A countywide, coordinated Arts Advocacy Conference is scheduled for Monday, March 15th at the Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.  The conference will include keynote speaker Dan Pink, author of "A Whole New Mind and Drive," with specific breakout training sessions held for our community.  Below is a link to register and a hold the date card.

http://www.ocpac.org/home/events/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=991

For more info, contact Steve Lustig, 4th District, CAPTA

Cultural Arts Chairman, cultural-arts@fourthdistrictpta.org

or slustig@socal.rr.com   714/342-5207

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Dear PTA Leader,

As part of California State PTA’s Arts Planning Grant from the Hewlett Foundation, we are compiling information about the range of different organized arts programs, (in addition to the PTA Reflections Program) that are taking place in schools around California that include PARENTS in some way.

Parents can be involved as supporters, advocates, or participants; programs can be during school, after school, on-site or off-site. They can involve one or more of the four arts disciplines: music, theater, dance or visual arts. These do not have to be programs that are sponsored by the PTA, as long as they involve parents in some way. 

So if you have an organized arts program with strong parent involvement at your school, please follow this link and fill out the form, and hit the "submit" button when you're through.