Arts Days School Challenge Events – September 18, 2009
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary Alberta
School: Rundle Elementary School
Event: Art Gallery
Our day begins with a race to Beat Beethoven as students from Kindergarten to Grade Six run to the famous Fifth Symphony. Afterwards, students, parents, and teachers are invited to tour our Art Gallery, for which each student created a piece of art to reflect their developing understanding of our school-wide inquiry into CHANGE.
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city/town village/hamlet: Across Alberta
School: Alberta Distance Learning Centre School
Event: Diversity of Art
ADLC Art and Design Studies students from different locations in the province will produce artwork that is influenced and inspired from their local communities during the Alberta Art Days Challenge. This will then be submitted and compiled into a multimedia presentation, to showcase art practice in the distributed learning environment.
Website: http://www.adlc.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Airdrie
School: RJ Hawkey Elementary
Event: Recognizing Arts Day
All students - Kindergarten through grades Four -participated, under the guidance of their teacher, in at least one intergrated Fine Arts activity.
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city/town village/hamlet: Lacombe
School: Lacombe Christian School
Event: Arts Day
K-3 students listened to "Colors of the Wind" before creating an Art project that displayed the movements and instrument interpretations with paper and other mediums.
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city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: St. Boniface School
Event: St. Boniface Arts Days School Challenge Event
Everyday is Arts Days at St. Boniface School. But on September 18, Education Parliamentary Assistant Janice Sarich will be joining a Grade 4 class of students to practice drawing techniques.
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city/town village/hamlet: Wabasca
School: Bigstone Community School
Event: Pirate Day in an ''artsy'' way!
On Sep 18, the students at OPK, having learned about pirates during the month of Sep. in their library classes, will celebrate International 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' and the Arts by having a pirate costume parade, and some class and individual improv performances.
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city/town village/hamlet: Olds
School: Horizon School
Event: Arts Day Gallery Tour
Horizon School students participate in regular Art classes on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with Mrs. Jorgensen. Students also enjoy Art Sparks classes on Friday afternoons when a volunteer artist comes in to work with the students. In celebration of Arts Day, parents and community members were invited to tour our school's Art Gallery - viewing displays of students' art work thorughout our hallways and classrooms.
Website: www.horizonschool.ca/
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Good Shepherd Elementary
Event: Making A Difference with Art
Students are creating a large mural in the school entry way to illustrate the school theme for this year, "Go Make A Difference". Students will begin by creating pencil sketches of buildings in our community, learning to use value with 2B pencils to enhance their artwork. Over the year, as students complete social justice projects, they will apply tinting and other techniques to colour the mural. The mural will become brighter and more inticrate throughout the year as students use art techniques they learng to add to the mural. This will reflect how students have brightened the community through their good works.
Website: goodshepherdelementary.ecsd.net
city/town village/hamlet: Cold Lake
School: Nelson Heights School
Event: Artistic Hands Flower
All grades 4 to 8 over 300 students make a tracing of their hands and then cutting out the pattern. Then they use graphic design for self expression around their first name. Whole school's hands assembled into a Unity Flower for a large wall display creating an semi-abstract carnation.
Website: nelsonheightsschool.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Two Hills
School: Two Hills School
Event: Paint the Town
Two Hills School students from Kindergarten-grade 6 made their way to the heart of town to adorn the streets with art. Armed with sidewalk chalk, each grade left their mark, drawing horses, flowers, rainbows and a vast array of other creative masterpieces.
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city/town village/hamlet: Benalto
School: Benalto School
Event: Chalk friends
All the students in the school used chalk to decorate the sidewalks along the street outside our school. Chalk friends are holding hands.
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city/town village/hamlet: Airdrie
School: Muriel Clayton Middle School
Event: Pinwheels for Peace
Our school is celebrating International Day of Peace on September 21st in conjunction to Alberta Arts Days as we create a visual public statement about peace. On Friday September 18, describing their thoughts and visual ideas of peace, every student will create an individual pinwheel. Then on Monday September 21st we will be creating a public visual installation outside of over 600 pinwheels.
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city/town village/hamlet: Fort Chipewyan
School: Athabasca Delta Community School
Event: Art in our Community
Local artisans and traditional crafters have contributed some of their creations to be put on display in our school library. Children from K-12 were asked to contribute art work they've made this year. Contests were conducted in each classroom and the winners get to have their artwork on display. Both community-at-large and school community are contributing to this event.
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city/town village/hamlet: Lundbreck
School: Livingstone School
Event: Alberta Arts Day
All students will take the last half of our Friday to participate in a smorgasbord of arts experiences from theatre games, sculpture, drumming circle, hip hop dance, photography, computer graphic design and sing in a rock band. Grades 1 to 12 will be performing their newfound talent side by side at a final assembly.
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city/town village/hamlet: Brooks
School: Brooks Junior High School
Event: Exquisite Corpse
The grade 7 and 8 art classes will work collaboratively to create a giant exquisite corpse flipbook. At the beginning of the class the students will be asked to brainstorm a list of characters that they would like to include in the flipbook. Then each student will create a drawing of a head, a torso or legs. At the end of the class period the drawings will be complied into a flipbook. The flipbook will be displayed in the front foyer for the entire school to enjoy.
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city/town village/hamlet: Innisfail
School: Innisfail Middle school
Event: IMS arts
Currently, we have placed an art exhibit at our Central Office highlighting the students’ pieces. Other activities such as: students are playing bells for their peers, a readers’ theatre production with our Grade 5 students, shared novel reading with our librarian, and students are building puppets. Additionally , our students will be involved in culinary arts activities – where they will set a menu, buy the food and then prepare it. Students are also involved in developing a video presentation, building models, making a movie, studying Georgia O'Keefe, cartooning, participating in a band workshop and designing and building the props for our pep rallies.
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city/town village/hamlet: Jasper
School: Jasper Elementary School
Event: Window Wonder - Fentre sur l''art
Teachers will feature local artists from Jasper and show some of the original paintings in the school. Some classes will visit the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives to vies local artist Jane Shepherd's painting show. This will give an awareness of local artists and a viewing opportunity to students.
All students will be given the opportunity to create art on Friday when students will be invited to paint their classroom windows and sidewalks. This way the whole community may view the art work done in the school by all students helping celebrate this great event.
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city/town village/hamlet: Medicine Hat, Alberta
School: Crestwood School
Event: "Sunflowers"
The Grade Four art classes will celebrate Alberta Arts Days, Fall and Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" by: reading about him, viewing his art and finally painting their own sunflowers. Our creations will be shared with the Crestwood School families through displays on bulletin boards in classrooms, hallways and the library.
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city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: McKenzie Lake School
Event: Exploring Treasures in Our World
The staff and students at McKenzie Lake School will participate in a residency program with Sun Ergos using movement and masks to explore ourselves and our emotions. Our inquiry focus is exploring treasures in our world.
Website: schools.cbe.ab.ca/b385
city/town village/hamlet: Iron River
School: Iron River School
Event: sock hop
At noon recess, the students Kindergarten through Grade 9 will go to the gym for a sock hop. All teachers will also be encouraged to do an extended art time within their own classrooms.
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city/town village/hamlet: Sylvan Lake
School: C.P. Blakely School
Event: Arts Day School Challenge
40 students from K to 5 will participate. We are building a life-sized tiger, our mascot, with paper mache for our soon-to-be, completely renovated school.
Website: www.cpblakely.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Jasper
School: Jasper Junior Senior High School
Event: mountain chalk drawing
We will draw the view from our school -Jasper National Park- using chalk to decorate the area around our school. We will make our community aware of Arts Days through "chalk posters" and design!
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city/town village/hamlet: Cochrane, Ab
School: Manachaban Middle School
Event: Arts Day School Challenge
Grade six students at our middle school are going to use the wildlife of Alberta as our art theme. We will be coloring the insides of the drawings with the colors of the rainbow. We are creating wildlife color abstracts.
Website: plone/rockyview.ab.ca/manachaban
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Calgary French and International School
Event: A wall of many colors
All students from grades 1 to 6 will participate in the creation of a mural to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of our school as well as Arts Days. On September 18th, every student will design a 5"x5" square. These squares of color will be assembled to create our large mural.
Website: www.cfis.com
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Third Academy
Event: Third Academy: Our Place on Earth.
All grade 1-9 students at the North campus will be creating a themed chalk mural on the parade square.
Website: thirdacademy.com
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Douglas Harkness Elementary
Event: Peaceful Communities
Each class plans to recognize Arts Days on Sept. 18th by celebrating peaceful communities. Several classes are creating, decorating and constructing, "Pinwheels for Peace" in preparation for planting outside of the school on International Peace Day the following Monday. Other classes are using various media to share images of Calgary, Alberta, and Canada as illustrative of the larger Peaceful Communities that we belong to. These will be shown as part of our Artwalk display as well as in other hallways of our school.
Website: schools.cbe.ab.ca/b347/
city/town village/hamlet: Exshaw
School: Exshaw School
Event: Artists Sharing Event
The staff and students of Exshaw School are planning to hold an Artists Sharing event which will showcase the many artistic talents of our students. The program will also include First Nations Dancers and the opportunity to learn part of a First Nations round dance. Minister Hancock will be on hand to participate in this exciting afternoon.
Website: http://www.crps.ab.ca/exs/
city/town village/hamlet: Rocky Mountain House
School: Ecole Rocky Elementary
Event: Celebrate Arts Days
Students will learn about the various kinds of arts through a video presentation. Then the whole school will participate in making music together and creating a dance together.
Website: www.wrsd.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Elnora
School: Elnora School
Event: Elnora School Art Extravaganza
In celebrating Alberta''s Arts days, Elnora School plans a whole school event in conjunction with their Circle of Courage Philosophy. Students will be sharing how they show the characteristic of generosity in images painted onto canvas. They will share their work with the entire school in a montage posted in the entrance to the school.
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city/town village/hamlet: High River
School: Highwood High School
Event: Chalk Festival!
All art classes will be taking advantage of the fabulous fall weather and going outside to create sidewalk chalk art!!!!
Website: www.highwood.fsd38.ab.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Bishop Kidd Junior High
Event: Chalk it up to community spirit!
Our junior high students will be filling the community with art as we complete a homeroom challenge to create chalk art on the sidewalk around our school. Each class will be given a space to express themselves as a group and share a message with our community!
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city/town village/hamlet: Hinton
School: Harry Collinge High School
Event: HCHS Arts in Action!
For Alberta Arts Days the Grade 8/9 students at HCHS have been given the opportunity to sign up for an arts workshop. These workshops will take the place of their last two blocks on Friday. There are a variety of Arts being represented from food art to guitar, dance/drama to photography. These are being offered by teachers, community members and Senior High students. In addition to this, some of the Senior High teachers are bringing the arts into their classroom. One example is a senior high creative writing activity. During the day the students will be working on a school mural that will be presented at an assembly at the end of the day.
Website: www.harrycollinge.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Fulton Place School
Event: Celebrating the Arts at Fulton Place School
The musical group HOJA will be performing at Fulton Place School on Wednesday, September 16th. Students throughout the school will be creating a piece of visual art on Friday, September 18th.
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city/town village/hamlet: Wainwright, Alberta
School: Blessed Sacrament School
Event: Arts on the Run
Blessed Sacrament School is taking to the track. Our entire school, K-12, is buddying up to create an outdoor mural on our running track. Our theme is "Art is Everywhere".
Website: bss.ecacs16.ab.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: École St. Gérard
Event: School Art Day Exhibit
Every class will be sharing their art work to be admired by all and to be evaluated by some local artists. Our school will become an art exhibit.
Website: /www.cssd.ab.ca/schools/stgerard/
city/town village/hamlet: Innisfail
School: John Wilson Elementary School
Event: Amazing Alberta Arts Challenge
The week of September 14th to 18th, students will participate in integrated art and language arts activities in their classrooms, focusing on the work of Georgia O''Keeffe, the artist we will be studying this year. In their art classes with Mrs. Handford, students will develop observational skills by sketching and painting sunflowers from nature. This introduces the new artist, Georgia O''Keefe and her flower paintings. Students will have the opportunity to tour a travelling art exhibit featuring mandalas which will be at our school that week. On Friday, September 18th, an outdoor gallery will be displayed along the perimeter fence of our school yard. Our students and the general public will have the opportunity to enjoy ten large acrylic canvases created by present and former John Wilson Students. These canvases focus on art appreciation and expression and are the result of an in depth study by students for various artists through history.
Our students will also take part in music listening and appreciation activities in their classrooms that week. Students will be exposed to a variety of styles of music. They will discuss the types of voices and instruments they hear, the composer of the piece or the group or artist performing and the country of origin. They will also explore the tempo and dynamics of each selection and the feelings evoked by the music. Students will complete a listening log after listening to each piece and will create an illustration of their feelings or the story suggested by the piece. The following week, the Tudor Recorder Trio from Red Deer will come to perform for our grade four students. After a mini concert featuring Renaissance music, each grade four class will take part in workshop given by the members of this group and music teacher, Ms Moorhouse.
During the week of September 14th to 18th, students and staff of the school will bring photographs of themselves and their families participating in the arts at home. These photographs will be displayed on a bulletin board in our front entrance. A caption will be displayed with each photograph, explaining who is in the picture and the arts activity they are involved in. This display will showcase the talent and creativity of students and their families.
Website: www.johnwilsonschool.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Sundre
School: River Valley School
Event: Arts Alive at River Valley School
Our grade one classes will set the stage by introducing the day with a rap they have written. All students from k-8 will be celebrating the arts by involvement in a music, art, drama or dance activity throughout the day.
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city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Springbank Community High School
Event: Alberta Arts Day School Challenge
Our school will be participating in a school wide mural during lunch. Our goal is to have all 800 students, staff and support staff make a mark on a large canvas. The canvas will be later hung in the entrance of the school to symbolize the collective creativity and aesthetic beauty of our school community.
Website: plone.rockyview.ab.ca/springhs
city/town village/hamlet: O''chiese First Nation Reserve
School: O'Chiese School
Event: "The Elders are Watching-RESPECT"
Student paintings reflecting one of the 7 Native teachings "RESPECT".
Looking at the story "The Elders are Watching", students will reflect on the idea of Respect and create paintings inspired by the images in the book which are created by Roy Henry Vickers.
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city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton AB
School: Aurora Charter School
Event: AAAA Aurora Arts Appreciation Afternoon
Digital art -video display followed by a dancing celebration
Website: auroraschool.com
city/town village/hamlet: Sexsmith
School: St Mary's Sexsmith
Event: Art Appreciation!
St. Mary's students are excited to share the experience of art appreciation. This extends to all areas of the art world including a dance performance. We are also having our older students exhibit their original works of art to show to the younger grades. Explaining the use of color, texture and technique. This gives the older student the opportunity to teach and share their talent with the younger children. Along with this we will implement the beauty of religious art in the art world.
Website: www.gpcsd.ca/stmarys
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary, Alberta
School: Arts Centered learning at Willow Park
Event: Willow Park 3rd Annual Festival of Speculative Art
Gr. 9 3rd Annual Festival of Speculative Art
Grade Nine Students at Arts Centered Learning at Willow Park will create an Artistic Piece that is inspired by scientific or mathematical concepts. In the past they have communicated the Particle Model of Matter through dance, done a painting of how light refracts and reflects, or writen a monologue about what it means to be the number zero.
Possible mediums to work in include dance, drama, painting, sculpture, poetry, creative writing and fashion.
Their work must be supported by a written Artists Statement. In this writing they will explain their chosen scientific or mathematical concepts and how they inspired their creation. They must use accurate sophisticated vocabulary and definitions. This statement will be posted beside their piece or performance area to support their creation.
On Friday, September 18th they will present their work to the rest of the school in Willow Parks 3rd Annual Festival of Speculative Art.
Website: schools.cbe.ab.ca/b331/
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Progressive Academy
Event: Squiggles and Giggles
Students K-Gr 6 are creating a large cooperative art piece filled with textures, patterns, and the colors of the rainbow. In the weeks leading up to Arts Days, students will work on creating "wavy" and "zig zag" images and then titling their drawings. On Sept. 18th each student's drawing will be displayed together to create one large art piece. Parents, friends, families, and students will then be invited to comment on the piece in the school's Art Days scrapbook in hopes of developing the discussion and appreciation of art.
Website: www.progressiveacademy.ca/
city/town village/hamlet: Lethbridge
School: Children of St. Martha's
Event: French Drumming
Children be drumming with the guidance of a guest at the school who will be working with them in a French language setting
Website: http://www.holyspirit.ab.ca/st.martha/
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Allen Gray Child Development Centre
Event: Muskoka Chair Painting
Children from our centre will participate in painting a Muskoka chair using their handprints to resemble fall leaves. This will tie in with our Kindergarten theme this month "All About Me" The chair will be sold at our annual Black and White Fundraiser as an auction item.
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city/town village/hamlet: Morinville
School: Morinville Community High School
Event: Arts Day Celebration
We decided to make a week long event out of this! HOJA is starting us off on Monday and we have karaoke at lunch. Tuesday we have a 15 foot painting being created. Wednesday is Dress as your Fav Artist or Musician. Thursday is freestyle guitar at lunch and a dance that evening. Friday is our Opening Gathering to celebrate ARTS EDUCATION! Our music program will be performing 4 songs, our drama department will conduct a flock dance with 550 participants and our drum facilitator will orchestrate a 550 drumming session with drums and boomwhackers! Hanging on the back wall of the gym will be the banner that 15 Art 30 students created on Tuesday!
Website: www.mchs.gsacrd.ab.ca
city/town village/hamlet: St. Albert
School: Albert Lacombe School
Event: Kingdom of god quilt
Our project will be the creation of a quilt to recognize the ways in which we are called to "Build the Kingdom of God". Each child in the school will create his or her own quilt square symbolizing how he or she will help to build God's Kingdom this year.
Website: www.al.gsacrd.ab.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: FFCA- SW Campus
Event: Art Grows Smarts!
Every student in our K-4 school will create an artist trading card. Students will create their cards using colour or value. The finished cards will be used to spell out Art Grows Smarts on a bulletin board in the school. When the display is taken down students will get their first traded card as they receive a card from a student in another grade. We will continue trading cards with other FFCA campuses throughout the school year.
Website: www.ffca-calgary.com
city/town village/hamlet: edmonton
School: Ecole Publique Gabrielle-Roy
Event: Tous ensemble chantons notre cole!
With groups 4-6 we're writting a song arround our school theme. ENSEMBLE NOUS RUSSISSONS! So far we're doing very well!
Website: csrcn.ab.ca/gabrielleroy
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Calgary Arts Academy Knob Hill Middle School Campus
Event: Celebrate the Arts!
A morning assembly for all Year 5 to Year 9 students featuring live painting and dance by resident artists will kick off our day long celebration. In multiage groups, students will rotate through 15 different art stations and experience and enjoy the five fine arts music, art, dance, drama and literary art. The Year 9 students will provide the leadership to facilitate this fine arts fair.
Website: www.calgaryartsacademy.com
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Calgary Arts Academy Glenmeadows Elementary Campus
Event: Celebrate the Arts!
A morning assembly for all Kindergarten to Year 4 students featuring live painting and dance by resident artists, will kick off our day long celebration. In multiage groups, students will prepare a presentation in one of the five fine arts music, art, dance, drama and literary art. These presentations will be showcased in an afternoon assembly for the school community
Website: www.calgaryartsacademy.com
city/town village/hamlet: Lac La Biche
School: Vera M. Welsh Elementary
Event: Drumming Circle
Our grade 3 drumming circle will be performing at the Portage College for the opening of the staff PD day.
Website: vmwelsh.nlsd.ab.ca/
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Patricia Heights
Event: Celebrate Art!
All classes will be participating in an art activity in the classroom on this day. Discussion of the importance of art and art appreciation to improve the quality of lives will occur with all students.
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city/town village/hamlet: Falher
School: École Héritage
Event: Tout le monde ensemble
Les étudiants vont interpréter Tout le monde ensemble de Chante avec moi avec des instruments de musique qu’'ils auront fabriqués et du 15 au 18 septembre chaque matin il y aura une danse cardio au gymnase.
Website: http://www.csno.ab.ca/heritage/intro.html
city/town village/hamlet: Red Deer
School: Annie L. Gaetz
Event: Move and Groove
Inspired to Go Inspired to Grow
Children will be drumming and dancing. Throughout the morning, you are welcome to come and observe the following classes put action and movement to music.
8:43 a.m. - grade one
9:15 a.m. - grade three
9:45 a.m. - Kindergarten
10:30 a.m. - grade two
11:00 a.m. - grade four Mr. Reed/Mrs. Ferguson
11:30 a.m. - grade five Mr. Christensen/Ms. Kenny
Website: www.rdpsd.ab.ca/alg/
city/town village/hamlet: Edmonton
School: Kenilworth Junior High
Event: Color our World- Pavement Draw
The street in front of our school will be closed from 11:30 AM Friday, September 18 until 2:00 PM the same afternoon to allow Kenilworth Junior High students to colour their world with side walk chalk. Photostudents and videography students will document the event.
Website: kenilworth.epsb.ca/
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: FFCA Northwest Elementary Campus
Event: The Northwest Elementary Art Tree
All students and staff within the school will make a crumpled-handprint leaf. In the week leading up to Alberta Art Days the leaves will be assembled by the students and staff on a large crape-paper tree within the school. The final product will be a colourful and expansive art tree.
Website: http://www.ffca-calgary.com
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Lord Beaverbrook High School
Event: Collective Mandala and Epcor Centre
We will be bringing in local artist Adrienne Adams to work with Arts-Centred Learning students to create a large scale mandala. Other Arts- Centred Learning students will be going to the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts to participate in a series of 6 art education stations. It's going to be great!
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city/town village/hamlet: Fort Saskatchewan
School: Fort Saskatchewan Elementary School
Event: Theatre Presentation
Virtually our entire school population will be attending Beware of the Quickly Who at the DOW Centennial Centre in Fort Saskatchewan. We are looking forward to enjoying this wonderful presentation.
Website: fortelem.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Peace River
School: T. A. Norris Middle School
Event: Arts Day September 18
So far we have a TREX show on buildings coming to our school from Grande Prairie, at lunch time we are holding a dance with international music, and plan to have every student and staff member colour in, as they see fit, an outline of our school mascot, the timberwolf and then display them throughout the building.
Website: www.prsd.ab.ca
city/town village/hamlet: Calgary
School: Jack James High School
Event: Artist Trading Cards open room
Students will be able to look at artist trading cards in binders from past students and others artists who have made these small feats of art on a two and half by three and a half scale. They will then draw, paint, their own cards. Other teachers all over the school will be asked to do small acts of creativity in their classroom for the day, encouraging the arts,and free thinking. We will be going around taking pictures of the events.
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