculum, we invite students to become worldbuilders, Chief Ecology Officers, and caretakers of the future, helping them to envision a more beautiful, compassionate, and sustainable future. Activities will include a multidisciplinary project for every grade in your school and may include prototyping new inventions, imagining new flowers and plants, mapping your school’s neighbourhood to find new connections, and building found-object art. We’ll make the Good News-paper and broadcasts, write stories that examine and challenge stereotypes and bring theme-based storybooks to life. The scope of this program can be adapted depending on the needs of educators and the number of sessions with students. This program can include deliverables such as an anthology of selected student writing, or a capstone event like the Better World Garden, where students from across the school are invited to share their new inventions and build a school Peace Tree. Better World Laboratory is a school-sized narrative in which each student sees a path towards reshaping their future and feeling part of something big and positive. This workshop series is designed to connect with the province’s curricular core competencies around science, communication, creation, and global issues.

Welcome to Wizard School!

School Year: 24-25

Imagine turning your entire school into a magical academy for a week! Drawing on our diverse creative backgrounds, we will inspire students through a host of crafts, writing activities and improvisational games, to create their own unique wizarding school. Welcome to Wizard School! will include a multidisciplinary project for every grade in your school to boost creativity for all. Crafts might include wands, monster books, magical jewels, pixie jars, and potion brewing. Writing programs will explore the magic of imagination with stories, spell scripting and magical recipes. Theatrical games and improv activities will bring out your students’ creativity in new ways. The scope of this program can be adapted depending on the needs of educators and the number of sessions with students. This program can include deliverables such as an anthology of selected student writing (in the form of spell book or story collection), or a capstone event like the Magic Market, where students from across the school are invited to share their wizardly wares. This workshop series is designed to connect with the province’s curricular core competencies around communication, creation, and storytelling.

Testimonials & Reviews

I was impressed by their ability to come up with inventive content that engages a wide range of children and nurtures their innate creative sensibilities. Even though they bring artistic expertise to the classroom, their care for and ability to connect with children is evident in their daily teaching. Joon Park, Creative Writing for Children Society

We thought we would learn something but we didn’t expect to have so much fun while doing it. Lily Schieman, school librarian, Stanley Jones Elementary, Calgary, AB

You’ve left us feeling inspired and re-energized for the rest of the school year. We were so grateful to have your expertise and enthusiasm. Rachel Wright, Teacher-Librarian, The City School, Bangkok, Thailand

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