Big Uppa Sky Studios + Libraries
BUS partners with libraries to create welcoming, hands-on experiences that bring people together, reach new audiences, and strengthen the library’s role at the heart of the community.
Why BUS + Libraries?
Libraries are trusted places for learning, discovery, and connection. BUS helps extend that mission through storytelling, art, music, performance, technology, creative play, and collaborative community projects.
Our goal is not simply to fill a calendar with another expected workshop. We listen, explore possibilities, and collaborate with each library to develop experiences that fit its people, goals, resources, and personality.
Possible Collaborations
These are starting points. Each experience can be adapted, combined, expanded, or shaped into something new.
Portable creative pop-ups for parks, festivals, schools, downtown events, and neighborhoods.
Books become worlds to build, remix, and imagine through bricks, storytelling, design, and collaborative play.
Low-pressure creative sessions exploring Story, Art, Music, Performance, and Creative Thinking.
Bringing different people, generations, and communities together to share ideas, discover connections, and create something new through story, art, music, performance, and media.
Experiences that blend imagination, storytelling, design, technology, experimentation, and problem-solving.
Collaborative projects exploring the people, places, histories, memories, and ideas that make a community unique.
Flexible by Design
BUS Library Experiences can be shaped around a library’s audience, schedule, available space, community goals, and budget.
Creative experiences for family nights, summer reading, seasonal programs, or special community events.
Weekly or monthly gatherings that encourage people to return, build relationships, and create together.
Story, STEAM, art, media, design, and collaboration for elementary, middle school, and teen audiences.
Welcoming activities where children, parents, caregivers, and multiple generations participate together.
Multi-session initiatives connecting libraries with schools, museums, artists, organizations, and residents.
Portable experiences that meet people in parks, festivals, neighborhoods, schools, and other gathering places.
What BUS Can Help Support
Introduce new audiences to the library through creative outreach and visible community experiences.
Give participants welcoming opportunities to experiment, imagine, build, and make together.
Strengthen relationships among families, generations, organizations, and community members.
Celebrate creativity through showcases, exhibits, media, performances, and community storytelling.
Our Approach
We learn about your library, community, audiences, goals, and opportunities.
We bring possibilities to the table and discover what might be worth trying together.
We develop an experience around your people, resources, setting, and budget.
We start at a comfortable scale, learn from the experience, and see what connects.
When something works, we can adapt it, repeat it, or explore where it might lead next.
Let’s Explore Together
Whether the goal is to reach new families, engage young people, connect generations, explore creative technology, or bring an idea into the wider community, every possibility can begin with a simple conversation.
John Dessler · 866-BIG-UPPA · info@biguppaskystudios.com
