the Tweaksters!: Community Outreach!

		Community Outreach!
	The Tweaksters - aka- Regan and Julia enjoy performing. It is heartwarming for us to hear audience members express that they feel renewed inspiration to get up and to be active, after seeing the show! Not just kids, but adults too! Consequently, we have created more opportunities to spread the joy and benefits of physical fun through outreach activites. We are honored and are motivated to serve in this way. Regan, a successful artist for over 20 years, has a wealth of wisdom to offer. Julia has vested years of her life studying health and fitness. She is a certified personal trainer, yoga teacher and licensed Wellness coach, with a master’s degree in Psychology. Her sister, Jennifer also participates in our outreach activities. She is a gifted physical comedian, voice-over artist and actress who specializes in family fun. Outreach Activities 1. School Assemblies: Costumes get simplified, but the props keep flying, as we visit schools to add physical fun to the day. We pull routines from our zany 60 minute show that can be done in a gym setting, to create an exciting, energizing, athletic assembly lasting 25-35 minutes in length. We share our story, and message, encouraging kids to join in the fun, by being active. A ten minute a question and answer period is also included.

	2. P.E. Class: After seeing the show, students usually are buzzing around with energy, receptive to learning more about being in shape. The Tweaksters enjoy collaborating with physical education teachers to conduct “Fabulous Feats of Physical Fun” classes during regularly scheduled P.E. classes in the school gym.
	3. Week Long Residency/Camp: The Tweaksters are on an expedition of self-discovery and adverture. They consider themselves to be “Explorers of Creative Play”. They are often asked to define how they create their material. The simplest way to answer that question is to respond: we become like explorers, on a mission of self-discovery. We open up our minds and bodies, by erasing any tendency to judge or have opinions. Instead we become curious. Curiosity and wonder fuel our journey. We continually ask ourselves, each other and our props: “what is there to discover now? and now? and now? As we “Tweak” our “inner environment” we move into a highly receptive mode, that gives birth to novel ideas!....like the Tweaksters show! Sharing the Tweaksters' creative process, is at the heart of this workshop. Each day time is spent, inspiring students to become like explorers. Fabulously fun exercises which support creative play are performed in a group and partner setting, as well as solo. Time is also spent supporting kids' health and wellness. Each day a fabulously fun physical warm-up takes place, followed by conditioning exercises and tips about living a healthy lifestyle. The importance of staying active is stressed. A different prop from the Tweaksters show is used to challenge the students’ physical prowess and to excite their imagination-muscles. Conditioning exercises, acrobatic-balancing, partner yoga, improv, and physical comedy skills are also taught. Nutrition, anatomy and exercise physiology may also be touched upon. This is a hands-on-heart-pumping-high-energy-creative-week, designed to inspire students to befriend themselves, their bodies and their creative-selves. 4. Feats of Fun for Families: Get ready to laugh and giggle, as you dash and wiggle!!!! For 60 minutes, families take part in a fabulously fun mix of creative movement, dexterity games, acrobatic balancing poses, and wacky races, using some of the props from the Tweaksters show. We have found that it does not matter if you are a child or an adult---BEING IN SHAPE IS A LOT OF FUN!!!!. The more shapes you can make with your body the more fun you will have, so let’s get up and start moving!”

	5. Study Guide: We have a knockout study guide K-12, which contains lessons teachers can use in their classroom. The lessons embrace the art and science behind movement, physiology, nutrition, and principles of health and fitness. They uphold the California state teaching standards. If you are interested in any of these outreach activities, please email: outreach@tweaksters.com. To return to the "Club" click here.