Admissions | Shadow Day
2025-10-16 09:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-13 09:30 - 14:30 (America/Phoenix) | On Campus

Admissions | Campus Tour
2025-10-16 13:30 - 14:30, 2025-11-13 13:30 - 14:30 | On Campus

Upper School Band Retreat
2025-10-17 16:30 - 19:30 | On Campus | C Bldg, Courtyard & Ampitheatre

Ambassador Retreat
2025-10-17 17:30 - 19:30 | Hance Park, 1313 N 2nd St, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Performance | Upper School Choir
2025-10-20 18:30 - 19:30 | First United Methodist Church The Weekday School, 5510 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Admissions | Open House
2025-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 | On Campus

Friday Night Lights
2025-10-24 17:30 - 20:30 | On Campus

Strings | ASTA AZ Solo Competition
2025-10-25 08:00 - 13:00 | On Campus | Room B-210

Strings | Viola Academy
2025-10-25 08:00 - 16:00 | On Campus | Amphitheatre

Homecoming
2025-10-25 19:00 - 22:00 | First Church UCC Phoenix, 1407 N 2nd St, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Fellowship Hall & Courtyard

ASA Board of Directors Meeting
2025-10-27 17:30 - 19:00 | Arizona School For The Arts, 1410 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Room A-129

Performance | Lower School Choir, Dolce & Cantabile
2025-10-27 18:30 - 19:30 | First United Methodist Church The Weekday School, 5510 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Performance | Lower School Choir, Voces & Cantus
2025-10-28 18:30 - 19:30 | First United Methodist Church The Weekday School, 5510 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Fall Festival
2025-10-29 18:00 - 20:00 | On Campus
Timeline and Set-up:3:30-4:30pm – Staff and Student Club members completing final preparation such as costume make-up, organizing event tickets and snack bar items, prepping necessary A/V.
4:30-5:30pm – Food Truck will arrive and prepare. Staff and Student Club members will be actively setting up the festival in the courtyard, amphitheater, etc. Families hosting Trunk-or-Treat arrive and being set-up in the Staff Parking lot. “Staff Lot, you say? Does that impact me, Melia?” It sure does! See next point! 5:30pm – Festival BEGINS!7:30pm- Festival CLOSES (and clean-up/tear-down promptly begins!)
****STAFF PARKING LOT – Trunk-or-Treat****Please plan to move your car OUT of the Staff Lot by 4:45pm. This is where we’ll have guest families hosting a Trunk-or-Treat for our students and other little ones within the ASA Family Community.
!!!Credit and Kudos!!!Haywood/StuGov and Bellian/VisArts have all been working their TAILS off to coordinate this ASA Community Festival of Fun. When you see them, please acknowledge their effort. And if you’ve got the capacity – offer your help! Festival Activities (So much Club Involvement!)I want to SHOUT OUT the efforts made to expand this year’s event and include so many clubs with a range of Festival activities. If you hadn’t planned to attend, but your schedule permits, I encourage you to stick around – even if only for the first 30 minutes to experience the range of student creativity!

StuGov: Trunk-or-Treat, Costume Contest and BYOB Pumpkin Carving Contest
VisArts: Pumpkin Paint Night and Face Painting
Psychic Possibilities – Tarot Reading
Baking Club – Snack Creations
Thespians – Scare-experience
Yearbook – Photobooth Displays
Film Club – Student Screen Filming and Horror Movie Trivia
Robotics – Corn Maze… can you lead the robot through???
A/V – Music and production support
TEACHER CLUB 😉 – Haunted Hallways Door Contest!

Special Acknowledgement to our Guitar DepartmentFull Transparency – it is unclear how this conflict of events happened and the timing of our/my recognition/understanding came too late to feasibly swerve. The disappointment students and staff alike is not lost on me, nor my fellow administrators. And the responsibility lands with me – I’m sincerely sorry to all who’ve felt impacted and bummed out. Moving forward… I promise – an overlap this will not happen again under my watch. Here’s wishing all our Upper School Guitar students a phenomenal concert full of rhythm, excitement and pride!
OK- that’s it for now!
*PS*I googled if NTK was an actual acronym that folks use. It is – and accurate for Need To Know! However – I do want to acknowledge it is context specific. So if any of you were confused at first thinking that I was referencing either of the following… my sincere apologies. I was not.

Neural Tangent Kernel: A concept in machine learning used to describe the training of neural networks.
National Technická Knihovna: The Czech National Library of Technology

Performance | Upper School Guitar
2025-10-29 18:30 - 19:30 | Arizona Opera, 1636 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Black Box Theatre

Performance | Jazz Band & Percussion Ensemble
2025-10-30 18:30 - 19:30 | Amphitheatre

Spirt Day/Halloween
2025-10-31 | AZ
Please take the first few minutes of class on Thursday and 1st hour Friday to remind and reinforce the following to students:
1. Costumes must be appropriate – no gore, no weapons, no masks, no showing off your bits and pieces
2. No candy or treats to be distributed or eaten on campus or in classes
3. Our threshold for sending kids home who can’t handle the day will be low. Please relay this to our cherubs when you go over expectations in class.
For teachers:
1. Have a structured lesson ready for your classes Friday. If you will be absent, make sure the lesson plan is available on Canvas and Synergy (and paper, if necessary). Idle hands…
2. Please make sure you are in the halls between classes, monitoring and moving kids along.
3. Please report anything suspicious to admin earlier than later so we can get ahead of any shenanigans.
Thanks for keeping ASA safe!

Performance | Upper School Band
2025-11-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Amphitheatre

Performance | Upper School Theatre, Grades 10 & 11
2025-11-05 18:30 - 19:30 | On Campus – Black Box

Performance | Upper School Strings
2025-11-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Arizona Opera, 1636 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ, United States

Disney Payment #2 Due
2025-11-07 | AZ

Strings | Cellobration
2025-11-08 07:00 - 16:00 | On Campus | Amphitheatre & C Bldg Floors 1 & 2

PLC | Remote Learning Day
2025-11-10 | AZ

Community Gathering
2025-11-10 07:30 - 07:45 | AZ

Lunch by 9th Grade Families
2025-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 | AZ

OPS: Emergency Protocol, Campus Contribution, Master Cal
2025-11-10 15:00 - 15:30 | AZ
Join with Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/ivk-zayf-pck
Or dial: (US) +1 442-900-4316 PIN: [REDACTED]#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ivk-zayf-pck?pin=9295320798438&hs=7
Learn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282720

Veterans Day | NO SCHOOL
2025-11-11 | AZ

Kindness Challenge Findraiser
2025-11-12 - 2025-11-24 | AZ
