Congratulations to Henry Burke for being selecting among thousands of applicants to sing at Fenway Park this Sunday.
Check out the WCAX News coverage of this story.
It has been nearly 5 years since the Cabot School Performing Arts Center opened its doors. Since then we’ve hosted dozens of student and professional concerts, exhibitions of learning, workshops, fundraisers, alumni events, dances, plays, and much more.
I just came across this video that was produced for the opening gala to celebrate CSPAC coming to completion. It is a joy to teach and learn at Cabot School. It is a privilege to participate in this community. There are few schools and towns that can do what we did. Thank you, Cabot.
Last spring, our middle school produced a 20-minute TV episode modeled after the successful 1980’s series The Wonder Years. Drawing upon their learning and knowledge of the late 1960s, the students produced their own Wonder Years episode demonstrating their understanding of this turbulent period of American history. The students integrated their language arts skills with their social studies knowledge to develop era-appropriate scripts. Enjoy.
Our semester with The Beatles has finally come to a close. From our 4-part radio documentary series that aired on WGDR, to the creation of an original musical, the Beatles have once again worked their magic into the lives of people young and old alike.
On December 20th we closed out our final production of A Magical Mystery Tour - a dramatic musical production with an original script featuring student writing and original arrangements of Beatles music. To top it off, we were honored to be joined by the Cabot Community Choir and several professional guest musicians who sat in for the show.
It was an amazing experience to be able to pull this off. This original show was embedded into our curriculum, involved our entire high school and had a cast aging in range from 13 to 90. It was truly a beautiful thing.
We are also happy to share with you the complete A Day In the Life series featuring all 4 episodes of our radio documentary project. As our student teams captured the memories and stories of our community members, it was remarkable to see the 1960′s come alive in an entirely new way for our high school students. Documenting and synthesizing these stories into a cohesive radio show allowed the students to experience history through the eyes of their elders.
An interesting spin on place-based-learning for sure.
Here’s the whole series:
Congratulations to HS Creative Music Ensemble students Caleb, Gage, Tom & Tyler for producing and broadcasting the first episode in the cabotarts + wgdr radio documentary series: A Day In the Life.
Tune in next Sat Dec 8 at 9am to hear Episode 2. Streaming live from http://www.wgdr.org or 91.1 WGDR or 91.7 WGDH.
Here is today’s broadcast (Dec 1)
A DAY IN THE LIFE: a cabotarts radio documentary project
Cabot Creative Music Ensemble student teams are producing a radio documentary series called A Day In The Life that will air every Saturday morning in December on Goddard College’s radio station, WGDR/WGDH. Using journalistic field work methods we will conduct interviews, curate playlists and develop a radio show documentary series that will be aired locally and streamed globally.
To make this work we need your stories. What Beatles stories do you have? What memory is attached to your first Beatles album? Where were you when John Lennon was shot? Did you play Revolution # 9 backwards . . . .
Our mission is to curate, chronicle and mash your stories with the music that inspired it all. Please contact Brian Boyes: bboyes @ cabotschool dot org. (no spaces in the email . . . just preventing some spamage!)
Learning Objectives
Building off of the success of 2011’s One Day: The Global Citizen Project, Cabot School is proud to announce the launch of our 2013 project, Home, a Playing For Change style music video of student musicians and singers throughout New England.
The Global Citizen Project is an interdisciplinary project of the Cabot middle school engaging students through social studies, science and digital media arts and music. In 2011 the students started a production company, Global Citizen Productions and produced a “Playing For Change” style music video featuring over 300 Vermont student musicians and singers that has been viewed nearly 5000 times and continues to raise money to support music education efforts across the globe. From the filming and directing to the logistics and final editing process, Cabot students were responsible for nearly every detail of production.
With the launch of this year’s theme, Home, students will explore global issues of water rights, conservation, economics, resources distribution. Through this expeditionary study, the Cabot students will identify a global non-profit to support and then begin production of a music video, Home, featuring student musicians and singers. Although we are still deciding, it is likely that the song for this year’s video will be an arrangement of Home, by the Ethiopian-American band Bole 2 Harlem.
With an eye to the broader world, this year’s video will reach beyond Vermont’s borders to include student musicians and singers throughout New England and will reach out to refugee communities throughout the region to share in the experience.
The overall goal of this project is to help students to think critically about the nuances of our planet and to effect change through the development of an inspiring creative product.
This project is open to all student musicians, singers and ensembles. Please join us!
Contact: Cabot School Performing Arts Director, Brian Boyes bboyes@cabotschool.org
For more info: http://www.cabotarts.org
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