UPCOMING ARTS IN THE SCHOOLS EVENTS

Your generous donations help fund in-school performances and workshops. Within the past few years, touring performers have included: Richmond Ballet, Virginia Stage Company, Barter Theatre, UNCSA, Once Upon a Blue Ridge Theatre Company, and Solazo.

 The Amazing Open Dream Ensemble performed “Peril on the Red Planet” at St. Paul School, Gladeville Elementary, Fairview Elementary and Baywood Elementary schools on October 13 & 14, 2011.

Earth’s first permanent community on Mars is threatened by starvation. Thirteen-year-old Diana takes matters into her own hands by recreating the ZARTOK machine first produced by a team of scientists ten years prior to make the soil of Mars capable of growing food. She does not realize until ZARTOK is powered up that there is a terrible glitch in its software, making it a force of destruction.

Diana must set off with her robot sidekick, Abeona, to stop ZARTOK from destroying Mars. Along the way she seeks out the scientists who first made ZARTOK and learns lessons about teamwork, empathy, responsibility, courage, and sacrifice.

ARTS ALIVE

Our annual ARTS ALIVE program gives Carroll County Intermediate School students the opportunity to observe artists at work, to see the fruits of the artists labor, and the opportunity to talk one-on-one about the artists medium, their career choices and general artistic insights.  The program has evolved to include the entire community.

Twenty artists in a variety of mediums display and demonstrate their art  for CCIS students and the general public in the gymnasium of CCIS.  The art fair is designed to allow people from the community to come in and see what’s happening at the school as well as with the arts community.  Refreshments and musical entertainment are provided.

In the past, students and residents had a chance to see , jewelry making, wood lathing, glass bead lampworking, three dimensional wood carving, doll making, wood carving, pottery turning, and drawing/painting with a variety of media.