Peninsula Performs – Field Arts & Events Hall

Peninsula performs! Port Angeles ARTS EDUCATION

Welcome to Peninsula Performs!, a new arts education program that connects arts providers directly to students and educators in the Port Angeles School District (PASD). This curriculum-based arts integration approach uses music, dance, theater, and visual arts to find new entry points into learning and aligns with both Common Core State Standards and National Core Arts Standards.

2024-2025 PENINSULA PERFORMS CLASSES

2024-2025 PENINSULA PERFORMS INSTRUCTORS

CONNECT WITH PENINSULA PERFORMS

If you are an educator in the Port Angeles School District who is interested in bringing Peninsula Performs! to your classroom, please call or email Field Arts & Events Hall to connect.

If you are a local artist interested in a teaching artist position, please click here for requirements and information.

Kayla Oakes
Director of Education & Artistic Engagement
(360) 477-4679
kayla@fieldhallevents.org

What is Peninsula Performs?

Peninsula Performs! is an integrated arts education program that brings professional teaching artists into schools to teach curriculum in creative new ways. Programs must connect to both a Core Learning Standard in English, Math, Social Studies, Science and a Core Arts Standard in Theater, Dance, Music, or Visual Art.

Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Students engage in a creative process that connects an art form and another subject area, and meets evolving objectives in both.

Who do we serve?

Peninsula Performs! offers programs for K-12 students and educators in the Port Angeles School District. Peninsula Performs! arts education programs served approximately 1,000 students during the 2022 – 2023 school year.

Reach out today to arrange a Peninsula Performs! program in your classroom. Peninsula Performs! is offered at no cost to schools or students.

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS

Roosevelt Elementary

Franklin Elementary

Jefferson Elementary

Hamilton Elementary

Dry Creek Elementary

Seaview Academy

Program Details

Peninsula Performs! is committed to employing teaching artists who reside on the North Olympic Peninsula.
Implemented during the school day, these programs help students learn curriculum through the arts. Student programs have clear learning objectives and are aligned with both Common Core State Standards and National Core Arts Standards and take place in the school building.
Programs may be delivered by cultural and/or heritage organizations, educational institutions, independent teaching/performing artists, museums/art institutions, performing arts organizations, and/or performance groups/companies.
Programs can be as short as one 45-minute session or as long as three one-hour sessions.
All programs go through the Peninsula Performs program application and selection process by a committee of PASD educators, Field Hall’s Education Committee, and Field Hall staff.
PASD educators use the Peninsula Performs roster to search and select programs at the start of the school year based on grade level, content area, or art form.

“It is imperative all students have access to an equitable delivery of arts education, which includes dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts that supports their educational, social, and emotional well-being, taught by certified professional arts educators in partnership with community arts providers.” – Kayla Oakes, Field Hall Director of Education & Artistic Engagement