Communication Techniques, Tools and Services For All Ages, Preschool Through Adults

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Purposeful Use of Puppets for Education, Persuasion or Call to Action

Children and teens are bursting with enough ideas and energy to change the world. Sometimes, though, it’s hard for a kid to know where to start.
      That’s where creativity expert Penelope Torribio—a presenter at the Nov. 6-7 Leaders Causing Leaders Conference—comes in. Torribio, an educator and performing artist, teaches young people how to use the arts to step into leadership roles.
      Her specialty? Showing kids, and the adults who care about them, how to use media such as music, visual art, videography and puppetry to achieve transformation. This kind of empowerment is key, Torribio said.
       “We spend a lot of time hearing how bad things are. Important issues like global warming are often presented in a dire way that leaves people, especially kids, feeling helpless. It’s counter-productive, because people who feel helpless stop trying,” she says.
      It’s time to flip the script by giving our youths hope and by giving them tools for change, says Torribio.
     “Kids are natural leaders because they are natural optimists,” she said.  “Everyone wants to join with someone who says, ‘Hey, we can make this better.’ Especially if that message is made fun through the arts.”

      Do you want to learn more? You can visit Penelope Torribio and several dozen of her puppets at her booth at the Youth Leadershift Activity Center.
You can also call Penelope at (909) 868-0995 or penelopetorribio.com. Writing
Editing and Writing Services
                             Assemblies and Festival, edu-trainment ecology musical puppet shows,

Penelope Torribio

Visit Guardians of the Earth for information on
Penelope's Earth Day Performances

Malibu, April 22

Alhambra, April 30

1worldmusicandpuppets.com

The role of Art in Education, educator, author, Penelope Torribio

 

Ask most writers about the major element to becoming a good writer and they will invariably answer, "be a good reader."

However, there are millions of excellent readers who do not believe that they are good writers.

Penelope Torribio, author, songwriter, playwright, poet,puppeteer and
writing teacher
believes that
good writers
develope
habits of
thinking
like a
writer.

Penelope has taught children from preschool through teens how to think like writers.

She is a frequent presenter at Author's Days and other presentations.

Penelope, a transformation specialist, blieves that writing can be a powerful tool for transforming behavior. 

Click on drawing below to go to Education Articles for tips and tools on teaching by Penelope and other contributing authors.

Teaching pre-writing and writing skills.

Presentations available:

Teaching Kids to Write, an interactive presentation.

Art and Behavior Transformation

Family Interactive Puppet Shows

Penelope with one of her puppets

The Rain is Coming,
rain forest musical puppet show.

Under the Blue Blue Sea,
ocean musical.

Dinosaur Dance, How Not to Become Extinct.

Guardians of the Earth,
puppetry and writing
assembly.

The Grass is Green, farm animal musical puppet show.

Songs from Outer Space, space ecology musical puppet show

Song of the Earth, Songs Fest for the Entire Family

Bug Photo Display and Presentations

Penelope Torribio
(909) 868-0995
695 E. Kingsley Avenue
Pomona, CA

Penelope is a proud support of

Lullalee Production,
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Lullalee Production

(909) 868-0995

Penelope Torribio
penelope1world@mac.com

 

 

Guardian of the Earth Store

Guardian of the Earth Store


This store features tools for teaching writing
and for increased caring and awareness of
what we can all do to create a sustainable
and peaceful world.

This month we are featuring" Take 10,
ten minute relaxation DVD, Volume 1,

"Bugs and Those Who Love Them."
Take 10, ten minutes of nature and relaxation.  Perfect for settling down a class before a writing exercise, particularly a green writing assignment. Enjoyed by all ages, even infants and over-worked adults.

Volume 2 is "Flowers and Those Who Love Them."
Volume 3 is "Water Birds and Those Who Love Them."
Volume 4 is "Oceans and Those Who Love Them."

Einstein in My Garden, Photos and Reflections on Bugs

"Einstein In My Garden" is a combination of Penelope's recognition of the importance of bugs in our eco-system, her award-winning photography and patience in phographing bugs in the best light, and a writing technique she has used to teach writing to upper elementary through teens.

Click here to go to sample
reflections and instructions for this technique.


Bee Photo by Penelope Torribio

When one becomes aware of how interesting and
how important bugs are to our survival, one will
never look at a bug in the same way again.  I know.
I caught the bug bug!
Penelope

Family Bug Photo Display Available


Family Ecology Shows in the S. California area

 

 

 


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