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DocuSign Envelope ID:B96D2CB4-5762-4D6D-8B05-3BE103D9D7D8 <br /> Orange County Arts Commision Grant Application June 2017 <br /> Carrboro Elementary 2017/2018 Cultural Arts Programming <br /> PROJECT NARRATIVE <br /> Carrboro Elementary School (CES) is a community-based school that has been serving <br /> PreK-5th grade students for over 50 years. The school has an English-Spanish <br /> dual-language program, and we use arts programming to enhance multicultural learning <br /> and to introduce students to art forms and performance from around the world. <br /> The arts are important to CES. All students attend art and music once a week for 45 <br /> minutes each. In music, students sing, move, listen, play instruments, and compose. <br /> Grade levels perform musical selections in assemblies and at end-of-year <br /> performances. In art class, students use paint, drawing materials, clay, fibers and mixed <br /> media and study both artists and types of art. This year, our art teacher participated in a <br /> 4th grade district-wide puppeteering workshop with Paperhand Puppet Intervention and <br /> returned to CES to teach puppet making. <br /> In our extra-curricular theater program, students have created and produced full-length <br /> theatrical productions for the past seven years, including The Little Mermaid in 2017, <br /> involving 149 student participants. The school community provides impressive support <br /> every year, with close to $2,000 in donations and services toward the production. <br /> Furthermore, our art/theater teacher runs a 24-hour play festival for 5th graders and a <br /> summer musical theater camp. <br /> Arts programming at CES enjoys broad support from the administration, staff, families, <br /> and the PTA. The PTA works to ensure that arts programming is funded; last year they <br /> donated half of the cost for new theater lights. PTA volunteers coordinate the school's <br /> cultural arts performances and the Reflections Cultural Arts Contest. <br /> Summary <br /> Carrboro Elementary School will host three performances, of two shows each, during <br /> the 2017/2018 school year, reaching all 498 students. Performances will feature <br /> multiple art forms, including street dance, storytelling and performance art. <br /> Project Go is <br /> Provide three high-quality arts experiences to all 498 (approximately) <br /> students. <br />