On Wednesday, April 10, the Madison Community of Schools banded together to offer a new “Showcase Night,” a community open house to promote the schools in the cluster. Over 1500 students and community members attended this first-ever event.
On the campus of Creative Performing and Media Arts (CPMA) Middle School, numerous school exhibitor tables and interactive displays were on display. The library held a visual art gallery, filled with artwork from grades TK-12 throughout the cluster. The theater was packed with audience members watching three hours’ worth of rotating performances of dance, music, and theatre from all grade levels. CPMA also unveiled their new student-created mural with a ceremony at 6:30pm.
This event was designed to unite residents and neighborhood schools while demonstrating the variety of educational opportunities in the Madison cluster. While much of the event focused on the arts, many other types of of student work were also on display, from science projects and robotics exhibits to high school JROTC and cheerleading demonstrations, all supported by local community partners and food vendors. There was a book fair, and even a petting zoo.
Participating schools in the Madison Community of Schools included Field, Hawthorne, Lafayette, Lindbergh-Schweitzer, Sequoia, and Whitman Elementary Schools, Innovation and CPMA Middle Schools, Muir K-8, and Madison High School.
The Madison Community Showcase Night was sponsored by The VAPA Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to, “enhance the quality of and access to arts education in the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD).”
https://www.sandiegounified.org/vapanews/arts-shine-madison-community-showcase-night
