This is National Arts in Education Week. We at RJR are fortunate to have a comprehensive arts education available to all students--Arts Exposure, Arts Integration, and Discrete Arts Education. RJR students may choose from courses from beginning to Advanced Placement in all arts disciplines--Music (Orchestra, Band, Chorus, Piano, Classical Guitar), Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre, and Creative Writing.
This week, we are drawing attention to how fortunate we are by creating a banner (#BecauseofArtsEd) that we will mail to Raleigh thanking our legislators for supporting Arts Education, writing letters to our legislators, creating a collaborative installation of a Garland of Wishes and Dreams to be installed on campus, and having NBC The Voice's Semi Finalist, Braiden Sunshine, perform on the Gfeller Lunchtime Performance Stage.
Follow RJRArts on Twitter or "like" RJ Reynolds Arts on Facebook to see more frequent updates/pictures.
The following letter was mailed to Governor McCrory this week from some of our students.
Dear Governor McCrory and North Carolina Leglislation,
Hello! We are the students in first period mixed chorus at RJ Reynolds Magnet High School in Winston-Salem. We thank you for supporting our arts programs. We appreciate your interest in the arts and our school. The arts let us express ourselves in ways we didn't know we could. The arts give us opportunities, make our school a safe place, and help us to make great friends. Your support of the arts helps our diverse students use our imagination and creativity. School is not boring because of the arts. Other people in our classes are involved in Art, Dance, Theater, Academic Clubs, Sports, and other things in the community. Many of our friends have excelled in ways we didn't know they could because of the arts. They have shown a different/secret side of them that we have never seen before. To express our graduate, we invite you to come to one or many of our performances.
This week, we are drawing attention to how fortunate we are by creating a banner (#BecauseofArtsEd) that we will mail to Raleigh thanking our legislators for supporting Arts Education, writing letters to our legislators, creating a collaborative installation of a Garland of Wishes and Dreams to be installed on campus, and having NBC The Voice's Semi Finalist, Braiden Sunshine, perform on the Gfeller Lunchtime Performance Stage.
Follow RJRArts on Twitter or "like" RJ Reynolds Arts on Facebook to see more frequent updates/pictures.
The following letter was mailed to Governor McCrory this week from some of our students.
Dear Governor McCrory and North Carolina Leglislation,
Hello! We are the students in first period mixed chorus at RJ Reynolds Magnet High School in Winston-Salem. We thank you for supporting our arts programs. We appreciate your interest in the arts and our school. The arts let us express ourselves in ways we didn't know we could. The arts give us opportunities, make our school a safe place, and help us to make great friends. Your support of the arts helps our diverse students use our imagination and creativity. School is not boring because of the arts. Other people in our classes are involved in Art, Dance, Theater, Academic Clubs, Sports, and other things in the community. Many of our friends have excelled in ways we didn't know they could because of the arts. They have shown a different/secret side of them that we have never seen before. To express our graduate, we invite you to come to one or many of our performances.