Poetry Kites Built by Mississippi High School Students Flew Above the
Beach at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on Thursday, November 17, 2005 during the
Beach at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on Thursday, November 17, 2005 during the
DreamYard/ Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative- Post-Katrina Arts
Partnership
Partnership
On Thursday, November 17, 2005, 80 students from three Mississippi high
schools came together to fly kites created from the debris of Hurricane Katrina on the beach at Bay St. Louis, a Gulf town destroyed by the Hurricane in August. Students, teachers and principals from Ocean Springs High School, Laurel High School and Bay St. Louis High Schools, in collaboration with the Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative and DreamYard worked with DreamYard teaching artists to write monologues and community poems and to build three-foot square kites made with wood gathered from the wreckage left by the Hurricane. The poetry and monologues are a featured link on the Whole Schools website (www.mswholeschools.org) and adorned the kites as the students flew them in the wind above the beach.
schools came together to fly kites created from the debris of Hurricane Katrina on the beach at Bay St. Louis, a Gulf town destroyed by the Hurricane in August. Students, teachers and principals from Ocean Springs High School, Laurel High School and Bay St. Louis High Schools, in collaboration with the Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative and DreamYard worked with DreamYard teaching artists to write monologues and community poems and to build three-foot square kites made with wood gathered from the wreckage left by the Hurricane. The poetry and monologues are a featured link on the Whole Schools website (www.mswholeschools.org) and adorned the kites as the students flew them in the wind above the beach.
Post - Katrina Arts Partnership
DreamYard and Mississippi Whole Schools Initiative
team up to empower students to help their communiities rebuild in the wake of the hurricane.
Photos and video by Bill & Sally Edwards
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