Spring 2012 edition - Bainbridge Island Arts & Humanities Council

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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL Arts in education Is off and Running Providing access to quality arts education experiences remains one of the Arts & Humanities Council’s primary goals, and we do so through our award-winning Arts in Education program. Seven schools are participating this year on Bainbridge Island and in North Kitsap: Woodward Middle School; Sakai Intermediate School; Commodore Options; and Blakely, Wilkes, Ordway, and Suquamish Elementary Schools. Woodward recently had a visit from the West African dance, drumming, and storytelling group Ocheami, which worked with the entire 7th grade on a collaborative performance that was held in the Bainbridge Commons. Programs such as this illustrate a great strength of the AIE program: enhancing students’ firsthand understanding of other cultures during their classroom study of the same material. 4 CURRENTS SPRING 2012 Other programs are unfolding as we speak: Woodward is at work on a unit on Shakespeare with theater instructor Karen Harp- Reed, and Diane Bedell’s class is hosting artist Craig Jacobrown’s Northwest Native mask-making residency at Blakely Elementary. As the classroom residencies get OCHEAMI IN PERFORMANCE. CouRtesY PHoto. under way, we’re working hard behind the scenes to streamline the program and strengthen connections among our partnerships. We’re working closely with the Bainbridge Island School District to ensure that protocols are in place that align with their goals and requirements. Additionally, we’re making ongoing efforts to keep the program relevant and cutting-edge. Program Coordinator Kristin Tollefson is currently participating in the Washington State Arts Commision's Teaching Artist Training (TAT) Lab, an eightmonth professional development program for teaching artists funded by WSAC with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Kristin has brought back and is now employing best practices from the field of teaching artistry including the use of streamlined planning forms, consistent assessment procedures, and targeted program evaluations. Community partners have helped greatly as well, as we continue to ensure the program’s relevance to our teachers and students. For support of this vital and evolving program, we’re grateful to WSAC for continued funding, BCF, and the Suquamish Tribe, as well as the Parent Teacher Organization Coordinating Committee, Parent Teacher Organizations, principals, school administrative staff, and other district representatives along with the Arts & Humanities Council Board of Directors. For more information about Arts in Education, click Education on the home page of our website. THE SUQUAMISH TRIBE NEW WEBSITE The Masters of Our (new) Domain The Arts & Humanities Council invites you to visit our brand new website: www.BainbridgeArtsHumanities.org We undertook a site redesign last fall with the over-arching goal of better supporting our core mission: To create an environment on Bainbridge Island in which the arts and humanities flourish. Highlights include: A dynamic cultural calendar with all the info you’ll need to scope out what’s happening tonight, next week, or a month from now. A Resources section that showcases cultural organizations, creative professionals, and local venues. A fresh look and feel. Straightforward pointers to information about our programs and services. An integrated Bainbridge in Bloom section. Along with the new website address comes a new set of staff e-mail addresses, beginning with admin@bainbridgeartshumanities.org, your go-to address for questions and information about the site or the Arts & Humanities Council. Visitors to our old address (www.artshum.org) and those who send mail to our old @artshum.org e-mail addresses, will automatically be re-directed to our new website and inboxes. A big thank-you Our website was designed by Josh Rowland of Josh Rowland Web Design and Development, and made possible in part by a grant from the Bainbridge Community Foundation. We’d also like to thank you, the Bainbridge community, for your ongoing support of the arts and humanities on Bainbridge Island.
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL Congratulations to george shannon and Michele van slyke, 2012 Island treasure Award winners! The Arts & Humanities Council celebrated children’s book author George Shannon and metal artist Michele Van Slyke at this year’s 2012 Island Treasure Awards, held on February 25 at IslandWood. “Michele and George embody the spirit of the Island Treasure Award,” Executive Director Barbara Sacerdote said. “Their talents and achievements in the visual and literary MICHElE vAN SlykE AND GEORGE SHANNON. PHoto: JIM RePLIngeR. arts, respectively, have made an indelible impact on the culture of Bainbridge Island. The vibrancy of each of their works is matched only by a consistent generosity in sharing it, and themselves, with the community. We couldn’t be more excited to honor them as Island Treasures.” Learn more about George and Michele and about the Island Treasure Award at BainbridgeArtsHumanities.org, and look for a full event recap in our summer edition. Celluloid bainbridge Moves to october Celluloid stalwarts who are wondering about this year’s festival (doesn’t it usually happen about, er, now?), wonder no more. Beginning this year, the Arts & Humanities Council is shifting the timing of our beloved annual film fest to help pace our programming and to offer local filmmakers the chance to showcase their work during a fantastically fitting film season: the fall. Viewers, mark you calendars for Sunday, October 14 at the Historic Lynwood Theatre. Filmmakers seeking submission, this year’s deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, June 1. The primary submission criterion is that films have a Bainbridge connection. For an application, complete guidelines, and submission details, see our website or email celluloid@bainbridgeartshumanities.org. PHoto: JeweL CLeARwAteR Rounding the Poetry Corner The Arts & Humanities Council will once again celebrate National Poetry Month in April by selecting and posting community members’ verse in local storefronts. Poetry Corners literally puts poetry in your faces, in the best possible sense! Our hope is that seeing original poems along your everyday route will inspire you to pause, read, absorb, and reflect. This year’s theme, fitting in the wake of recently completed downtown reconstruction and the entrance of spring, is “Transformation.” If you’d like to submit a poem for consideration by the Poetry Corner's jury, the deadline is March 9. Full submission guidelines are on our Poetry Month page, where you’ll also find information about other Poetry Month activities around the island, including those offered by the Bainbridge Public Library. CURRENTS SPRING 2012 5
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