by Heidi Koelz | Jun 6, 2022 | Alumnae/i, CA Magazine, Campus Stories, Featured News, Parents, School, Students
On June 3, Concord Academy honored the class of 2022 in the Academy Garden, celebrating the accomplishments and promise of the newest members of CA’s alumnae/i community. A damp morning didn’t subdue the spirits of the 102 members of Concord Academy’s 98th graduating...
by Heidi Koelz | May 26, 2022 | Alumnae/i, Alumnae/i Centennial Stories, Arts, CA Magazine, Centennial, Centennial Magazine, Featured News, School, Students
Rashaun Mitchell ’96 engages with CA students during an improvisatory movement workshop during his Hall Fellow visit. “There’s no wrong way to move,” Rashaun Mitchell ’96 tells the CA students taking his workshop. Some are experienced dancers; others are exploring...
by Heidi Koelz | May 19, 2022 | Academic, CA Magazine, Campus Stories, Faculty Profiles, Featured News, School
“I think the thing I love most about CA is that people here are more comfortable loving things in public than in any other school community I have been part of,” said English teacher Nick Hiebert on May 5, as he discussed how he had benefited from holding the...
by Heidi Koelz | May 13, 2022 | Academic, Centennial, School
On May 11, author and filmmaker Ken Dornstein P’23 visited a CA documentary film class taught by Ben Stumpf ’88 to share his expertise with students. As a documentary filmmaker, Dornstein has been involved in the production of over 50 films covering a wide array of...
by Heidi Koelz | May 4, 2022 | Arts, School, Students
On April 29 and 30, the Concord Academy Performing Arts Department staged The Cradle Will Rock. This “play in music” was written in 1937 by composer Marc Blitzstein as part of the Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal program during the Great Depression to fund artistic...
by Heidi Koelz | Apr 28, 2022 | Arts, School
Asked what makes an artist great, Boston Ballet School teacher Andrea Renee Long-Naidu replied, “Being a human.” It’s the emotion—in art, music, dance—that compels her, she said: “The arts are the healing balm of the world.” She spoke with Concord Academy’s entire...
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