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creative learning
Vault Theatre’s Creative Learning programs offer dynamic arts education for students in schools, afterschool programs, and homeschool settings. Designed to inspire creativity and enhance critical thinking, our hands-on workshops and residencies engage students in theatre-making while complementing core curriculum. From building empathy through social-emotional learning to deepening understanding in academic subjects like history, science, and language arts, our Creative Learning experiences encourage collaboration, exploration, and growth.
Whether in the classroom or beyond, Vault Theatre brings learning to life through the transformative power of theatre.
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In-School
Vault Theatre's residency programs are designed to use theatre to integrate arts with core curriculum, engage in dialogue on challenging social topics, or create and build theatre skills. Vault Theatre offers holistic in-school or afterschool programs that pair with core curriculum or arts classes to engage in conversation, create empathy, and build pathways for individual student action. Workshops and Residencies are designed to work directly within the existing curriculum creating a strong partnership with classroom teachers on reaching unit goals and objectives.
Vault Theatre offers workshops and residencies in three distinct focuses:
INTEGRATE is designed to use theatre to integrate arts with core curriculum offered. Workshops and Residencies can pair with any core subject offering true arts integrated approaches to curriculum introducing theatre goals that connect with and enhance core curriculum. Do you have a novel you'd like to lift from page to stage? A science concept you'd like to activate? A character in history you'd like to bring to life? Changemakers: Integrate can meet the needs of your curriculum while seamlessly infusing the arts!
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ENGAGE is designed to use theatre as a tool to explore and engage in socially conscious topics and spark student action. Workshops and Residencies can pair with any core subject, or can be offered in any classroom as an entire school special day! Is there a school topic that is important to explore? Interested in a special day honoring history months? Do you have a leadership class who is interested in tackling an issue important to them? Our Peer to Peer Leadership model gives students the platforms to become leaders in their school community on important subjects!
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CREATE is designed to create, explore, and build theatre skills and can work in any theatre arts classroom exploring specific theatre units or workshops that support work in the arts classroom taught by professional teaching artists. Changemakers mission is exploring socially conscious work that spark action with workshops and residencies designed to explore themes and topics relevant to our community today. This process is designed to support young artists in cultivating their own artistic voices.
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Reach out today to discuss your curriculum, and with no additional planning Vault Theatre will integrate arts directly in to your class unit objectives!
TIME COMMITMENT & SCHEDULING
All In-School projects can be delivered as introductory one-off workshops all the way to full residency programs of ten sessions up to semester or school year long extended projects. Vault Theatre can customize any workshop or residency program to fit individual school and classroom needs. Please contact us to arrange a schedule that works with your classroom. Example of schedules include:
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Enrichment Workshops: 1 to 4 sessions
This tier is designed for introduction workshops to specific subject matter using theatre as a tool to engage in dialogue. -
Exploration Residency: 5-9 sessions
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Performance Residency: 10 or more sessions
This tier puts students at the heart of the process to learn from each other through a collaborative project ending in a performance.
BOOKING
Full price is $125 per teaching hour. Vault Theatre will make every effort to ensure that money is not a barrier to participation.
To book, for price inquiries, or to discuss your individual school's needs, contact Lauren Sale
Vault Theatre is proud to be on Durham Arts Council's CAPS Artist in Schools directory. All DPS schools have funds to book arts programs at their schools. All of Vault Theatre's programs are a part of the CAPS roster and eligible funding is available to use for all DPS schools to bring in Vault Theatre.
homeschool
Musical Theatre Workshop is more than just a theatre class — it’s a dynamic, arts-based enrichment opportunity designed especially with homeschool families in mind. For young artists ages 7 to 15, each 10-week session blends high-energy training with rehearsal, giving students structured time in acting, voice, and dance, three disciplines in one class. It’s an engaging, social, and skill-building experience that supports creative learning and complements academic work at home.
Students grow as performers, gain confidence, and discover the joy of working as a true ensemble — all while preparing for a final performance that lets their talents shine onstage for family and friends.
This fall we'll dive headfirst into the swampy, silly, and spectacular world of Shrek The Musical KIDS. With unforgettable characters, high-energy dances, and showstopping songs like “Big Bright Beautiful World,” this musical is big fun with an even bigger heart. Our ensemble of young artists will work together to bring this larger-than-life fairy tale to the stage. Along the way, they’ll sharpen their skills in acting, singing, and movement all while telling a story that reminds us that true beauty comes from the inside (even if you’re green and grumpy).
Class ends in a presentation on the final day.
Musical Theatre Workshop: Homeschool Edition
COST: $450
AGES: 7–18
DATES: Tuesdays, September 9 – November 18 (No class on October 7)
TIME: 9:30am-12:30pm
WHERE: Vault Theatre Studios
after school
Vault Theatre partners with schools across the Triangle to bring high-quality theatre classes directly to students where they already are through clubs and enrichment classes. These on-site programs provide a fun, creative outlet at the end of the school day, helping students build confidence, collaboration skills, and a love of performance. From acting and storytelling to musical theatre and creative drama, our classes are tailored to each school community.
Interested in bringing Vault Theatre to your school? We’d love to connect -- Drop us an email!
