06/05/2023
ABOUT: Collaborative Creative Arts Workshops for children, adults and also for
intergenerational groups.
One to one sessions are also offered
creating bridges via the arts for all children, including those with "special needs".
About Devorah
There is nothing more inspiring to me than to witness a child making that magical and hopefully life-long connection with the arts and their own creativity and confident self-expression. To foster that bond in the lives of so many amazing children has been a true blessing in my life."
please click "Notes" top of main page to see Workshop and one to one class descriptions, etc.
Devorah Segall is a professional singer and songwriter and has taught in private schools as Music and Library Specialist and Creative Arts Specialist Teacher in NYC and Westchester, NY. (ie: Rodeph Shalom pre-school and its Religious School-8 years, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Greenwich Chabad, many Westchester private schools , many Synagogues and pre-schools in Manhattan)
Her education highlights :
- Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in music and minoring in Child Development Studies.
- certified Orff Music Teacher primary grades- Level 1.
- Teacher Training program at Lincoln Center Aesthetics In Education program for teachers
Devorah is a talented painter and art-maker and brings these skills into her work with children.
(see photos for examples)
Her teaching resume can be viewed at: http://www.geocities.ws/jazzdevorah/resume.html
Devorah has been an Early Childhood teacher for over fifteen years. She is a professional singer and songwriter with a long history of professional credits as a performer and writer.
Her unique storytelling and music and art programs and performances are always interactive and highly engaging. She plays guitar and keyboard and incorporates movement activities in her all of her music programs and incorporates art-making in her Creative Arts programs.
Devorah has a love for working with children with all kinds of "special needs" and has helped many in private one to one sessions as well as in the classroom:
"All of the Creative Arts that we explore have been an empowering bridge for the children that I have worked with...including those with "special needs" challenges. Something I'm shown consistently is that music in particular provides a pathway which I can rely on to "get through" and enable a connection that is sometimes so illusive in other settings. I look for ways of meeting each child where they are and guiding them into the world of the creative arts through hands-on experiences in music, art, dance, drama, creative writing.
There is nothing more inspiring to me than to witness a child making that magical and hopefully life-long connection with the arts and their own creativity and confident self-expression.To foster that bond in the lives of so many amazing children has been a true blessing in my life."
New York audiences from The Central Park Zoo to the Children's Museum of Manhattan have loved her interactive concerts and performances.As a teacher, her unique ability to combine her talents in Music, Jazz, Art, Theater, Story-telling with her Early Childhood Education and Orff Teacher education provide Devorah a unique combination of riches to give to her students.
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Interactive Creative Arts Workshops and one to one classes for children and also for
multi-generational groups.
See "notes"tab
for descriptions of these Workshops:
- Create-A-Story
- Imagine That!
- Create-A-Song
- Create-A-Book
- TorahArts
- Creating Collaborative "Midrash"
- Jewish Holiday-themed programs for intergenerational groups and children
incorporating any of the above or custom designed for your synagogue, school or group's needs
"Children should be seen, listened to and truly heard!" -D.S.
Devorah's new CD, "And Then...." (music for children and their families) contains her original music and lyrics, including her much loved story-songs."These songs were directly inspired by getting to know my favorite teachers- the children!Thank you so much!" d.s.
There is an obvious jazz influence in the music that comes from her twenty years of experienceas a Jazz singer. (see Jazz bio) With heart and whimsical humor, her writing reflects her empathy and understanding of children's emotional lives and the issues that are important to them
"I wish to express a special Thank you! to Fred Rogers (MisteRogers) and to Josie Carey two of my "grandest" mentors. )
Devorah's Professional Music bio and tracks from her CDs heard at: www.reverbnation.com/devorahsegall
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of the individuals as well as to foster their collaborative group skills to promote a sense of the group as a team.
06/05/2023
CreativeArts Workshops descriptions and other Programs offered:
I offer one to one in-your-home afterschool sessions and the following :
These collaborative workshops /classes work well in
Afterschool Enrichment programs, Museum programming, Community and Synagogue venues,
and in-home. Small groups from one to 6 kids.
They can be held as ongoing classes or as a stand alone one-time experience.
The Make-A-Story and Make-A-Song Collaborative Workshops also work exceptionally well with inter-generational groups .
DESCRIPTIONS:
- Imagine That Workshop
In a playful atmosphere, the children explore and expand their greatest inner resource: their imagination! The workshop creates ongoing multifaceted projects incorporating art, puppetry, creative writing, creative dramatics, music and movement. Each week focuses on a different art form. Linking hands-on aesthetic experiences within the Arts creates an exciting learning forum that fosters expanded self-esteem, self-discovery.
- Create-A-Story Workshop Child-centered adventures through the Creative Arts using expanded story-telling as the foundation. This is an ongoing workshop using a collaborative story-making process which weaves together Narrative Creative Writing, Improvisation, Art, Music-making, Song-writing, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry and humor through individual and group process. Each child creates their own original stories and books as well as group generated stories, enactments and songs.
- Lets Make A Book
There are many exciting and enriching ways to make books that can be either ongoing projects that connect week to week, or as a standalone, one class project. Watch this page for some beautiful examples of children's books that I will be uploading.
- Lets Make A Song
One example of this workshop is a program I designed and led at The Children's Museum of Manhattan for an Environment Awareness program. Using similar techniques as in Create-A-Story, the audience participated in creating lyrics to a song about what each person can do everyday to help our planet and ourselves. Then we all performed it together!
- Creative TorahArts Workshop- using story, art, music, drama to connect with Torah.
- Creating Collaborative "Midrash"
In this group, the children and or adults are creating as a group- ongoing original "midrash" stories. In an interactive process, their own midrash is created through group collaboration using powerful Jewish stories as a foundation.
- Shabbat and Jewish Holiday-themed programs for intergenerational groups and children
These programs incorporate any of the above foundations or can be custom-designed for your synagogue, school or group's needs .
Bringing generations together in this totally interactive, creative and unique way is a very special group program that Devorah offers.
These Shabbat and Jewish Holiday based programs and family workshops are a wonderful pathway to connection and lend well to synagogues, women's groups, schools and senior residences, community centers.
"Children should be seen, listened to and truly heard!" -D.S.
06/05/2023
Mission: "There is nothing more inspiring to me than to witness a child making that magical and hopefully life-long connection with the arts and their own creativity and confident self-expression.To foster that bond in the lives of so many amazing children has been a true blessing in my life. Children should be seen, listened to and truly heard!"-Devorah Segall
06/05/2023
Molly's reversible puppets that she made to go with the story and song we created.
03/08/2023
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"I had been on assignment at a Detroit Montessori school for two days, and shot hundreds of photos. Some were very good, but I knew I hadn't gotten THE shot. That afternoon, as we all sat on the floor in a circle listening to a story, I bowed my head. When I raised my head, this little girl leaned over to lay her head on the little boy's lap. He very gently lifted his arm to receive her. I call this photo 'The Age of Innocence."
Credit: Marco Mancinelli.
01/01/2023
Everyone has stories inside. I love working with adults too, to interactively create spontaneous stories together. It is a magical, flowing experience! ! It works with two people to larger groups and is wonderfully connecting to do with families and other groups! It works really well in "zoom" spaces as well as in person. Lets make a story and a song and some puppets to act them out! Offering in person and zoom workshop sessions .Contact me to schedule or ask questons!
10/07/2020
I love making stories with adults too. It's always magical to see it evolve and flow The process works with two people or groups of people. Wonderful to do with families and all kinds of groups - even Shabbat table... really brings people together in a creative and fun way ! Now that whole thing has evolved into creating these via zoom/skype as well. Lets make a story. Everyone has stories inside!
10/07/2020
This is a story interactively created by a group of 4 Three-year-old children in my "Create-A-Story Class"! Yes,they were 3 years old!! I had taught them some of my songs about Monsters and The Man in the Moon and you can see how those characters became part of this new story they made together! It's a wonderful interactive process that I developed that works well with all ages including adults and multigenerational groups as small as two people to large groups.
In this group of three year olds, they narrated their words and I wrote them down verbatim, not changing or prompting one word of theirs and they illustrated with drawings.
01/01/2023