Students perform for kindness

Dallas ISD student groups are helping to bring more kindness into the world by partnering with Thanks-Giving Square to celebrate Kindness Week. Students from several schools will participate in the Kindness Festival hosted and the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Dallas ISD student performers will join businesses, nonprofits, houses of worship, government groups, and other organizations and individuals who believe it’s important to decide to be kind. The festival is one step in promoting kindness by creating awareness of the opportunity to choose how to treat others.

The Visual and Performing Arts Department is coordinating student performances that will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15, on two stages—Annett Strauss stage and Hammond Hall stage—in the Dallas Arts District.

Students will also participate in a Story Corner and face painting booths that are part of the variety of activities offered during the festival, which is a citywide celebration of compassion, connection, and inclusion, organized in conjunction with the Thanks-Giving Foundation’s week-long observance of kindness. 

Kindness Week is an initiative of the Thanks-Giving Foundation, which owns and operates the iconic Thanks-Giving Square in downtown Dallas. The Foundation hosted a kindness festival 30 years ago and is restoring it this year with plans to make it an annual tradition.Details will be posted at www.thanksgiving.org/kindness2025-kindness-festival.

Performers:

Dallas ISD Honor Choir

School for the Talented and Gifted in Pleasant Grove The Owl Band

J.T. Brashear Elementary School JTB Choir 

Sam Tasby Middle School Orchestra

Piedmont G.L.O.B.A.L. Academy Might Mustang Varsity Band

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Arts Academy The Bengal Dance Company’s Tiny, Mini, Youth and Junior Divisions 

George Herbert Walker Bush Elementary School Ste Team

South Oak Cliff High School Theater Group and SOC Nation Choir

J.L. Long Middle School Treasurettes

Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy Jazz Orchestra

W.W. Adamson High School Dance Company and Leopardettes

Woodrow Wilson High School Variations Choir

W.E. Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy Mariachi Los Unicos and piano students

Judge Louis A. Bedford Jr. Law Academy String Ensemble

Jesus Moroles Expressive Arts Vanguard piano and theater performers