Thursday, May 17, 2012
Matt Sullivan's 'Reviving Redwood' is among nine finalists in the U.S. for a Student Academy Award.
A two-minute animated silent film by Sharon High School alumnus Matt Sullivan has people talking. "Reviving Redwood" is among nine finalists in the U.S. for a Student Academy Award by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sullivan expects to hear the results by Monday. A Facebook page he has set up is promoting the film, which was his senior thesis at the Ringling College of Art and Design. "I just want to create some buzz and some interest so people want to see it," says Sullivan, a 2008 Sharon High grad. "Hopefully, before the Academy is voting, if they see that there's a big buzz around the film, maybe it'll help me in some way, or maybe they'll be more inclined to give it another chance." First prize is $5,000, second prize…
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Sharon High School
181 Pond St, Sharon, MA
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SHS Theatre Company performs 'Seussical the Musical Jr.'
The Sharon High School Theatre Company hopes the school auditorium is among "the places you'll go" on Saturday. The students, and Sharon youngsters in grades three to five, will present "Seussical the Musical Jr." at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tickets are $8. "I really wanted to do Seussical," says senior Melanie Parziale, the show's director. "I think it's a really fun show, and it's really cute. And it's really good for little kids to be in it and to have their friends come and see it." The 33-member cast is "having a ton of fun just being these crazy, kooky characters," Parziale says. They're joined by 13 Sharon kids in one show and 14 in the other. "It's 'Dr. Seuss,'" Parziale says. "And, what's more 'little kid' than Dr. Seuss?"
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Sharon High School
181 Pond St, Sharon, MA
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
'The Travelers,' a sci-fi story, opens Thursday.
The Sharon Middle School Griffin Players will carry lessons from their newest production into the future. Or the past, if that's where they take their time machine. The student theatre company performs SMS theater teacher Esme Sammons' new sci-fi play "The Travelers" at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday in the school auditorium. Tickets are $7 in advance (sold during the school lunch periods) and $10 at the door. The plot has middle school students receiving plans to construct a time machine, and then learning "what they actually have to use it for -- to save the world from something that happens in the future," says Sammons, the show's writer and director. The play has had a side effect, off-stage. "There are now a good …
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Sharon Middle School
75 Mountain St, Sharon, MA
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Monday, May 7, 2012
The effort is part of the PTSO's recycling initiatives.
A new art show at Sharon High School is part of a bigger picture there. Recyclables form each of the 40-or-so pieces in the exhibit, displayed in the hall opposite the school auditorium, art teacher Dana Buck says. The Sharon High School PTSO is sponsoring the contest as part of its new recycling campaign at the school, PTSO Beautification Committee member Cilla Kitay says. "Next year, we hope to make it into a bigger contest, where we have something that will fill up these courtyards," she says. Three local judges reviewed the students' work and artist statements on Friday. The PTSO will offer first, second and third prizes. Buck says the winning students will receive "gift certificates to places kids like to go. About five Introduction …
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Sharon High School
181 Pond St, Sharon, MA
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
The SHS Theatre Company and the D'VAA Vocal Arts Academy present 'The Little Prince' on Thursday and Friday.
The audience for a fundraiser for Sharon arts and school programs will watch both history and a story unfold. The Sharon High School Theatre Company, in conjunction with the D'VAA Vocal Arts Academy, will present "The Little Prince," A Family Opera, from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Sharon High School auditorium. "It's totally different for the high school theatre company, because we've never done an opera," Director Kayla Armstrong says. "With the musicals, its kind of a hand-and-hand music and directing and choreography. With this, it's so much more about the music and about the singing." Tickets are $10 and are available online at Brown Paper tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236948. The remaining tickets will be…
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Sharon High School
181 Pond St, Sharon, MA
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Lakeside Gallery will display the works until May 31.
One tour in Sharon on Wednesday night began with "Sailing on Lake Massapoag" and ended with "They Dance." Guests gathered for the opening reception for the Sharon Creative Arts Association's latest exhibit at the Lakeside Gallery at the Sharon Adult Center and Council on Aging. The 51-piece exhibit of association members' pieces, in a variety of media, opened April 3 and runs until May 31. The gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; Thursday until 8 p.m.; Friday until noon; and other evenings by appointment. For more information, call the Sharon Adult Center at 781-784-8000.
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Sharon Adult Center and Council on Aging
219 Massapoag Ave, Sharon, MA
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Monday, April 9, 2012
The deadline is April 16.
Time is running out to register for the Friends of the Sharon Public Library's April 24 cultural field trip to the Harvard Museum of Natural History, for a tour of the Ware glass flowers exhibit. Event registration closes one week from today, on April 16. Here are all trip details and registration information.
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Sharon Public Library
11 N Main St, Sharon, MA
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Part three of the four-part series is Thursday.
Time is running out to register for a four-part Broadway Breakdowns series offered through the Sharon Recreation Department. Part three, on Kander and Ebb, is this Thursday. Part four, on Stephen Sondheim, is April 12. Both sessions run from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Sharon Community Center. In this one-woman show-meets-seminar, Christine Kasparian Dunn will explore the life, music and performances of Broadway composers. Participants will discuss how their shows and relationships with directors and choreographers shaped not only the Broadway world, but the rest of the world as well. Dunn will bring a video and audio collection to deconstruct the sights and sounds of broadway. Each seminar will include acts, movie clips, recordings, an …
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Sharon Community Center
219 Massapoag Ave, Sharon, MA
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Friday, March 30, 2012
One Book, One Town event draws 16 buildings.
A skyscraper building contest helped Sharon get one step away from the pinnacle of a month-long reading celebration. From Legos to food to playing cards, 16 skyscrapers designed and built by Sharon youths were displayed and judged in the Sharon Public Library's Cynthia B. Fox Community Room Thursday night. The contest was the next to the last event of One Book, One Town 2012: Sharon Reads Together, Library Director Barbra Nadler said. "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," by Michael Chabon, is this year's reading selection. And "there's a whole section of it that takes place in Empire State Building," Nadler said. "They're fabulous," Nadler said of the youngsters' skyscrapers. During the event, guests saw a slideshow used during a …
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Sharon Public Library
11 N Main St, Sharon, MA
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Master magician brings sleights to Heights.
An event at a Sharon school today featured trick questions. Master Magician Brian Baskin brought his "Amazing Feats of Magic and Escape" to the Heights Elementary School for the latest program on One Book, One Town 2012: Sharon Reads Together's marquee. The event was tied into this year's Sharon community reading selection, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," by Michael Chabon. Chabon's 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning novel features Jewish cousins, one an artist, the other a writer, who have created a super-hero named the Escapist. One Book's next event is at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Sharon Public Library. The One Book committee, in partnership with the Sharon Pluralism Network, will present an animated film about the Iranian …
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Heights Elementary School
454 S Main St, Sharon, MA
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