CASTAIC FOCUSES ON THE ARTS.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer CASTAIC - Since the Castaic school district received a $25,000 state performing arts grant a few years ago, students have staged musicals and plays and bought potter's wheels that help them go beyond the usual core art curriculum. Going for its third consecutive arts grant, the Castaic Union School District wants to expand on what was little more than a dream three years ago. ``The first time, we wrote a grant explaining what we would do with the money - now, the application includes how we plan to continue with these visual and performing arts programs,'' said Diann DePasquale, assistant superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. of educational services for the Castaic district. There is $6 million available for California schools under the 2002-03 Arts Work Visual and Performing Arts Education Education in the performing arts is a key part of many primary and secondary education curricula and is also available as a specialisation at the tertiary level. The performing arts, broadly dance, music and theatre are key elements of culture and engage participants at a number Grant Program, funds designed to help kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through 12th-grade schools implement and improve visual and performing arts after years of cuts to similar programs. After the Castaic district's first year using the grant, administrators and teachers were able to identify the weakest disciplines, music and theater, and bolster them with the second $25,000 grant. Castaic Middle School staged a production of Disney's ``Aladdin,'' a Halloween play and an original musical written by Chad Olivera, a senior at California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. in Valencia. The grant enabled the district to run a summer arts enrichment program for honor-roll students last summer and will help fund a workshop for teachers this summer, held at the Getty Center Getty Center, art museum complex in Brentwood, Calif. operated by the J. Paul Getty Trust. It consists of six buildings on 124 acres (50 hectares) located on a spectacular promontory overlooking Los Angeles. . ``We're hoping that this will put us into our third year of grant funding,'' DePasquale said. ``We're just going to continue to train teachers in the arts. I think it's a pretty good grant.'' |
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