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"Community Anthem"
at P.S. 63Q
| As part of our school wide, year-long
"Community Anthem" project that will connect students to their local and
global communities by weaving a tapestry of the arts and technology around a
social studies based framework, a 12-week residency with a composer will
provide instruction in music composition for students and professional
development for teachers. Students will compose four separate anthems
for the school, the city, the borough and New York City. Cultures and
national anthems from around the world will be researched and explored,
focusing on the ethnicities predominant in the school community.
Parents and community leaders will be invited to classrooms to discuss their
country of origin. Music teachers on staff will incorporate literacy
standards in the production of student-created lyrics. Students will
demonstrate multicultural dances. Visual arts teachers will facilitate
creation of artwork for CD, DVD and other related projects, such as flags
from various countries, to be displayed school wide. A multimedia
compilation will be produced by a group of students who will shoot and edit
video of the entire process. Multimedia presentations will also be
created for countries students have researched. Anthems will be
recorded and utilized on the CD and DVD. A Flag Day festival in June
will be our culminating event, inviting the community to view a showing of
the visual arts projects, multimedia presentations, international dances, as
well as live band and choral performances of student-composed anthems.
All grade levels will be included in some element of the project. Funds for the composer residency were provided by a grant from Queens Council on the Arts in partnership with matching funding via Arts Horizons. Studio in a School partnership funded by a Magnet Arts grant. Additional funding provided by Project Arts.
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