The Dream Flag Project

2008 Key Dates
(last update: 2/10/08)

Hughes Birthday!
Thursday, February 1, 2008
Official Project Start Date, 106th birthday of Langston Hughes, and beginning of Black History Month.

Pass-The-Banner Starts
April 4, 2008
Lines and instructions mailed out to first Pass-The-Banner school on the list.

School Program Information
March 19, 2008
>All schools/groups participating confirm information--number of students, grades, number of teachers, names of teachers--to dreamflags@agnesirwin.org .
>All schools participating in April 19 Philadelphia Dream Flag Celebration--sending flags, bringing flags, bringing readers, etc--confirm with dreamflags@agnesirwin.org

RSVP for Exhibit Flags
April 4, 2008
All schools who plan to send or deliver flags for Philadelphia area exhibitions, confirm with dreamflags@agnesirwin.org.

Pass-The-Banner Lines to Philadelphia
by April 8 2008
Mail all completed Pass The Banner Lines (after exhibition at all participating schools) to
The Dream Flag Project
Ithan Ave. & Conestoga Rd.
Rosemont, PA 19010.

Display Flags Locally
End of March and beginning of April

U.S. Groups Send Flags
by March 7, 2008
All groups mailing flags to Philadelphia send to
The Dream Flag Project
Ithan Ave. and Conestoga Rd.
Philadelphia, PA 19010


Readers and Poems for Celebration
by March 9, 2008
All groups with readers at Philadelphia April 19 Celebration send names of readers--2 per school. Other schools send poems to be distributed in print.

Celebration!
April 19, 2008
 Philadelphia Regional Dream Flag Celebration at Kimmel Center of Philadelphia. (Details on calendar.)
 

Exhibitions
May and possibly later
Dream Flags on exhibit in Philadelphia region. Will be mailed back to schools by exhibiting location.

 

The Dream Flag concept was created by sixth grade teachers Jeff Harlan, Sandy Crow, Helen Holt and others at The Agnes Irwin School (www.agnesirwin.org), Rosemont, Pennsylvania, U.S. The Dream Flag Project (www.dreamflags.org) is a collaborative project facilitated by Jeff Harlan and Sandy Crow. Contact dreamflags@agnesirwin.org or Jeff Harlan, Dream Flags Project Director, The Agnes Irwin School, Ithan Ave. and Conestoga Road, Rosemont, PA 19010, U.S. A.