Boston Globe article on Edison's Midsummer Night's Dream

_See today's Boston Globe article:

Tonight is opening night at Edison, which formed three years ago in Brighton by merging two elementary schools and one middle school.

Teachers, parents, and the principal hope to meld the identities of those old schools into one, using theater arts to create a campus culture centered on art, drama, dance, and music.

“We’re building this as an arts school,’’ said Gilberto Rivera, the middle school music teacher. Edison, on the city’s western edge, enrolls 750 students from East Boston to the South End...

That same sense of optimism and hard work are bearing fruit at the young school as it tries to create an uninterrupted arts program for all students, said teachers and administrators.

Partnerships ensure that students’ art prowess can progress from one grade to the next.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has taken up residence in the building through weekly music lessons and the creation of elementary and middle school bands.

And a grant from the Linde Family Foundation means elementary school students now have theater arts instruction after school, Culver said, adding that seventh- and eighth-graders serve as apprentices.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
comedy by William Shakespeare
January 19-20, 2012

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The theater program at the Edison K8 School presents their winter production: 

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A comedy by William Shakespeare

Thursday, January 19th, 2012
6:00 pm
Suggested donation:  $8

Edison K8 School
60 Glenmont Road
Brighton, MA  02135
Google map
617-635-8436

A second performance is scheduled during the following school day:
Friday, January 20th, 2012
9:30 am