For your eyes and ears

[Gina Harrison]

This is an note I've just posted to the NHS Arts Ed list serve. You folks might enjoy it as well.

First, a quick reminder that the annual NHS Spring Dance Concerts are this weekend. Performances are Saturday at 7pm and Sunday at 3pm. If you haven't been to a dance concert, don't miss this. Combinations of solos, duets, small and large ensembles, super lights, costumes and music. If you have students in middle school, it's a wonderful opportunity to see what's available in the high school curriculum. We're really proud that the NHS Dance Program is the oldest public school dance program in North Carolina, dating back to the 1970s during the administration of Superintendent Perry Harrison. It continues to be a vital part of NHS Arts Education.


Second, here's a new posting from the Americans for the Arts website. I've listened to this and previously to some of the others. I liked this one a lot!

Listen to Daniel Pink deliver the Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy
April 11, 2008—Author Daniel Pink delivered the 21st Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy on March 31 at the John F. Kennedy for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. You can listen to his speech here: http://www.artsusa.org/information_services/video_audio/default.asp...

In this provocative lecture, Pink makes what he calls a “hard-headed case for arts education.” He explains how three powerful forces in the economy are making logical, linear, rule-based, “left-brain” abilities necessary in the workforce, but no longer sufficient. And he shows how these three forces—what he calls abundance, Asia, and automation—are making artistic, empathic, big picture, “right brain” abilities the most important abilities in just about every profession in industry.

Daniel Pink’s books A Whole New Mind and A Free Agent Nation are available in the Americans for the Art Store.

For information, transcripts, and podcasts of previous Hanks lectures, visit here: http://www.artsusa.org/events/nancyhanks.asp


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