Amateur BBQ chefs, come try your hand at the 6th annual Sturgis BBQ Festival! Featuring Ribs, Chicken, Pulled Pork, and Brisket. Fee to compete is $100 Competitors should bring their own meats for competition, *Please see details below. Cash prizes and trophy recognition. Setup pits start Saturday, 9/28/2024 at 6am on John St., Sturgis, MI 49091. Rain or Shine Event. All purchases final, tickets are non-refundable, non-exchangeable, non-transferable.

Come sing the night away on September 28th 2024 with Josh Gracin. Fans fell in love with the former Marine upon his ascension onto the Country charts in 2004 with “I Want To Live.” The hits came in short order for Gracin – the chart-topper “Nothin’ To Lose,” “Stay With Me (Brass Bed),” and “We Weren’t Crazy” all hit high on the Billboard charts. And, as it does when an artist tastes success, the road beckoned. Seattle. Green Bay. Austin. Bangor. Gracin found himself thrust into the national spotlight.

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"

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!

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

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

March 13th 2025 we show a "True" western classic. True Grit's story of Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) murdering the father of 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), she seeks vengeance and hires U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn (John Wayne), a man of "true grit," to track Chaney into Indian territory. As the two begin their pursuit, a Texas Ranger, La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), joins the manhunt in hopes of capturing Chaney for the murder of a Texas senator and collecting a substantial reward. The three clash on their quest of bringing to justice the same man.

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.

SYCAs Film Choice for 2024-2025 will end our series on March 27th 2025. In Steven Spielberg's massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.