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The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie

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The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie is ELA's latest creation, a mini-movie that incorporates environmental and social-emotional learning—as well as reading and emotion literacy—through the art forms of music, lyrical story-telling, 2D illustration, animation and video.

A diverse artists' collaboration, The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie adds a visual element to The Ducks & Us Song thanks to Art Institute of Seattle interns.

The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie is now available exclusively through our educational materials distributor, Chip Taylor Communications. Visit the Chip Taylor web site for details on ordering!

The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie Tour Launch Project provides an opportunity for ELA to carry out its mission to create learning forums to the venue of the movie house, a key tool of culture.

Where to see The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie:

     California Academy of Sciences
     ...check back for new venues soon!

Where The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie has played:
  • Anacortes Cinemas
  • Bainbridge Cinemas
  • Columbia City Cinema
  • Northwest Film Forum's 5th Annual Seattle Bike-In Event
  • Oak Harbor Cinemas
  • Ocean Shores Cinemas
  • Olympic Cinemas
  • Sea View Theater, Orcas Island, WA
  • Shelton Cinemas, Shelton, Washington
  • Skyline Drive-In, Shelton, Washington
  • Stanwood Cinemas
  • The Historic Admiral Theater
  • The Neptune Theater, Long Beach, Washington
  • Vashon Theatre special Audubon event
  • The 2011 Salish Sea Ecosystem Film Festival

Check out the trailer!

The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie


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Read a The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie Review

Check out a review from SeaMedia.org, "the place to go for media about our Northwest waters"!

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The Ducks & Us In Print

The Capitol Hill Times, North Seattle Herald-Outlook and South Seattle Beacon ran a story entitled "The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie takes flight" in their early August, 2010, editions.

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To integrate The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie into your organization's programs or to order a copy for your own personal use, please contact our distributor Chip Taylor Communications.

For information on booking a special screening, interactive presentations and counsel on application of The Ducks & Us, please contact ELA.

Please send questions, comments, referrals or program endorsements to ducksandus at emolit dot org
or call Pamela Sackett, ELA's artistic director, at 206.723.4887.

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The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie's excellent interns:

Art Institute of Seattle interns
Art Institute of Seattle interns: Catherine McConnell,
Reese Kindle, Haley Karnes, Nikki Nopens.

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Support this vital project! Donate now!

Your support is tax deductible and will put The Ducks & Us Songbook Movie on more cinema screens, rippling outward from Seattle!

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