The Legacy High School Complex and VAPA HS are excited to bring another new performing group to Legacy: Color Guard! CG is performing this Spring as part of the Winter Guard Association of Southern California (WGASC) circuit and will continue in to the Fall as part of the Legacy/VAPA Marching Band and Color Guard in field show competitions, parades, and football games. Thank you to Coach Andres Olvera, Beyond the Bell, Educare, the Educare Foundation, and Karen Martell, Educare Coordinator, who support the new color guard!

Carlsbad Competition Photos 4-1-17
Azusa Competition Photos 3-19-17

Arcadia Competition Photos 3-12-17

Have you checked out our new flier, revised brochure, and new website at www.vapalegacy.com? On the website all of our social media platforms are also linked (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, PodBean, YouTube).

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Congratulations to the new VAPA Voices Jazz Choir and A Cappella  Singers who have been extremely active this Spring. The group performed at the SCVA Valencia Jazz Festival on March 10. They also attended the ICCA Regional Finals on March 11; the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) is the national competition produced by Varsity Vocals made familiar to most by the Pitch Perfect films. Congratulations to all 10 college a cappella groups who were amazing and especially to the winner, VAPA's sister a cappella group from UCLA, the ScatterTones! It was a great for our VAPA Voices A Cappella Singers to see the level of excellence they are striving for! 

Valencia Jazz Festival Photos 3-10-17  

A Cappella at ICCA Photos 3-11-17

It has been such a year of change and positive growth for Legacy VAPA in 2016-17! This video summarizes part of the VAPA story thus far this year!

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Did you know that LAUSD has some of the most successful and cutting-edge schools in California? Legacy High School Complex is a collection of small specialty high schools that offers three distinct choices for high school students in the South East (South Gate/Bell/Huntington Park), including an international studies high school (International Studies Learning Center), a school focused on STEAM (Science/Technology), and a high school focused on the arts (VAPA HS). The first choice Zone of Choice selection is closed, but students can still enroll in one of the three schools if there is space, and permits may be available. If you want to be a student in the new Legacy Visual and Performing Arts Magnet High School, opening in Fall 2018, enroll now to secure your spot and avoid the rush. Legacy VAPA Magnet High will likely fill to capacity when the Choices Magnet selection begins this Fall. Thank you LAUSD Local District East for supporting our local schools by putting together a promotional campaign which started today with a number of our students being photographed for street banners and interviewed for a promotional video!  

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On January 25, 2017,  Legacy VAPA: We're Here For You was recorded by the Legacy VAPA High School vocal group, JACS, and the LVAPA Jazz Ensemble and features Adriana Urbano, Brianda Palafox, and Erick Villarreal (voice over artist). The single was recorded at Nourse by Northwest Studios, engineered and produced by Shawn Nourse, with composer/lyricist and executive producer, Dr. Edward Trimis. Legacy VAPA: We're Here For You is available on i-Tunes, Spotify, Pandora, and Google Play.

We are excited to welcome another brand new program at Legacy VAPA, Technical Theatre! The Tech Theatre program is sponsored by the LAUSD ROP program and offers a full-day program of classes taught by our new tech theatre teacher, Miguel Delgado, in lighting design, sound design, stage craft, house management, and more. We are also excited to bring to VAPA our new theatre arts teacher, Stacie Craig. Ms. Craig joined us at the start of the semester with Spring musical auditions. With Ms. Craig on board, Mr. Delgado teaching the tech theatre program, and Mr. Sanna-Pickett returning to teach and direct our dance program, our performing arts staff is complete! Just in case you are still confused, here is a summary of the performing arts faculty at Legacy VAPA: Juan Cuevas (instrumental music and jazz studies), Karla Kim (vocal music and piano), Marcello Sanna-Pickett (dance), Stacie Craig (theatre arts), and Miguel Delgado (technical theatre). We also have our color guard instructor, Andres Olvera, on board with drumline starting soon. Our visual arts faculty includes Sara Holland (arts and design) and Nick Adolfo (media arts). Additional instruction provided by Dr. Edward Trimis (Jazz Choir, A Cappella Singers, Glee Club, and Writing for Musical Theatre class). 

VAPA performers were active this holiday season singing for thousands on the caroling trip, singing for the Breakfast with Santa Event at South Gate Park, and singing for the LAUSD LDE Holiday Meeting.The First Annual VAPA Voices Caroling Trip was on Thursday, December 15, 2017. The VAPA singers visited many schools, Greenfield Care Center of South Gate, and the Local District East Offices. Schools included 118th Street School, Bryson ES, Tweedy ES, Huntington Drive ES, South Gate MS, South East MS. Photos were taken by student's in VAPA's Social Media Photography Club.

Caroling Trip Photos 12-15-16

LAUSD Holiday Meeting 12-9-16

Glee Breakfast With Santa 12-16-16

Friday, December 9 was the Winterfest: This Generation dance celebration. The packed house was treated to a moving multicultural celebration of dance from all over the world featuring over 65 students from the VAPA Dance program. Congratulations to Mr. Noriega, Mr. Sanna-Pickett, and all of our great student choreographers and dancers!

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Winterfest was on December 8 and 9 and featured our VAPA visual and performing artists. Visual and Media Arts were featured in a showcase before the performances each day. Congratulations to the students of Ms. Holland, Mr. Adolfo, and Ms. Prado.

Winterfest Art Photos

This year's Winterfest was a hit! Thursday's event (12/8/16) featured all of the VAPA music groups including Choir, Vocal Ensemble, Glee Club, Show Choir, A Cappella/Jazz Singers, Beginning Band, Jazz Band, and Marching Band.

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Always an enriching school experience at VAPA, Ms. Dadrass' AP English Language students spent a lovely day at the Getty Villa on March 21!

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Congratulations to everyone who participated in the STEM Festival March 18 at Legacy STEAM High School.
Special thanks to LDE Science Specialist Craig Sipes for producing the event, to our sister school, STEAM HS and Principal Carla Barrera-Ortiz for hosting the event, to Ms. Bridgette Spencer and our VAPA students who worked at one of the demo booths, to the Legacy staff who worked the event, and to all the school administrators, teachers, and staff members, parents, and students who participated. VIPs in attendance included LDE senior administrators Dr. David Baca and Dr. Al Webb, LDE Superintendent Jose Huerta, and LAUSD Superintendent Michelle King.

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The Annual VAPA Staff Breakfast was on Friday, December 16. The VAPA Voices Glee Club provided the entertainment! These photos were taken by VAPA HS Yearbook student photo journalists.

Staff Breakfast Photos 12-16-17

VAPA had a song and love-filled Valentine's Day this year with singing telegrams and surprises. Happy Belated Valentine's Day from Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School!

Valentine's Day Photos

This was basketball season for the record books. After a spectacular season defeating most teams with huge point spreads in the elite Open Division, the Legacy Girls Basketball team came up against a few teams who proved to be unstoppable, at least this year. Both losses were extremely close and happened in the last few seconds of the game. Their State Play-off game against Independence High School in Bakersfield was not an exception. Congratulations to Coach E and the girls for an exciting and impressive season. We are super proud of our Lady Tigers!

Eagle Rock Game Photos 2-24-17

Independence HS Game Photos 3/8/17

El Camino HS Game Photos 3-1-17

The "Year of the Tiger" continues as the first ever Powder Puff Football game comes to the Legacy High School Complex! The event on March 30th was spectacular! Well-attended and well-played, the game saw the juniors lead the seniors for much of the game until the seniors pulled it out in the last few minutes to win! Thank you for all who participated- the players, the student leaders, and the staff who helped supervise the practices as well as the game!

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Congratulations to our first ever Legacy VAPA High School Academic Decathlon Team (ACADECA) who completed their season this year with two Saturday competitions at Roybal HS, starting with the January 28 event which included an interview, a speech, and an essay, and concluding with the Quiz and the Super Quiz On March 4. I am so extremely proud of these young men and women and their coach, Mr. Avalos, on many, many levels. I am proud of our students and their coach for doing something that has never been done before, which is a feat in and of itself. It takes courage, strength, hard work, and faith to do something brand new. I am proud of our ACADECA students and their coach for putting all the time in to make this happen. Countless hours at weekend workshops and after school, often putting in long study sessions after a full day of school which, at our school, typically includes one or more rehearsals or performances. And I am proud of our students and their coach for being a testament to how anything is really possible with our kids. They may not realize it, but they're breaking all kinds of stereotypes about what our kids can and can't do. They are a testament to the power of study and hard work. They're shining examples of how we are closing the achievement gap in our community and our school. And, lastly, to quote a line from High School Musical, this is the start of something big, the beginning of our ACADECA journey. I'm sure it will get bigger, better, and even more successful. It is great time to be a part of our amazing Legacy VAPA family. I also want to give a really big thank you to the parents, supporters, teachers, and my AP, Ms. Noriega who helped realize our vision of starting an ACADECA program! When you see one of our ACADECA students or their coach at school, congratulate them on a job well done. They make us all proud!

---Dr. Edward Trimis, Principal

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Have you missed Dr. Trimis' weekly phone call? Have no fear! You can find the call, plus additional special podcasts, on our website as well as PodBean and i-Tunes!

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