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Show Arts Festival Is a Creative Fund Raiser For Manila Elementary School mil. 1 1 ' - ' i 1 " "", j - . f ; ? i ! " . v ." T , . it sr ri by Angie Walker Manila Elementary held their Arts Festival on Thursday, March 17, to raise funds for a new sound system for their auditorium. au-ditorium. , Dr. Nancy Sorenson feels strongly about the arts. "We have a couple of weeks where each class focuses on an artist and does an art project around that artist," she stated. The art projects created by the students were for sale during the Arts Festival for $ 1 . The Manila Magic Chorus, Cho-rus, Film Festival, and Wax Museum were free activities. The school chorus, directed by Anita Elliott, performed three numbers on the stage. For the Wax Museum, each fifth grader dressed as a hero from history and posed for the public to view. Along with a costume, each student was required to have a lamp, a prop, a picture and quote on the person they chose. In conjunction with the Wax Museum, students had to type a six paragraph report and present a Hero Power Point Kids learn how to do blow art at the Manila Arts Festival. The festival was held to raise funds for a new sound system for their auditorium. Photo courtesy ofTimpanogos Times project to their class. Fifth . grade teacher Karen McNew said, "I feel like it is so comprehensive, compre-hensive, it's writing, performing and doing PowerPoint. It is their creativity that is involved in it. They have studied the people thoroughly and have really learned a lot on who their character char-acter is and learned from the other kids about their heroes." For the Film Festival, sixth graders did trailers for a book they read. The public walked the red carpet to the premiere pre-miere where the trailers were viewed. After the presentation presenta-tion the winners were announced an-nounced and presented with Golden Smiley trophies. Tickets were required for the art activities, snack foods, face painting, Karoake, Dance Revolution and pop walk, which students donated do-nated decorated pop bottles. A silent auction of baskets and other goods were sold as well. It was a fun night to celebrate cel-ebrate the children's achievements achieve-ments and a creative outlet for all. |