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DocuSign Envelope ID:0E33E5E7-2F9B-4F3C-9COD-95D21AC52620 <br /> We are seeking the Arts in Education Grant for Fall 2016 in order to bring Billy Jonas to <br /> our stage for two performances, and to our MakerSpace for four fourth-grade workshops <br /> in March 2017. The workshops would tie directly into the fourth grade science unit on the <br /> science of sound, allowing the children to make their own homemade instruments with <br /> Billy Jonas as their facilitator. Without Arts Commission funding, we will be financially <br /> obliged to forego the workshops. Billy Jonas is a singer-songwriter based in Asheville, <br /> NC. He describes his music as "neo-tribal hootenanny"—voice and percussion-based <br /> songs with lots of audience participation. He uses both conventional instruments (guitar, <br /> bass, marimba), and homemade creations (buckets and barrels, keys and cans,bells and <br /> body percussion). His emphasis on homemade, recycled instruments makes him a perfect <br /> resident artist for our MakerSpace. For the residency we are proposing, all of our <br /> students would experience the fun of Mr.Jonas's performance on the stage, and our older <br /> students would also get to work with him more intensively using the materials in the <br /> MakerSpace. <br />