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We are thrilled to welcome you to our inaugural community festival celebrating the arts and bringing together families from Santa Ana and beyond!

Get ready for a fun-filled day of play and imagination. Throughout the festival, we hope you will enjoy our featured performances from the talented student artists of OCSA and our partner organizations, tasty bites from our local food truck vendors, and the variety of unique arts experiences and play areas we have put together for you!

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of today’s supporters, including our Presenting Event Sponsors, Revive Santa Ana and Max H. Gluck Foundation, as well as all of our incredible Event Sponsors. Additionally, a big thank you to our Community Partners, including Dragon Kim Foundation, El Sol Academy, Girl Scouts Orange County, Jennie Johanson-Maya, LBC Hero Squad, Pretend City, Santa Ana Public Library, and the Thompson Autism and Neurodevelopment Center at CHOC. Our hope is that each family here today gets to play together, be silly together, and break bread together. We hope this event becomes an annual fixture for folks from all over the community to come together to embrace the arts, raise up our kids, and have fun.

We invite you to explore and enjoy today’s high-energy celebration of art, creativity, and community!

With Gratitude, Brian Stevens Director of Community Engagement

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Experiences The following arts experiences are designed to be enjoyed in smaller groups and will be timed to occur in 15-25 minute cycles that will repeat throughout the day.

Animation Studio Experience Marvel as your two-dimensional drawings come to life! In this enchanting experience, go on an interactive drawing journey as you create pieces of animation and watch as your images fly off the page.

Culinary Arts Experience Roll up your sleeves and make a new dish from start to finish with OCSA’s Mekjian Family Culinary Arts & Hospitality Conservatory students and instructors in this exciting hands-on cooking demonstration that is kid friendly and family approved. This experience has two breakout groups: one for younger chefs ages 5-8 and one for older chefs ages 9-11.

Green Screen Experience Ever wonder how filmmakers at Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Disney make movie magic? This arts experience takes you through the process of movie making using a green screen. Explore being both in front of the camera and behind it to see first-hand how this game-changing film tool works, while inserting yourself into an awesome action scene!

Night at the Museum Experience Step into the first-ever ‘OCSA Museum’ and blur the lines between the art and the artist! Learn beginning painting techniques to create your own work of art, and then sit for a portrait to inspire other artists! You can also dabble in art history and fashion design to try your hand at wearable art.

Popular Music Experience Harness your inner rock star and step into the spotlight alongside OCSA’s Popular Music Conservatory bands for a crash course in songwriting! Discover some fun tips and tricks for coming up with original lyrics and learn how to put it to music to create your very own song.

Wild Kingdom Experience Get the wiggles out through this movement story experience! Visit the imaginary ‘OCSA Zoo’ and become one of the animals in this whimsical movement exercise, inspired by the childhood classic Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae.

Play areas The following arts play areas are designed for free play and can be visited at any time throughout the festival. There is lots to discover in these immersive, hands-on spaces!

These areas will adhere to suggested room capacity as needed.

Let’s Build a House!

Building a house just got super imaginative! Using creative and fun materials, explore different ways of constructing a house. Follow a specific plan or build something completely unique as you design and build your dream home.

Let’s Dance Ballet Folklórico!

Take an imaginary trip to Mexico to hear about the significance and traditions of the Mexican folk dance Ballet Folklórico, as seen in the Disney movie Coco. Learn a few steps of this traditional dance and enjoy the vibrant music, in addition to several arts and crafts activities.

Let’s Grow a Garden!

Come discover the artistry of gardening! Discover what it takes to grow, develop, and maintain a flourishing garden. Learn how to pot your very own succulents, handcraft clay flowers for an actual art exhibit, or dig into any of our garden-inspired arts activities.

Let’s Make Some Art! Time to get messy! Come create anything you can think of with clay, Play-Doh, slime, and more. This area is all about getting together to have fun, be creative, and use your imagination with various art materials.

Let’s Sing a Song!

Let’s sing together! Come sing songs about love, joy, and acceptance with students from OCSA’s Thespians Group. You will get to learn rhythm patterns and American Sign Language (ASL) words to go with some of your favorite songs!

Let’s Tell a Story!

Pull up a cushion and get cozy to hear cherished childhood stories performed by OCSA’s Thespian Group, in collaboration with the Santa Ana Public Library. If you would like to keep your hands busy, you can also get creative with some fun arts and crafts activities!

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Congratulations to OCSA on their first OCSA Connects Community Arts Festival

Make sure to get your program stamped at each of the activities you visit throughout the festival!

Collect stamps to increase your rank and become a Community Arts Festival Scholar!

1-4 Stamps

Apprentice

5-8 Stamps

Artist

9-12 Stamps

Scholar

When you have a full page of stamps, go to the booth on 10th Street to redeem a special prize.

Thank you so much for joining us today to explore the

arts!