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I also perform at festivals and fairs as a stage performer and/or a roving entertainer. As a roving entertainer, I ride my unicycle and perform walk-around juggling and magic. Click on storyteller festivals/roving entertainer for information about those performances. For information on my company party/picnic performances, click here.
Elementary
School Programs
Reading can provide a kid with information, nurture a love for language, and is fun. In this unique reading motivation program, Dr. Bob, Professor of Reading Education, shares his love for reading and uses magic, juggling, and storytelling to inspire kids to read. Bob promotes books related to birds, juggling, magic, biographies, and other information books; fiction, tall tales, and joke books. Kids are guaranteed to want to read the books highlighted in this program. Responsibility means do what you are supposed to do, try your best, persevere, be self-disciplined, and if you make a mess, clean it up. Bob tells true stories to teach audiences’ to embrace responsibility that is positive - and not with guilt. Hear about Thomas Edison’s 25,000 unsuccessful experiments before finally getting the storage battery to work. Find out how nine-year-old Melissa Poe’s assuming responsibility for the care of the planet led her to form the world’s largest environmental activist organization of children. Learn to think before you act and consider the consequences of your actions. Using humor, storytelling, juggling, and magic, Bob presents a program designed to prevent bullying and help kids to make positive choices. Students will learn what to do if they are being bullied or see someone else being bullied, and how to recognize the similarities they share with other kids instead of focusing on the differences that often lead to bullying behaviors. How do we help to preserve the planet? Take care of the land, don’t pollute, protect endangered species, recycle, and believe you can make a difference. This program will help kids to think about ways in which their personal behaviors can positively affect the environment, and how one person can make the world a better place to live. Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth with stories from Abe’s life that provide lessons for us all. Hear tales of “Honest Abe” who walked several miles to return six cents he’d overcharged a customer. Learn about his resiliency as he bounced back from two bankruptcies and seven lost elections. Find out about the joke books Abe read to keep up his spirits during the Civil War. Delight in the story of the little girls whose letter convinced Abe to grow his famous whiskers. Relive the night in Janesville when Abe snored so loudly that he drove his cousin out of the bedroom. Laugh your heads off as funny man Bob Kann presents jolting juggling, mesmerizing magic, silly storytelling, and much more. Drawing material from twenty-six years of experience performing the "comic arts" as a family entertainer, Bob presents an entertainment extravaganza guaranteed to tickle audiences' funny bones and spark their imaginations. Why did the giant name both of her sons “Ed?” Because she thought two “Eds” were better than one! Middle School Programs
THINK BIG! These stories demonstrate that young people can change the world. Canadian twelve-year old Craig Kielburger’s concern about a Pakistani boy who had been a slave for six years led him to form the organization “Free The Children,” which fights against child slave labor. Nine-year old Melissa’s Poe’s concern about pollution led her to form an organization whose members have planted one million trees. Four-year old Alexandra Scott’s desire to help find a cure for pediatric cancer for children like herself led to the “Alex’s Lemonade Stand” campaign, which has raised more than $18 million towards finding a cure for children with cancer. Get your students involved in changing the world. Reading can provide kids with information, feed their imaginations, and provide them with a life-long, fun recreational activity. In this unique reading motivation program, Dr. Bob Kann, Ph.D. in Reading Education, shares his love for reading and uses magic, juggling, and storytelling to inspire kids to read. Bob "promotes" books related to birds, juggling, games, biographies, magic, and other information books; and fiction, tall tales, and humor. MaGicEnergy™ is an energy/environmental education program for middle school students. The fast-paced program combines a strong environmental and energy message with juggling, humor, magic, special effects, storytelling and plenty of audience interaction. MaGicEnergy was created in 2002-2003 by Madison Gas and Electric in collaboration with performing artist, Bob Kann, a Madison-based educator and entertainer. "We Need Energy" is the major theme of the program with environmental subthemes woven throughout it to demonstrate the relationship of responsible energy use and environmental quality. What can kids do instead of drugs? Do things to build their confidence, read, exercise, help others, change the world, create, and have fun. One of the key principals for effective substance abuse prevention is to provide students with activities that exclude substance abuse. In this AODA prevention program, Bob uses storytelling, juggling, and magic to get middle schoolers thinking about healthy activities that can make them better people and make the world a better place to live. Wisconsin All
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Since
1982, I have been presenting performances for pre-schools, elementary
and middle schools, adults, and family audiences. Each show includes
storytelling, juggling, magic, comedy, and audience participation. 
