LAUSD and the Arts

The Los Angeles Unified School District recognizes that education in the arts make a unique and vital contribution to a child*s cognitive development. Therefore the District is committed to providing all students with opportunities to attain a substantive education in the visual and performing arts at all grade levels, an education that will prepare them to create, collaborate, problem solve, perform, and appreciate works of art.

On July 22, 1999, the Los Angeles Unified School District*s Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution to commence a 10-year effort to establish arts for all students, at all grade levels, in all schools, in all four art forms. To accomplish this goal, LAUSD*s Arts Education Branch began Arts Program Schools (APS) at the elementary level. In the first eight years of the program the number of schools participating has grown from 54 to 392 and it is projected that by 2010 all elementary schools in the District will have the opportunity to participate in the APS project.

In the 2007 - 2008 school year the Arts Education Branch launched a new project at the middle school level to meet the needs of middle and high school arts teachers. The Arts Bridging Teacher Project assigns various visual and performing arts teachers to feeder schools in order to build enrollment and experience in individual art forms .

In addition to the four arts content areas mentioned above, Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Art, the Los Angeles Unified School District, Arts Education Branch (AEB) seeks to establish and support Media Arts as a fifth standards-based Arts Content discipline. Media Arts are an art form comprising of a range of creative and expressive uses of media and communications technologies, including, but not limited to , digital imaging, graphic and web design, video/film production, television, digital music, video gaming, mobile devices and interactive media.

Work has begun on the next 10-year District Arts Education Plan. The second 10-year plan must extend the critical and necessary components of a well-rounded, dynamic and rich arts education and will focus on a K - 12 continuous and articulated curriculum. The Los Angeles Unified School District recognize that the Arts programs benefit students from the entire spectrum of educational programs and demographics, including special education, at-risk, GATE, and English Learners. LAUSD further understands that the Arts, (all five) increase student engagement, empower students' creative voices, and promote active participation in an increasingly networked world.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Auditions!!!

Auditions
For a screenplay reading
Auditions held at the Complex Theater
6476 Santa Monica Blvd
Hollywood, Ca 90038
WEST STUDIOS - 2pm to 4pm ONLY

July, 11, 2009 is the audition date.
Additional questions please email at the following address: blackswanentertainment@yahoo.com.
Thanking you in advance. -JGD

Project: The Great American (Soap Box Derby)
A kid's world is always a global phenomenon when rambunctious misfits join together, recycle and save money to compete in the neighborhood’s biggest event of summer. Being a part of the reading does not confirm you in the film project but it will definitely be taken into consideration as an audition for the particular roles one reads.

1)
Female / 61+ Years / African American
retired wrestler
2)
Male / 61+ Years / African American
retired firefighter

3)
Male / 41-50 Years / Any Ethnicity
blue collared father

4)
Female / 41-50 Years / Any Ethnicity
flustered new neighbor

5)
Female / 31-40 Years / African American
secured married woman - mother

6)
Male / 31-40 Years / African American
secured married man - lawyer

7)
Either Gender / Any Years / Any Ethnicity
narrator - over 18

8)
Male / 11-14 Years / African American
the leader
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9)
Male / 11-14 Years / Any Ethnicity
the brain

10)
Male / 11-14 Years / African American
the mouth

11)
Female / 6-10 Years / African American
the muscle

12)
Male / 15-17 Years / Any Ethnicity
the thief - new kid on block


Lewis-Beasley Casting
in association with
NS, Inc
BLACK SWAN ENTERTAINMENT and District Films
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