IAA is ten and we are having a party!
Join us on Thursday, May 30th at BHS at 6:00 pm.
We’ll showcase our arts learning, thank all who have helped us along the journey, serve some creative refreshments and show the new documentary – The Creative Brain! IAA never looked so good!
Grades 3-5 are hosting their Literacy Breakfast on Friday, December 21st, 8:10-9:00 am.
Join us for breakfast and literacy in your child’s classroom!
Come to our 10th Annual Fill the Bowl! Each year the 3rd graders host this fundraiser to raise money for those who need it most in our community. This year all proceeds will be given to our most recent New American families. The event begins at 6pm and a community dinner of soup and bread is available for all to eat at no charge. If you want a handmade student bowl, there is a $5 fee per bowl. Additionally there is a silent auction of artist made bowls. 6-7:30 pm at IAA. Come early for a good selection. Special thanks to: Burlington City Arts, Joan Watson, and Erik Rehman for their help with making student bowls. Thanks to the following restaurants and bakeries: Sugar Snap, Barrio Bakery, August First Bakery, American Flatbread, Chubby Muffin, City Market, Nunyuns and Great Harvest!
There’s lots going on in our community! Several of our schools’ families originally come from Somalia. Families from the Sustainability Academy and the Integrated Arts Academy will share their Somali culture, food, and dance at this event. It will be held at the Sustainability Academy. 2-4 pm Saturday – March 24th.
Thanks to our friends at the Flynn, two of Indian classical music’s most formidable players are coming to perform at IAA. Zakir Hussain is India’s most celebrated living musician: an innovative percussionist of international renown who’s opened channels between East and West via collaborations with George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, and many others. Rakesh Chaurasia follows the footsteps of his acclaimed uncle Hariprasad Chaurasia as a bansuri flute maestro. Pairing complementary talents for fluent rhythm and melody, these virtuosos draw deeply from their South Asian cultural legacy to forge a sound where modernity and myth intertwine. Feel free to join us on Monday, 3/19 at 11:30 am.
This benefit concert, on Sunday, March 25th, is for the ONE Strings program, which provides in-school strings instruction for all 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at the Integrated Arts Academy (IAA) at the H.O. Wheeler School in Burlington’s Old North End.
Music From Around the World highlights the diversity within IAA and the ability of music to bring communities together. The program features pieces by Borodin, Ravel, Mozart, Bartok, Joseph Bologne (the first classical composer of African ancestry), as well as some Danish folk music. Some of our ONE Strings students will perform under the leadership of Kathleen Kono, our ONE Strings teacher.
Emily Taubl, cellist and LCCMF board member, has organized this family-friendly event, and local musicians are donating their talents for this wonderful cause. Come hear chamber works performed by Letitia Quante, Jane Kittredge, and Brooke Quiggins, violins, Ana Ruesink, viola, and John Dunlop and Emily Taubl, cellos.
Proceeds from this benefit concert will allow us to evaluate and repair instruments donated by Mrs. Carolyn Long for student use.
Admission is by donation. Give what you can to support this unique program in Burlington’s Old North End.
Sunday, March 25th at 3:00 pm
Location: Integrated Arts Academy, 6 Archibald St., Burlington, VT
Enter through the school cafeteria entrance by the Spring Street school parking lot.
Come one, come all!
It’s Family Math Night at IAA and it’s going to be fun! Wednesday, March 14th – which also happens to be international Pi Day! There are cool math activities for everyone – young and old. Come on, let’s have some math fun together. 6 pm – 7 pm in the IAA Gym.
The Kids Are Alright Concert!
For grown-ups who used to be kids, and kids who are still kids!
Kids’ songs reinterpreted and ready to ROCK all to benefit the Integrated Arts Academy at H O Wheeler,
Vermont’s only arts magnet elementary school.
Featuring Live Performances by Madaila, SWALE, and Julia Caesar with special guest DJ Djoeh.
Hosted by a Vermont Comedy Diva, Autumn Engroff Spencer.
Higher Ground – Saturday, March 17
Doors at 12pm, show at 12:30pm
Tickets at https://www.highergroundmusic.com/event/1651941
Sponsored by:
Dealer.com ~ Nokian Tyres ~ Cheese & Wine Traders ~ Redstone
Fuse ~Kids VT Family Newspaper ~ Stagecoach Digital
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