2009-2010 SJK Annual Report - St. John's-Kilmarnock School

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also hosted the CIS Drama Festival at the University of Waterloo where our drama students presented the student written and directed production of A Pair of Frays. The Kilmarnock Singers took part in the CIS Music Festival in Toronto while our writers participated in the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and our Writer In Residence Program. The Thursday evening radio show, The Poem Repair Shop, continued to offer a dedicated group of students a venue to display their talents. As always the highlight of the spring term was the annual Arts Around Us evening that included music, drama and visual artwork performed and created by our students and a celebration for the official opening of the new music room. SJK’s Grade 12 Economics Class attended a symposium examining green business trends and practices, and future environmental impacts at the University of Waterloo Brigitte McIntyre receives the CPR Heart Award from Leesa Elliot and Bill Nicholson SJK students attended the Perimeter Institute’s Quantum to Cosmos Festival
SJK Arts Report Catherine Paleczny, David Newman and Adrian Hoad-Reddick Visual Art: SJK offers students a rigorous program of visual art practice within a stimulating and challenging academic environment, which includes the study of contemporary and historical art, and cultural theory related to art production. The program equips students with practical skills and theoretical knowledge to make engaging and informed artwork. The emphasis of the Visual Arts program is to develop the creative potential of the individual student in his/her milieu. Students in the program have the opportunity to work in any area of contemporary art production including painting, drawing, printmaking, three-dimensional and installation work, photography, digital art, intermedia, video, performance, sound, or in any interdisciplinary form. SJK’s Visual Art department is lead by international and nationally recognized sculptor Catherine Paleczny. Drama: 2009-2010 proved to be a very successful year for SJK drama. The school’s major production continued a tradition at SJK of staging challenging dramatic works that stretch both actors and audience. Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good is based on actual historical events as well as the novel The Playmaker, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally (author of Schindler’s List). Set in 1788 in Sydney Cove, Australia, it tells the story of the first play produced in that country, directed by a military officer and performed by the inmates of the new penal colony. Wertenbaker’s challenging play contains mature themes and subject matter exploring questions of the innate goodness or evil of human nature and the redemptive power of art. Performances at the Conrad Centre for the Performing Arts in Kitchener took place in late February and were well attended and well received. Early in 2010, students in the senior drama class had the opportunity to work with local playwright Gary Kirkham. Gary took students through the process of writing for theatre and creating their own short scenes or plays. One of these pieces, A Pair of Frays by grade 12 student Grayson Moore, was developed into a short one-act play and produced as SJK’s entry in the Conference of Independent Schools’ Drama Festival. The play was also
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