Friday, February 20, 2015
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Neighbors | Tim Cleveland.Austintown Fitch High School drama club members, from left, junior Hailey Brown, freshman David Varley and freshman Gabrielle Ricciardi worked the club's table during Creative Arts Night.
By TIM CLEVELAND
Austintown Fitch High School hosted its second annual Creative Arts Night on Jan. 21, giving its students an opportunity to show the community the creative side of the school’s many clubs and organization.
Fitch senior Allie Sarachene helped organize the event, which had more than 20 clubs and organizations in attendance.
“We show off the things we’ve done throughout the year, like we have a drywall which we can put ‘if I were born again what would I do?’” said Sarachene, who also serves as the editor of Fitch’s newspaper, The Talon. “Then have a heart project, where we get different pieces of construction paper and put it together in a heart and we get different people to sign it so it’s like ‘what do I mean to you?’
“We also have a blackout poetry, which is where you take out pages full of books and just box off words and black it out so you create a poem.”
The classes that were represented during the event were art, ACTV, clay and ceramics, life literature, photography, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), The Talon newspaper and woods/metals/design. The clubs were art club, Falcon Readers, French club, Future Business Leaders of America, Harry Potter club, key club, Pinterest club, robotics club, Spanish club and spirit club.
There were also extracurricular organizations National Honor Society and speech and debate.
One other club that was represented was the drama club, which was promoting its presentation of “The Brothers Grimm Spectacular,” which took place in the Fitch auditorium Jan. 30-31.
“It’s a really good comedy that’s put on for all ages,” said drama club member David Varley, a freshman. “It makes everyone laugh. We describe it as 209 fairy tales smashed together.”
The Fitch drama club puts on one performance and one musical each school year.
“We just love seeing people laugh,” Varley said. “Doing something for the community kinds of brings people together. It’s really something we enjoy doing.”
Varley talked about why he wanted to join the drama club.
“I personally just love acting and I’ve seen some of their past productions and what they do,” he said. “They have a good reputation there with their choices are really solid. Overall, it’s just great performances that they put on.”
As far as the Creative Arts Night overall, Sarachene said a lot of students may not be aware of the level of creativity that goes on in the school.
“It would be good to show the students what we’re all about,” she said. “It’s cool to see there’s more to Fitch than just sports or just academics. There’s actually creative people here and they love what they do and this is our night to show off. We’re not a sport, but we’re kind of the artsy side so it’s kind of cool to show off the different people at Fitch.”