TRAILS WEB3

K-12 STEAM education

Expand existing project, program, or initiative (expanding and continuing ongoing, successful work)

TRAILS WEB3 is a multi-media production with an educational component. Our initial TRAILS performances were shared with over 2500 K-12 students at the Dance Bistro concert of 2018; assisting the students to understand how we are part of our environment and that everything we do affects it; and conversely, what we have done to the environment affects us. TRAILS WEB3 will explore food insecurity due to ocean pollution and depletion of fish population; and how we can restore health and fish populations by cleaning our oceans and best fishing practices. TRAILS WEB3 will have a virtual component where students and general audience alike can explore what's current in the field via online podcasts, youtube videos, and virtual reality videos. These assets and additional text and research information will be provided on Luminario Ballet's website on a TRAILS WEB3 page/portal.

TRAILS WEB3 starts as a dance, music, and visual piece to be presented in a theater to audiences. The movements included will be: SPACE, LAND, URBAN LIFE, OCEAN ECOSYSTEM. Luminario Ballet will integrate Focused On Nature's exceptionally beautiful filmed undersea and land footage to illustrate and emphasize the beauty of the unsullied ocean and land; and comparisons with oceans and lands despoiled by pollution, poverty, and the cost of war.
We will inspire critical thinking with the audience about creating solutions for our home planet NOW; being inclusive with women's voices, POC voices, and economically challenged groups voices, who are most negatively affected when our environment is suffering.
Our learning modules will be created using input from experts in the field as well as educators; to provide a truthful, understandable and actionable task list that anyone can begin- in their home, school, work, or community to begin restoration of our land and sea.
Additional groups will be contacted to assist in this among them So Cal and Coachella Valley United Nations.

Our TRAILS WEB3 Our Space dance movement will examine the ways that our satellites can show us the impact our large global-warming disasters are- the immense scope of fires, floods, polar ice-cap melts, and the South Pacific trash heap, which is the size of Rhode Island.With the Land dance movement we will demonstrate different ways to farm that benefit the environment, use less chemicals, and produce more, safer food. Our Urban Life movement will examine urban sprawl/slums vs vertical building and maintaining a higher standard of living with green building. Our Ocean Ecosystem dance movement will address this and put forth suggested solutions for water capture and water desalination/decontamination.

We were able to meet our audience in the theater when we performed TRAILS back in 2018 and do Q & A sessions with experts. To measure the success of TRAILS WEB3 we will collect and maintain contact with school audiences and general audiences and offer them online surveys to encourage them to share what kinds of actions result from our performance and website assets. We will work with the educators participating to provide us with responses from students; and provide an interactive online portal for students and audiences to contribute their actions.

Our collaborator, Focussed on Nature, will provide oceanic visual assets, scientific text, and assist with bringing our educational online assets to a broader audience in foreign countries