For Educators
FIM is excited to announce our exciting line-up of school time programming and field trip opportunities for the 2024-2025 school year! These daytime programs are curated especially for educators, homeschool groups, seniors, and other organized community programs, provided at low or no-cost to you!
Take some time to browse our offerings below. This year we are offering popular musicals, literature-based performances, professional theatre, and STEAM-based performances. We offer experiences for various ages and grade levels, with subject matter including science, math, history, literature, language, and culture. We also have our FSOLive! Virtual concerts!
Click the link below to register your class or group, and we will confirm the details once you have submitted the form.
FIM is passionate about creating opportunities through performance that benefit all students and lifelong learners, and we are eager to be part of the educational journey you have charted for this school year!
Thank you to our generous supporters
FIM Schooltime Performances 2024-25 Field Trip Interest Form
The Math Maniac Show Whiting Auditorium The Math Maniac proves that learning math and fun go together naturally. And because the content of this program is 100% supportive of core curriculum in math, whether students are reviewing the material, previewing the material, or learning the material for the first time, not one minute is wasted, not one learning opportunity is lost! Students have so much fun they don’t even know they’re learning. Age recommendation: 2nd-6th grades |
A Year with Frog and Toad Whiting Auditorium Based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved children’s books, the show is an inventive, exuberant, and enchanting experience. This whimsical musical follows two great friends — the cheerful, popular Frog and the curmudgeonly Toad — through four, fun-filled seasons, meeting new friends like Man Bird and Lady Bird; Father, Mother and Young Frog; Turtle; Squirrel and many more along the way Age recommendation: PreK-5th grades |
Hip-Hop Orchestra Whiting Auditorium Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, the Hip-Hop Orchestra fuses principles of hip-hop and classical music to create something completely original that pushes the boundaries of both classical and hip-hop. JooWan Kim and his musicians and performers will be joined by members of the Flint Symphony Orchestra and the Flint Youth Symphony Orchestra in a public performance on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 7:30 pm. School engagement opportunities (field trip or school visits) are in development Age Recommendation: High School |
A Driving Beat Flint Repertory Theatre Elgood Theatre Mateo, a 14-year-old boy with brown skin, and Diane, his white adoptive mother, take a road trip from their home in Ohio to his birthplace in San Diego. Throughout the journey, they are forced to reconcile their differing identities and what it means to be a family. Developed in Flint Rep’s 2023 New Works Festival. Age recommendation: High School and older |
Look Both Ways Whiting Auditorium 10 blocks. 10 unique tales. There’s something for everyone across these 10 vignettes about identity, compassion, fear, and friendship—as told through puppetry, dance, music, projections, audience participation, kamishibai (paper theater), and more. This faithful stage adaptation of Jason Reynolds’ award-winning book encourages audiences to look both ways not only when crossing the street, but also when acknowledging the people walking by. Age recommendation: 5th grade and older |
 123 Andrés
April 22, 10:00 am and 12:00 pm Whiting Auditorium Andrés can’t find his friend Juana, and our only clue is that she’s somewhere in the Americas. Travel with song and dance through a lesson in geography that incorporates an introduction to a variety of musical instruments as well as Latin language, culture, and music. These high-energy, joyful shows include hits from 123 Andrés’ award-winning albums and incorporate Spanish, English, and ASL languages. Age recommendation: PreK-3rd grade |
Charlotte’s Web May 9, 10:00 am and 12:00 pm Whiting Auditorium A creative spin on a classic tale! This reimagined production features bluegrass music and a clever set design, telling the treasured story of selfless love and the true meaning of friendship. Join Charlotte, Wilbur, and their farm animal friends in this terrific tale of bravery and hopefulness. Age recommendation: PreK-5th grade |
Additional FIM opportunities
The Troubadours
On-site performance This season, FIM’s Troubadours proudly present “The Circus of Wonder.” This circus-themed program aims to inspire young audiences to explore their own creativity through the arts. With live music, dance, acting and multimedia elements, this new production is right at home under the “Big Top.” Age recommendation: PreK-5th grade Run time: approximately 60 minutes (Troubadours Activity Book Coming Soon)
To bring the Circus of Wonder to your school, click on the link here.
FSOLive! (Virtual)
Bring the Flint Symphony Orchestra right into your classroom! Each of our concerts are professionally recorded in full and available for one month after the performance for free! 2024-2025
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FSOLive! 2024-2025 Concerts
Oct 20-Nov 18 – Ahead of Thier Time: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue & Mahler 5
Nov 10-Dec 9 – Icons & Anthems: Elgar & The Blue Danube
Feb 16-March 17 – Piano, Polka & Pointe: Mozart, Strauss & Tchaikovsky
March 16-April 14 – Peace Meet West: Barber, Wagner, and a New Work by William Harvey
April 27-May 26 – Super/Natural: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
May 18-June 16 – Life, Death & Mozart: A Little Night Music & Requiem
Hocus Focus: Residency
October 14-25, 2024
January 27-February 7, 2025
April 28-May 9, 2025
Hocus Focus™ is a creative instructional approach to support the learning of students with varying degrees of educational challenges and abilities including autistic, cognitively delayed, emotionally disturbed, and learning-disabled students. The activities are motivational, promote positive self-expression, and reinforce many key skills needed for student success. For over a decade, FIM has worked with Dr. Kevin Spencer, sending him and his unique performance-based therapy into our local schools. Dr. Spencer and his magic tricks can amaze any audience of children (and adults), but his specialty is working with our special needs populations. In 2024-2025 FIM is expanding Dr. Spencer’s residency, hoping to engage more students and provide professional development for current and pre-service teachers about arts-informed instruction and methods of measuring growth and achievement in special-needs populations. For more information or to request to bring Dr. Spencer to your school, please contact Aiesha Lewis at alewis@thefim.org or call 810-237-7349.