Students can choose to experience three different areas within the Arts: Drama, Music and Visual Art. To fulfill the SHSM requirements, students can select courses and certifications that interest them within one area or all three areas. Students are able to individualize their SHSM experience based on their interests and post-secondary goals.

The SHSM A&C Program at KSS provides KSS students with multi-disciplinary opportunities across the arts. Students will explore and gain skills that will allow them to express their creativity with a variety of performance and studio-based workshops in our fresh new arts spaces (2 music rooms, black box theatre, 3 specialized arts studios, media studies area, and 3 state of the art technology workshops)

Arts & Culture: Our SHSM Arts & Culture Program is a very strong program that has a high graduation success rate. We offer multiple opportunities for Arts courses in Drama, Visual Art, Photography, Music, and Technology based courses. We offer various coop opportunities through in class and community involvement. F.S.S plans to incorporate a unique Animation course next year.

Welcome to the home of The Cave. We are broadcasting on 91.9 FM to the downtown Kingston area. The Cave, or CKVI Educational Radio, is a high school SHSM program operating out of Kingston Secondary School. Students in this program will learn about radio and broadcast journalism while working from Kingston’s most interesting radio station, CKVI 91.9 FM: The Cave. Become an on-air host, producer, editor, reporter, news writer and interviewer. Training is provided in technical skills including: the use of on-air equipment, recording equipment and computer editing software. Young journalists deliver hourly newscasts, produce and host daily spoken word programs and produce radio documentaries. Website: https://thecave.ca/

Sydenham High School offers an arts-focused entrepreneurship course for building arts-based businesses. Sydenham arts teachers collaborate with community-based artists and entrepreneurs to offer experiential learning with professional partners. The SHS music, drama, and visual arts programs are central to this program and work collaboratively to offer students many opportunities to engage in the creative process, grow skills and confidence, and share their art. Students should expect to hone their skills in the arts while developing as entrepreneurs and arts-based business owners.

LCVI is the optimal environment for creative minds to come together. With a wealth of passionate staff providing a variety of arts-based courses, focus programs and extra-curricular opportunities, young artists have opportunities to explore the world through a creative lens. Our staff have developed partnerships with a wide variety of local and national artists and arts organizations that allow our students to engage in a variety of professional arts mediums and liaise with industry professionals. We are passionate about sharing and celebrating our students’ artistic work with the Kingston community through numerous public performances, exhibits and community projects each year.

Studio LC is a rich place for young people to grow grit and gratitude. The feedback we receive from students and parents is overwhelmingly positive. We have built an innovative and rich space for students to express themselves and learn both the hard and soft skills that ready them for their future. Excellent learning happens when community and art and growth and rigor are centered around student interests. Whatever changes come from Studio LC merging with SHSM will only increase the innovation and growth and job preparedness of students. Student engagement and passion, post secondary placements, social / emotional growth in students, film festival awards, teacher growth, building of grit and growth and gratitude are all major pieces of our program. We have done a variety of reach aheads in the past (pre-covid) and we have many more planned. We have a close relationship with Queen’s film studies and have had 2 different professors do workshops and tours with our students. We have been to TIFF and to Ryerson Film school. This year we have 5 students accepted to Canadore College’s film programs. We also have a partnership with the Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and our students have won in the ‘youth short’ category every year we have entered. Two of our students last year created a feature length film called ‘How to Fix Radios’ that is one of the major films playing in KCFF this year: https://kingcanfilmfest.com/2021/how-to-fix-radios/ Website: https://lcvistudio.wixsite.com/filmfocus

Welcome to the Arts & Culture Program at BSS. The Arts & Culture program offers a wide variety of learning opportunities.

NDSS offers a broad selection of Arts and Culture credits for students to experience. A few of the courses are unique to our school. NDSS offers the fashion arts courses at both the grade 11 and grade 12 level. We also offer a “Music for Creating” credit that focuses on writing and recording original music in a collaborative setting. Students have the opportunity to explore industry level programs and equipment to complete their recordings.

Apply to take Creative Arts with the following information: - 8 images demonstrating your skills in a variety of media. - State why you are interested in taking the Creative Arts program (50 -100 words) - Describe what you hope to achieve by taking the Creative Arts program (50 -100 words) - Describe any art classes you have previously taken or any other art and design related experiences you have had. Submit the above to Ms. Corkey by email: corkeyto@limestone.on.ca - Creative Arts is a SHSM portfolio building opportunity available to senior students considering a career in fine arts or design which includes certifications and courses in life drawing, sewing/fashion studies, encaustic painting, oil painting, canvas building, and many more! Throughout the program, students will have their studies richly complemented through specialized Reach Ahead activities and Experiential Learning activities such as gallery visits, interviews with professional artists, portfolio day, large scale exhibits, field trips and other opportunities to tie academic learning and studio practice with real life applications. By signing up for Creative Arts, you will complete all of your SHSM certification requirements and have access to art specific co-op opportunities. Project work within this course is designed to foster an element of community involvement and driven by personal expression and interest. Creative Arts is a studio program which enables students to build a strong portfolio for submission to post-secondary institutions in areas such as Fine Art, Illustration, Animation, Architecture, Fashion, and Graphic Design. Creative Arts has been supporting young artists successfully pursue their career goals in the arts and design since 1990.