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Lightwire Theater (from America's Got Talent) provided a unique educational performance teaching students about El wire, theater, dance and their unique brand of storytelling. Lightwire presented Moon Mouse, a tale about Marvin who gets bullied in school and later overcomes his challenges and becomes friends with his bullies. Students and public audience members were blown away by this amazing group.
Troker, a jazz band from Guadalajara, Mexico came into schools to teach students about Mexican music. In some schools Troker provided the entire workshop in Spanish and in other schools they taught in both Spanish and English. Students loved Troker! We also hosted a great Dia De los Muertos party with Troker on Saturday October 28th. The crowd was blown away by their talent, and a a great time was had by all.
 Support Arts For The Schools and art in our rural community. Six live shows! Check out the amazing line up with artists from all over the world! Buy a season pass today and save up to $75. Passes on sale til October 28th.
Look no further, the most exciting festival of summer is on its way! The Wooden Boat Challenge will be held on Sunday August 20th, 2017 at West End Beach on Donner Lake from 11am-5pm.
The festival is centered around a boat building competition where teams of up to four people build boats with materials supplied by Truckee Tahoe Lumber. After constructing the vessels, they race them on Donner Lake for a chance to win great prizes, like a 2017-18 Northstar Ski Pass or a Northstar Golf Pass! If you’re interested in forming a team, read this. While the boats are being constructed, there will be plenty of activities to keep everyone entertained. We’ll have live music on the Pavilion stage all day, activities for kids of all ages, food trucks and a beer garden, as well as local artisans displaying their work. Festival entrance is $10/person or $25/family, and all proceeds will go towards supporting Arts For The Schools’ programming. AFTS provides visual and performing arts education for students K-12 around North Lake Tahoe. You can buy tickets ahead of time at New Moon Natural Foods, on Eventbrite, or at the gate on the day of the event. Stay tuned for the music line-up to be announced soon! Visit the WBC page or email us if you have any questions.  The 2016-17 school year has come to an end, and here are the final numbers of people served through our Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and onSTAGE programs.
 Arts For The Schools is expanding to new schools and we need more teaching artists! Please click on each link to download the job description and application instructions. If you have any questions, please email Eve. Visual Arts Program - Teaching Visual Artist Job Description and Application Instructions Deadline: July 14, 2017 at 5pm Performing Arts Program - Music Teaching Artist
Job Description and Application Instructions Deadline: July 24, 2017 at 5pm Arts For The Schools would like to give a big thank you to the Nevada Arts Council for grants that support our Performing Arts program. Learn more about the NAC and PIE grants.  Thank you @JerryBrownGov & #CAleg for @CAArtsCouncil #CAbudget #artsboost Learn More http://ow.ly/VCxq30d3mPE  Arts For The Schools was so happy to have high-energy and extremely talented GuGu Drum Group as the last artist group of the 2016-17 season. They performed various pieces featuring Chinese proverbs and vignettes to over 2,100 students in 6 schools as a part of our Performing Arts Program, and received a standing ovation from the crowd at the public show as a part of our onSTAGE Series. Here are some of our favorite moments from the 3-day residency: Stay tuned for news about the upcoming 2017-18 season! Our new office is located at 10833 Donner Pass Road, Suite 201 in Truckee. We will be in the process of moving and getting settled between April 27th-May 4th, so we will be out of touch via email or phone. Thank you for understanding!
In case you missed Gaelynn Lea's interview on 101.5 KTKE Truckee Tahoe Radio, here it is again!
Also, here are some pictures from her residency in local schools:
Between their two school workshops and public show, laughter was not in short supply when the Second City came to town in early March. Check out these pictures and videos from the raucous AFTS events! |
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