FALL CLASSES START SEPTEMBER 5
Spanish: Tuesdays 3:30pm, Wednesdays 10:30am, Thursdays 4:45pm
French: Tuesdays 4:45pm, Wednesdays 9:30am, Thursdays 3:30pm
Free Demo | Thursday, August 31 from 4:45-5:30pm
Each 8-week series is $200 and includes digital materials and a child's puppet every two semesters when a new character is introduced. Spanish with Dani this fall will feature Zee birdie (green) with songs about Body Parts and Jungle Animals. French with Šara will feature Biko (blue) birdie with songs about Colors and Sun Moon and Stars. The first 8-week series will start Tuesday Sept 5th, and additional 8-week series with new vocabulary themes will continue throughout the year.
Please note that all classes are open to children ages 0-5. Bilingual Birdies Asheville is gently encouraging age groupings on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon Spanish classes for people who are flexible. If you can only come one of the days and your child is not in that age-group, you and your child are welcome to join that class. The curriculum is the same for both.
The fall schedule is based upon our recent schedule poll. Send an email if these times can't work for you and Bilingual Birdies will start a waitlist for your preferred time and do their best to add it in one of our locations.
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French Classes | Dr. Šara Stranovsky is a trilingual professional singer, dancer, educator, and doctor of Culture and Performance Studies. She helped to build Bilingual Birdies in New York City and was a teacher and administrator for the company for many years in New York City while also performing professionally in Broadway and off-broadway performances. When she moved to Asheville, she couldn't find any classes for her toddler that were live music based or language learning based, so she launched Bilingual Birdies Asheville. She cannot wait to keep building the bilingual community here in Asheville from the French (and Portuguese) perspectives, and Spanish, through her wonderful Venezuelan colleague, Daniela.
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Spanish Classes | Daniela Risquez is a singer, early childhood educator specializing in outdoor ed, and a children's book illustrator from Caracas Venezuela. She loves working with kids and performs as a professional singer when she is not making all the kiddos giggle!
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Bilingual Birdies is an early childhood bilingual education program for children birth through age six and the adults who love them! Founded in New York City in 2006, we are the first to combine music, movement, and puppetry in a play-based curriculum to engage children as they increase their vocabulary and celebrate diversity in every class! Parent materials are provided for all enrolled families to keep the learning process going outside of class. We currently teach thousands of children in 25 cities across the US, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and the Middle East through our teacher certification program. Our hope is that future generations will learn that bilingualism is a path to greater opportunity, increased compassion for others, and a way to grow into a more open-minded adult. Day by day we’re igniting a bilingual education movement that all are welcome to join.
More details at: https://bilingualbirdies.com/asheville/
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Story Parlor’s Story Co-op offers its members dedicated time and space at Story Parlor’s beautiful 1920s building to explore their creative pursuits while also providing built-in marketing, advocacy, and being in community with a like-minded cohort of artists and art organizations. Co-op members are granted recurring weekly three-hour slots to teach classes, run rehearsals, put on events, or anything else that furthers their own story as creatives. More info at https://storyparloravl.com/coop.