Arts-X-press is a summer arts immersion program for 7th and 8th grade students created by the Pacific Symphony in celebration of Cole Carsan St.Clair. 150 students are nominated by teachers throughout Orange County to come together for 5 days of creative exploration each summer. The program has two goals: 1) To expose students to all 5 performing and visual arts; and 2) To foster respect for and interest in each student’s individuality, talents, interests, and background.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

WEEK THREE-DAY TWO




This morning the students woke up pretty early in arts-X-press fashion. They got ready quickly and visited the artsMart and had the opportunity to purchase sweatshirts, tshirts, waterbottles, cameras, etc. Then it was time for breakfast! So many options to choose from…cereal, fruit, eggs, pastries, etc…the students didn’t go hungry!

From there it was time for Creative Expression. The students are already starting to make greater connections with their peers and spending time expressing themselves and opening up.

After a short bathroom break, they moved on to Arts Workshops. Its amazing getting to see the improvement they’ve all made in just a day! Every Arts Workshop is busy preparing for the Parent Presentation so they can share with you what they’ve learned.

By the time Arts Workshop was ending, all the students were hungry again so we went to lunch. After lunch we got on the bus and went to our second excursion of the week. We saw Evita at The Chance Theater. The students loved getting to see this production in such an intimate space. After the show ended, we even got the chance to talk with the cast and crew!

Then it was time to head back to the UCI campus, where we would spend the rest of our night. When we first got back, we had dinner and then went off to a Theatre Spotlight Workshop. Every student got the opportunity to express themselves in this workshop. It was so fun!

Then we had Bonding, a time when we sit down and share with each other one person we appreciate at home and one person we appreciate at arts-X-press. It was great to see how every student has made a connection with someone here already. They are all amazing people and we are so thankful to have them spending the week with us!

When we wrapped up bonding, everyone was exhausted so we headed on back to the dorms to get some sleep because tomorrow we will spend a great portion of the day in Laguna at the Festival of the Arts and seeing the Pageant of the Masters.




We've definitely got an energetic group of students this week....just look at what they've done to some of our counselors!





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