Visual & Performing Arts at JCHS
JCHS’ award winning Visual & Performing Arts Department provides opportunities for every student to express what cannot be stated through words alone.
JCHS incorporates visual art into all aspects of the student experience through collaboration with performing arts, integration into academic curriculum, gallery showcases and site-specific art installations. Student artists can develop and process film in our dark room, create relief prints on our printing press, or explore three-dimensional sculpture using our pottery wheel and kiln. Each year culminates with an interactive Arts Evening, open to the public, where students can showcase their work.
Through vocal and instrumental ensembles, students advance their skills, while developing their knowledge of a variety of cultures, periods and styles. They may compose, arrange music, and learn the art of improvisation and accompaniment. In addition, they have the opportunity to perform both in the school and the wider community, including solo work, orchestral concerts, and drama production accompaniment.
JCHS students explore every aspect of the dramatic arts from design and technical theater to acting, directing, and writing. Our playwrights have been finalists in regional and national writing competitions. In 2013, JCHS was the first international school to participate in London’s National Theatre New Views Young Playwrights Competition. JCHS was chosen as the top High School Theatre program in the Northwest by Stage Directions magazine and we were twice honored --in 2011 and 2017--to be selected out of hundreds of applicants in the U.S. and Canada to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can read more about our past productions here.
For Academic course information, visit our Curriculum page.
LEARN MORE ABOUT DRAMA | VISUAL ARTS | MUSIC
Through vocal and instrumental ensembles, students advance their skills, while developing their knowledge of a variety of cultures, periods and styles. They may compose, arrange music, and learn the art of improvisation and accompaniment. In addition, they have the opportunity to perform both in the school and the wider community, including solo work, orchestral concerts, and drama production accompaniment.
JCHS students explore every aspect of the dramatic arts from design and technical theater to acting, directing, and writing. Our playwrights have been finalists in regional and national writing competitions. In 2013, JCHS was the first international school to participate in London’s National Theatre New Views Young Playwrights Competition. JCHS was chosen as the top High School Theatre program in the Northwest by Stage Directions magazine and we were twice honored --in 2011 and 2017--to be selected out of hundreds of applicants in the U.S. and Canada to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival. You can read more about our past productions here.
For Academic course information, visit our Curriculum page.
LEARN MORE ABOUT DRAMA | VISUAL ARTS | MUSIC
News from Visual & Performing Arts
List of 5 news stories.
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Spelling Bee November 19-24
Don't miss the sweet and hilarious JCHS production of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.Read More -
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
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Alum work performed in Short Story Festival
On Nov 1, JCHS hosts Word for Word's "Festival of Short Stories" featuring Amy Tan. Among the six jury selected stories by teens to be performed on Nov 7 is "Cancer" by JCHS alumna Maya Reihanian '19.Read More
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Romp through Paris!
Get your tickets now for JCHS Drama's production of the classic Georges Feydeau farce "A Flea in Her Ear."Read More -
Southern Exposure Exhibit features Junior
Congratulations to Junior Yael H. whose work "My Path" (Linocut, graphite, collage, 2018) has been selected to be in Southern Exposure's Youth Advisory Board Spring Juried exhibition.Read More
Marisa Aragona
Photography
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Dr. Joshua Feltman
Music
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Joe McDonald
Technical Director, Filmmaking, JTV
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Anne Marie Ullman
Theater Director and Drama Teacher
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Jewish Community High School of the Bay
1835 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Phone: 415.345.9777
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The Jewish Community High School of the Bay (JCHS) is a unique college preparatory high school committed to integrating deep learning, universal wisdom, and Jewish values. We empower each student to embrace her or his Jewish identity, generate empathy and compassion, delight in lifelong education, and improve the world.