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Sturgis Music Society
East and West each held an Ice Cream Social to recruit new students to join our various music ensembles this year. It was a fun way to get to know the incoming freshmen and bring all of the branches of our ensembles together. Elliot Chapman also made an incredible promotional video for the club that was shared at the meeting!
Video By Elliot Chapman
SMS 2025-2026 Introduction.mov
STAGE Begins its first production of the year! (August)
STAGE East and West led by Anna Botsford has started rehearsals for Radium Girls, the true dramatic story of the women who were poisoned by radium while making luminous watch dials for the American Radium Corporation between 1918-1928. With a cast and crew of 90 students, we are ready to tackle this amazing story! The crew is busy both making and collecting costumes from local theatres and the cast has their first read through and movement rehearsals this week.
STAGE - East/West - Anna Botsford (October)
The cast and crew of Radium Girls is well underway getting this incredible production ready for performance! We have finished acting rehearsals for Act 1, have done a costume exchange with Cotuit Center for the Arts and started building our set and props!
These Students have worked incredibly hard since the start of school to bring this powerful true story to life! We are transforming 529 into the 1920's world and we urge you to consider coming to see one of our four performances. There are over 100 students involved in the development of this production, and they would love to see you in the audience!
Opening weekend of Radium Girls
IB Theatre HL/SL 1 - WEST - Anna Botsford
The new Junior class is well on their way to devising their first original group performance pieces for the “Making Theatre Together” Unit. After learning the importance of DIRECTORIAL INTENTIONS and the elements of theatre that create TENSION, EMOTION, ATMOSPHERE and MEANING, each group is creating work from an individual stimulus. It is a fabulous group doing creative work.
Grade 10 Art (East)
Understanding the value of a visual voice. Grade 10 students examined personal or social forms of inspirations to create unique planning pages, stencils and spray paint work, influenced by the history of graffiti and the intentions of public art.
IB Art (East)
Juniors are working within a new coursework guide that applies more emphasis on how art connects personal intentions while situating and curating their work into a larger essential statement using specific lines of inquiry. There is lots of deep thinking going on : )
IB Art Seniors are in studio mode, they are concentrating on meeting the minimum required art works for their submission this March, therefore the art room is packed with works in progress, works finished, some artist block discussions and lots of creativity!
Sturgis Music Society
Students at both campuses were excited to begin the year with Open Mic events. At East, this took place during two lunches. At West, it took place after school. There are a lot of enthusiastic underclassmen who are excited to get involved and creatively collaborate in music making at both campuses - photography club at East even helped out to provide documentation of the event! It is exciting to watch the changeover in leadership and various talents among our student bodies!
IB Art (East)
IB art juniors and seniors experienced it all on the recent overnight field trip to North Adams. We visited two very different museums: contemporary and conceptual art of the MASS MoCA and traditional masterpieces of The Clark Art Institute. In between, there was the super fun, sharpest turn in America on the Mohawk Trail, lots of hiking on the museums grounds and a surprise farmers market with a stroll through the adorable town of North Adams, which I just found out is nicknamed America’s Switzerland.
Mini Fiesta Latina
This year, the Fiesta Latina was a little different, but still fantastic. The music students at East performed and the Capoeira club did a demonstration of the martial art along with sharing that it was developed to look like dance so that it could be practiced by enslaved people without alerting the owners of the enslaved. For the first year ever, all the songs were performed in Spanish!
Art - East (Abel)
Former Sturgis East 2016 Alum Georgina Duffy Hetzel just completed her student teaching practicum with her former teacher and now supervisor, Mrs. Abel and the East art dept. She did amazing!, a natural educator. All of her hard work in the IB Art program many years ago paid off. Check out the first art project she designed and taught all on her own. Students transformed marine debris sourced from the Center of Coastal Studies and Project Net Zero, an organization outside New Bedford that collects regional trash and provides artists with materials for creative reuse.
Sturgis Music Society - East & West
Music Festival season is upon us. Here are some quick facts about the results of this season’s auditions:
This year, 26 students successfully auditioned for the Cape Cod Music Educator’s All Cape Festival from East (14) and West (12) campuses.
As well, we had 8 students successfully audition for the Massachusetts Music Educator Southeast District Festivals from East (6) and West (2). Three of these students were also chosen to re-audition for the statewide festival - Annabel Battin, Miguel Gomez-Ibanez, & Darcy Wankel!
A very exciting thing is that Finley O'Doherty won the district Songwriting Competition, following in Bode's footsteps last year! You can listen to her work here.
Winter Concerts
The Sturgis Winter Concerts took place at 529 Main Street on December 9th (East) and 11th (West). The East program reported that it is at its largest point in its history, with 110 musicians participating. The West program has grown as well, and the West director's speech emphasized the importance of enjoying the process of making music rather than aiming at perfection.
At East, some highlights from the concerts included an arrangement of “Hallelujah” (Cohen) in which two verses were translated into Portuguese (by Mrs. Sheeler and the students) because of the large number of Brazilian students in the East 9/10 Chorus. This year the chorus included 41 students in total. Students were also surprised by the intensity of the piece “Fire” (Gimon), a 20th century work in which the students vocally interpret the sound of fire. Finally, the IB Juniors at East did a medley of two songs about death, “Dust in the Wind” (Kansas) and “Song for the Dead” (Queens of the Stone Age) which was a stylistic change for a school concert that was exciting for many.
9/10 - Halleluljah.movSturgis Singers - All songs.movIB Juniors.movPage updated
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