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Any Given Child Sacramento

Any Given Child is a program developed by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. to bring access and equity to arts education during the school day for K-8 students. In 2010-2011 Any Given Child Sacramento has begun the second year of arts programming in Sacramento City and Twin Rivers School Districts through a partnership between the Kennedy Center and Mayor Kevin Johnson’s For Arts Sake initiative.

The Arts Commission is administering the Arts Exposure educational elements of the Any Given Child Initiative for the Mayor’s Office. Assemblies, workshops and field trips are being offered to the over 100 participating K-8 schools by the following artists and organizations:

  • A Day in the Life
  • B Street Theatre
  • California Musical Theatre
  • Crane Culture Theater
  • Crocker Art Museum
  • FABOS Ensemble
  • Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes
  • Kenneth Spengler
  • LAMECA
  • Sacramento Suzuki Violin Studio
  • Sacramento Theatre Company
  • Sacramento Ballet
  • Sacramento Children's Chorus
  • Sacramento Opera
  • Sacramento Taiko Dan
  • Sacramento Youth Symphony
  • Sons/Ancestors Players, CSUS
  • Theatre of All Possibilities

Creative Aging: There’s an Art to Getting Older
Recent research shows that new brain cells keep developing throughout our lifespan if we stretch ourselves by getting involved in activities new to us, such as exploring new creative and artistic skills. In response, a citywide program of workshops and classes was launched last year to inspire and encourage adults 50 years old and better to get involved in the arts.

Creative Aging is offered through a partnership with Sacramento Metropolitan Arts and the Sacramento Department of Parks & Recreation, Older Adult Services Section and is funded by the E.M. Hart Trust Fund.

Summer and Fall 2011 classes are now closed. Please register for our e-newsletter to receive updates on future classes.

Poetry Out Loud — National Poetry Recitation Contest

Poetry Out Loud is a growing nation-wide recitation contest for high school students in all schools. The students select from a large collection of historical and contemporary poetry. Recitation begins in the classroom culminating in contests that take place at the school, county, state, and national levels. POL is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Sacramento County Office of Education, California Poets in the Schools, and the National Poetry Foundation.

For more information about the history and success of Poetry Out Loud, log onto the Poetry Out Loud website.

InnerSpark: California State Summer School for the Arts
The California State Summer School for the Arts (InnerSpark) seeks the most talented high school-aged visual, literary, media, and performing artists in California. The teenagers who are selected are designated California Arts Scholars, and attend one of the country's premier summer arts institutes on the campus of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. InnerSpark represents a unique opportunity to spend four weeks studying and working with professional artists, writers and performers of national stature in the fields of animation, music, dance, film and video, theatre, creative writing and visual arts. For more information about InnerSpark, please visit their website.

Congressional Art Competition
In the spring of every year, the United States House of Representatives hosts a Congressional Art Competition for high school artists. Members of Congress hold contests within their districts to choose winning pieces of art by high school students, and the winning entries from all districts are displayed in the Cannon Tunnel at the U.S. Capitol for a period of one year. The winning student from each district is invited to Washington, DC for the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

This year, Representatives Doris Matsui and Dan Lungren have organized contests for their districts, both co-sponsored by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

The 2011 winners from each district, who were honored at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in June, were:

  • Tan Phoong (Matsui, 5th District)
  • Colin Keiner (Lungren, 3rd District)

Feel free to email the Arts Education program or call (916) 808-3983 with questions.

Resources and Updates from the Field:

Advocacy
The California Alliance for Arts Education (CAAE) promotes, supports, and advocates visual and performing arts education for preschool through post-secondary students in California schools. Visit their website for a wealth of information about the value of arts education, funding for arts education programs, and arts education policy.

CA County Superintendents Educational Services Association (CCSESA) Arts Initiative has a wealth of advocacy information at their website.

Funding Sources

The California Arts Council lists California funding opportunities for the arts at their website.

California County Superintendent’s Educational Service Association (CCSESA) has a good list of possible funding sources for arts education programming at their website.

Current Arts Education Research

View current research here.