Arts Booster Club

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Creative Writing held its annual fall reading where students read poems, short stories, and selections from plays. As always, the works created by our students ran the gamut from personal, funny, sad, and impactful. Most importantly, the readings showcased the remarkable talent that our students hold within.

November also delivered our second issue of The Falcon, Kinkaid’s student-produced magazine. The work our journalism students create is really exceptional. The magazine is filled with incredible investigative journalism, opinion pieces, and interviews. Selections are now featured on the “Campus Life” page of the Kinkaid website, and I encourage everyone to follow our writers.

Not slowing down, December opened with our ninth and tenth graders performing the annual New Faces performance. Featuring music from a variety of musicals including, Newsies, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Tuck Everlasting, and Hamilton, students danced and sang their way through their introduction to our audiences.

Finally, the last month of the year allowed us to return, for the first time since the pandemic, to our amazing Margaret Kinkaid Holiday Celebration of the Arts. With two major concerts, one for Middle School students and one for Upper School students, we witnessed holiday music from all of our bands, choirs, and orchestras – the day featured an astounding 313 student musicians. Our visual arts students exhibited approximately 370 pieces of visual art and our fifth and sixth grade dancers premiered their Dance Down Main Street, which they performed at Disneyland in California.

It has been a terrific fall season in the Arts. We can’t wait to see what the spring brings!