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It’s time again for the ACHEV Fine Arts Festival!  This year it will be held at 6:00 PM on Saturday, April 18th  at Temple Avenue Baptist Church in Camarillo.  The Arts Festival is a wonderful time for our students to share their God-given talents.  This is a non-judged activity, designed to appreciate the talents of our ACHEV homeschool community.  Due to time constraints, we may need to limit the number of activities per person (i.e., 2 solo events) depending on how many entries we receive.

We’ve had an amazing response in the past with such creative entries as comedic skits, dance, bands, mime, poetry reading, excerpts from plays, films, instrumental solos (piano, guitar, harp, violin…), vocal solos, photography, drawings, sewing, knitting, models and more.  This is a great opportunity to recognize and encourage the hard work that goes into developing these life-enriching skills.

We ask that all performing and visual arts be appropriate for families with young children and glorifying to God. When our families come together as a group, we hope to create an atmosphere that allows for consideration and grace.

Values we trust every ACHEV family to embrace are:

• Artist/performer – Personal opinions and freedoms can and should at times be humbly set aside temporarily for the sake of the community. A good rule of thumb is if you have any concern it might offend, chose something safer to perform/create/wear. Remember all ages may be present, and ask yourself, “Will it honor God?”, and “Will it bless those who hear and see?”
• Audience – There is a time and place to graciously make allowances for the differing opinions about what is appropriate to perform/create/wear. Since this event serves our entire membership, we can expect our diverse community to be just that: diverse. That is part of the beauty of community. We offer benefit of the doubt that each participant sincerely desires to honor God and bless those who hear and see.

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Who Can Participate: This is an ACHEV Event for ACHEV students to showcase their talents.   ACHEV students of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate.  If an ACHEV student would like to perform in an ensemble or needs accompaniment for a performance, accompaniments or other members of an ensemble can be a parent, adult sibling, instructor, or students in other educational settings.   We encourage you to invite all your friends and family to come support and encourage our students in the audience.

Please fill out your submission forms no later than Thursday April 2nd.  There is a good deal of planning that needs to be done ahead of the event to coordinate all the performances, create and print the program, etc.  If you can submit your form earlier, that is very helpful.  We will not be accepting submissions after the deadline.  You must submit a separate form for each piece of artwork and each performance.  Visual Arts need to be dropped off no later than Monday, April 5 (form is still required by Apr 2).

To make this event happen, we need a parent from every family to volunteer.  We are asking every family to bring a plate of cookies/finger-snacks to share AND to volunteer for one of the jobs listed in the Google Form linked below.  We will contact you before the festival to let you know what your job will be.  Thank you for all of your help!

Please fill out the volunteer form as soon as you can – even if you do not have your art submissions figured out yet.  If you are going to participate, go ahead and fill it out now.  We have some important jobs that need to be filled soon ,and I need to know how much participation we will have in this event, and having these things figured out can’t wait until the deadline.  Thank you so much for understanding!

Click on the forms below to sign up!

Volunteer Form (required for all families)

Visual Arts Entry Form

Performing Arts Entry Form

Please drop off your fine art no later than Monday April 5.

Camarillo Art Drop Off:

TBD

Ventura Art Drop Off:  

TBD

Please help us make the fine arts presentation beautiful and honor your child’s artwork by putting it in a frame. 

You can borrow a frame from something else in your house, buy used from the thrift store, or reach out on ACHEV members Facebook page or Band and ask to borrow something.  If it is a stretched canvas, a frame is not needed.  Examples below of a stretched canvas (left) and framed crayon drawing (right).  

These are the first things my kids ever submitted in the fine arts festival!  We want to represent all ages and abilities!