Digital, Visual and Performing Arts News

Ian Coates, Alaythia Lockhart, and Graham Fox hone in their wheel skills during Pottery class. The wheel requires patience and practice, and a balance of experimentation and technique. 

19th Century Social Reformers Socialize in AP U.S. History Class

AP U.S. History students conducted research on the Second Great Awakening and the mid-19th century Social Reform Movement.

Each student wrote an essay about one activist from the time period covering topics such as abolition, education, prison reform, temperance, and women’s rights. Students then interviewed each other from the first person perspective in our Social Reform Mixer.

Spanish Ambassadors at WES

Do you know how to say “anteater” in Spanish? Could you identify a lapiz in the classroom? How about making a flower out of three pieces of tissue paper, or cheering on your teammates in Spanish as they play fútbol? These are some of the things that WUHSMS Spanish Club and Language Ambassadors led Woodstock Elementary School students in during a field trip last Monday. 

Picture Above: Spanish Club students got together during ARE time to design and create their activities. Ninth grade students Lindsey St. Cyr, Kara Pomeroy, Addison Tapley, Betta Cirovic and Alaythia Lockhart created a vocabulary relay. They taught students about rainforest animals and students had to race to match the Spanish name for each animal with its picture on the other side of the room.

​Hannah McComb and Ruth Stallard teamed up to lead a classroom scavenger hunt where students had to find the objects on each Spanish vocabulary card that they found.

Georgia Pimentel and Sophie Hendee taught students how to create tissue paper flowers. These are popular decorations for many holidays, especially in Latin America. 

Students making tissue paper flowers

In addition, seniors Jane Stout and Aidan Keough-Vella took charge of the fútbol game. Soccer is the most widely played sport in Spanish-speaking countries, and WES students can now cheer in Spanish at their own games.

Yoh Theatre Players are presenting Head Over Heels ​ ​

Fifty of our Yoh Theatre Players are presenting Head Over Heels, the Musical, based upon The Arcadia, by Sir Philip Sidney, adapted by James McGruder, with music by the Go-go's. This is a fun and lively show, perfect for this season.

Tickets at:   https://theaterengine.com/productions/2776

Friday, December 13, 7pm

Saturday, December 14, 7pm

Sunday, December 15, 2pm

The target audience for this show is 10 and up, based on sexual innuendo, and some language.

We hope you can come!

Marcia

Description:

Head Over Heels is a jukebox musical comedy with music and lyrics from the catalog of The Go-Go's. A mash-up of posh and punk, Head Over Heels is an unpredictable, joyous romp about a royal family that must prevent an oracle's prophecy of doom. In order to save their beloved kingdom, the family embarks on an extravagant journey wrought with mistaken identities, jealous lovers, sexual awakening, scandal and self-discovery, where everything (and everyone) is not quite what it seems.

Members of VTLSP/OVX attended the OVX Leadership Summit

Members of VTLSP/OVX(Our Voices Xposed) attended the OVX Leadership Summit at Lake Morey Resort on October 30th. This event was not just about learning but also about doing. Middle and high school students actively engaged in understanding how the tobacco industry uses misleading advertising and promotions.

They also had the chance to develop leadership skills, organize tobacco prevention projects, and connect with other like-minded youth from across Vermont, all while having fun. The summit was led by New Hampshire's Dover Youth to Youth program. VTLSP's co-president, Aleks Cirovic, is on the state Vermont Tobacco Control Youth Leadership Council and helped create and organize this great conference! 

VTLSP (Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program) just completed their annual Red Ribbon Week Campaign. Since its beginning in 1985, the Red Ribbon has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique Camarena stated, “I’m only one person, but I want to make a difference”. Parents and youth in communities across the country began wearing Red Ribbons as a symbol of their commitment to raise awareness of how drugs affect America. Today, the National Red Ribbon Campaign serves to educate youth and encourage participation in prevention activities and healthy choices.

Monday – Red Ribbon Day 

Tuesday – De-Stress Day

Wednesday – Compliment Day

Thursday – Nutrition Day

Friday – Empower*Mint* Day