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CA Performs The Cradle Will Rock
On April 29 and 30, the Concord Academy Performing Arts Department staged The Cradle Will Rock. Originating during the Great Depression as part of the Federal Theatre Project, the play in music takes satirical aim at exploitative labor and everyone who enables corruption. “What I wanted to hit home with the students, and with this production,” said guest director Sarah Shin, “is that change starts with empathy.”
read moreBallet Dancer and Teacher Andrea Renee Long-Naidu Gives Artist Talk and Master Class at CA
“The arts are the healing balm of the world,” said Andrea Renee Long-Naidu in an artist talk at Concord Academy on April 27. CA dance program co-directors Rika Okamoto and Alex Brady moderated this all-school assembly, and the Q&A session gave students a chance to ask several questions about Long-Naidu‘s art form, her career as a professional dancer, and diversity in the dance world.
read moreCA Celebrates 100th Birthday with Centennial Days of Service and Sustainability
On April 22 and 23, the CA community united in honor of Concord Academy’s 100th birthday. On this historic occasion, the Centennial Days of Service and Sustainability involved listening, learning, and taking action. The celebration extended beyond campus to include alumnae/i, parents, and friends of the school. Together over these two days, CA community members made a difference for others, and for our planet, in support of the commitment in CA’s mission to build a more just and sustainable future.
read moreHistory Teacher Ed Rafferty P’19 ’21 Shares the History of Sustainability Throughout CA’s 100 Years
History teacher Ed Rafferty addressed the CA community during the “100 Years of Sustainability” assembly with a talk titled “Tales Along a Crooked Road: Place, Home, and Humility in Environmental History.”
read moreCA Students Get Involved in Supporting CA’s Sustainability Plan
Concord Academy’s sustainability plan is among the first of its kind from independent schools in the Northeast. When it was released in the spring of 2019, little did the world know that within a year a pandemic would upend life around the globe. While CA pivoted, progress toward the targets that had been outlined nevertheless continued. The plan outlines four major areas of focus for CA: institutional staffing support, reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, shifts to more sustainable dining and reducing food waste, and increasing the environmental sustainability of campus operations.
read moreCASA Students Lead Through Service
Concord Academy Students in Action (CASA) is one of CA’s longest-running clubs, part of a longstanding tradition of community service passed on by previous generations, including an active CASA precursor, Volunteers in Action. This year, the co-heads of CASA—Christina Crowley ’23, Maggie Myslik ’22, Zoe Perlis ’22, and Nirantheri Vithiananthan ’22—approached their efforts with a fresh focus: providing meaningful service with a focus on ensuring that they are helping people in the ways they need to be helped.
read moreCA Students Connect with 2021 Joan Shaw Herman Award Recipient Dr. Ingrid Walker-Descartes ’91
As a physician, Ingrid Walker-Descartes ’91, is used to giving formal talks. When she visited Concord Academy on April 8, she told around a dozen students she met with for a roundtable discussion that she relished the chance to interact more casually. Coming after a...
Music Café Wows Audiences in the P.A.C.
On April 8 and 9, CA’s student jazz ensembles gave a wide-ranging concert at Music Cafe in the P.A.C. View a gallery of images from the performances of the Jazz Ensemble, Advanced Jazz Ensemble, and the Vocal Jazz and Pop Ensemble.
read moreDepartment X Kick-Starts a New Student-Run Writing Center at CA
Last spring, CA teachers Nancy Boutilier and Stephanie Manzella P’14 ’17 ’18 received Department X funding to develop a sustainable model for a writing center to pilot in 2021–22. With 16 Writing Associates, all juniors, and many students regularly bringing their writing for peer review, the new student-led Writing Center has already been a success.
read moreHow CA’s Dining Services Team is Embracing Sustainability
Food systems can sometimes be overlooked when it comes to assessing our impact on the planet, but they’re the focus of one of three working groups established by Concord Academy’s Sustainability Plan, which the school adopted in 2019. The dining hall team has been making significant strides toward sustainable food system goals, especially in sourcing local ingredients and promoting plant-forward menus.
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