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Encouraging Applicants from West Virginia Schools Grades 6-8 for the National On Location: Spotlight on Your Community Program
10/06/2009
Charleston, WV – The Appalachian Education Initiative (AEI), as part of its “What Does Creativity Look Like?” campaign, is seeking applications from West Virginia public schools (grades 6-8) for the national On Location: Spotlight on Your Community program, sponsored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with Daimler Financial Services.
As part of the second year of On Location: Spotlight on Your Community, the program is designed to allow students, in sixth through eighth grades, the opportunity to tell the story of the arts in their community, which will be shared worldwide on the Internet. Each of the ten schools selected will receive a media equipment package, and both students and teachers will be trained in storytelling, filmmaking, editing, and producing video stories.
A Thomas Built Bus, part of the Daimler family of transportation, has been outfitted as a media studio on wheels that will visit each school for thirteen days and will be “on location” sometime between January and June 2010. During the program, a drama artists and a media artist will be on location to work with the students in storytelling techniques and media/video/technology skills. The media artists will work with the teachers and students to create a short (three- to five-minute) video about an artist or arts group in their community.
The ten schools will be chosen through a nationally competitive application process and will receive:
- A thirteen day visit by the “On Location” bus;
- Installed Media Lab consisting of an iMac computer, iMovie software, digital and still cameras, microphones, and accessories valued at approximately $5,000;
- $1,000 for the school to support the project;
- Curriculum materials and support to develop media projects about the arts in the community;
- Training for teacher(s) and students on how to use the media equipment and development of storytelling skills by professional artists in drama and media; AND,
- Ongoing relationship with the Kennedy Center’s Education Department and the opportunity to work on additional projects with the Kennedy Center through its online program, ArtsEdge (www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org).
“Teachers are always looking for resources and new ways to make learning exciting for their students,” said Lou Karas, Executive Director of the Appalachian Education Initiative (AEI), which is the West Virginia member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network. “This project is an opportunity for students to tell the story of an artist or arts organization in their community.” Karas said that the Appalachian Education Initiative will provide technical assistance to West Virginia schools interested in applying for the program.
Applications, due by October 30, 2009, are available on the Kennedy Center project website at www.artsedge.org/onlocation/. Applicants will be notified by November 20, 2009 about the status of their application.
More information and technical support for application development is available by contacting Lou Karas at the Appalachian Education Initiative (the West Virginia affiliate of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network) at 304-225-0101 or lkaras@aeiarts.org.
About AEI:
Since its inception in 2001, the Appalachian Education Initiative (AEI) has been dedicated to ensuring that quality arts education should be a central part of the education of every public school student in West Virginia. For more information, go to www.aeiarts.org.
About the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN):
KCAAEN is a coalition of statewide non-profit organizations working in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to support policies, practices, programs and partnerships that ensure the arts are an essential part of American K-12 education.
About Capital Communications Group (CCG) – AEI’s AOR:
Capital Communications Group (CCG) is an international public relations and government affairs firm with locations in Washington, DC and Charleston, WV. CCG’s expert public relations and government affairs practice groups include Litigation Communications, Energy and Environment Communications, Crisis Communications, Issue Advocacy and Public Affairs, Grassroots Advocacy, Gaming, Healthcare and Travel and Tourism. CCG’s breadth of experience spans many years, most issues of public debate and every continent. For more information, visit www.CapitalCommGroup.com.
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