Today the teens had a master class with Kim Konikow who helps people believe in themselves and imagine their future and their life goals. The YAP students also did a flashmob in the Bates Commons on the balcony. The Lakeside concert was tonight  and the musicians had just set up and started practicing when it rained down hard. But the show went on anyway. It was awesome to hear all the musicians playing and as the YAP students danced along to the music.

Today we started gathering dances and music routines for the Festival Finale on the 13th, I am so excited for the finale. Tomorrow there is going to be a free lakeside concert at the Bates College Keigwin Amphitheatre. The  music is by our Festival musician’s. Join us for a dance.

Lots to Gardens a program based in Lewiston that teaches people how to grow their own food, provides affordable access to fresh food, and involves youth as leaders.  They came to YAP today and we talked about the Youth Food Bill of Rights and  some ways we could get more healthy food into our everyday lives.  Like better food at school!

Tonight was the musicians concert at the Franco-American Heritage Center. It was amazing!!  The best part was when Mike Wall sang, “Make It Rain”  by Tom Waits.  The concert featured many talented musicians from around the world including our very own Terrence Karn!

We had two guest musicians today, Michael and Rob, who will be performing in the Musicians’ Concert at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston tomorrow.  The zoe | juniper performance that was on Friday was very interesting.  They used a lot of dance elements such as speed, choppy vs. smooth, levels, cannons and video projections.  I thought the show was pretty amazing.  I was stunned to see such beautiful dancing and amazing costumes.  They wore body tights / unitard type costumes and there were projections of the performers dancing while they danced.

Some of the Middles (9-12 year olds) had these things to to say; ” YAP is fun”, ” I think it is cool”, and ” I like hip hop, and music”.  The performance of Zoe/Juniper was a very excellent performance the teens had a chance to go and see it tonight.   Some of the teens thought the style of dancing they did was very interesting and seemed like something they had done in YAP this week.