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Commission scolaire English-Montréal ~ English Montreal School Board EMSB www.emsb.qc.ca volume 16 | number 2 | Spring 2014 Find us on: TheThe Arts Arts Are Are Alive Alive Spreading positivity, one post-it at a time @@EMSBEMSB Laurier Macdonald student Stefania Restagno becomes a media sensation Like all International Baccalaureate students, Stefania Restagno was required to undertake a personal project. Yet, for this Grade 11 student at St. Leonard’s Laurier Macdonald High School, her project has become anything but personal. Carrying a backpack full of post-it notes and pens, Stefania’s goal was to mirror the “Operation Beautiful” project, a viral initiative created by American parent Caitlin Boyle, in which she began posting positive messages in public bathrooms, hoping it would catch on. “If I could help at least one person, that would be amazing,” said Stefania. “Just the thought of having someone write a positive Stefania Restagno’s project has attracted national media attention. Rock star Jonas and actress/radio show host/James Lyng High School grad Marina Orsini meet some members of the Coronation Elementary School Steel Pan Band at the Arts Are Alive@EMSB press conference. On the eve of the annual various opportunities for students incorporated Urban Arts into Kindergarten Registration Week, to share their talents on a larger its Extra-Curricular Activity English Montreal School Board scale through vernis sages, programming. One of its feeder Chairman Angela Mancini festivals, poetry slams, shows and elementary schools, St. Gabriel hosted a press conference at concerts,” stated Ms. Mancini. in Pointe St. Charles, is doing which time she introduced a new “The arts bring out empathy, the same thing.
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