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2025 Call for Papers (DUE DATE: October 31, 2024) A Fine FACTA Journal of the Fine Arts Council The Alberta Teachers Association Theme: Building and Growing Community Community is such an integral aspect of the Fine Arts. For our 2025 issues of A Fine Facta, we will be exploring what does it mean or look like to belong in community within the Fine Arts? How do we build and grow our communities and how do we ensure that there is a meaningful space for everyone? In what ways do we advocate for or promote the Fine Arts community? We will be offering two publishing opportunities to submit articles, papers, etc. Our first journal will be focused on practical application (what are you doing). For this issue, we are looking specifically for lesson plans, book reviews, and overviews of what you are doing in your classroom. Our second issue will be focused on how we are thinking about regarding building, growing, and/or advocating for the arts community. We invite scholarly articles, opinion pieces, and big picture ideas for this issue. There is an opportunity to have your manuscripts peer-reviewed for this issue. Due Date: October 31, 2024 About A Fine FACTA: A Fine FACTA is published for the Fine Arts Council by The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) to help the council achieve its objective of improved education in and through the fine arts. Articles of general interest or on theoretical, experimental, or methodological topics are invited. For Journal information, including submission requests, please contact the Journal Editor, Kim Friesen Wiens. Email: editor@fineartsata.ca Submission Information: A Fine FACTA welcomes authors to submit manuscripts for consideration in our 2025 publications. Both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed articles will be considered. To be considered for peer-review, please indicate as such in the email. Submissions must include the following: Be written in a clear and concise style, avoiding technical jargon as possible. Lesson plans, book/conference reviews, and brief columns will be considered (approx. 1000 words) Submissions are not to exceed 4000 words, although exceptions may be granted. Photos and pictures are welcome, but must be submitted in a high-quality format. If the photos/pictures are not accompanying an article, a brief description of the photo/picture is required (50-150 words) Submissions must be submitted via email and in MS Word using Chicago format. Submissions may be edited. All submissions must be accompanied by a brief (50 words) author biography. Authors wishing to have their manuscripts peer-reviewed must indicate that in the email sent to the editor and must be received by October 31, 2024. Manuscripts will be reviewed by a panel of recognized leaders in the fine arts. All submissions must be sent via email to the editor, Kim Friesen Wiens at editor@fineartsata.ca for consideration in the 2025 publications. All submissions will receive an email confirming that the submission has been received. If you do not receive an email receipt after 1 week, please follow up with the editor. Addition Formatting Information for Submissions: Use single space for the body of the paper (do not double space). Use single space after each sentence. Use Chicago format throughout the text and in the reference list. Use NO running heads. Use endnotes as opposed to footnotes Click here for a PDF copy of this Call for Papers

This resource was submitted by music teacher Regan MacGregor as a part of a call for lesson ideas. Regan is a teacher in Edmonton. Thank you for your generosity! This lesson explores Ostinato through the story of Musical Mac by Brendan Kearney. The picture book is also an great way to introduce Orchestra families to students. An image of the lesson plan is provided below as well as a link to a PDF.

This resource was submitted by art teacher Christina Hamer as a part of a call for lesson ideas. Christina is a teacher in Edmonton. Thank you for your generosity! Click below to download Christina's detailed lesson plan for paint ball art.

This resource was submitted by drama teacher Chandra Moir as a part of a call for lesson ideas. Chandra is a teacher in Hinton. Thank you for your generosity! Each year I update my Drama Program bulletin board to gather new interest and appreciation in the program! Here are this year’s - see below!

This resource was submitted by music teacher Karen Abrahamson as a part of a call for lesson ideas. Karen is a music teacher in Edmonton. Thank you for your generosity! Let's Cheer on the Edmonton Oilers! A few years ago I created some ostinatos to help cheer on the Oilers and thought it was a good time to bring it out again since they are in the Stanley Cup (and hopefully by the time you read this they will have won). Add body percussion, add instruments, and have fun!

Read the latest news from your Fine Arts Council - including a giveaway and some Save-the-Dates! Summer 2024 Email Newsletter - click here

(Back by Popular Demand!) Do you have a great project that you’ve done in your classroom? An amazing bulletin board? Something that you’ve done that’s resonated with your students and/or their families? A tip or trick you wish someone had shared with you long ago? This is your invitation to share this with the Fine Arts Council Membership! Send us a description and photo to have the opportunity to be featured in our September newsletter and on our website. Entries will receive a gift of appreciation from the Fine Arts Council - a gift card to Indigo or another retailer of your choice. Submission Requirements: Submission must be your own work or the original author must be credited An image must accompany the submission. If the image is of student work, the PIPA form must be completed. Write-Up must be included Submission must be Fine Arts related Author agrees to have the lesson featured in mailout and on the website Submissions will be accepted via this form until June 25, 2024.  EXTENDED DEADLINE JULY 15, 2024. Please note for photos of students or of student work, a short privacy release form must be completed. Click here for a copy of the form.

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The Fine Arts Council was delighted to receive this note of thanks from member, Jennifer Dahl. Jennifer, thank you for creating these slides to go with the lesson plan by our Journal Editor, Kim Friesen. Please see Jennifer's note with a link to her slides below. Hello, I am a first-year teacher in Fort McMurray and I thoroughly appreciate the publications that the ATA Fine Arts Council has sent out this year. I have also benefited from an in-person Orff workshop in the fall in Fort McMurray, presented by Kim Friesen Wiens at Timberlea School. I was particularly eager to try one of Ms. Friesen Wiens' lesson plans as published in the Summer 2023 edition, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Lesson Plan for Grades 5 and 6 Music". I drafted Google slides for the lesson and tried it with grades 4-6 at my school.  I have revised the slides based on my experience teaching the lesson and I would like to share those slides with Ms. Friesen Wiens in case they are of any use to her. With her permission, I am sharing these slides with the teachers of the Fine Arts Council. Click here for a link to the slides! Thank you for ATA Fine Arts Council and the value it brings to education! -Jennifer.

Join us for our annual AGM! There will be door prizes, great information, and opportunities to join the Fine Arts Council Executive. Did we mention the door prizes?! Join us virtually at 9:00am on October 21st. The link for the AGM can be found on the Events page on our website.

The ATA Fine Arts Council is pleased to present a FREE one-hour online PD session on February 3. Janice Pinnock will guide us through strategies in building spaces where all students feel a true sense of identity and belonging. This session promises to equip you with a treasure trove of actionable strategies, including the integration of culturally responsive music, ready for immediate implementation in your classroom.

Check out the latest updates from your Subject Area Reps! Including: Transformative Collaborative Art Spaces Inter-School Dance Collaboration Artstrek Feature for Drama Music Update Click here to see the resources www.fineartsata.ca/resources Read the whole mailout here.