Visual & Performing Arts

Guys and Dolls

Comments by viewers:
"The show was wonderful, excellent, extraordinary, hilarious"!!!!!

Starring Bloomfield High School and Carmen Arace students.
Produced by Carol Mamlok,
Supported by Allison Glenney, Shanna Crimi, Emily Gilbert, Ann Velazco, Karen Goldman and Dee Hart.

With additional help from many, many staff members.  THANK YOU!

 

 

This ceremony honored Joe Olzacki’s selection by UNESCO to a World Summit to share what he has learned through the Identity Project with leaders around the world in Ruwanda.

 

Left to right, Leon Rivers, town councilman; David Title, superintendent of schools; Syd Schulman, mayor; Donald Harris, deputy mayor; Jonathan Harris, state senator; Kristen Phillips, executive director, Hartford Symphony Orchestra; Emery Tapley, director of education and community programs, Hartford Symphony Orchestra; Joe Olzacki, director of visual and performing arts, Bloomfield Schools; David Baram, state representative; Robert Fishman, executive director, Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut and Walter Harrison, president, University of Hartford.

 

 

Simsbury Bank donates $1500 to the Bloomfield Public Schools ”Destiny 2010” – All-District Arts Festival

 

Dr. Joe Olzacki, Director
860.286.2630 ext. 128
jolzacki@blmfld.org

The Roll of the Arts in Society

The arts play a critical role in our culture, in our sense of community, in our communication, in our personal decision making and in our economy. They permeate virtually every aspect of our daily lives.

The arts are a cornerstone of our culture. In fact, the very concept of culture is meaningless without the arts. The cultured individual is one who understands and participates in the arts. Since the beginnings of recorded history, societies have been remembered though their arts. Much of the legacy we will leave for our grandchildren will consist of the new art work and performance we create.

“The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation’s purpose- and is the test of the quality of a nation’s civilization.”

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The Bloomfield Public Schools Department of Visual & Performing Artists is comprised of eighteen educators including Dr. Olzacki who acts as the district director as well as the Bloomfield High School music director.  During the past five years, the district’s program in the arts has grown rapidly in accordance with the shared vision of its department members. This vision results in a district-wide extravaganza. Taken from the Connecticut State Department of Education – K – 12 Curriculum Guide in the Arts)