April 2019
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YEA Festival fundraiser
Saturday, April 13 & Sunday, April 14
11 am - 3 pm
Room & Board Furniture Store
My Black is Beautiful. Saturday, April 6, 2019 at ETHS
Walk in Registration is welcome.
Discovering your brilliance from the inside out. My Black is Beautiful is a one day youth summit on the relevance, power and image of the African-American girl. For girls ages 11-18.
YEA! Festival

YEA Festival
Saturday, May 18
10 am-3 pm
Raymond Park




65/202
Student Art Show

Inspired by
"Freedom
in Congo Square"
illustrated by
R. Gregory Christie

Opening Reception
12 March 2019
4 pm
Noyes Cultural Arts Center

Show runs March 11-May 10, 2019

In collaboration with the City of Evanston, District 202, Foundation 65
Band Concerts
April 30 and May 7
The King Arts Bands are busy preparing for their spring performances! The Concert and Symphonic Bands will give a concert on Tuesday, April 30, and the Beginner and Jazz Bands concert will be on Tuesday, May 7. Both performances will be at 7:00 p.m. in the King Arts auditorium, and assemblies will be the same day at 9:30 a.m. These concerts will be the farewell performances for our eighth grade band students! We hope to see you there!
Dance--Ms. Sheehan
5th Grade Dance: Team Blue

Students have been exploring the Elements of Space. They have created Movement Maps for their dances. As we wrap up the Rotation students will work on entrances and exits and create a dance to share. They are dancing to Happier by Marshmello.
6th Grade Dance: Team Blue

This Rotation the 6th grade has studied Master Artists Lester Horton and Alvin Ailey. Working with dynamics/qualities of movement and Choreographic structure-Unison and Canon the dance students have created a dance demonstrating solo and community.
7th Grade Dance
How do we keep a culture alive? Through Dance 7th grade dance students chose a country to research and present to the group. We were able to learn dances from Mexico, Belgium, Russia, Australia, China, Columbia and Hawaii. A sample of our Lion dances.
8th Grade Dance
8th grade dance students have been learning and creating Line Dances, and researching Social dances from the waltz to current dances. A favorite is the Line dance the original "Bus Stop" called by Charlie Green.
Media and Visual Arts --Ms. Stein
3D Design & Printing
Middle Schoolers have been busy designing three dimensionally in Tinkercad and SketchUp apps. They have been working independently to create elements of a city for a larger collaborative installation!
Music--Mr. Smith and Ms. Szczepanski
King Arts Choirs and Rock On-semble to perform at YEA Festival!
We will be performing on Saturday, May 18th in downtown Evanston at Raymond Park. Stay tuned for our performance time.
Drama- Ms. Querciagrossa
Click here for a list of stories   that will be performed.

Stories Alive is a 7th grade Drama ensemble that acts out stories and poems written by students in the King Arts community. This is the 13th year of the ensemble. We strive to encourage our emerging writers to create.
Stories Alive
The 7th grade drama ensemble, Stories Alive, will be performing stories written by students in our community on Thursday, April 11th beginning at 1:20 p.m..
Our wonderful Rock On-semble will be performing between stories.

There were at total of 62 stories and poems submitted. Thank you to all the authors who turned in a story or poem. We wish we could do them all. Stories are chosen by the 7th grade ensemble using a criteria for plot and character and the ensemble does not know who the authors are while they are choosing. 

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