{"id":6112,"date":"2017-03-01T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2017-03-11T12:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T17:34:37","slug":"visual-performing-arts-celebrated-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/visual-performing-arts-celebrated-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual and performing arts celebrated in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Art Month and Music in Our Schools Month are each celebrated in March, and a citywide art exhibit and musical performances will showcase Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students\u2019 many talents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 1\" width=\"2548\" height=\"1698\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1.jpg 2548w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2548px) 100vw, 2548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The public can view artwork by VBCPS students in grades 1-12 in the Youth Art Month exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) through April 2. Every VBCPS school is represented in the exhibit which is free to museum visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The division will host a reception at MOCA Monday, March 13, from 5:30-7 p.m. for the Youth Art Month exhibit\u2019s selected student artists, their families and art teachers.<\/p>\n<p>As a culminating event for Music in Our Schools Month, more than 1,300 elementary and middle school students will perform in the Virginia Beach All-City Music Festival at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts March 24-25. The special event includes five separate concerts that are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 2\" width=\"5760\" height=\"3840\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2.jpg 5760w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Photo-2-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5760px) 100vw, 5760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The schedule of performances is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 24, 7 p.m. \u2013 Elementary Chorus (Dominion group) and Sixth-Grade Middle School Chorus<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 12:30 p.m. \u2013 Elementary Chorus (Colonial group) and Seventh-Grade Middle School Chorus<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 3 p.m. \u2013 Elementary String Orchestra (Arco group) and Sixth-Grade Grade Middle School String Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 5 p.m. \u2013 Elementary String Orchestra (Pizzicato group) and Seventh\/Eighth-Grade Middle School String Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>March 25, 7:30 p.m. \u2013 Sixth-Grade Middle School Band, Virginia Beach Rising Stars Steel Drum Ensemble and Seventh-Grade Middle School Band<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to these citywide events to celebrate the visual and performing arts, individual schools are hosting concerts and performances as well as displaying student artwork. The division\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/calendar\/perfartscal\/index.asp\">School Performing and Visual Arts Calendar<\/a> lists some upcoming events as do individual school calendars found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/schools\/index.asp?sort2=(1)or(4)\">school websites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youth Art Month and Music in Our Schools Month are each celebrated in March, and a citywide art exhibit and musical performances will showcase Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,162],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arts","tag-fine-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}