Kim and Reggie will bring all of their prodigious talents to bear in this important workshop. Through music, literature and role-playing, students will visit the Women's Suffragist Movement in the United States, the hopes and challenges of Irish Immigration to this country as well as the core issues of the Modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Each participating school will be responsible for pre-workshop research into one of these movements for civil rights.

Students will be expected to share experiences from their own heritage and talk with Kim and Reggie about their dreams for a more civil future here at hoome and abroad.

Grades: 7 - 8

Participants experience history as runaway slaves and abolitionists. They use codes hidden in traditional black songs, plot escape routes and speak out, putting themselves in the shoes of those brave and ingenious souls who risked their lives on the Underground Railroad.

For this workshop our chef prepares a special "holiday on the plantation" menu.

Grades: 6 - 8

Each participating student will be a writer for a day of interactive, thematic, real-world writing situations to "hook" the imagination and/or memories of the young to the wonder and power of the written word. Theme for May 2010 is "Dispatches From the Front": Writing from and through the Civil War.

Grade: 5