Dream Flag News -- Dream Flag Map Dream Flag Calendar printable page Suggested planning schedule in this color. Important dates in this color. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Wk. of 2/22 By the end of this week, students should complete the text of Dream Flag poems. Feb. 22 23 24   25     26 27 28 Wk. of 2/29 By end of this week, students should have completed the transfer of poem to fabric. 29 March 1 2   3     4 5 6 Wk. of 3/7 By end of this week, students should have completed the decoration of the flags. 7 8 9   10 11 Deadline for reporting names of student readers. 12 13 Wk. of 3/14 By end of this week, students should have completed the attachment of the flags to the Dream Flag Lines. This is the week to take digital pictures of flags or to scan for the web site if you are able. details>> 14 15 You will receive an e-mail of your program listing for approval. 16 17 Deadline for any changes to program listings. 18 19 Deadline for flags attached to Dream Flag Lines. 20 Wk. of 3/21   21 22 Deadline for reporting exact length of Dream Flag lines for your school. 23 Have all digital images for web site delivered. Details>> 24 Have all Banner Letter Flags mailed in. details>> 25 26 27 Wk. of 3/28 28 29 30 31 April 1 2 3 11:00 AM Registration at Kimmel Ctr. Details>> Directions>> 12:00 Noon to 1:30 PM DREAM FLAG Celebration! details>> Details: Week of 3/14 Details on Digital Images: Here are details on how to format images so that they will work for posting on the site. If they are sent in the size and orientation, it will be easy to post them. If not it's a lot of work to format them, and we'll do our best to put up as many as we can. File format: jpg or gif. Jpg preferred. Dimension for pictures or scans: 400 pixels height. Orientation: vertical for individual flags, horizontal preferred for other pictures Resolution: 80 dpi. This applies to scanned images where you can set resolution. Cameras may have a set resolution. Delivery of Images: Please deliver all images by March 23. Send images as email attachment to jharlan@agnesirwin.org. If you wish to send a CD, contact jharlan@agnesirwin.org for mailing address. (Do NOT send to Agnes Irwin School.) March 23 Digital Images Delivered: Mail images as email attachment to jharlan@agnesirwin.org or contact jharlan@agnesirwin.org if you wish to mail a CD. Do NOT send to Agnes Irwin School.) March 24 Dream Flag Banner Letters Mailed In: For schools who volunteered to create letters for the Dream Flag Project banner to be used at the Kimmel, this is the date to have flags mailed to: Jeff Harlan,The Dream Flag Project, The Agnes Irwin School, Ithan Ave., Rosemont, PA 19010. April 3 11:00 AM Registration at Kimmel: Primary contact for each school should come to the registration desk with student readers, all school flags, and student flag holders.. An event assistant will give out programs, event buttons, show the group where the flags are to be set up in preparation for the flag connection ceremony, show flag holders what they will do, show all participants where to sit, and make sure readers know their order in the reading queue. Directions to Kimmel>> April 3 12:00 Noon Dream Flag Celebration! The program will begin with an introduction, then Jeff will teach everyone the Dream Flag Song, a musical version of Langston Hughes' "The Dream Keeper." Following this, we will begin the student readings with musical accompaniment from Andrea Clearfied and her trio. Student readers will line up according to numbers on their buttons. We will have two mikes. Each reader will come to a mike, hold it in one hand with the poem in the other hand, and read the poem into the mike. (This should be practiced!) After all of the readers (approximately 50-60), we will have the connection of the flags. Flag holders and teachers will get up from their seats and go to their stations around the Kimmel Center for the tying of the flags. On cue, each school will tie their flags to the next school's flags and announce their school's name. When all are complete, we will again sing the Dream Flag song. There will be a short closing, and then we will conclude, allowing the audience the chance to walk around the Kimmel Center to read some of the over 1,800 dream poems on fabric. Note on Seating: The seating in the Commonwealth Plaza is limited and most of it will be reserved for program participants and their teachers. There is, however, ample room for a standing audience.     top .