Drama Kids of Las Vegas

Nevermore Academy has arrived in Summerlin 🐦‍⬛🖤

Whether our campers were feeling more Wednesday or Enid; this dress-up day was creepy and kooky fun for everyone! 🪦👧🏻

These campers brought the Big Blue World of FINDING NEMO JR. to life… and what a fin-tastic job they did! 💙

There was an ocean of creativity, teamwork, and FUN behind this summer camp performance 🎭

Thanks to all of the parents, campers and staff who made this possible 🥰 BRAVO! 👏

Tag a Drama Dad who ROCKS! 🎸🤘🎭

Happy Father’s Day to the coolest category of all dads… Drama Dads! 😆🎭

You gotta get’cha, get’cha, get’cha, get’cha head in the game 🏀⭐️🎶

Check out some of our High School Musical JR. Summer Campers showing their home-team pride 🤩

Many people are familiar with the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 executive order that freed enslaved African Americans in Confederate states. But did you know that we celebrate Juneteenth on the day we do-–June 19—because of a different document?

Ahead of this week’s Juneteenth holiday, let’s take a closer look at General Order No. 3, which informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were free.

“All Slaves Are Free” - Two and a half years later, and two months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered in 1865, the news that all enslaved people were free had not yet reached Texas. But then U.S. Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston with more than 2,000 troops and issued General Order No. 3, enforcing the end of slavery. General Order No. 3 was issued on June 19, 1865, on the anniversary that became known as Juneteenth—a combination of June and 19th.

General Order No. 3 states:

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.

The news of General Order No. 3 set off joyous celebrations. In the year following 1865, freedmen in Texas organized the first annual celebration of “Jubilee Day” on June 19. In addition to being a day of celebration, venues used for Jubilee Day activities were also used to inform the Black community on voting instructions.

Also known as “Emancipation Day” or “Freedom Day,” the annual commemoration has grown from a local celebration in Galveston, Texas, to a national observance. In 1979, became a state holiday, and in 2021, it became a federal holiday.

CAPTION FROM: National Archives Foundation, archivesfoundation.org, “Why We Celebrate Juneteenth”

If you can imagine it, we can explore it. Drama Kids classes are a place where all kinds of kids can come together to make friends, have fun, and work together to make theatre magic! 🤩🎭

Whether summer campers, after-school students, or musical theatre actors, DRAMA KIDS ROCK ☀️🤩🤘