The Regional Multicultural Magnet School at 1 Bulkeley Place will engage and entertain children and their parents from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4 at a Multicultural Festival of arts and classroom projects celebrating the public K-5 school’s 20th Anniversary.
“In addition to inviting our student body and their families, we’re welcoming families who might be interested in sending a child to our school to come and see what we’re all about,” said Paul Carolan, the school’s director. “We’ve also invited our graduates, who range from middle-school age right up to college and career, as well as their families, to visit the Festival for a reunion with the school, the faculty and each other.”
Each class will have an outdoor booth at the festival that will engage children in a learning experience. Booths include Face painting, Origami , Air Exploration (kites, bubbles & planes), Recycled Flower Pots , Critters (cockroaches & silkworms), Chippewa Dream Catchers, Native American Stone Toss , Japanese Fish Prints, Panderios (Brazilian Tambourines), Multicultural Bracelets , Jamaican Shell Jewelry , Lifecycle (caterpillar to butterfly); Plant & Soil Activities , Paper Cranes , Mankala, Poetry Art Illustrations, Save the Earth Club, Egg Carton Flowers , Russian Booth (to include Blinis); and Peace Flags.
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A number of Alumni bands and singing groups will perform during the day on the school’s parking deck, while a cadre of dance groups – Hispanic, African-American, Irish – along with Zoomba fitness dancers and Brazilian Capoeira martial arts students, will take their turns on a stage set up in the school’s gymnasium.
Cinderella Moseley, a longtime and popular instructor, will be doing storytelling, recounting “Multicultural Stories Around the World,” and the Bilingual Singers, who are bilingual students, will perform.
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Jon Kodama, alumni parent of three RMMS grads and proprietor of a number of area restaurants including SteakLoft and Go Fish, will be running the lunch concession - which will feature Pulled Pork Sliders, Chicken Tenders, Cod Cakes, Veggie Burgers and Hot Dogs. Proceeds will benefit the Regional Multicultural Magnet School Foundation.
The foundation, in fact, is using the Festival to launch its campaign to increase the size of the school’s endowment to $500,000 to enable it to continue to fund innovative education programs at the school. For more information about the foundation, visit www.rmmsfoundation.org
For additional information about the festival, visit www.rmms.k12.ct.us or call 860-437-7775.
