The Hopkinton School District will host its sixth annual “Celebration of the Arts” on Thursday, March 8, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Hopkinton Middle/High School, 297 Park Ave. (Route 103), Contoocook.
This outpouring of community creativity takes over the whole school and showcases the imaginative efforts of students and faculty in drama, music, poetry, digital media, visual arts and more.
Admission is free, and refreshments, along with the arts, will be served. Parents are asked to accompany children younger than 12 to minimize noise and disruption.
The students and faculty of the Hopkinton School District have once again assembled the annual Celebration of the Arts to show their creativity to Central New Hampshire. Once again, music is a mainstay and opens the evening with the middle/high school’s tropical steel band – appropriately named Hopkinton Steel. Emerging student rock bands such as Loaded, Ianick and Liquid Mandy will perform, as well as numerous solo vocal and instrumental performances. The Maple Street School chorus and band round out the musical offerings.
There will be improv from the drama club and all manner of literary representation in the poetry coffeehouse. The digital future is front and center with Hopkinton’s national FIRST robot entry, which will be on display throughout the evening. Woodworking and lathe turning will have its own stage, as will the digital media arts, which include a screening of “Aceboy,” an original film by Hopkinton grad Kyle Sedgley.
There will also be some deft dance sequences, some adept juggling and something called the “Bag People,” about whom not much is known other than that they will be wandering everywhere and do not pose an immediate danger to the public.
The Hopkinton School District has long been committed to the arts as an integral component of all its schools and programs.
As Chris Kelley, Hopkinton Middle/High School’s assistant principal, has noted, “We believe the arts are a launching pad for lifelong learning, exploration and discovery, enriching and supporting our traditional academic offerings.”
For more information, contact David R. White at 224-5957 or drwprimemover@yahoo.com; or Chris Kelley at 746-4167 or ckelley@hopkintonschools.org.