MAY DAY CELEBRATION
at The Learning Corridor Campus
as part of
Queen of the May Poetry Competition

          HARTFORD, CT, -- The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts students and faculty will lead a May Day Celebration parade on Wednesday, May 1st at 2PM. This parade will resemble a big conga line beginning at the academy building and proceed to pick up students and faculty from the Greater Hartford Academy of Math & Science, Hartford Magnet Middle School and the Montessori Magnet Elementary School. Students and faculty will be dressed in costumes, wearing garlands, crowns of flowers, spring hats and lots of noise-makers.
          This unique celebration is in conjunction with the Queen of the May Poetry Competition. The competition was open to all of the students and faculty from The Learning Corridor Schools. Prizes for the best haiku (sort of serious) and best limerick (not at all serious) will be awarded at the campus green (Commons Building) which is the end of the parade route. The Director of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Dr. Herb Sheppard says, “It’s a great opportunity to let our hair down, a little and have some fun as we prepare for the final ‘push’ of the year”.
          The Learning Corridor is a 16-acre campus consisting of a unique cluster of schools; the Montessori Magnet Elementary School, Hartford Magnet Middle School, the Greater Hartford Academy of Math & Science, and the Greater Hartford Arts Academy. Also included on the campus are support programs for the youth-- a Boys and Girls Club and the Aetna Center for Families. The Learning Corridor will be blending public health concepts into the educational instruction for students, faculty, parents and the entire community. There is no other public school campus in the country that combines these elements. The Learning Corridor was developed by a collaborative effort called the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (SINA), composed of Hartford Hospital, the Institute of Living, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Trinity College, and Connecticut Public Radio, along with the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford.