Ballard Performing Arts News

February 1, 2022

Upcoming Events Feb. 8 | Ballard Performing Arts Boosters Parents meeting Feb. 12 | Spaghetti Dinner Feb. 19 | Chamber Orchestra concert at WMEA conference Feb. 27 | Concert and Symphonic Orchestras perform at Wintergrass Festival See our BPA Calendar for more details.

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Featured News

63rd Annual Spaghetti Dinner

Sales are brisk this year – Don’t miss out! Get your dinner, wine, and dessert before they sell out! Mix and match items or donate a dinner kit to the Ballard Food Bank. Get in on this 63-year tradition. The money raised for this event goes toward this year's fundraising priorities (pay for clinicians, fund scholarships, and audio visual/livestreaming). Learn about the backstory and history of this community event that has withstood the test of time by following our social media and website. Then, sit back and enjoy a FREE Livestream performance featuring the Greatest Hits of Motown. Livestream Show via Ballard Performing Arts YouTube Channel All performing arts students in Band, Orchestra, Choir, and Theatre will perform at school. Parents will watch at home via FREE livestream. Lineup schedule to be published closer to the date. Pasta Dinner Kit To-Go Order today, we have limited supply. Spaghetti Dinner Kit: $30 (or donate a meal to the Ballard Food Bank) Wine: $15 Dessert: $25 (Only 30 desserts will be available!) We have some pretty delicious desserts coming in…Triple Coconut Cream Pie, Hershey’s Kisses Bundt Cake and so many more treats to enjoy while watching the show.  Mix and match! Only want dessert or wine? No problem! Order what you want Pick up Dinner Kit, Wine, and Dessert 11 am to 2 pm, North Parking Lot of Ballard High School Order at ballardperformingarts.org. Thanks to our Sponsors! This is a community event and fundraiser to support our programs, made possible by the generous donations of these sponsors. Please support these local businesses! Grocery Outlet  Better Meats Cascioppo Bros Ballard Market Essential Baking Co  Ken’s Market Trader Joe’s   And special thanks to Orion Commercial Partners for the incredibly generous donation to underwrite our expenses.

Beauty and The Beast Tickets on Sale!

Tickets for Beauty and the Beast are on sale NOW.  Adults: $20 Seniors: $15 Students: $10 Purchase them at www.showtix4U.com. Don’t miss out on our first LIVE musical in TWO YEARS!!! Or, reserve the best seats in the house--and support BPA. These are the 2 rows in the Earl Kelly auditorium that have the most leg room: Row M and L. We are setting aside two pairs for each show in Row L as premium seating--center of the front section, and EXTRA LEG ROOM. Tickets for these special seats are $100 for the pair, or $50 per single seat. Thursday March 17th: M101 and M102 M106 and M107 Friday March 18th:    L106 and L107   L111 and L112 Saturday March 19th: L106 and L107   L111 and L112 Sunday March 20th:   L106 and L107   L111 and L112 Thursday March 24th: L106 and L107   L111 and L112 Friday March 25th:    L106 and L107   L116 and L117 Saturday March 26th: L108 and L109   L116 and L117 Sunday March 27th:  L101 and L102   L116 and L117 Contact Jill at bpabtreasurer@gmail.com to reserve these special seats to see the show and help fund the theatre department. These seats are first come, first serve.

Program Updates

Band Save the dates for fun future performances  May 21 the combo and brass bands will be playing at the Puget Sound Jazz Fest on Bainbridge island.  Brass band will be playing a 45 minute slot at 11 am at the art museum in Bellevue on Sunday June 5.

Choir Choir T-Shirts T-Shirts were sent home. If you didn’t receive one, please see Ms. Rowley. The choir t-shirts will be worn at the Spaghetti Dinner on February 12 and can be embellished with Motown era attire. Motown Choir Students are immersed in learning about the history of Motown. Motown is an upbeat, often pop-influenced style of rhythm and blues by black vocalists and groups that started in Detroit. Students are learning music by The Supremes, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and other amazing artists. Motown is an important part of Black history. Throughout January and February, as we observe the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 's birthday, Black History Month, and the Black Lives Matter movement, we are thrilled to study the work of so many incredibly accomplished Black artists. In studying the influence that Motown had on music in our culture, the students gain perspective into how powerfully music affects our lives.   Solo and Ensemble Our Regional Solo and Ensemble Festival is March 5 at Seattle Pacific University. Interested students can sign up to perform a solo, duet, or other small ensemble for an adjudicator who will provide feedback and scoring. This is a competitive festival, with the winner from each category advancing to the state competition at Central Washington University in late April. More information to follow!

Orchestra Save the Dates! Chamber Orchestra students have been invited to be special performers (in a collaborative concert with Seattle Pacific University’s Orchestra) at the Washington Music Educators Association state conference in Yakima on Saturday, February 19, 2022.  Concert and Symphonic Orchestra students will be participating in the Wintergrass Youth Orchestra, a collaborative performance at the Wintergrass Festival. Dates include:   Pre-festival rehearsal Sunday Feb 6 A dress rehearsal at the Bellevue Hyatt Hotel on Saturday Feb 26  A performance at the Bellevue Hyatt Hotel on Sunday Feb 27

Theatre Tickets for Beauty and the Beast are on sale NOW. See above, or go to www.showtix4U.com.  Rehearsal schedule for week of 1/31 to 2/4 Monday: ALL CALL singing with Ms. Rowley. Tuesday: Sing with Ms. Rowley. Small group numbers TBA. Wednesday: DANCE with Eia. Teach ME and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Clean other dances with Ella and Izzy. Thursday: ALL CALL with Mr. Riley. Blocking and dance. Friday: DANCE with Eia. Teach the TANGO and clean BE OUR GUEST. Saturday. WORK CALL 10-4 CAST PLEASE ATTEND.

Help Fund Our Programs

The district only pays for teacher’s salaries; everything else we have to raise or donate.

Our Tom Douglas/Serious Pie Ballard Dine Out for January generated $600 for the program!! We are grateful for our ongoing partnership with them--and Thank YOU to the community for your support!

Help Wanted

Website Coordinator Our fantastic website coordinator is graduating with their student in June and we need to fill this role. Details: Work with a team of organized, fun, low-drama communication professionals. All text/images/video provided for updates with lots of support. Weekly updates and maintenance is a must with creativity and input welcome. Sit in on weekly(ish) Leadership Team Meetings (by Zoom) to hear program updates firsthand and be involved in decision making and planning. Tasks: Weekly updates | pulled from the newsletter (no rewrites) Yearly updates | more intensive at the start of the school year Member of the Leadership Team (held by Zoom, weekly) Update pre-existing pages for annual fundraising events (Fall Fundraiser, Spaghetti Dinner)   Tech Specs: Time Commitment: 6 hours/month Some experience/interest in website development Easy to use WIX platform Contact Jeannette Chen with interest.

Volunteer to Help with Spaghetti Dinner Sign Up to Volunteer for Assembling and Distributing Meal Kits  We need help assembling all the food donations into 200 to-go meal kits on the morning of February 12. Later on the same day, we need help distributing the kits to families for pick up from 11 am to 2 pm at school. Students can earn Service Learning Hours for helping at the performances, for meal kit assembly and/or distribution. Sign up here! Sign Up to Bake or Purchase and Donate a Dessert  We are reimagining the bake sale of past Spaghetti dinners and morphing it into a special “Dash over for a Dessert” add-on. We need 30 desserts total and have 14 so far. We need freshly baked desserts or purchased fresh baked items ready for pick up.  Sign up at our signup genius. Donate Wine We need wine donations to offer for sale for the wine add-on. If you’re doing “dry January” and have a few extra bottles leftover from the holidays, we’ll take them off your hands! Make arrangements with Kris Bulson for pick up. We are hoping for about 60 bottles of wine (red preferred) in all price ranges over $10/bottle. Sign up to donate here. Contact Kris at bpabfundraising@gmail.com with any Spaghetti Dinner questions.

Featured Video

Get your spaghetti eating pants ready! Re-watch last year’s Spaghetti Dinner “Second Helpings” video of clips from past years (do NOT miss Orchestra’s rendition of Guns and Roses and Pearl Jam!).

Check out past performances any time on our YouTube and Vimeo channels.

Passive Giving

Give While You Get Passive fundraising couldn’t be easier—Donate to BPA Every time you make a purchase. Link to Amazon Smile, Fred Meyer, and more, and donate every time you shop. To sign up, follow the links below and select “Ballard High School Performing Arts Booster Club” as the benefactor.

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