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AS FAMILIES & EDUCATORS

Edu-Tainment Workshops & Recitals 

We offer a host of original “edutainment” workshops designed for audiences of all ages! Contact us at info@castleskins.org to learn more about
bringing a workshop to your school or program!

Upcoming Family-Friendly Events

  • SHINE ON! ROCKPORT
    SHINE ON! ROCKPORT
    SHINE ON! ROCKPORT
    Sat, Oct 26
    Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center
    Oct 26, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center, 37 Main St, Rockport, MA 01966, USA
    Oct 26, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
    Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center, 37 Main St, Rockport, MA 01966, USA
    Family-friendly, music-dance-spoken word showcase featuring Castle of our Skins’ artists, including musicians from our Inter-Collegiate BSU Fellowship!
  • SHINE ON! DORCHESTER
    SHINE ON! DORCHESTER
    SHINE ON! DORCHESTER
    Sun, Oct 27
    Conservatory Lab Charter School
    Oct 27, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Conservatory Lab Charter School, 395 Columbia Rd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
    Oct 27, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Conservatory Lab Charter School, 395 Columbia Rd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
    Castle of our Skins presents a FREE, family-friendly, music-dance-spoken word showcase at Dorchester’s Conservatory Lab Charter School, featuring artists and musicians from our BSU Fellowship.

Testimonials

This was the best workshop I have seen in all my 72 years of life!

- Educator

Resources for the Classroom

We work with a host of Black composers to create fresh new music for your K-12 classrooms! All works include companion curriculum guides filled with the teaching tools you need to do your best. And if you’re a teaching artist who brings experiences to youth, fear not! We have materials for you as well.
Check them out below.
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Rising Tide Music
A growing collection of new works for beginner-intermediate K-12 wind, string, and choral ensembles complete with culturally responsive curriculum guides.
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Music Inclusion Hub
The Music Inclusion Hub provides high-quality, culturally competent, historically expansive, and diversity-promoting resources you seek for your young learners.

Looking for more culturally responsive resources for your classroom?

Interested in learning about other organizations leading the charge in diversity in Classical music? Check out some of our favorite recs on our Resources page.

Our Teaching Artists

Our growing team of educators develop and lead edu-tainment workshops, create curriculum guides, and offer hands-on experiences through classroom visits and coachings. Learn more about them below.
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Steph Davis

Steph Davis is a Boston-based marimbist, composer, cultural activist, interdisciplinary artist, and curator.

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DeShaun Gordon-King

DeShaun Gordon King is a flutist, teaching-artist, and new music advocate. 

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Joi Harper

Joi Harper is a composer, vocalist, and teaching artist based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Alexis Peart

​Alexis Peart is a multifaceted mezzo-soprano, music educator, and arts administrator based in Boston.

Our Residencies

We’ve held multi-day residencies at Gettysburg College, Brandeis University, and Boston Latin Academy, among other institutions, and served as Music Ensemble
in Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts for three fruitful seasons.
Learn more about our residencies below and see
how you can bring Castle of our Skins to you.

Castle of our Skins is proud to be an Ensemble in Residence at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Residencies typically span three days and include student masterclasses, composition class visits, BSU meet & greets, and a portrait concert.

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BY FIRE AND SWORD: TREVOR WESTON PORTRAIT CONCERT (Dec. 14, 2019) (Season 7)

Watch “Juba”, “Evening Songs”, “Wafting Clouds”, Fudo Myoo, 
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SAFIKA: DR. BONGANI NDODANA-BREEN PORTRAIT CONCERT (Dec. 3, 2021) (Season 9)


Watch Safika
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LOVE & JUSTICE: ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK PORTRAIT CONCERT (March 29, 2024) (Season 11)
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Watch our portrait concert repeat at Brattleboro Music Center in Vermont!
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BREAK AWAY: JESSIE MONTGOMERY PORTRAIT CONCERT (March 5, 2021)
(Season 8)

Learn more
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HER PHANTOM HAPPINESS: ANTHONY R. GREEN PORTRAIT CONCERT (Dec. 9, 2022) (Season 10)

Watch …all that is good…
Learn more
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Over the years, we’ve teamed up with Roxbury’s Hibernian Hall to offer a series of in-person and virtual events involving music, history, film, education, and Black market fares.

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Ain't I A Woman

The "Ain't I a Woman" project explored Black feminism through music, visual art, spoken word and history.

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I AM A MAN

Through film, spoken word, dance, history, community, and music, the “I AM A MAN 2019” project was an educational and artistic examination of the famous civil rights declaration.

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Black Love

Through multimedia, spoken word, dialogue, movement, and music, Black Love explored themes of self-affirmation, self-care, healing and sexuality.

Read More
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As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage is a multi-year initiative to elevate opera by Black composers; with New England and world premiere performances of five operas in partnership with Odyssey Opera, along with commercial recordings released on BMOP/sound, and complementary education and engagement programs developed by Castle of our Skins.
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​Education programs for As Told By are underwritten by the Howard and Katherine Aibel Foundation.

COOS, BMOP, AND ODYSSEY OPERA

Year One

Anthony Davis' X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

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Year Two

Harriet Tubman and the Art of Spirituals

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