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Introducing: the WRAA Players at the Children's Arts Festival

The 2009 Children's Arts Festival (Photo courtesy of Kirsten Shultz)

Mark your calendars -- it is almost time for the third annual Children's Arts Festival!   On March 6, 2010, the Wood River Arts Alliance will present a free day of classes, performances and walk-up crafts for elementary school children at the Community Campus in Hailey.  Check back here on SunValleyOnline for a full class schedule and more details in mid-February.

The festival will include all the fun you've enjoyed the last two years, plus we've added new programming for kids in grades 3-5.  Introducing . . . the WRAA Players.  Experience what it means to be a triple threat from audition to performance, all in one day.  Singing, dancing, acting and an optional Tech Track (lights/sound/stage management).  Kids in 4th and 5th grade may audition for narration roles.  Thirty students will spend the day learning and rehearsing a one-act musical titled “Zero to Hero” and perform it in the theatre at the end of the day.   Pre-registration for the WRAA Players is available online now at http://www.wrartsalliance.org/Site/WRAA_Players.html

Online registration will continue until the class reaches the maximum size of 30 children. Check-in for the WRAA Players begins at 8:30 a.m. at The Community Campus.  Tech track participants will perform in the opening and closing numbers.  All other students will participate in three musical numbers.  Faculty Members include Hilarie Neely and Janis Walton.  The performance will take place at 3:00 in the Community Campus theatre.

All other participants of the Children's Arts Festival will register on site starting at 9:00 on March 6.  Elementary school children who are not enrolled in the WRAA players can sign up for up to four classes in dance, drama, music, visual arts and literary arts.  Children of all ages may attend the performances, visit the instrument petting zoo and engage in the walk-up crafts.  The first performance will take place at 9:30 and the first class starts at 10:00.

Call 578-7720 or email wrartsalliance@mac.com with any questions.

The 2010 Children's Arts Festival is sponsored by L&H Foundation, Richard and Judith Smooke, Bank of America, the Papoose Club, the Rotary Clubs of Ketchum and Hailey and the Kiwanis Club.  Thank you to our sponsors for their generous donations that allow us to keep this event free for all children.  Our partners in the event are the Blaine County School District, the Blaine County Recreation District, the College of Southern Idaho, La Alianza and Big Brothers/Big Sisters.

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