The show must virtually go on
Anna Guerra
August 17, 2020
Despite school closures, the performing arts still plan for success. With the Ventura Unified School District announcing that school will remain online, some electives have to readapt their classes for the upcoming year. Among these electives is drama. Drama teacher Stefoni Rossiter explained through...
Music in the heart while staying apart
Caroline Marsden and Greta Pankratz
August 17, 2020
Musicians share how they feel about the new reality the music department faces. In the upcoming unprecedented school year, everything will be different. For music students, developing a feeling of normalcy will be extra challenging. In a pre-COVID19 music department, students would congregate in lar...
The curtain closes early, but the show goes on in their hearts
Charlotte D'Orsi
May 27, 2020
Despite the school closure, VHS thespians find solace in the memories they’ve created over the years. The VUSD school closures brought a cloud of mourning to Ventura High School students. Spring athletes mourned their sports seasons, seniors mourned their final months of high school, and the drama d...
Student musicians tug at the heartstrings
Miles Bennett
May 27, 2020
The year’s Music Department seniors share their thoughts on the year The VHS Music Department’s pre-quarantine year was filled to the brim with successes, according to its members and Music Department Head Paul Hunt. According to Hunt, some of the biggest successes of the year were the...
Will the shoe fit?
Shannon David and Alina Calamia
March 10, 2020
VHS’s Drama department prepares for the spring musical, Cinderella. [dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]n April, the Ventura High School Drama Department will be performing “Cinderella” as the 2020 spring musical. This 1997 edition has the same classic Rogers and Hamerisetin music and charm with a hint of sa...
District Choir concert proves to be therapy for the ears
Yasmin Myers and Riley Ramirez
January 23, 2020
A night filled with choral, pop and jazz selections. On Jan. 17, parents and friends gathered in Buena High School’s auditorium, ready to hear the musical chords sung by various school’s choir programs, including Balboa Middle, DATA, Ventura High and Buena High. With an opening greeting from Buena...
Teachers made a hoot at the faculty “fun-raiser”
Anna Guerra and Yasmin Myers
January 15, 2020
VHS faculty showed their silly side to raise funds for the drama department. [dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n Friday Jan. 10, Ventura staff members performed in the sixth annual faculty “Fun-Raiser” to let it all go for a couple of laughs. The funds raised by the improv show went to benefit the VHS Drama Depart...
Anatomy of Gray practice has us hooked on a feeling
Yasmin Myers
November 13, 2019
Actors and stage managers disclose the details before the curtains unfold [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]alented actors and stage managers come together on Anatomy of Gray to create a great production. “Anatomy of Gray”, written by Jim Leonard Jr. and directed by Drama Department Head Stefoni Rossi...
VHS art students take a trip to ancient Rome
Yasmin Myers
November 6, 2019
Getty Villa welcomes VHS art students [dropcap size=small]C[/dropcap]hances are if you’ve driven on the Pacific Coast Highway, you’ve seen the cream colored, two-storied villa with Roman columns. Ventura art students made their way on a sunny Oct. Monday morning to the captivating Getty Villa. Although ...
Benefit Concert tugs at the heartstrings
Miles Bennett
October 27, 2019
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n the eve of Oct. 23, students donned black ties and dresses, readied their instruments, and transformed the Ventura High School auditorium. That evening, VHS Music Department Head Paul Hunt’s students joined in musical matrimony to produce a concert that left audience...
Say What?: Improv Troupe presents their first show
Anna Guerra and Yasmin Myers
October 26, 2019
After enduring fierce auditions, this year’s improv cast proves they’ve got what it takes On Saturday Oct. 18, a talented group of students known as the What? Improv Troupe debuted at the Backstage Cafe. The show consists of performing skits much in the style of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a short-form im...
They harmonize before the sunrise
Juliana Jacobson
October 25, 2019
Members of Company, Ventura Unified all district Choir, sing before everyone wakes It was 6:16 a.m. on Oct. 8, the sky had slowly started the process of changing from black to a cool blue. Outside the drama room, 12 kids stood in a loose circle talking and laughing. As more students began to trickle in...
