Penn’s Fine Arts Festival showcases broad spectrum

By ARIELLE KIRSCH

Penn High School student reporter

 

Beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, Penn’s 2016 Fine Arts Festival will be underway.  The event will showcase nearly every genre of the arts, including drawings, photography, vocals, and band/orchestra music.  

 

With no charge, this occasion is open to the public and will provide a wonderful experience of Penn High School’s Fine Arts program.There will also be a college fair, with an emphasis on the Arts.

The festival will begin with artwork on display in the art classrooms and hallway.  At the same time, will be a college fair in the lobby of the Center for the Performing Arts that will feature 10 colleges.  

 

Following the aforementioned events will be a 7:30 p.m. poetry slam in the Penn High School Center for Performing Arts, and all are encouraged to attend.  

 

Finally, Penn’s Viva Voce Choir and Advanced Jazz Ensemble will wrap up the night beginning at 8 with a remarkable performance of composer Will Todd’s Mass in Blue. To learn more about the March 22 Mass in Blue performance, click here.

 

Orchestra director Lavon Oke spoke fondly and excitedly of the Fine Arts Festival.

 

“We’ve done some orchestra-choral works…we’ve done some art during music that we hadn’t before.  This year, we’re having the pre-concert time; we’re having a poetry slam with a music and art combination.  It’s going to be interesting.”

 

Fine Arts Academy leader Glenn Northern is very hopeful that this year’s Fine Arts Festival will be a hit.

 

“Many people especially enjoy this concert because it features so many aspects of the Fine Arts Academy within one single performance.”