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 California State PTA Online Newsletter                                 October 2010

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In This Issue
Monday Morning
Celebrate the Arts!
California's Creative Economy
Superintendent of Public Instruction Forum
Arts in education week

  Monday Morning

  

During the 2010 California
State PTA Annual Convention, we heard from many of you that you are looking for activities to take back to your schools on "Monday morning." Therefore, we will now be dedicating this section to immediate action steps you can take to further arts education.  

 

Make sure that local elected officials -- mayors, city council members, school board members --are invited to all visual and performing arts events at your school. Offer them a special-guest reserved seat, introduce them to the audience, and send a follow-up thank you for attending. Allow them to see the power of the arts in education firsthand!

 

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Celebrate the arts!  
October is National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture in America. Held every October and coordinated by Americans for the Arts, it is the largest annual celebration of the arts and humanities in the nation.

 

For a list of 101 ways to celebrate, visit the Americans for the Arts website. Twelfth District PTA is already planning one such event with its "Art in the Park" festival at its PTA Cottage near the Camarillo Airport on Saturday, October 9. 
The California Arts Council (CAC) also celebrated the culture and creativity of all Californians on October 1 with California Arts Day. This year's theme was pARTicipation! You can continue to show how important and rewarding the arts are by joining in an organized event, taking an arts class, visiting a theater, museum, gallery, or dance performance, or by writing a poem or short story. Visit the CAC website for a list of local activities taking place throughout the month of October in conjunction with this event.
 California's creative economy
  Ways the arts contribute to California's economy
  • California's creative economy ranks third out of all 50 states.
  • Creative economic activity is approximately 44 percent higher in California than the nation as a whole.
  • Art galleries and individual artists, writers and performers in California earned more than $12 billion in 2008. Photography, music, book and record store sales topped $2.6 billion.
  • Creative job growth was most prevalent in California among multimedia artists and animators, fine artists, sound-engineer technicians and agents.

*These figures are derived from California's Creative Vitality™ Index, a service of the Western States Arts Federation.
Click here to access the summary report.


The Arts in the California Governor's Race project is a nonpartisan effort created to ensure that issues related to the arts and the creative economy are successfully addressed in the California governor's race. Click here to learn more.  
 Arts in the Governors Race
Superintendent of Public Instruction forum
California State PTA was pleased to partner with the California Alliance for Arts Education in the recent forum, "Education, Creativity,and California's Future." This event featured celebrity panelists and the candidates for the office of California Superintendent of Public Instruction in a discussion of arts education in California's public schools.
If you missed it, an archived video of the forum is being presented in its entirety by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) and will be available online.
National Arts in Education Week

On July 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed

H.Con.Res.275 to designate the second week of September as "Arts in Education Week." This week celebrates all art disciplines and recognizes the importance of an arts education in a complete curriculum that equips students with 21st century skills.


Did your PTA celebrate National Arts in Education Week? If you would like to share your ideas, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
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