BIG LAUGHS. Big FUN. REAL VALUE.
School Assemblies Designed to Get Kids Laughing, Participating, Learning—and READING!
Every Dorian Presents school assembly combines magic, comedy, storytelling, and audience participation with educationally meaningful ideas to create an experience that engages the whole room.
The themes and adventures may change, but every program is built around the same basic philosophy:
Get kids involved. Get them excited. Make learning FUN!
And the value of bringing students together for an experience like this can extend well beyond the theme of the program itself.
SUPPORTING THE WHOLE STUDENT
More Than What Happens on Stage
A great school assembly isn’t experienced by just one student at a time.
It’s experienced together.
Students laugh together. They wonder together. They participate together. Teachers join in. Classmates cheer one another on. And for a little while, the normal school routine gives way to something the entire group can experience and enjoy as a community.
Those moments have value.
A positive, inclusive shared experience can complement the work schools are already doing to encourage student connection, social-emotional development, positive relationships, engagement, and a healthy school culture.
Connect & Belong
Sharing a positive experience with classmates, teachers, and staff gives students another opportunity to feel part of their larger school community. Laughter, participation, and shared moments of surprise and wonder can help reinforce connection, inclusion, and belonging.
Laugh & Play Together
Listen & Participate
Interactive assemblies invite students to practice listening, attention, self-regulation, cooperation, turn-taking, and appropriate audience participation—not as an assignment, but as a natural part of an experience they’re excited to be part of.
Explore & Imagine
Magic invites students to wonder:
How did that happen? What comes next?
What if…?
That sense of curiosity encourages imagination, creative thinking, prediction, questioning, and discovery—the same qualities that can make learning exciting.
Read & Discover
One of the goals behind every Dorian Presents school assembly is simple: get kids excited about reading!
Rather than presenting reading as simply another assignment, Dorian uses laughter, imagination, adventure, discovery, and FUN to help students see books as doorways to new ideas, new interests, and entirely new adventures.
Because sometimes the best way to encourage a child to pick up a book is to give them a reason to want to discover what’s inside.
Different Shows. Shared Benefits.
Each Dorian Presents school assembly offers its own theme, adventure, and approach to engaging students.
But the larger goals remain consistent:
Encourage reading. Spark imagination. Create positive participation. Bring students together. Make learning FUN.
That means schools can welcome Dorian back year after year with a completely different program while continuing to provide students with the same kind of positive, engaging shared experience.
A NATURAL FIT FOR SCHOOL-WIDE INITIATIVES
Supporting the Work Your School Is Already Doing
Schools today are working hard to create environments where students feel connected, included, engaged, supported, and excited to learn.
A Dorian Presents assembly can complement those efforts by providing a positive shared experience that brings students and teachers together through laughter, participation, imagination, learning, and play.
The programs naturally support many of the broader goals associated with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), student wellness, character education, positive school climate, and Safe and Healthy Schools initiatives, including opportunities for students to experience:
✅ Positive interaction with peers and teachers
✅ Connection and belonging within the school community
✅ Appropriate group participation and cooperation
✅ Listening, attention, and self-regulation
✅ Shared laughter, play, and positive emotional experiences
✅ Curiosity, imagination, and engagement with learning
✅ Positive associations with reading, discovery, and education
How Does an Assembly Fit?
A Dorian Presents assembly isn’t intended to replace an SEL curriculum or other specialized classroom instruction.
It provides something different—and complementary.
When students gather to laugh, participate, imagine, and learn together, they have an opportunity to practice many positive social behaviors while sharing an experience that can strengthen connection, belonging, engagement, and a sense of school community.
That makes a Dorian Presents assembly a natural complement to school-wide efforts focused on the whole student—not simply academic achievement.
Need to Share This With an Administrator?
Sometimes the person planning the assembly isn’t the person
who gives the final approval. Feel free to share the following with your
principal, administrator, or other decision-maker:
Dorian Presents school assemblies combine reading enrichment, interactive entertainment, and positive group participation to create an engaging shared experience for elementary students. In addition to encouraging reading, curiosity, and imagination, the programs provide opportunities for students to practice listening, cooperation, self-regulation, and appropriate group participation while experiencing positive interaction, shared laughter, and connection with peers and teachers. These experiences can complement school-wide goals associated with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), student wellness, character education, positive school climate, and Safe and Healthy Schools initiatives by contributing to an environment where students feel connected, engaged, included, and excited to learn.
Paleo Palooza: Dig In for Dino-Sized Fun!
This year, reading is going PREHISTORIC!
Grab your imaginary shovels, dust off your explorer hats, and get ready to DIG IN!
Paleo Palooza is Dorian’s newest reading-enrichment assembly—a high-energy prehistoric adventure packed with magic, comedy, audience participation, fascinating discoveries, and plenty of dinosaur-sized silliness.
Students aren’t simply watching the adventure unfold. They’re helping make it happen!
Along the way, Dorian uses the excitement and curiosity surrounding dinosaurs and our prehistoric past to encourage students to ask questions, explore new interests, use their imaginations, and discover how books can take them just about anywhere.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
A magic dinosaur. An 8-foot baby brontosaurus. A trip through Dino Park. A backyard Barkyologist. And whatever happens when somebody decides it’s a good idea to cross a T-Rex with a Chihuahua…
Yeah. It’s that kind of show.
Ready to Dig In?
Bring Paleo Palooza: Dig In for Dino-Sized Fun! to your school and give your students a prehistoric adventure filled with reading, laughter, imagination, discovery, participation, and FUN!
ADDITIONAL READING-ENRICHMENT ASSEMBLIES
Already Experienced Paleo Palooza?
There’s always another adventure waiting!
One of the advantages of Dorian Presents offering multiple original school assemblies is that you can bring Dorian back without bringing back the same show.
If your students have already experienced Paleo Palooza, several additional reading-enrichment programs are available—each with its own theme, magic, comedy, and audience participation.
The adventure changes.
The FUN doesn’t!
PIGMENTS OF YOUR IMAGINATION
A Colorful Celebration of Reading & Creativity
Get ready for an explosion of color, creativity, magic, and FUN!
Pigments of Your Imagination uses the colorful world around us as the backdrop for an interactive reading-enrichment adventure filled with comedy, magic, audience participation, and imagination.
Students are encouraged to explore creativity, look at familiar things in new ways, and discover how reading can open the door to ideas and possibilities limited only by their imaginations.
Reading Enrichment • Creativity
Imagination • The Arts
READING — DISCOVER THE MAGIC
Where Books and Magic Come Together
A celebration of books, libraries, and the magic of discovering something new!
Reading — Discover the Magic puts reading itself in the spotlight through comedy, magic, storytelling, and audience participation while encouraging students to explore different kinds of books, take care of the books they use, and discover all the adventures waiting for them at their school or public library.
Reading Enrichment • Books & Libraries
Discovery • Imagination
LET’S B FRIENDS
Friendship, Laughter & a Little Bit of Magic
What does it take to be a good friend?
Let’s B Friends combines magic, comedy, audience participation, and reading enrichment with an age-appropriate exploration of friendship, kindness, cooperation, and how the choices we make can affect the people around us.
It’s a fun, highly interactive program that gives students plenty to laugh about—and a few things worth thinking about, too.
Reading Enrichment • Friendship
Character Education • Positive Relationships
Looking for Something Different?
Whether you’re a returning school looking for a fresh program or one of these themes simply sounds like the right fit for your students, Dorian would be happy to help.
JUST FOR FUN!
Sometimes Kids—and Teachers—Just Wanna Have Fun!
Not every school event needs a lesson attached to it.
Sometimes the goal is simply to celebrate your students, bring everyone together, and have an absolutely fantastic time!
Dorian Presents offers high-energy, interactive magic shows created specifically for those occasions—packed with comedy, audience participation, surprises, and plenty of opportunities for kids AND teachers to get in on the fun.
Perfect for student rewards, celebrations, family events, special occasions, and those times when your school has simply earned a chance to laugh together.
MAGIC FUNTASTIC
Big Magic. Big Laughs. BIG FUN!
No reading theme. No educational agenda.
Just Dorian unleashed. 😄
Magic Funtastic is a fast-paced, highly interactive comedy magic show designed to get elementary students laughing, participating, and wondering what in the world is going to happen next.
It’s silly. It’s surprising. It’s ridiculously interactive.
And most importantly… It’s FUN!
Student Rewards • Celebrations
Family Events • Just Because!
KIND OF KOOKY, NOT TOO SPOOKY
Halloween Fun Without the Fright!
Looking for a Halloween celebration that’s more silly than scary?
Kind of Kooky, Not Too Spooky is a lighthearted Halloween-themed comedy magic show packed with magic, puppets, audience participation, surprises, and plenty of ridiculous fun.
It’s kooky. It’s goofy. It might even get a little weird.
But spooky?
Not too spooky. 😉
Perfect for fall celebrations when you want to give students a chance to laugh, participate, and enjoy a little Halloween fun together.
Halloween • Fall Celebrations
Student Rewards • Family Events
Planning Something Special?
Whether you’re celebrating a school-wide accomplishment, rewarding students, planning a family event, or just looking for an excuse to have some FUN, Dorian would be happy to help you choose the right program.
READY TO BRING DORIAN TO YOUR SCHOOL?
Whether you already know which program you’d like or you’re still trying to decide, Dorian would be happy to help.
Tell him a little about your school, your students, and what you’re planning, and he’ll help you find the program that fits.