• Free e-mail arts calendars
• Partners with PTA
• Why the arts are important for your child’s education?

Free E-mail Arts Calendars

Arts Orange County, the nonprofit county-wide arts council which presents Imagination Celebration, also produces arts calendars year-round, as part of the OC ArtSource website.

The OC ArtSource e-mail calendars are FREE, monthly lists of performances, exhibits and festivals in Orange County. You can unsubscribe at any time and we will not share your e-mail address with any other party.

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Partners with PTA

SMARTS: BRING BACK THE ARTS

The California PTA wants to bring the arts back into our schools and back into the lives of our children.

Extensive research during the past decade now confirms the arts improve academic and personal success. Real education reform must "Bring Back the Arts." Please join our efforts to help parents, teachers and legislators understand the importance of the arts. The California State PTA wants to create advocates for quality arts education at every school in California.

Help the PTA Bring Back the Arts

Kick-Off the Community Arts Education Project in Your School.

The Community Arts Education Project is a unique strategy manual to support quality arts education in public schools

Read all about it!

Download YOUR copy today! (PDF)

CAAE and California State PTA Offer Arts Learning in Action Toolkit Reminder! March is Arts Education Month. To learn about Arts Learning in Action, a campaign to bring elected officials into our schools to witness the power of learning in the arts during the month of March, visit:

California Alliance for Arts Education

Why the Arts are important for your Child's Education?

Why is it important that your child develop their creativity and experience arts education in their school? Students who receive a strong arts education curriculum are:

• 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement
• 3 times more likely to be elected to class office
• 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair
• 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance
• 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem

In addition, young artists compared with their peers are likely to:

• Read for pleasure nearly twice as often
• Participate in youth groups four times as frequently
• Perform community service nearly twice as often

(Source: Dr. Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Reprinted from American for the Arts)

Read more about how to prepare your child for the creative careers of the 21st century. (PDF)