Everything you need to know as a parent and student about the 2011/2012 Anaheim Heritage Festival.
What is the Heritage Festival and Who is performing there?
The Heritage Festival (through worldstrides) is a perfomance program designed to encourage the performance growth and experience for students of all ages across the United States and even world wide.
Other schools from around the country travel to perform at this festival. We were the youngest performing group at our last festival and according to the festival directors this new upcoming festival is going to be much bigger and many more schools attending.
Disneyland aside – the main reason for students going is to perform at the concert to a panel of adjudicators, who then give a mini workshop and constructive comments. This in itself is an invaluable experience. Groups are ranked in levels according to their performance. There is no first or last place, but there are levels of achievement. This performing is over the course of 2 days. We will be performing the first day of the Festival (Friday) and will be early up on the program.
Award Ceremony takes place at the end of Festival day 2 and is at the Disneyland Parklands in Frontier land. Trophy’s and Certificates are distributed at this ceremony.
Chaperones: I took note on the returned permission slips as to which parents checked Yes to be Chaperones and have put on a list parents who were willing to go “If Needed”. I am planning on the parents who checked “Yes” to attend. Please notify me if you are no longer able so I can notify other parents if we need them. We also require your deposit and payments at the same time as the student payments are due
Trip Schedule:
Thursday March 22nd – Depart GPA @ 7:30am for California via charted bus.
Arrive at Newport Beach CA for swimming,dinner and relaxing on the beach.
2010/2011 GPA students at Newport Beach
Aerial view of the GPA Students enjoying Newport Beach
Palm Trees of California
At sunset we will then go to our hotel (TBA the name of the hotel) for check in, and students can unpack, swim in the pool and play games. Bed time is 10:00pm!.
Friday March 23rd – SLEEP IN!!!!!Wake up, Eat breakfast the is provided by GPA, Have lunch and then get dressed and ready for performance.
GPA Choir Warming up for Performance
Travel to performance venue. Festival begins at 2:30
and performances start at 3:00 (will advise when we have the exact time of our performance).
Students perform, and are adjudicated. Students arealso to watch and observe other schools performances.
Students receiving adjudication and workshop
we will then leave the concert hall to travel to the Disneyland Parklands. Return to the hotel at midnight.
GPA Arrived at the Parklands!
Saturday March 24th - Wake up, have a good breakfast and head on over to the Disneyland Parklands and California Adventure. Students are to stay in groups, and are to have chaperones with them at all times. Groups are free to join up or split up at any time as long as there is always a chaperone with each group and someone in the group has a cell phone that can be reached.
Students can play in the parklands until 8:30 pm when they must head to frontierland to get seated for the awards ceremony which starts promptly at 9:00pm (there is a fireworks disply and quite the big musical show put on for the kids)
Disneyland Style Award Ceremony
At this point if any students are tired, not feeling good etc they may return to the hotel with a chaperone, remaining students and chaperones are free to play until midnight at which point the buses return everyone back to the hotel.
Sunday March 25th- Wakeup, checkout of Hotel and head for home at 9pm. ETA back
Erin Hiertzler... Our smallest performer!
at GPA is 5pm Utah time.
At the end of the trip Im not sure who is more tired... the teachers or students
