Chinese Performing Arts ProgramSunday Practice Time Change Pending!
Flower Market "Mini-Parade" Congratulations & Thanks To All Who Participated!
2011-2012/4709-4710 - YEAR OF THE DRAGON
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Sunday Practice, January 29, 2012
(1:30-3:00 Yard 4 - West Portal Elementary School)
Oakland Museum Performance, January 29, 2012 - Stilts Only
(12:30 - 4:30 Oakland Museum)
Fort Mason (Asian Art Museum Gala) Performance, February 2, 2012
(5:00 - 8:00 Fort Mason Building D)
Sunday Practice, February 5, 2012
(1:30-3:00 Yard 4 - West Portal Elementary School)
Chinese New Year Parade Saturday, February 11, 2012
(Meet at West Portal Elementary. Check with your group leader for exact time.)
West Portal Spring Arts Festival, Saturday March 18, 2012
(West Portal Elementary School - Noon - 4:00)
CPAP REGULAR PRACTICE SCHEDULE
[Parents must pick their children up from practice ON TIME! If you are late to pick-up your child, it will be grounds for your child's explusion from the program! No excuses. To be sure you are not late, you should plan to arrive at least 15 minutes BEFORE practice ends. In addition, students are allowed only 3 unexcused absences. It is every parent's responsibility to advise your child's group coordinator of necessary absences and schedule a make-up class if necessary.]
Chinese Performing Arts Program Coordinator: Dawn Silberstein ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
FAN DANCERS: GRADES 1 & UP
- PRACTICES FRI, 4:30-5:30PM, STARTING ON SEP 2, 2011
- Group Coordinator: Phuong Chin ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
RIBBON DANCERS: GRADES 3 & UP
- PRACTICES FRI, 4:30-6:00PM, STARTING ON SEP 2, 2011.
- Group Coordinator: Linda Jung, ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
STILT WALKERS: GRADES 4 & UP
- PRACTICES 4:30-6:00PM FRIDAYS. NEW WALKERS START SEP 23, 2011.
- RETURNING WALKERS START NOV. 18, 2011.
- VETERANS IN 8TH GRADE AND OVER MUST HELP AS SPOTTERS FOR THE FIRST MONTH STARTING SEP. 23, 2011.
- Group Coordinator: Karen Robbins ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Tiffany Rapier ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
- ALL STILT WALKERS MUST BRING A PAIR OF WRIST GUARDS AND WEAR THEM EVERY TIME THEY ARE ON STILTS. PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE.
- NEW WALKERS MUST BRING A BICYCLE TYPE HELMET TO EACH PRACTICE FOR THE FIRST 2+ MONTHS OF PRACTICE. NO EXCEPTIONS. WE WILL MEET ON THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE SCHOOL, YARD 2, NEAR ROOM 5 AND 6.
- ALL STILT WALKERS MUST PROVIDE A PAIR OF LACE UP OR VELCRO SHOES APX 1/2 SIZE LARGER THAN THEIR CURRENT SHOE SIZE. THE SHOES WILL BE BOLTED ON TO A PAIR OF STILTS, AND WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO THE STUDENT. NOT EVERY CHILD WILL BE USING THEIR OWN SHOES. IT DEPENDS ON OUR SIZE NEEDS AND AVAILABILITY.
DRUMMERS: GRADES 2 & UP
- PRACTICES FRI, 4:30-5:30PM, STARTING ON OCT. 28, 2011.
- Group Coordinators: Tony Moir ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) - Gwenn Lei ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) -
- ALL DRUMMERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE THEIR OWN BLACK TURTLENECK AND BLACK SHOES.
DRAGON RUNNERS: GRADE K-1
- PRACTICES FRI 4:30-5:30PM, STARTING JAN. 6, 2012.
- Group Coordinator: BUFF HARDING ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
BANNER HOLDER: GRADES K-1
- (GROUP COORDINATOR NEEDED - GROUP MAY BE ELIMINATED)
- PRACTICES, FRI. 4:30-5:30PM, WILL START JAN. 6, 2012.
LION DANCING: (Looking for group coordinator.)
(West Portal Elementary School 12:00 to 4:00p.m.)
Pick up your child at the time specified by your group leader after the Parade.)
West Portal Elementary School students have participated in the Chinese Performing Arts Program with award-winning performances in that San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade since approximately 1990. The Chinese Performing Arts Program originated as part of West Portal Elementary School's Chinese Immersion Program, an exciting and innovative program through which children from different ethnic backgrounds learn to speak, read and write in a second language (Cantonese), while keeping Chinese cultural traditions alive. The Chinese Performing Arts Program evolved as a way to share these cultural traditions with the entire West Portal Elementary School student body The program is open to every West Portal Student willing to commit to attend practices with a positive attitude and do his or her personal best. The performers range in age from 5 to 18 years old and are students and alumni from both the Immersion program and the General Education program at West Portal Elementary School. 
