2024 OFFICIAL CONCEPT SCHOOL ART & LANGUAGE FESTIVAL RULES and REGULATIONS
2024 OFFICIAL CONCEPT SCHOOL ART & LANGUAGE FESTIVAL RULES and REGULATIONS
The Festival is for 5-12 grade students` participation.
- DATE and VENUE
on SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2023
@ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
5216 W Lawrence Ave. Chicago, IL 60630
- CATEGORIES
There are 8 categories for participation in the Festival.
- Turkish songs (Turkish teachers in charge)
- Spanish / French songs (Spanish and French teachers in charge)
- English songs (Music teachers in charge) limited to 2 songs for each school
- Arabic songs (Arabic teachers in charge) for the students of Minnesota Math and Science Academy, Noble Academy of Columbus and Columbus Middle and Columbus Elementary Schools
- Chinese / Japanese songs
- Turkish folk dances (Turkish teachers in charge)
- Hispanic folk dances (Spanish teachers in charge)
- Playing a musical instrument (Music teachers in charge) limited to 2 players for each school
- QUALIFICATION for the FESTIVAL : The performers will be qualified to perform at the Festival by their video performances. Teachers are supposed to take the videos of the performers and submit them to the Head of Foreign Language Department by March, 15 2024.
Uploading the video performances means registration for the Event. You do not need to enter the names in another excel sheet. However, please remember to label the video with the name of the singer/instrument player and the title of the song sung/played. For folk dances, you can just label the video with the title of the dance and you do not need to write the names of the dancers.
The videos will be watched by the judges and the qualifiers will be announced on March 29 2024.
- As for the Singing category
Karaokes of the songs qualified to perform at the Festival should be submitted to the Department Head via email by April 12, 2024.
-The singers are expected to sing with the karaoke music, not with the original song music along with the original singer.
– The songs should be sung by a single singer, or a duo or a trio but not by more than three singers.
– Any singer who performed a song at the festivals of previous years is expected to participate with a different song in 2023.
- As for the Folk Dances category
– As the title of this category suggests, the participating dance should be a traditional folk dance, NOT a modern dance.
-The folk dance group should consist of at least 8 dancers, not any fewer than that.
-Individual dances or couple dances or group dances performed by fewer than 8 dancers will not be accepted even if they are traditional dances.
– Any dance group who performed a folk dance at the festivals of previous years is expected to participate with a different folk dance in 2023.
- As for the Playing Musical Instrument category
Only solo instrumentalists accepted.
GUEST PERFORMERS
Aside from the qualified performers of the categories mentioned above
- folk dance groups of 3 guest cultures (outside our school network)
- one of the school bands/orchestras (CMSA School band this year)
- Free Form Winner of CS Spoken Word Contest
are as well invited to perform at the Festival. ( they do not need to submit a video performance for qualification )
SHOWCASE
The works and projects of Concept Schools Art Department will be exhibited on the Festival day.
FESTIVAL DAY and AWARDS
There will be no voting by the judges on the Festival day, which means the performers (individuals or groups) qualified and invited for the Festival are only going to perform and receive their awards.
How much do they get?
Singing Category performers (English, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese , Japanese, Spanish and French): $150
Playing Musical Instrument Category performers: $150
Spoken Word Freeform Winner performer: $150
Folk Dances Category groups: $ 500
Bands and orchestras: $ 500
LINKS TO 2023 ART AND LANGUAGE FESTIVAL
