VSA Orange County

Erin Schalk, artist and art instructor at Braille Institute, who is also a member of VSA Orange County's Arts and Special Education Network, will be Muckenthaler Cultural Center's 2021 Artist in Residence! Congratulations, Erin!

Join OC Teachers for a creativity break with Well Beings Studio director and teaching artist, Sharon Frances. Tuesday, February 16, 4-5pm, free on Zoom! Bring collage materials: miscellaneous paper, ephemera, magazines, glue, scissors, and your favorite empowerment phrases. Sign up: https://bit.ly/WBSTeacherWorkshop... For more information, Contact Sharon: 714-264-4612 or [email protected]

Opportunity for young musicians with a disability! Each year outstanding young musicians with disabilities from around the world receive the VSA International Young Soloists Award, $2,000, and the opportunity to perform and participate in professional development and music coaching activities provided by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This program is open to soloists and ensembles of any instrument or genre! All genres of music are ac...cepted, including but not limited to classical, jazz, hip-hop, rap, rock/alt rock, pop, indie, bluegrass, folk, country, R&B/blues, Latin, and world. All instruments, including voice, are accepted. View this video for more information: https://youtu.be/A7nsuC9UQ5A Deadline to Apply is Monday, March 2, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. https://thekennedycenter.smapply.io//2021_vsa_internation/

At the Super Bowl LV, WAWA's World performed the National Anthem in American Sign Language (ASL) -- what an incredible performance! [Screen recording taken fro...m camera feed provided by CBS Sports.] TRANSCRIPT: Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

We recently partnered with VSA Orange County & Well Beings Studio for art workshops with our youth and teens. These workshops were coordinated with the intentio...n that students will submit their work for the 45th Annual VSA Festival. This year's theme is: "Be Brave, Be Kind, Be You." Students shared their feelings towards their disabilities and their peers/adults' perceptions of their disabilities and teen students made collages which represented garden landscapes and youth students made gardening pots with no bake molding clay. #BrailleYouth #Art

Please enjoy this video capturing SAUD's Villa Fundamental classes that participated in workshops facilitated with Well Beings Studio. sponsored by VSA Orange. The workshop involved mild/moderate academic support classes of Ms. Nunez's 6th grade, Mrs. Lord's 7th grade and the DHH academic support class of Ms. Lin.as well as members of support staff, ELA teachers, Ms. Bailey, "It was a special experience in that way to have our mutual students to be able to interact alongside their teachers as participants in this workshop." Jennifer Hoffman Lord https://youtu.be/ViImXCAnAeY