Hello all,

This is a reminder about auditions for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. We saw lots of terrific talent yesterday from elementary students. This afternoon at Grimsley HS is auditions for middle school students! Make sure, middle school teachers, that you have circulated this information! I definitely do not want parents to come back and say that their students missed the auditions because they did not know. Remember, these auditions are for stage roles and not pit. We will audition pit next month. Here are the remaining dates:

March 9: Middle School Students
March 16: High School Students
March 22: Faculty/Staff Auditions (for all GCS faculty and staff who wish to audition for stage roles only)

After the last audition, those who the judging panel wishes to see again will be called back. I want to encourage teachers to audition for stage roles! This is a unique opportunity for teachers to perform in a school production with students! Please forward this information to the staff at your schools and your parents. Thank you for forwarding these messages. Your cooperation has led to several e-mails from other staff and parents who are interested in the show.

Nathan Street

Everyone,

We will have a teacher workshop with Fruteland on April 21 at 4:30 in the Rehearsal Hall at the Greensboro Cultural Center. You may use this as an extra .2 on your CEUs or you can use it as a make-up session if you’ve missed 2 or more monthly meetings.

Nathan Street

Hello all,

I wanted to send a reminder to you today about our upcoming stage auditions for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Pit auditions will be forthcoming in April…more info to follow in the coming weeks. Please make sure that you are promoting this event to your students and make sure all the other teachers in your building have this information so they can promote it to their students. If your school has an announcement system, please get it on the announcements. Make sure you reference the CTG website… www.ctgso.org for auditions information. We are MOST excited about this show! Don’t forget…faculty members are also invited to audition!

Nathan Street

Hi all,

Several deadlines coming up:

• February 15 (today) – Honors Audition Registration deadline
• February 15 – MS East MPA (Festival) registration deadline
• February 17 – MS West MPA (Festival) registration deadline
• February 22 – HS West MPA (Festival) registration deadline
• February 24 – HS East MPA (Festival)  registration deadline

Go to http://www.ncbandmasters.org/honorsband.html for more information on NCBA Honors Band audition registration.
Go to http://cdba.ncbandmasters.org/mpaintro10.html for more information on CDBA MPA.

Have a good week.

BP

We will be hosting a Cultural Resources Guide workshop this coming Saturday, February 20 at 9:30 at the Washington Street Annex in Room 229. We are hosting several representatives from community arts organizations who will be working in concert with your lead teachers in discussing lesson planning and curriculum integration. The meeting will begin with a presentation by me on general lesson planning and 21st Century Skills in NC. We will then go into break-out sessions led by lead teachers on more specific planning ideas and how to incorporate the community organizations and their offerings into the classroom. The cultural organizations are interested in learning more about these topics from our teachers. I am sure our lead teachers will be happy to have extra input from you.

 I will be offering this workshop to you all (9:30-11:30AM) as a make-up session or potential make-up session for monthly meetings. When you arrive, please enter through the main entrance (Washington Street entrance) as this will be the only door open. I will have a sign in sheet for you.

Nathan Street

It’s fun for the whole family as Triad Stage in partnership with the Greensboro Library, Artquest, City Arts, Greensboro Children’s Museum and the UNCG Theatre Department hosts Around the World Day. 

It is a free event for young children and their parents on Saturday, February 20, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm in celebration of the production Around the World in 80 Days, performing February 7 – March 7, 2010.

Among the Around the World Day activities include Mehndi henna hand-painting by the East India Association, mask-making, and postcard designing by the Greensboro Library.  The Greensboro Children‘s Museum will have passports for each child to mark their travels.  Local author/illustrator Jim Young will create a child-sized photo cutout for kids who want their picture taken while riding a cartoon elephant.  Artquest will construct a large train engine for kids to decorate and help make paper hats.  Throughout the event, UNCG Theatre students will guide you to performances in the MainStage Theater from various cultural groups arranged by City Arts and demonstrations of the theater magic used in Around the World in 80 Days. www.triadstage.org 

Drew Barker
Artistic Associate, Triad Stage

HS Band Directors,

 I have been in long negotiations with a non-profit organization here in Greensboro regarding their involvement in producing a county-wide marching band festival (exhibition only, no competition). I’m going to give you some information that we have discussed and then I need to hear from each one of you in regard to your participation. We want and need every school’s participation. Read more…

Good Afternoon District 7 Educators!

 First let me introduce myself, I am Carl Cruthis and I will be serving you as our District President until November 2011.  This is my second year at Guilford Middle School in Greensboro teaching band and theatre and I am honored and deeply humbled that you would allow me to serve you in this position. 

To all of the new teachers let me say ‘Welcome!” from all of us, we all know how you feel at this very moment, we all have been there.  Please take advantage of this group of music educators and ask questions, I know we all would be happy to help.  With that said, please direct all questions to me so that I can forward it to the group that it pertains to, that way we don’t flood everyone’s inbox with emails.  We also have a group on facebook.com in which you can post your questions there as well; the link to the group is below.

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All,

 I hope you had a wonderful and restful holiday break. Of course, we hit the ground running now that we’re back. We have several district-wide events coming up very soon. Some are pertinent to all of you and some are pertinent to respective content areas. I wanted to make you aware of a few things that are coming up that need to be on your radars for the next few months.
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Here’s the list of all the marches done at contest last year:

 
Kensington March…Edmondson
Woodlake March…O’Reilly
Lexington March…Edmondson
Valley Forge March…Edmondson
Liberty Fleet…KL King
Stony Creek March…McGinty
Forward March…Murtha
Barnstormers March…Orcino
Torch of Liberty…KL King
Courage March…Bennett (arr. Clark)
Southern Heritage March…Williams
March Saranac…O’Reilly
Greenland March…Kopetz
March Ahead…Feldstein & O’Reilly
A March on the King’s Highway…LaPlante
Fallbrook March…O’Reilly
Mahattan Beach…Sousa/Story
Norland March…Edmondson
Grays Harbor March…Hodges
Utah Beech…Edmondson