It was a great way to celebrate Experiencing the Arts breaking the 100 event barrier to take the entire Freshman class (and others) to Northern Stage's production of "Of Mice and Men!" 170 students and faculty (our biggest field trip yet) enjoyed an excellent performance. Below is our 4 year Performance History.

Thank you to everyone for making this program what it is and for having the vision to make memorable the education of your students! I look forward to working with you!

Director, Christopher Morse

Experiencing the Arts 2005/06 Performance History

Field Trips: LO = Lebanon Opera House, SPS = Hopkins Center, H = Hood Museum, MVRHS = Mascoma Valley Regional High School

Number Attended    Date

26 SPS 9/28/05 Yunaan Revealed, Exp Arts, & MAP students
39 H 10/18, tours of Collectana and Fred Wilson
Also, Montshire Museum to see Chinese Dinosaurs, Art 2 students, and Exp. Arts.
32 H 10/20, Shakespeare on your Feet! workshop, Exp. Arts, Drama Class, Chorus, English
90 LO, Much Ado About Nothing, Northeast Shakespeare Ensemble (NESE), parents, faculty, students.
27 11/16, SPS Wednesday, November 16, double 10:00, Catch Karamazov Brothers
Also, 11/16th, Hood Museum Permanent Collection 12:30 - 1:30, Exp. Arts & MAP
500 11/29, MVRHS Skip Gorman Music from the Wild West Assembly
500 12/5, Indian River School, Skip Gorman Music from the Wild West Assembly.
100 12/12 - 12/16, Ara Cardew ceramics residency, all art classes.
43 1/20 SPS Grandchildren Buffalo Soldiers, Exp. Arts, MAP, Drama, US History.
71 2/1, Bedford, NH, Scholastic Art Awards, All Art Classes & 16 Indian River Art Students.
30 2/8, SPS Warabi-Za Japanese Music Exp Arts, MAP, Drama.
30 1/16, YES, Mayhem Poets theatrical (slam) poetry, Exp. Arts, MAP.
500 3/1 MVRHS, Alash, Tuvan throat singers assembly
15 3/1, Canaan Library, Art Club Opening, Salon des Refuse, (up through March).
200 3/2, MVRHS, Author/Illustrator, DB Johnson, Read Across America Day, Art and English classes.
170 3/17, Northern Stage's Of Mice and Men, Exp. Arts, all freshmen, other English classes, MAP.
3/20, MVRHS, Joe Bonnamassa Blues Guitar Master Class, by invitation.
123 3/31, SPS Friday, March 31, 11 A.M. Jarocho Festival Exp. Arts, all Spanish classes.
1/6 MVRHS, Shakespeare, Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, workshop.
4/12 10:00, Hood Museum, Dancing Spirits Art of New Guinea, plus trip to Tannery Island instal panels
200 4/10-15 Environment & Art Week, workshops, residencies, etc., Exp. Arts, Science, Theatre, Tech. Ed..
500 4/10, MVRHS, FLOCK Dance Troupe, assembly
500 4/13, MVRHS, David Deen, Connecticut River Steward, Power Point assembly presentation.
200 4/15 Huse Park, Enfield, Environment & Arts Festival.
30 4/25 H Tuesday, double, 10:00, Rembrandt,
Also, 4/25, tour of the Cartoon School White River Jct. VT
40 5/12 SPS Friday, 10:00, Pamyua Indigenous Alaskan Music

Experiencing the Arts 2004/05 Performance History

38 H 9/16, 10am, Louis Gispert and woman photographers
12 MVRHS, 10/4-5 Shadow Puppet workshop with Savage Nursery
500 MVRHS, 10/5, Assembly, Orchid Ensemble
38 LO 10/6, Tom Sawyer and Cornish Colony
500 MVRHS 10/15, Briggs Opera House, Shakespeare Assembly
20 H 10/26, 10am, East Meets West
52 LO 11/4, 7pm, Fry Daddy and Dr. Burma -- Peak Community Event
30 SPS 11/17, 9:15am, Polygraph Lounge and AVA Gallery
100 + MVRHS 11/29 for two week residency, League of NH Craftsman potter Sarah Heimann
30 MVRHS 12/22, Donald Hall & Thomas Geoghegan an evening of Poetry and Guitar
39 SPS 1/13, 9:15am LINES Ballet
40 LO 1/28/05, Fly Dance
90 Bedford, NH 1/31/05, Scholastic Art Awards
500 MVRHS 2/7/05, Assembly with Carlos O'Cassio guitar
38 SPS 2/9, 9:15am, Soweto Gospel Choir
500 MVRHS Read Across America (all school) workshop with author, Howard Frank Mosher
145 3/16, Briggs Opera House, 10am, White River Junction, VT, The Diary of Anne Frank
500 MVRHS 3/18 (all school) Workshops with filmaker Jay Craven (Howard Frank Mosher's stories Read Across America Day follow up)
500 MVRHS 3/28/05, all school assembly, Theatre, Shape Of A Girl
28 LO 3/29/05, Shape Of A Girl
57 SPS 4/1, 10am, Aquila Theater: 12th Night (with 3 English Classes)
36 LO 4/8/05, Cinderella ballet
36 SPS 4/13, 9:15am, Cudamani
100 Lebanon Elks Hall, Punk Show- 6 bands, Jonee Earthquake, Vimps, Rydells, Catastrophes, Yarbles, Love Handles
40 LO 5/4, Vermont Symphony Orchestra
40 SPS 5/6, 10am, Keola Beamer
100 + MVRHS 5/19,20,25,26, Expressionism in Raku residency, NH League potter, Christine Merriman
40 H 5/27, 10am, Marks of Distinction

Experiencing the Arts Performance History, 2003 -04

21 5/14, Hood Museum Art in the East and West, AVA Gallery, 7 contemporary artists.
48 5/1, Peak Community Event, Melodrome concert, Lebanon Opera House (27 patrons plus Exp. Arts).
500 4/16 All School, Black Bear Moon drumming with 21 Exp. Arts, and 43 Chorus students performing.
37 4/16 Mrs. Breach's AP English class joined Exp. Arts, and MAP students, for the Reduced Shakespeare Co.
64 4/12-16 Resident Artists from Black Bear Moon work with 21 Exp. Arts and 43 Mascoma Chorus students.
36 4/6, Exp. Arts, MAP and 11 from Indian River Middle School, Freedom Train, Lebanon Opera House.
35 4/1, Exp. Arts, JAG, MAP, students attend The Flight Project, modern dance, Hopkins Center.
10 4/29, Lorie Andersen concert, Hopkins Center, students, faculty, parents, (ticket endowment fund).
200 4/ 30, Wreckless Abandon animation assembly, Hartford Career & Tech. Center.
21 4/30 Ahn Trio, Lebanon Opera House
21 3/21, 28 + 4/5/04 Experiencing the Arts students participate with guest jeweler Joseph De Robertis
40 Fall, 2003, 19 Experiencing the Arts students, Spring 2004, 21 Experiencing the Arts students
4 3/9 New Shanghai Circus, Lebanon Opera House (ticket endowment fund).
33 3/12, 8 Home School students, MAP, & Experiencing the Arts "Harlem Gospel Choir."
39 3/11 Ms. Patterson's History & Experiencing the Arts, "They Came for me, Remembering Anne Frank."
97 2/13 Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Orange, Community Reggae Dance, Mascoma High School.
10 2/29 Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer, Lebanon Opera House, (ticket endowment fund).
458 2/11 students and faculty attended all school assemblies, La Guitar Quartet (school less class on field trip).
42 2/11, Exp. Arts, JAG, MAP, and Job Quest, students attend Theatre of the Deaf at Lebanon Opera House -- continuing to Vermont to watch glass blowing demonstration & tour at Simon Pierce Glassworks.
42 2/5, Portfolio, Art 2, Exp. Arts, docent tour of "Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990's," Hood Museum of Art.
46 10/03, Mascoma Art & Indian River Art students & faculty attend Scholastic Art Show, Bedford, NH..
500 11/6 students attended all school assemblies, Fences.
500 12/10 students attended all school assemblies, Kunsun Ensemble, also numerous Indian River students.
30 12/11, attended Thursday, Kennedy Center's opera The Emperor's New Clothes.
38 1/15, attended the Doug Varone and Dancers (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students and JAG students).
13 11/14 Indian River students joined Experiencing the Arts field trip to hear Wayfaring Strangers.
100 11/8 attended Inner Visions reggae, Peak Community Event & Fund Raiser.
32 11/7, from Advanced Placement English Joined Experiencing the Arts for August Wilson's Fences.
14 11/5, Art 2 students joined Experiencing the Arts a presentation by guest artist Peter Bramhall.
19 10/17, attended Africa on Display, (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students).
80 10/6-10/03 students participated for a week with guest artists Deborah Andersen.
2 10/6-10/03 faculty participated for a week with guest artist Deborah Andersen.
500 9/29 students attended all school assemblies, Coyote's World.
30 9/25 attended Hachioji Kuruma Ningyo Puppets, Followed by a tour of Coming of Age in Ancient Greece at the Hood Museum P.M. - 2:30 PM (Experiencing the Arts, MAP students and JAG students).

Experiencing the Arts Performance History, 2002/03 (aprox. #'s Attendance)

21 H 6/8/02-12/15/02, art, Jose Clemente Orozco easel studies and mural studies
12 LO 9/21, folk music with Roger McGuinn & Special Guest
36 LO 10/9/02, Plena Libre, Exp. Arts & 18 from Spanish class.
32 SPS 10/10, flamenco dance, Noche Flamenca, Exp. Arts, MAP
34 SPS, 11/6 Snow day - a January Philobus dance replaced this, Exp. Arts Jobs for NH Grads
40 SPS 12/09/02, dance/theatre/music, Clara's Dream: A Jazz Nutcracker
24 H 1/4-3/9/03, photography, Ambassadors of Progress American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-01
20 H 1/18- 3/9/03, photography, Carrie Mae Weems: Hampton Project African & Native Americans
20 LO 3/5/03, dance and music, WOFA: Percussion & Dance from Guinea, West Africa
15 H 3/25-5/25/03, art, Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection
28 H 4/12-5/25/03, art, They Still Draw Pictures: Children's Art in Wartime
26 SPS 4/16/03, Stolen Moments: 100 Years of Jazz, Cardigan music students & Kids Count
26 LO YES 5/7/03 American Dreams Lost and Found, Exp. Arts, Jobs for NH Grads.
30 SPS 5/9/03, Native American dance, Kevin Locke Trio, Exp. Arts & MAP
2002/03 Community Events
40 10/4/02, MVRHS, Groove Alliance school dance.
21 10/5/02, LO "Groove Alliance," R&B concert.
43 LO 3/4 "WOFA," African drumming and dance, free vouchers given to students and parents.
18 Raku night firing and Bar-B-Q, students, parents, faculty.
156 Northern Lights, bluegrass, Lebanon Opera House, 5/24/03.
2002/03 all school assemblies
500 "Perry Allen Theatre," Emmy nominated puppet show, Mascoma High School, 12/1/02.
500 "No Holds Bard," interactive Shakespeare theatre, Mascoma High School, 2/27/03.
500 "WOFA," African drumming and dance, Mascoma High School, 3/4/03.
500 "Peggy Seeger," folk diva, Mascoma High School, 4/11/03.
2002/03 Artists in residence
80 Mark Ragonese sculpture residency
80 Richard Foye Raku pottery residency
2002/03 Guest Artists
20 Dee Rogers, Stave Puzzle puzzel designer, Fall, 2002.