Nominate someone today for the Sonoma County Arts Educator of the Year Award!
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The Sonoma County Arts Educator of the Year Award, presented by Luther Burbank Center for the Arts and Creative Sonoma, recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of arts education over an extended period of time. The award seeks to honor professional arts educators working with the K-12 population including, but not limited to, arts and classroom teachers who teach visual art, music, drama, dance, or multimedia arts.
Learn more and submit a nomination.
Questions? Contact Debbie Yarrow at Creative Sonoma.
This award is sponsored by the Daniels Chapel of Roses.
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LBC Mariachi Ensemble student wins national FFA talent competition
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Those familiar with the 160+ students in our year-round Mariachi and Ballet Folklórico programs know they are a talented bunch. One of our students, Adrian Soto, punctuated that fact in November when he won the 75th annual Future Farmers of America Talent competition held during the 96th annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. Adrian is active with the Santa Rosa High School chapter of FFA and an integral part of the advanced level LBC Mariachi Ensemble, Mariachi Cantares de Mi Tierra.
To win the top spot, Adrian first wowed judges and participants at the California State FFA convention
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held in Ontario, CA, last spring. That win earned Adrian the opportunity to compete at the national level amid a field of 28 other supremely talented contestants from across the United States.
Adrian performed in a specially designed navy blue traje (suit) embellished with FFA symbols of owls, flowers, and the FFA emblem. Adrian wants to donate the one-of-a-kind traje to the FFA museum located in Indianapolis to share with thousands of patrons who visit each year.
After three rounds of intense competition, Adrian sealed his bid for the top spot performing in front of a very enthusiastic audience of over 70,000 at Lucas Oil Stadum with a specifically arranged piece, "Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero” (“How Much I Love You”), which includes lyrics in English and Spanish.
When asked about the experience Adrian shared, "I am happy to represent my school, Santa Rosa, my state, and FFA through all this. I am so proud to represent my family and my culture. It was amazing."
You are amazing, too, Adrian. Congratulations from all your friends at LBC!
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Our Bus Fund wants to offset your field trip transportation costs
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Permission slips, collecting contributions, reserving a bus… Planning a field trip isn’t easy! Let LBC take one challenge off your plate and contribute toward your transportation costs to a School Show!
Made possible with a generous grant from the Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation, LBC provides school groups quality performances at affordable prices. As part of this very special contribution, LBC offers Bus Fund, a grant program that helps offset the rising cost of bus transportation benefitting thousands of youth in our community. Since its inception in 2003, our Bus Fund has
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awarded more than 610 grants to over 130 schools, helping more than 50,000 students with the cost of transportation to our in-person School Shows! Grants range from $100 to $150.
In addition to Bus Fund, the Ernest L. and Ruth W. Finley Foundation funds scholarships to School Shows, Professional Development, and Artists in the Schools! Funds are limited and based on availability.
Learn more about the Bus Fund and all available scholarships today!
“I am so grateful for everything you do for our community. Your tireless effort to bring arts into education is amazing. From scholarships for shows for my students, to teacher training and artists in residency, I am so thankful to be a teacher in Sonoma County with you as a resource.”
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Upcoming School Shows
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Tomás and the Library Lady
by Childsplay
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
9:30 am & 11:30 am
Grades K-5
A bilingual musical, based on the beloved book and true story of the Mexican-American author and educator Tomás Rivera, who became the first minority Chancellor in the University of California system.
Young Tomás knows all his grandfather’s stories by heart. His thirst for knowledge expands upon meeting an inspiring librarian, and the two find themselves learning more about each other than what’s written in pages. This moving production shows how self-esteem, reading, and education make anything possible.
11:30 am added due to popular demand!
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Call of the Wild: Illustrated Edition
by Theatre Heroes
Monday January 29, 2024
9:30 am
Grades 4-12
Jack London’s classic tale comes to life on stage with screen projection surrounding one powerful performer. This multi-media adventure based on Jack London’s classic tells a magnificent sled dog’s thrilling tale of courage and survival during the 1800s Klondike Gold Rush. History and literature come to life in a unique and dazzling performance.
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NORTH The Musical
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
9:30 am & 11:30 am
Grades 4-8
A powerful new musical set in the 1850s about a teenage boy and his mother who escape slavery in the deep south through the Underground Railroad. With an original score steeped in jazz and other historically Black music genres, NORTH is a moving story that explores the multi-faceted reality of Black life during the antebellum period. Explore the realities of slavery with powerful themes of optimism, bravery, playfulness, wonder, suspense, and mystery. Journey from rural Louisiana to the bustling city of New Orleans, a Maroons community in the Louisiana bayous, and the young town of Lawrence, Kansas in this story inspired by true accounts of escape through the Underground Railroad.
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Dino Light
by Lightwire Theater
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
9:30 am
Grades 2-6
Featured on America’s Got Talent, this performance showcases a world of glow-in-the-dark characters created out of neon light. A lonely scientist creates a friendly dinosaur named Darwin and sends him out into the world to discover the “evolution of love.” Growing worried, the scientist goes looking for his creation and gets caught up in the adventure! Unique and visually dazzling, Dino Light is praised for its cutting-edge blend of puppetry, technology, and dance by audiences all over the world.
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ARTS INTEGRATION RESIDENCYThe World is Beautiful: Visually Representing Natural PhenomenaInstructors: Jack Taylor
Grades: 3-5
Subjects: Science, Visual Art
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This joyful residency celebrates the natural world and the delight that comes from discovery. Students are encouraged to approach science topics from an artistic perspective, building intuitive and emotional connections with visual interpretations. Likewise, they learn to approach art from a scientific perspective, making observations and testing hypotheses about how their art supplies behave and interact. This integrated approach adapts naturally to your class curriculum, building from existing course materials and generating new enthusiasm for deeper learning.
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TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Acting Right: Drama as a Classroom Management Strategy
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
8:00 – 11:00 am
Instructor: Sean Layne
Grades: K-8
Subjects: Drama, Interdisciplinary
Brook Hill Elementary School
This workshop takes the foundational elements of acting such as concentration, cooperation, and collaboration and creates a structured process, which can become the basis for effective classroom management every day. This engaging, step-by-step approach empowers students to take ownership of and be responsible for their own behavior. Learn how to help students build the skills necessary to establish a sense of self-control, accountability, and teambuilding in your classroom. This workshop is recommended for any classroom based in active, social, cooperative learning.
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TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
Classroom Management for Teaching Artists
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Instructor: Sean Layne
LBC Education Studio
What is the current thinking in the field of classroom management and how does it apply to the unique set of circumstances a teaching artist faces in the classroom? This seminar explores classroom management from a teaching artist’s perspective. Participants explore strategies that help students focus and participate meaningfully while preventing many unwanted behaviors as they engage in a creative process.
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TEACHING ARTIST TRAINING
Teaching Artists Open Call
Saturday, February 17, 2024
9:30 – Noon
LBC Education Studio
Come prepared with a 5-minute warm-up, exercise, classroom demo, or management trick to show off your knowledge and skills with your fellow TAs and local organizations. Attendees will learn more about hiring opportunities for teaching artists, including the programs offered and the hiring opportunities for each organization.
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INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY & ACCESS IN THE CLASSROOM
Brushes for Change
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Instructors: Dr. Erika Powell
Virtual
Art is a powerful medium that gives voice to our diverse range of lived experiences. It is our one true global language. This workshop recognizes the power of the creative arts to deepen cultural understanding and to forge meaningful connections. In this hands-on experiential session, participants will learn simple arts-based and creative mindfulness techniques that they can use with students and colleagues to explore cultural differences, foster intercultural dialogue and cross-cultural understanding, build bridges of empathy, respond to challenging world events, and to break down barriers to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment both in and out of the classroom.
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Active 20-30 Club of Santa Rosa #50
David and Deborah Ballati
Carol Beattie/Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund
Mike and Karen Bergin
Gordon Blumenfeld
Mary Cardaras and Francesca Fifis
Stacey Carlo
Carmen and Perri Castaldi
Janice Clausen
County of Sonoma
Audrey
Bush and Chris Crispo
Patricia Daniels
Wes and Carol Daniels
Albert and Sally Davies
Greg and Melinda Dexter
Debra Dow and John Johnson
Don and Jeannette Dow
Joanne Dow/JPMorgan Charitable Giving
Herb and Jane Dwight
Carroll Estes
Daniel Fenton
Paul and Laura Forgue
Kay Reed Goodsill
Julia L. Grant/Community Foundation Sonoma County
The Robert and Shirley Harris Family Foundation
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Ben and Nguyen Harrison
Gary Heck/The Heck Foundation
Marilyn and Robert Heller
Jeff Hudson and Ann Lobdell Hudson
Jay Hunsberger and Chad Hostetler
Jeff and
Barbara Ireland
In memory and honor of Selma Mayer Isenberg and her son, Jean Isenberg
Eric and Susan Johnston
Lynda and Louis Jordan/Fidelity Charitable
Tim and Ariel Kelley
Nick and Krissy Kyjovsky
The Lahiri Family
Susan Leary
Dina and Al Lopez
Monica Lopez
Lise L. Luttgens and Richard R. Johnson
Anonymous Fund of Marin Community Foundation
Clay and Carrie Mauritson
Lewis Meyers
Bill and Christine Nelson
New England Foundation for the Arts
Rick Nowlin and Don Strand
Bill and Jeanne Osterland
Anne and Russ Peterson
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Virginia Pitts
Carlo Proto and Sheila Abdallah in memory of Nathan Abdallah Proto
Alex Purtill
Bonnie Raines
Pierre Ratte
Andrew and Monica Rowley/Goals Foundation
Rayanna
Sanchez
City of Santa Rosa
John Sawyer and Dan Potts
Mack Schwing, in loving memory of Joan
Alan and Susan Seidenfeld
Carolin and Shawn Shaw
Rekha Skantharaja
Marlene and Martin Stein/Jewish Community Foundation
Leticia Trevino and David Vandergriff
John and Laura Whiting/Schwab Charitable Fund
Robin Williams
Greg and Margie Yates
Anonymous (3)
A special thank you to Norma J. Person, in Memory of Evert Person, for Evert Person’s ArtReach and The Evert Person Bus Fund.
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