By WILL PERKINS
Glasgow News 1
Glasgow High School’s auditorium reverberated with familiar Disney songs over the summer as a group of young students participated in the “Scottie Singers Onstage” performing arts camp.
High schoolers and recent graduates spent the week instructing and choreographing the campers, preparing them for the culminating event — a kids’ production of “The Lion King.”
This particular camp offered a unique experience since it focused on the arts rather than sports or academics, said Wilder Pate, a junior at Glasgow High School, adding that it was really fun to interact with the kids and share his love for theatre.
Pate said most kids don’t get to express themselves in this way and this camp gives them a “whole new perspective and outlook on art.”
Young students participate in the Scottie Singers Onstage summer camp last month at Glasgow High School. Will Perkins/Glasgow News 1
The onstage camp is in its second year, and Sarah Shepherd, choral director at the high school, said it was inspired by her childhood.
“When I was a younger student, I attended summer arts camps throughout my youth, and that honestly is what spurred my interest in the performing arts, in choir and in doing musical theatre into adulthood,” she said. “So I knew that there was a need for it here in our community.”
Shepherd said the arts “are huge in Glasgow.”
“They’ve always been really, really big at the elementary levels,” she said. “And I wanted to create a space where all of the kids in the district could come together to create something together prior to middle school and high school — where they could see each other and just kind of play together.
“Seeing my high schoolers with the kids has to be the best part for me. It encourages the younger kids to rise to the occasion because they see the older kids that are already very well-versed in their craft — and it encourages my older students to dream a little bit more and play a little bit more.”
Young students participate in the Scottie Singers Onstage summer camp last month at Glasgow High School. Will Perkins/Glasgow News 1
Young students participate in the Scottie Singers Onstage summer camp last month at Glasgow High School. Will Perkins/Glasgow News 1
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