Lucky Diaz is a bilingual, songwriting, taco-eating, multi-Latin Grammy Award-winning, Grammy-nominated and six-time Emmy-nominated musician, children's television personality, and author. His work has been praised by NPR, Billboard, People, and the New York Times. He is a Parent's Choice Gold Award and NAPPA Award winner. In 2020, his album Buenos Diaz was named an official selection of notable works for children by the American Library Association. He will visit Sturges-Young Center for the Arts on Thursday October 24th 2024 starting with a book signing at 6PM Food Trucks will be open for Dinner at 4PM with a musical performance and book reading of La Guitarrista at 7PM! Tickets only $5! We are excited to be partnering with the Sturgis District Library on this event with Funds provided in part by the Patricia A. Franks Council of the Arts Endowment Fund and the Perry Family Youth for the Arts Fund of the Sturgis Area Community Foundation"

Join us on Friday October 25th 2024 as we host Hocus Pocus in the Main Auditorium as part of the First DDA Spooktacular Fest! Front Entry only for this event off Nottawa St. Come dressed in your costume ( No Costumers can have fake blood or glitter that can come off on the seats) $2/Person Cash day off $3/Person online Credit Card Fees included

Get your best ghouls and goonies together for the 5th annual Sturges-Young Monster Mash Event! Leave the kids with the sitter and dance the night away in costume to awesome tunes from an awesome local DJ! Compete for fabulous prizes in the costume contest! Try Halloween themed drink specials and fantastic treats from the Boo Buffet! This event is 21 Yrs Old & up. Tickets are $15 per person. Swag Bags for the 1st 25 tickets sold, so get them ASAP!

We are excited to host another season of our cinema circle. This year the film lovers pass is $28 giving you the advantage of seeing one movie for free! You can purchase individual films as well! Passes do not carry over into the next season. (credit card purchases will have a $2 processing fee added to the total)

Join SYCA on October 29th for our first film of the 2024-2025 Cinema Cirlce Season. Seven young outcasts in Derry, Maine, are about to face their worst nightmare -- an ancient, shape-shifting evil that emerges from the sewer every 27 years to prey on the town's children. Banding together over the course of one horrifying summer, the friends must overcome their own personal fears to battle the murderous, bloodthirsty clown known as Pennywise.

Join us for our annual fundraiser the 2024 Holiday Kaleidoscope. This year we will mix a little of the new ideas we introduced last year + sticking to our roots and making sure this is the Holiday gift hot-spot the community has grown to love. The Wine and Bourbon Pull is back with more opportunities and fun! Expect to see a competitive Live Auction portion this year as we keep the stakes high with our awesome experiene packages and classic trees. We cannot wait to see the creative juices flowing as you decorate your tables and your outfits if you so choose to! Please let us know your theme ahead of time so we can space out so you STAND OUT!

Friday November 8th 2024 at 7PM Sturges-Young Center for the Arts, Main Auditorium - Enjoy your favorite Tom Petty tunes live as Michigan's own Teddy Petty & the Refugees play all the hits!

L. FRANK BAUM’S classic novel comes to life in THE WIZARD OF OZ. Young Dorothy Gale is swept away by a tornado from her Kansas farm to the magical land of Oz. There, she encounters a host of whimsical characters: good witches, bad witches, animals that talk, scarecrows that walk, and things magical to behold. To find her way home, she must journey along the Yellow Brick Road to see the mysterious and all-powerful Wizard in Emerald City. Along the way, she makes new friends, but must also brave many dangers, including the Wicked Witch of the West, who will stop at nothing to get her hands on Dorothy’s magical ruby slippers. To make it home safely, Dorothy must learn an important lesson: there’s no place like home.

Join us on March 15th for Six Appeal! They are a world class vocal ensemble infused with impeccable comedic timing and the energy and vitality of a rock band. Swearing off instruments, the award-winning vocal band Six Appeal takes you on a journey that spans decades of music, performing classic oldies, current chart toppers, and catchy original tunes - all sung a cappella. Featuring vocal dexterity and adventurous song selection, this remarkably talented sextet of young singers navigates multiple genres of music with a wonderfully eclectic repertoire that is guaranteed to captivate and entertain audiences of all ages.

We welcome the memorizing talents of A Charlie Brown Christmas Quartet and Cyrus Chestnut on December 7th 2024 at 730PM. Cyrus balances his lithe technical skill with a robust, soulful style that speaks to his deep gospel roots and love of swinging hard bop. Raised in the church, he learned how to infuse his swinging, classically trained style with a warm gospel sound, a style that first marked his work as a sideman, backing legendary vocalists Jon Hendricks and Betty Carter, as well as with instrumentalists like Donald Harrison and Wynton Marsalis. He further perfected his approach as a leader, recording a bevy of small group albums for Atlantic, like 1998's Cyrus Chestnut, and as a member of the Manhattan Trinity with bassist George Mraz and drummer Lewis Nash. Most often, Chestnut leads the Cyrus Chestnut Trio, as on 2016's Natural Essence with veterans Buster Williams and Lenny White, 2018's Kaleidoscope with Eric Wheeler and Chris Beck, and 2022's M

Are you a trivia nut? Do you love silly, wacky fun? Then join us at Sturges- Young Center for the Arts on December 13th starting at 7PM for WACKY TRIVIA NIGHT hosted by none other than Craig Tornquist! When Craig did trivia night for our local COA christmas party two years ago, we knew we wanted him to come host for us. He has performed over 3,000 clean comedy acts across America, and now he will entertain you with his hillarious competition, his wacky outfits to his outrageously goofy prizes. This will surely be a night of laugher and fun, and FAMILY FRIENDLY! Included will be an appetizer buffet made by Hippadders Catering! There will also be a cash bar for all your adult beverage needs along with normal non alocholic drinks for the youngins who love trivia. We will see you December 13th 2024 at Sturges-Young Center for the Arts!

SYCA will go back to a classic holiday film on December 19th! In this Christmas classic, an old man going by the name of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) fills in for an intoxicated Santa in Macy's annual Thanksgiving Day parade. Kringle proves to be such a hit that he is soon appearing regularly at the chain's main store in midtown Manhattan. When Kringle surprises customers and employees alike by claiming that he really is Santa Claus, it leads to a court case to determine his mental health and, more importantly, his authenticity

Join us for A Night of Comedy withJon Reep on January 10th 2025. This will be the fourth show in our 2024-2025 performance series. Jon is an American stand-up comedian and actor, known as the "That thing got a Hemi?" guy in Dodge commercials starting in 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he played the recurring character Police Officer Gerald Bob in the ABC sitcom Rodney. In 2007, Reep won the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC.

On January 12th prepare to spend an afternoon with us starting at 2:30pm for the classic Gone with the Wind. It is a historical novel written by American author Margaret Mitchell and published in 1936. In summary, Gone with the Wind offers a romanticized view of the American Civil War from the perspective of the Confederacy. It focuses on Scarlett O'Hara

Join us on January 23rd @ 7pm & Kurt Russell, as he plays hard-boiled truck driver Jack Burton, who gets caught in a bizarre conflict within, and underneath, San Francisco's Chinatown. An ancient Chinese prince and Chinatown crime lord has kidnapped a beautiful green-eyed woman, who is the fiancee to Jack's best friend. Jack must help his friend rescue the girl before the evil Lo Pan uses her to break the ancient curse that keeps him a fleshless and immortal spirit.

Finally on February 13th SYCA is hosting the most requested film from 2023-2024 Cinema Circle goers! Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?

Water Street Dance Milwaukee is a multifaceted dance company dedicated to exploring diversity within our art, artists, and audiences. Renowned for our athletic, innovative, and entertaining performances, we invite all to partake in the vibrant experiences we create. As Milwaukee's premier repertory dance company, we are committed to consistently pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. Since our inception, Water Street Dance Milwaukee has showcased compelling works by esteemed choreographers such as Madison Hicks, Kam N. Saunders, Lean Damasco, Annie Franklin, and Braeden Barnes, among others. Our repertoire is a testament to the rich tapestry of talent we bring to the stage.

February 27th 2025 SYCA will allow the audience to experience this well known classic. Planet of the Apes is a complex sociological film and well known science-fiction classic about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves. The stunned trio discovers that these highly intellectual simians can both walk upright and talk. They have even established a class system and a political structure. The astronauts suddenly find themselves part of a devalued species, trapped and imprisoned by the apes