The Governor’s Awards in Arts Education and the Statewide Teen Arts Festival – all in the course of two weeks. Busy but extremely exciting. Aside from all of the happy faces at the Governor’s Awards from the awardees, their families, teachers and mentors the performances were extraordinary. To name two: Kimberly Lee from Summit High School performed a timely monologue about Hiroshima entitled Radiance of a Thousand Suns by Dwight Okita and five dancers: Amanda Edore, Julia Foti, Joy Guiffre, Lianna Shimoun and Candace Eason presented a piece they all rehearsed separately and performed together for the first time at the ceremony.
