The monthly meeting of the Mar Vista Community Council Education, Culture & Arts Committee will take place Sunday, July 3rd at the Mar Vista Farmer’s Market at 10:30am.
The agenda is posted online and we hope to see you there!
Can you believe it? Our little old Venice High School is turning 100! And they are celebrating in style all weekend long, June 24th, 25th and 26th!
Start the weekend off right with a screening of Grease on Watson field – right where it was filmed 33 years ago!
Then continue to feel the GONDO love with food, live music, crafts and all kinds of reminiscing!
Myrna Loy would have been there if she could, so don’t miss out!
Venice High School, 13000 Venice Blvd, Mar Vista 90066
Multi-family Yard Sale tomorrow, June 18th to benefit the Green Dolphins at Mar Vista Elementary school.
Saturday, June 18th, 9:30am – 2pm, 11827 Allaseba Drive (between Stoner and Inglewood).
20 years young and going strong! Grand View was the first Dual Language Program in LAUSD and is still the only 90/10 model Spanish Immersion Program going.
And Saturday they will celebrate with dance performances by all the students in the program, refreshments, T-shirts and Bilingual Books for sale, and will culminate with a special performance by José-Luis Orozco, noted children’s author and singer.
This event is free and open to the public, and all proceeds benefit the school. Saturday, June 11th, 11:30 am – 3pm.
Grand View Blvd. Elementary School, 3951 Grand View Blvd., Mar Vista 90066
Beethoven Elementary will hold their annual Silent Auction Fundraiser this Saturday, June 4th at the Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club starting at 6pm.
Neighborhood Schools need your support!
Beethoven Elementary, 3711 Beethoven Street, Mar Vista, CA 90066 (310) 398-6286
The students of Mar Vista Elementary have created a temporary Art Museum and are inviting the community to come see it – but hurry: This Museum will only be open for a short time!
The following is a guest post about it from MV Elementary parent Melanie Rhalter:
Students, teachers and parents at Mar Vista Elementary School celebrated their third annual Art Museum opening with a grand display of young creative talent. The walls inside the school have been transformed into a beautiful and inspiring contemporary art museum with works created and selected by the students themselves: from astonishing birds-eye view architectural sketches of futuristic cities and modern art-influenced portraits hidden in swirls of brilliant color to delicate clay and recycled materials sculptures.
“I’m so proud to be part of a school that has made a home for students to express themselves creatively in a meaningful way,” says Visual Arts Instructor Ryan Miceli. “For the past three years this program has grown in sophistication, diversity and inter-curricular connections.” Mr. Miceli’s K–5 Visual Arts curricula is centered on teaching advanced fine art techniques, experiencing the process of what it means to make art, exploring new and interesting methods of creativity and developing observation and expressive skills. “We start our Museum-themed instruction from day 1, where every student learns how to look at their work, no matter how finished it is, and see its potential. As the year progresses, they learn about museums and the process of how a work of art goes from an idea to an important installation in a real museum gallery.”
With the help of dedicated parent volunteers, the artworks that the students select from their portfolios are organized by art medium and grade level while students provide written descriptions of their works that are published alongside their installations. Museum visitors learn more about what it all means by reading Mr. Miceli’s descriptive explanations, which are also on display.
Another highlight of the school wide Art Museum this year was the special added gallery exhibition by the 5th grade entitled, “Moving On: Our Time at Mar Vista”. When Mar Vista won a grant from the California PTA to fund a group art installation, Mr. Miceli led optional Sunday visits to LACMA (an idea that next year will be fully incorporated as a class field trip during the school year). Back at Mar Vista Elementary’s bustling art studio classroom, he taught the 5th graders art methods such as printmaking, landscape painting, sculpture and photography. Students worked together to create a group installation commemorating their elementary school years. Arranged by the students themselves, a classroom was transformed into multi dimensional gallery with four circular sculpture tables visitors could walk around. Surrounding these sculptures were large prints that resembled playful children, exhibits of experimental photography, beautiful realistic landscape paintings and a digital display from their LACMA adventures.
“The Art Museum is a model for how the Mar Vista School Enrichment Group’s support and passion provide Mar Vista students with unforgettable educational opportunities,” said Mr. Miceli. “It’s so impressive to see how talented young children can be and how a community can work together for one spectacular creative cause.”
(The Art Museum will be open for another two weeks.)
By Melanie Rhalter
Mar Vista Elementary School, 3330 Granville Ave., Mar Vista 90066 (310) 391-1175
Photos courtesy of Mar Vista Elementary.
Parents, Teachers and Students all over Mar Vista (and all over California) rallied today to protest our appallingly underfunded Education system in this State. Mar Vista schools turned out in force – in pajamas – to make it clear we want better for our children – all our children! And it was part of the “Wake Up, California!” Theme organized by EducateOurState.org.
Join us! Visit Educate Our State‘s website and learn more about how we spend 10 times more to house a Prisoner than a student - and to see how you can help get the word out to others who may not realize that. Please help spread the word and help us all make a change that will benefit our kids and our future.
We’re all in this together!
Daniel Webster Middle School is taking over Barnes & Noble in the Westside Pavilion on Friday, May 20th from 1pm until 8pm.
Students will dance, play their instruments, participate in a reader’s theater and read storybooks to the little ones! There will have a raffle with amazing prizes for you to win!
Please don’t forget to mention Webster at checkout!
Educate Our State is an organization of parents all over California dedicated to making meaningful change in our education system, with funding being one of their main priorities. There will be a “house party” on May 18th at Whole Foods Market West LA and I invite you all to come and learn more about what YOU can do to help.
Whole Foods West LA, 11666 National Blvd., Mar Vista (310) 996-8840
Argonaut reporter Gary Walker wrote this article about the recent Mar Vista Education Summit and I wanted to make sure you saw it.
