Education Guides
Virginia Arts Festival offers an Education Guide for each student matinee to assist teachers with integrating arts experiences into their curriculum. These guides align with the Virginia Standards of Learning and also expand on topics such as history, world cultures, communication, geography, critical thinking, and more!
SOL-Based Education Guides
In order to assist both educators and students, we develop education guides for many of the programs we offer. Particular focus is placed on providing materials and information that will assist educators in helping their students meet the Virginia Standards of Learning. While our programs are obviously suited for music, chorus, orchestra, band, theater, and dance classes, we have also received positive feedback from language arts and social studies teachers who have found that arts events introduce subject matter in a fresh and exciting way. Education guides will be emailed to participating teachers before the performance and can also be downloaded here on our website.
2025 Guides:
2024 Guides:
2023 Guides:
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater