Berkeley County School District January Art Performances
January 5, 2015
MONCKS CORNER, SC – Berkeley County School District is proud to announce its January 2015 schedule of fine arts performances. Area high school band members will audition for the Regional Band at Summerville High School on January 10. The All State Orchestra will also host audition on January 10 at Lexington High School. Goose Creek High and Timberland High Schools’ Marching Bands will march in the Berkeley County Progressive League’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade in Moncks Corner on January 19, beginning at noon.
Local students will bring dramatic theater to the stage in Goose Creek. Sedgefield Intermediate School’s fourth-grade class will treat the audience to their performance of the “Pirates of Grammar Island” on Thursday, January 22, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in Sedgefield Intermediate School’s Multi-Purpose Room. The Howe Hall Arts Infused Magnet School’s fifth-graders will perform “Beauty and the Beast, Jr.” on Friday, January 23 in the Stratford High School Auditorium at 7 p.m.
On Saturday, January 24, local musicians will audition for the All State Band at Lexington High School. The Cane Bay Middle School Beginner Orchestra will perform its Demonstration Concert in the Cane Bay Middle School Gymnasium beginning at6:30 p.m. The All County Band’s clinic and performance will round out the month’s performances in the Cane Bay High School Auditorium on January 31 beginning at 6 p.m.
About Berkeley County School District
Berkeley County School District has three arts magnet schools, one at each level – Elementary, Middle and High School. Howe Hall AIMS (Arts Infused Magnet School) serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade who are selected through a lottery process. Howe Hall AIMS is a model site for arts infusion in S.C. and was selected in 2007 as a Kennedy Center Creative Ticket School of Excellence and in 2010 as a National Blue Ribbon School. Berkeley County’s Gifted and Talented Arts Program is available to the school district’s fourth through eighth grade students who audition and are identified as gifted/talented in dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Once identified, students may attend weekly Special Talent Enrichment Program (STEP) after school classes at specific sites during the school year and a two-week summer program. Graduates of Howe Hall AIMS and STEP students may then move on to Marrington Middle School for the Arts in sixth grade. Marrington Middle School was honored in 2012 as a National Blue Ribbon School. Each spring Berkeley County’s rising high school freshmen may audition for the Berkeley Center for the Arts (BCA) at Goose Creek High School. Students may audition in the areas of Creative Writing, Dance, Orchestral Strings, Theatre, Visual Arts, Vocal Music, and Wind and Percussion Studies.
