200 Migrant Students to Perform in Show
More than 200 children of migrant workers will perform music, dance and mime theater with a frontier theme today at 11 a.m. at the Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium.
“These are children whose education is often interrupted because their families have to move on. And therefore statistics show them a little below their grade level,” said Claudia Ortiz, of the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
The students, whose families follow seasonal agricultural and fisheries work, are representative of the 12,000 children of migrant families identified by the Office of Education. For the past four days, the students, ages 6 to 14, have been training under the supervision of Music Center artists in preparation for the show. Another performance has been scheduled Aug. 22. Admission is free.
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