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2010-2011 BPS Arts Calendar

The 2010-2011 BPS Arts Calendar is now available!

Art Education and American History
Explore the vast folk art collection at the House of Blues-Boston featuring local and nationally recognized artists. The artists depict scenes of American history, family and community traditions, and personal dreams and visions. Identify and discuss the elements of visual art and then create an original artwork using the techniques featured in the collection as part of a Portrait Workshop, Sweet Mud Workshop, Mixed Media Symbols Workshop — or create a Custom Workshop tailored to school curriculum or current learning focus. Read more...

Music Education and American History
Explore American history while tracing the history of the blues from its roots in African musical tradition through its emergence as an American musical form. The performance demonstrates the impact of the blues on other musical genres including jazz, R&B, rock and roll, soul, funk and rap. Blues music was influenced by and reflects events in American history including the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement. The historical content combined with live music provided by a seven-piece band of professional musicians is a powerful combination for learning. Program content and learning activities align with state educational standards. The Blues SchoolHouse Live Musical Presentation is best suited for students grades five through twelve.

2011-2012 Student Matinee Season Huntington Theatre
The Huntington’s 30th Anniversary Season is a thrilling mix of the very best we have to offer: classic drama made current, acclaimed comedy, inspiring new work, and glorious music. Read more...

Huntington’s Poetry Out Loud and Student Matinee Program
Opportunities for Grades 6-12. Info Session- includes 1 ticket to 7:30 performance of Candide after session on 9/27. Read more...

55th Annual Conference of the Council of the Great City Schools Request for Proposals

Dear BPS Arts Teachers and Advocates,

Please see the attached Request for Proposals and application form for teachers, artists, schools, and visual arts and design community organizations to submit proposals for one or more art projects that BPS students (pre-K through grade 12) will complete in order to produce table centerpieces for the upcoming 55th Annual Fall Conference of the Council of the Great City Schools.

Superintendent Dr. Carol R. Johnson has launched this initiative to showcase BPS student talents in the visual arts before a national audience of nearly 1,000 Superintendents, School Board members, and other leaders from urban school districts across the country.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, June 23. Please note that an optional information session will be held later this week (Thursday, June 9, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. at BPS Headquarters, 26 Court St.) only if there is sufficient interest, and RSVP is required. See the attached documents for details.

If you have any questions, please contact Cleopatra Knight-Wilkins, Senior Program Director for the Arts, cknight3@bostonpublicschools.org

Thank you!

-On behalf of Boston Public Schools, Arts Department

2011 Youth Arts Month Exhibit on the News
Boston.Com...
Boston Herald...

Lyndon School in the WR Patch/Website
Read article here...

Drawing Us Together 2011 - Boston: A City of Music Visual Arts Exhibit/Competition for Young and Emerging Artists
This spring as part of Action for the Arts®, IHOBF invites young and emerging artists to participate in Boston: A City of Music, a visual arts exhibit and competition exploring and celebrating the vital role of music and music-making in Boston. The exhibit will take place at the House of Blues-Boston and online at www.actionforthearts.org
Learn more...

To sign up for the Scratch Workshop, or to become a RYMAEC member, click here.

Arts Expansion Initiative: Progress to Celebrate
In the two years since the Arts Expansion Initiative was launched in February 2009, more than 9,000 additional elementary, middle, and high school students have opportunities to experience the arts during the school day, compared with the 2008-2009 school year. Now, 4 of every 5 students in kindergarten through grade eight receive arts instruction at least once a week for the whole year, reaching ever closer to the Initiative's goal of 100% of students. In high schools, the number of students accessing any arts instruction during the school day nearly doubled.

This exciting progress is a result of the community-wide effort to increase arts opportunities for Boston's students. The efforts of principals and headmasters, arts specialists and classroom teachers, arts institutions and community-based organizations and funders together are making a difference for our city's young people. Read more...

MassArt's Artward Bound Program
Introducing, a new program that the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) is developing called Artward Bound. Based on funding, MassArt plans to launch the program in June 2011. Artward Bound is a college access program in the visual arts for underserved, potential first-generation students attending Boston’s district, exam, pilot, parochial, and charter schools. The program prepares 8th-12th grade students who have expressed interest in the visual arts with the artistic and academic skills needed for admission to an art/design college or other post-secondary institution. A cohort of 30 rising 8th and 9th grade students will be accepted into Artward Bound for four years based on evidence of visual arts interest, academic record, teacher recommendations, an interview, and a creative arts exercise. After two years, a second cohort of 30 students will be recruited. The program will operate during the school year and also include a six (6) week summer session that incorporates art activities and helps build academic skills. Presently, we are in the midst of starting the student recruitment process. We are looking to recruit 15 students who will be entering the 8th grade, and 15 students who will be entering the 9th grade, in September 2011. We are reaching out to ask if you would kindly assist us in this effort by informing the current 7th and 8th grade students in your art classes about Artward Bound. We would also welcome the opportunity to visit your 7th and 8th grade classes to talk about Artward Bound and distribute application materials. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would be willing to have us visit your 7th and 8th grade art classes. Our contact information is as follows: Jennifer Kilson-Page jkilsonpage@gmail.com
Liz Rudnick, 617-879-7174, liz.rudnick@massart.edu or Read more...

VH1 Save the Music Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for you and your students! The VH1 Save the Music Foundation and DoSomething.org have teamed up to mobilize young people to advocate for music education through a Battle for the Bands campaign. In 2010 the partnership inspired over 90,000 kids to advocate for music education and raise awareness among thousands more. The 2011 program hopes to build on this success and get over 100,000 teens involved in local advocacy projects, and a national video contest. Read more...

ROLLINS GRIFFITH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
For the EIGHTH year, three $1,500.00 Rollins Griffith Memorial Scholarships will be awarded to three Boston Public High School seniors and will be distributed in May 2011. These $1,500.00 awards are given through the generosity of the Rollins Griffith Teacher Center of Boston, a non-profit organization run by and for educators in the Boston Public Schools.  Rollins Griffith was the first African American District Superintendent in the Boston School System.  Rollins was by training both a musician and a teacher.  He served as a music teacher, assistant principal, principal and then a district superintendent.  In 1975, he wanted a teacher center to help prepare teachers to improve students’ academic progress. His tireless efforts led to the establishment of the District 5 Teacher Center to link teacher training and school programs.  After his untimely death in 1978, the Center was renamed The Rollins Griffith Teacher Center of Boston.  His vision has allowed the Rollins Griffith Teacher Center to help hundreds of staff members earn teacher and/or administrative certification; to learn more about diverse cultures present in our school community through conferences and workshops; and, more recently, to travel and study abroad.  BPS High School headmasters, assistant headmasters, guidance counselors, teachers or other school-based personnel may nominate outstanding graduating seniors who plan to study one of the creative arts and/or education at a post-secondary institution.  A senior may also nominate himself/herself or another eligible peer.  Read more...

Apple & Eve Music Mash-Up
One of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation's sponsors, Apple & Eve Fruitables
is dedicated to supporting music education through Seeding The Arts , the
brand¹s larger mission to support music and arts programs in schools across
America. Please see the attached flier with an opportunity for your
school to win $10,000! Read more...

STIPEND OPPORTUNITY: CATS & ARTS LIASONS
Please see the two attached circulars regarding two stipend opportunities. For the Collaborating Arts Teachers, we are specifically seeking DANCE and THEATRE teachers. Non-arts teachers and staff are eligible to apply for the Arts Liason positions; please share with colleagues in your school community. For more information regarding either of these opportunities, please contact the Arts Department (617) 635-9653.

SCRIBE Boston
Dear Educator, here is an application form and submission guidelines for a new publication, SCRIBE Boston, that will be published annually beginning in Spring 2011.  It is being published by the team that worked together on the youth editions of the Roxbury Literary Annual for a few years at ACT Roxbury (and one new member). SCRIBE Boston welcomes poetry, short stories or prose submissions from students who live in the city of Boston and attend school, grades 6 – 12. We are looking for writing on a broad variety of topics and encourage students to be creative and to submit their best work. Students whose writing is selected for publication will be invited to attend a one-day writing workshop with professional writers.  They will also attend a public reception where they will be invited to read from their work.  Should you have questions about SCRIBE Boston, please feel free to contact me, via this email (info@scribeboston.org) or via phone at 617-620-5557. Thank you in advance for spreading the word about SCRIBE Boston and getting students to submit work.

Big Yellow School Bus Grant
Big Yellow School Bus, a partnership between the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, provides $200 grants to help schools meet the transportation costs of educational field trips to cultural institutions and activities in Massachusetts. Learn more...

International House of Blues Tours
The International House of Blues Foundation (IHOBF) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the arts to schools and communities through programs that promote cultural understanding and encourage creative expression. VISUAL ARTS TOURS AND WORKSHOPS TAKE PLACE AT the House of Blues, and include an art tour/presentation of works from the House of Blues art collection and a related hands-on art activity based on the work of an artist featured in the collection. Students learn about art and individual folk artists, consider some of the methods and materials used by self-taught artists, and reflect upon what might inspire artists to create artworks, while creating their own works of art. Folk Art Tours are available free-of-charge to Boston Public Schools and to other groups for a fee. Contact IHOBF-Boston to schedule a tour at 617.960.8380 or ihobfboston@livenation.com. Art tour information & IHOB Foundation Overview.

Take Your Seat Celebrity Series
For the 2010-11 season, I am happy to announce that the Celebrity Series of Boston has over 2200 tickets in our inventory to offer to students and chaperones for the Take Your Seat Program!  Some of the performances included in this year’s Take Your Seat Program are Mark Morris Dance Group, Joshua Bell, Patti LuPone, and KODO Drummers. There is no longer a need to send individual order forms in the mail and nor to wait until the event is posted online to order your tickets.  As long as the complete order is received by the performance deadline date, and as long as the performance is not sold out of Take Your Seat inventory, you will receive the tickets.  If you choose to order more tickets at a later date and you have already submitted your original order, then simply download a new order form and mail it in to our office.  No minimum number of events is required to submit an order form. The user name and password login information from last year is the same as this year, but just as a reminder… User Name:  tys         Password: celebrityseries      

Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Current Exhibition:
The Boston Cheese Cellar is at 18 Birch Street in Roslindale, just down the block from the Credit Union- now until the end of June

The artists from the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing have been active this year! We are competing in the High Art 'Blurring the Lines' show at the Attleboro Museum of Art 86 Park Street Attleboro Mass May 17-22.

HMS students focused on the First Amendent's 'freedom of speech'. The students believe that city kids or youth who may not be able to speak out freely express themselves through dance and artwork, (which becomes the 'blurred line'
or substitute for the constitutional right to freedom of speech through words and oration.) Their entry includes Artwork, a hip hop video and poetry.

Guild Elementary School
Congratulations to Evelyn Garcia, who won a third prize for third graders, and Marina Aquilar won an honorable mention in the state Junior Duck Stamp Contest, sponsored by the Mass conservation and Wildlife Dept.

Students were asked to draw or paint a duck on 9"x12" paper. The contest was for students in grades kindergarten thru 12th grade. Students received their awards in a ceremony on April 10 at Notre Dame Academy in Worcester.

Both Evelyn and Marina made the top 100 pieces in the show out of 350 artworks to win in the state. Their pictures will tour in the top 100 for a year around Massachusetts.

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