In Today’s News

On the dance floor, Pemetic eighth-graders twirl and groove

In an article published today, June 18, 2011, for the Bar Harbor Times writer Laurie Schreiber describes the dance opportunities students at Pemetic Elementary School in Southwest Harbor have had. Robert Page taught the students several dances and on June 15th students performed for family and friends. Read the entire article by clicking here.

Photo by Laurie Schreiber

Kennedy Center’s Newsletter

Imagination Intensive Community Project mentioned in June newsletter

Telling Room Named Maine’s 2011 Imagination Intensive Community
The Maine Alliance for Arts Education, the Maine Department of Education, and the Maine Arts Commission have announced that the Telling Room in Portland, ME has been named Maine’s 2011 Imagination Intensive Community. With funding this year from the Kennedy Center, the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Department of Education, and Bangor Savings Bank, the Imagination Intensive Communities program is in its second year of identifying and celebrating, through an open application process, those Maine communities where schools and partnering organizations of all kinds invest in the imaginative development of children and youth. The search for these communities grew out of a statewide census of arts learning that documented that children’s access to education in dance, music, theater, and visual art is not equal throughout the state. The census raised the question, “Where are the communities that even in hard times use their available resources to support the development of young people’s creativity and innovation?” The Imagination Intensive Communities project was developed to answer that question.