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Dear Key Communicators,
We just wrapped up our final lottery cycle of the season and we are looking forward to finishing out the year strong together with you!
There are still some limited opportunities for field-trips (more info below) for your students, and Professional Development experiences for you!
The fantastic organizations we work with have prepared some enriching and memorable PD events open to all DC teachers. We hope you'll be able to take advantage of these events - make a night of it! Sign up another teacher, meet your fellow educators, and leave knowing that you've gained new skill to implement in your classroom.
Let's MARCH into Spring with a fresh perspective!
All the best,
The DC Collaborative Team
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Highlighted Field-Trips Available
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Field-Trip Opportunities Still Available
As a reminder: these field-trips come at NO COST to your school!
- National Geographic: Extreme Ocean
- Tuesday, April 10th, 10am
- Grades: 5th-8th
- National Geographic: Origins
- Friday, April 20th
- Grades: 5th-8th
- Capital City Symphony: I Like To Move It: Music and Motion
- Friday, May 18th, 12:30
- Grade: 3rd
- National Museum of Women in the Arts: Thinking Routine Thursday
- April 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, May 3rd, 10th, 17th, June 7th, 21st, 10am
- Grades: 3rd-5th
- Imagination Stage: Oyeme, the Beautiful
- April 12th, 13th, 10am and 12pm
- Grades 9th-12th
- Dumbarton Oaks: Outside/IN
- 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8
- Grades 6th-12th
- DC Jazz Festival: Jazzin' InSchool - To South Africa and Back
- Pulitzer Center: Creating Character-Driven Short Films for National Geographic
- Solas Nua: The Frederick Douglass Project
- May 17 and 18, 2018
- Grades 9th-12th
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Professional Development Opportunities
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DC Jazz Festival: To South Africa and Back ft. Sweet Honey in the Rock and Witness Matlou
Presented by: DC Jazz Festival
DC Jazz Festival presents an interactive music education experience through the curriculum of The Festival's own,
Jazzin' InSchool
, a music appreciation class that explores the history, societal impact, and development of jazz and blues in both the United States of America and South Africa. Live performances and demonstrations by South African Berklee Jazz Ambassador, Witness Matlou, and world-renowned a cappella vocal ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Date
: Friday, April 6th
Time
: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Length of Event
: 3 hours
Location
: 1307 L ST. NW
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Providing Voices To Students Who Are Often Unheard
Presented by
: Imagination Stage
Description: ¡
Óyeme! (which means hear me in Spanish) strives to provide a creative arts outlet for young people, utilizing best practice culturally-based, trauma-informed theatre and arts activities to create a sense of community among the participants, and provide a safe space for immigrant youth to share their stories. Learn the techniques for using theatre as a tool for creating a safe space in your classroom, as a vehicle to share stories, and how it can promote language development. This workshop will be led by Director Elena Velasco and Imagination Stage Director of Education Joanne Seelig Lamparter. It will explore themes of the play
Oyeme based on the stories of refugee youth and provide hands on activities that teachers and community leaders can bring back to their students.
Date: Wednesday, May 2nd
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Location: Sacred Heart School, 1625 Park Rd NW Washington DC 20010
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John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration Explores American Storytelling
Presented by: The
National Gallery of Art
Description
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This spring welcomes the second annual John Wilmerding Symposium on American Art and Community Celebration. Named for the Gallery's retired curator, deputy director, trustee, and chairman, as well as one of the nation's leading scholars in American art, the symposium and weekend celebration will explore the expanding and ever-changing stories of American art and the Gallery's dynamic role in sharing those stories. The symposium and community celebration are made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
The symposium will bring together noted artists Janine Antoni, Byron Kim, and Glenn Ligon, who will discuss
Bodies of Work, the East Building installation featuring Kim's
Synecdoche (1991-present), Ligon's Self-Portrait (VIII) and Self-Portrait (X) (1996), and Antoni's
Lick and Lather, (1993). Among other subjects to be discussed at the symposium are the complete reinstallation of a West Building gallery with portraits of women in white, featuring Gilbert Stuart's
Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates) (1793/1794), one of the first objects to enter the Gallery's collection in 1941; Hiram Powers'
The Greek Slave (1846); George Bellows's
Both Members of This Club (1909); Archibald Motley's Portrait of My Grandmother (1922), presented by artist and scholar David C. Driskell; and a major gift of Dorothea Lange's evocative
photographs of American migrant workers taken in the 1930s and 1940s. Visit
nga.gov/calendar/lectures/symposia.html for a detailed schedule of Friday's events.
Date
: Sunday, March 26th
Time
: 11:00-6:00
Location
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National Gallery of Art, 6th & Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20565
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Ford's Theatre Summer 2018 PD Events
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2018 Summer Professional Development Opportunities
Presented by: Ford's Theatre
Description
: Ford's Theatre offers educators many ways to help bring President Abraham Lincoln into your classrooms. Use their lesson plans to engage your students in learning about Lincoln's assassination and its lasting legacy. Use their oratory resources to improve your students' public-speaking skills.
Additionally, attend a summer fellowship exploring Civil War Washington!
Learn more about upcoming Professional Development opportunities hosted by Ford's Theatre at www.fords.org/for-teachers!
Applications are due by Monday, April 2nd!
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In Series Youth Poetry Competition
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Finding Gabriela: DC Youth Poetry Contest
Presented by:
In Series
Description
: Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize in 1945. A prolific poet, essayist, and public schoolteacher, Mistral began to write in her youth, and her words shaped our world. A queer person of color who defended the rights of women, minorities, and children, Mistral's poetry sounded the struggles of populations that continue to be marginalized. The Finding Gabriela D.C. Youth Poetry Contest celebrates the brilliance, passion, and poetry of young people and their ability to give a voice to the challenges we all face.
Poems can be written in English, Spanish, or both and can be about whatever the student wants to write about!
DEADLINE: Wednesday, April 13th
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BAFTA Aesthetica Short Film Festival
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BAFTA Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Presented by: Aesthetica Magazine
Description: The Aesthetica Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-Recognised international film festival based in York, UK. It is an important outlet for moving image and digital culture, creating a platform to champion short film internationally. The festival holds talent development at its core and leaves a lasting legacy by inspiring innovation in film. Its seventh edition ran over an unprecedented five day period, providing even more opportunities for talent development, networking and inspirational film viewing.
The 2018 festival will mark our 8th year of film screenings, masterclasses and guest programmes. As the festival grows and develops, we strive to bring more of the best cinema to audiences in York. This year, for the first time, we are accepting feature film submissions in both Narrative and documentary genres.
Deadline
: Thursday, May 31st
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Inclement Weather Policy
Happy spring! Although, it looks like winter weather is finally here.
AHFES field-trip experiences will be cancelled if:
- The bus company indicates that the roads are unsafe for travel. The DC Collaborative staff will contact the bus companies in the morning to check the safety of the roads. If the company reports back that the roads are unsafe, the Collaborative will cancel the field-trip.
- If DCPS or the public charter school attending cancels or delays school.
- If the museum or host venue closes or operates on a delay.
If a field-trip gets cancelled due to
inclement
weather, the DC Collaborative will make every effort to reschedule based on a mutually agreeable schedule between the cultural institution and the school.
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OUR MISSION
The DC Collaborative, in partnership with our members, advances access to learning opportunities in the arts and humanities for all DC public and public charter school students.
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Donate to the DC Collaborative
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DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
The DC Collaborative is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All gifts are tax deductible the the fullest extent of the law.
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Let us know!
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About the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative:
More than 100 members strong, the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative (DC Collaborative) provides equitable access to quality arts and humanities education for all DC public and chartered public schools for the growth of the whole child. Working with its partners, since its founding in 1998, the DC Collaborative produces such exemplary programs as Arts and Humanities for Every Student and the Professional Development Initiative. View our
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For more information on the DC Arts and Humanities
Education Collaborative, please visit our
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If you would like to include something in our next
member e-newsletter, please email us!
Submissions for our consideration are due C.O.B. on the third Friday of every month and are subject to edits by the DC Collaborative staff.
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