Articles Categorized: Arts

Lower School students treated to traditional dance and music from southern Spain

As part of the Lower School's in-depth study of Spain, local flamenco dancer Lindsey Bourassa returned to campus to perform on Monday, April 29.  She was joined by guitarist Andreas Arnold and singer/dancer Barbara Martinez who dazzled lower schoolers with...

Middle and Upper School students share creative writing work

Hannah Chappell's sixth and tenth grade English classes recently gathered to share their creative, personal writing. This winter the sixth graders experimented with expressing themselves and their experiences through both poetry and prose (compiling their entries in handmade books) while...

Jazz combo competes in regional and state festivals

The Upper School Jazz Combo recently represented Waynflete at the Maine Music Educators Association 2019 District II Jazz Festival in Auburn. Sophi Aronson '20 and Ethan Armstrong '20 each received certificates for achieving the top rating as soloists. The combo's outstanding performance qualified them...

Art appreciation and a visit to the PMA for 4-5 students

Students in Waynflete’s 4-5 program visited the Portland Museum of Art on March 1. To prepare for the trip, Daniel Kany—an art historian and critic for the Portland Press Herald—gave a presentation entitled, “How to Appreciate Art in a Museum.”...

Julia Fiori reflects on “Saint Joan”

George Bernard Shaw wrote "Saint Joan" in 1923, just a few years after Joan of Arc was canonized. When the Nobel committee awarded Shaw the prize for literature in 1925, they noted Saint Joan to be, “marked by both idealism and humanity,...

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