Performances, graduation highlight GSA final day this weekend (transy.edu)

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Governor’s School for the Arts 2008 summer session comes to a close Saturday at Transylvania, highlighted by final student performances and graduation ceremonies.

The GSA will wrap up its ninth year on the Transy campus on Saturday, with final day-long performances in all disciplines preceding graduation ceremonies at 5:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. Final performances, including those in instrumental and vocal music, musical theater, visual arts, drama, new media and architecture, will begin at various campus locations at 12:30 p.m. All final day events are open to GSA parents, friends and relatives as well as the public and media. Previous final day performances have attracted over 1,000 people to the Transy campus. Refreshments will be available at various campus locations near Old Morrison.

Final performances will be held at the Mitchell Fine Arts Center, the Little Theater, the Shearer Art Building, the Haupt Humanities Building, Old Morrison and the Cowgill Center.

A total of 241 high school students from nearly 50 counties and about 85 high schools have been on the Transylvania campus since June 22, immersed in a rigorous schedule of daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips to local arts attractions.

For more information, contact GSA director Heather Weston Bell at (859) 281-3532.

Highlights of the 2008 GSA program can be found at this link: http://www.kentuckygsa.org/students/highlights/2008-highlights/index/index.html