High Prairie Elementary School students learned skills in public speaking and drama during the High Prairie Performing Arts Festival on May 2 initiated by local music-piano teacher Adam Brulotte. “I’m trying to get more performing arts in the region,” Brulotte says. “I’m hoping to expand to music and make this an annual event.” HPE students performed and were adjudicated by Misha Albert, head of the fine arts department at Northwestern Polytechnic (formerly Grande Prairie Regional College). He also coached and encouraged the performing students. Above, Grade 5 students Tiffany Biener, left, and Ddendyll Sheane act out The Boy Who Cried Wolf.