BY APRIL 18

Receive Your Event Prep Package
Before this date you should receive your Event Prep Package containing an Event Button for each student participant and invitation handounts to send home with students and/or give out in the community. 

Banner Completion & Reader Selection
We recommend that you have students complete Dream Banners by this date.
🡪 You will need to select from 2-5 students who will represent your group by reading their Dream Banners  during the Festival.
🡪 Email the following to jeffrey@dreamline.org

• Names and grades of students who will read
• A photo of each reader’s Dream Banner. Photograph the banner only. It will be shown while they read. Please send as attachment in jpg format (other formats OK if necessary.) 

Community Invitation
We recommend that you send out your Community Invitation by April 18. This can be in the form of an email home and/or a printout of a flyer we will supply. The link for anyone to register to attend is HERE. and also at bit.ly/dreamline25attend

Tech Note on the Zoom Format: The format for our online event will be a Zoom Webinar. This has two forms of participation: Panelists and  Attendees. Community members will be invited as Attendees. They can not be seen or heard but can, if we choose, send encouragement in the chat. 

BEFORE APRIL 30

Class and Space Preparation

1. RELEASES: We will email you a release form for student readers for the recording of the program. 
   1. Print a copy for each reader and send it home to be signed by parents at least one week prior to the event. 
   2. Photo or scan each signed form and send it to jeffrey@dreamline.org. 
   3. Alternatively you can provide parent names and email addresses to us and we can send a document for digital signing. 
2. ASSEMBLY: Assemble your group’s Dreamline(s) by attaching individual Dream Banners to a line including a Signage Banner.
3. DISPLAY: Display Dreamline(s) in the room where you will have the Zoom in  place where it can be seen on camera.
4. PRACTICE: Have your readers practice reading their Banners. They should practice introducing themselves by first name only, their grade, and their school. 
5. INTRODUCTION: You can prepare an introduction to your school and community that you or a designated student will provide for others during the event. Not longer than a minute.

OTHER NOTES:

You will receive a Run of Show document showing where your readers come in the program. 

We will share what schools are participating in advance of the Festival. You may want to spend time with students learning about the places where the other participants live. 

Tech Preparation

1. Your tech lead will receive an email invitation to become a Panelist for the Zoom Webinar. They must accept the invitation and complete any forms it requires. 
2. Your tech lead will receive detailed directions and suggestions on set up. 
3. We will reach out to the tech lead to arrange a tech rehearsal in the two weeks before the event. 
   1. This will require that the space where the event is available and that the computer and projector or screen is in place as on the day of the event. 
   2. We will test the connection, sound, and visuals during the rehearsal. 
4. Tech lead or someone they designate will have a phone available to video the final music segment. This should be arranged in advance. 

ON APRIL 30

1. Give out Event Buttons before the program starts and have students wear them. 
2. Make sure readers have a copy of the words from their Dream Banners.
3. Make sure your group is muted until it’s your school’s turn.
4. Follow the Run of Show and cue your readers to come forward before it is their turn to read. 
5. When it is your school’s turn, you (or a designated student) can give an introduction of your school and community, then introduce the  students to read. 
6. At the end of the program during the singing segment, make sure you are muted AND that the person designated to video captures the singing by your group. 

AFTER APRIL 30

1. Upload the singing video to a folder we will send or share in some other way if it’s easier for you.
2. If you want your Dreamlines to be in the public Dreamline installation at Philadelphia’s Cherry Street Pier from June 6-30, mail them to:
   Dreamline
   1735 Market Street, Suite 125-447
   Philadelphia, PA 19103
3. Let us know if you want us to mail them back to you or if you would like to contribute them to our exhibition and Gift Line collections, where they will be used in other public installations or sent as gifts to others who will display them where they live.