Sponsored by the Foundation each spring, the district-wide Fine Arts Festival displays and features the art, music, theater and dance talents - as well as the home economics and industrial technology projects - of our students (all grade levels). In 2010, this event will be held on Saturday, May 8, at Waubonsie Valley High School and on Saturday, May 15 at Neuqua Valley High School and Metea Valley High School (for the first time).

Created in 1988 and initially hosted by Waubonsie Valley, this popular, well-attended event has expanded in conjunction with District 204's tremendous growth. As a result, this annual festival is now held at all three high schools - to better showcase the talents of the students attending each school and their respective feeder schools (elementary and middle-school).

Waubonsie's festival includes works by its own students, along with those by students from Fischer, Scullen and Still Middle Schools, and eight elementary schools - Fry, Georgetown, Gombert, McCarty, Owen, Peterson, Steck and Young.

At Neuqua, the artistic displays and performances are those of its students, as well as those from Crone, Gregory and Scullen Middle Schools. Also to be viewed are the works of students from nine elementary schools - Builta, Clow, Graham, Kendall, Patterson, Peterson, Spring Brook, Welch, and White Eagle.

During the Festival's first year at Metea, the displays and performances will include works by its students, and works by students from Granger, Hill and Still Middle Schools, Prairie Children Preschool, and eight elementary schools - Brookdale, Brooks, Cowlishaw, Gombert, Longwood, Owen, May Watts, and Young.

More than 80 musical performances by bands, choirs, orchestras, and dancers take place throughout the high-school sites. And the hallways are filled with more than 12,000 pieces of visual arts, 3-D works, ceramics, computer imagery, and more.

In addition to financial support from the Foundation, the Fine Arts Festival has been sponsored by grants from the City of Naperville's Cultural Fund (2005 through 2009). In previous years, other sponsors have included the Naperville Jaycees, the Sunrise Rotary and Rotary of Naperville Clubs, and Pepsi Cola.