A Celebration of the Arts... YES, delight it was...

A Celebration of the Arts... YES, delight it was... and here the Saint Thomas Aquinas, STAC,  Improv Players with Rose Marie Raccioppi, Poet Laureate, leading a fun filled Poetry JAM... rhyme time in total JOY!! 

St. Thomas Aquinas College held the Campaign for Artful Resistance: A Celebration of the Arts, Saturday,  September 28, 2013,  in the Romano Student Alumni Center.

The event is one of many organized nationwide by Save Our Schools, which works to support the arts in education and advocates a move away from a test-based curriculum.

So pleased to have been a part of this most significant community event. As so delightfully expressed in song, 'there is no SMART without ART'... learning is a creative process... YES, it is to 'juggle' left brain and right brain to be the whole brain learning that serves the totality of BEING.  

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Photos: Joe Gartner provided the pictures from STAC's Campaign for Artful Resistance: A Celebration of the Arts. 

What BE... written for this event, by Rose Marie Raccioppi, 
read by the Improv Players as a finale ...

What BE

what be the purpose of words to share

but to know of one's heart expressing care

what be the purpose of banner and praise

but to bring celebration to our gift of days

what be the purpose to guide and teach

but to know that beauty and truth are within our reach

what be the purpose to know of time, space and measure

but to account for life's perceived treasure

what be the purpose to know of vistas so very far

but to know that we too hold the light of a star

what be the purpose to know of history and time's story

but to understand the ever present quest for power and glory 

what be the purpose of drama and stage

but to act out the calling of soul, time and age
what be the purpose of music, dance and a song to sing
but to know the pulsing our hearts do bring

what be the purpose to draw, paint, sculpt, to hold a vision divine

but to  revere and mark in splendor a life yours, a life mine 

what be the purpose of holding accord of word and deed

but to live the honor of our days as a blessed creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York