There are assemblies each day for our students to experience "live" performance on our stage and the week culminates on Friday evening at "Arts Extravaganza" - a two-hour family fun event where you can come and create artwork to take home with you. Visual artists will be on-hand displaying and selling their work and musicians will be on-hand performing throughout the building.
On Monday and Tuesday evening, parents are invited back to school to view the student gallery in the lobby and purchase a framed piece of their child's artwork (Kids Art Fairs, Inc.)
On our stage, "Sugar and Spice" kicked off the week using puppets, pop music and magic tricks to engage the students.
On Tuesday, a percussion duo from the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performed.
On Wednesday, Glenis Redmond from North Carolina shared the power of poetry with us.
On Thursday, Orisirisi African Folklore shared African drumming and song with our students. This duo performed at EPCOT for many years before taking their program into schools all over the Southeast.
On Friday, Project Listen (the educational outreach program of Riverside Fine Arts) brought Alan Dalton to us to play banjo and share his love of Bluegrass music with us. An impromptu clogging demonstration was also presented by me!!
The week closed out with Arts Extravaganza on Friday evening with Matthew Olsavsky entertaining us on the steel pan drum and a recorder quartet playing old standards and jazz favorites. It was an absolutely incredible week!!
Until next time...
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Arts Extravaganza is my favorite week of the whole school year. I can hardly believe the dedication on the part of our Cultural Arts Team to bring such a range of arts experience to our students. Honestly, I don't know who is more mesmorized, the students or me!
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