Lunar New Year Residency and After School Celebration
We are very excited to share that from February 3-7, 2025 we will be having our Whole School Lunar New Year Multi-Cultural Residency and Performance. This year, it will be a whole school residency for all students at the same time during this weeklong process, which will culminate with students performing at one of the two after school performances on Friday, February 7, 2025. Each homeroom class is assigned a specific performance to attend (see below) at which they will perform. These performances will be in the Marion Carson School gymnasium.
The purpose of the residency it to bring our school community together for the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Snake, to learn about and celebrate “Belonging” and our connections through “New Beginnings” at Marion Carson School, while also learning about the process of the art of theatre. We are thankful for the Marion Carson Parent Association who has provided $5000 in funds to reduce the residency cost. This has reduced the parent cost to $25/student. You will receive a message from the school once this fee is uploaded to your MyCBE Account.
Please plan on having your child being in attendance for their performance to celebrate this learning. We expect a full building on this evening during both performances, therefore to ensure that we’re not overcrowded, stay within our building capacity limits, and ensure that all families are provided an opportunity to attend their event, we ask that families limit their attendance to a maximum of two parents/guardians per family and their sibling(s).
When is my child’s performance?
February 7th 4pm Performing Classrooms - Doors will open at 3:30pm. Students should arrive no later than 3:45pm
Kindergarten: Ms. Tsai Group B (Tu/Th),
Grade 1: Ms. Blair
Grade 1/2: Ms. Hoglund
Grade 1/2: Ms. Holm
Grade 2: Ms. Wang
Grade 3: Ms. Buller
Grade 3: Mr. Wang
Grade 4: Ms. Eastly
Grade 4: Ms. Wilcock
Grade 5: Mr. Ledene
Grade 6: Mr. Wiedener
*Families are also welcome to choose to come to the dress rehearsal for this group instead of the evening performance starting at 10:00am (doors open at 9:50am)
February 7th 6pm Performing Classrooms - Doors will open at 5:30pm. Students should arrive no later than 5:45pm
Kindergarten: Ms. Freestone
Kindergarten: Ms. Tsai Group A (M/W)
Grade 1: Ms. Wu
Grade 1/2: Ms. Schnell/Ms. Weir
Grade 2: Ms. Lee
Grade 3: Ms. Saretsky
Grade 3: Ms. Spray
Grade 4: Ms. Zhang
Grade 4: Ms. Hay
Grade 5: Ms. Baldwin
Grade 6: Ms. Cole
*Families are also welcome to choose to come to the dress rehearsal for this group instead of the evening performance starting at 12:00pm (doors open at 11:50am)
West Entry Doors will be opened 30 minutes before each after school performance (10 minutes before for dress rehearsals). If waiting outside, please line up down the sidewalk towards Varsity Drive. Please ensure that if you are driving to this event, you park in designated parking spaces and avoid the staff parking lot or impacting any of our surrounding community homes. Parents who have siblings performing at different times will be asked to leave the gym in between performances with all of their belongings as they pick up their children following the first performance, but are welcome to stay inside the building outside of the gym, awaiting the second performance.