2014-354 Arts - Northside Elementary School for Spring 2014 Arts Grant Agreement $400

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Northside Elementary PTA Cultural Arts Committee Spring 2014 Grant Application Narrative School Profile In August 2013, Northside Elementary School (NES) in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) district in Orange County. This school was intentionally built in the historic Northside neighborhood in downtown Chapel Hill, in the middle of the school district. Northside is unique in that its diverse student population comes from across the school district, drawing on residents from six different elementary schools areas. School's Arts Programs Northside Elementary School has a full time art teacher, a full time music teacher, and a full time physical education teacher. In 2013/2014, the PTA and school worked together to bring the North Carolina Arts in Action program to the students with great success. The Cultural Arts Committee teamed with a UNC student group Bhrangra Elite this past year to help them develop a school program that culminated with a performance at Northside. The UNC student group aims to bring the traditional Indian Folk dance program to schools around the CHCCS district next year. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds The grant funds will be used to allow the PTA to bring Jalbri Acrobats, a Kenyan acrobat team to perform at Northside Elementary School on April 15th 2015. Since we are a new school, our Cultural Enrichment and Arts programs budgets are very low. This grant would enable the PTA to provide 2 Cultural Enrichment shows to Northside in the 2014-2015 school year. This program would tie into geography, physical education, and world history curriculums. I have worked as a PTA Cultural Arts Representative for 7 years (5 years Carrboro Elementary, 1 year McDougle Middle, 1 year at NES) and I am always amazed to watch the students faces as they participate in these performances. I can see their minds drinking in the new experiences and hear the questions they ask that illustrate the impact these shows make. That is why we as a PTA feel it's important to keep working to bring in high quality acts like Jalabri Acrobats. Proposed Uses -Geography of Audience: We would plan to have one performance with approx. 250—300 students and teachers in attendance. Northside has 511 students enrolled, almost 11% are Hispanic, 5% are multiracial, almost 16% are Asian, 22.5% are African-American, and a little over 45% are White. The same proportions of staff at NES are African American and Hispanic. As an indicator of socioeconomic status Northside Elementary School has the highest free and reduced price lunch in the district at 35.4%. NES has 55% boys and 45% girls. NES has 9.5% Limited English proficiency (LEP) students, and 9% of students have special needs. The racial, geographical, and socioeconomic diversity of Northside is very unique. It is a mission of the PTA Cultural Arts committee to bring art and performance to students that would not otherwise be able to afford to go see these shows at UNC or the Artscenter.