The focus of school productions is to expose and immerse students in the fine arts. The fine arts is part of the curriculum at Aquinas Academy to give an understanding, knowledge, and appreciation for what is beautiful. This understanding affords a basis for judgment and discrimination which characterizes the free and wise man.
"Consecrate Them in Truth"
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Bosco Video Festival 2009 - Watch the Winners
+ UPCOMING EVENTS:
2/13 St. John Bosco Video Festival 7:00 (Tentative)3/19 St. Joseph's Talent Show3/30 Passion Play at Little Sisters of the Poor5/1 Senior Dinner Theatre, The Matchmaker, 6:005/15 Musical Review 7:00
The objective of school productions are experiences to help form the moral imagination. In today's mass media, the student's imagination can be filled with what is predominantly violent, crass, sentimental and depersonalizing. Or it can have within it the lively, the noble, the truly human and the graced. Common experience tells us that our actions follow our imaginations. Therefore, it is necessary to train the young student in artful and more noble expressions.
Examples of previous school productions are: Macbeth, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice, Our Town, Harvey, The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Gift of the Magi.
In addition, Aquinas hosts an annual Christmas Performance, Lenten Passion Play, Musical Review, St. Joseph's Talent Show, and St. John Bosco Video Festival.
This page was last updated: March 12, 2010
