For the seventh year in a row, Waynflete will host the The State of the Ocean Speaker Series.  The event will take place on April 5. The doors to the Arts Center open at 6:00 p.m. for an open house featuring Sustainable Ocean Studies and partner organizations with programs focused on the health of the Gulf of Maine. The presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Franklin Theater.

The presentation is entitled: Cashes Ledge:  A New England Ocean Treasure. Should it be the next national monument?

Join us for an evening with marine scientists Dr. Jon Witman (Brown University) and Dr. Robert Steneck (University of Maine) along with Peter Shelley (Conservation Law Foundation) as they take us on a visual tour of Cashes Ledge, one of the Gulf of Maine’s most storied and rich ecosystems. See and hear why this marine ecosystem plays such a critical role in the biodiversity and health of the Gulf and about the efforts to permanently protect this unique area.

Admission to the evening is free, but donations will be accepted to benefit scholarships for Sustainable Ocean Studies, a three- week marine biology summer program. For more information, call 207.774.5721 ext. 1318, email , or visit waynflete.org/sos.

SPONSORS Chewonki Foundation, Island Institute, Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association, Friends of Casco Bay, Maine Island Trail Association, Rippleffect, Coastal Studies for Girls, Conservation Law Foundation

On Tuesday, March 29, Waynflete is hosting the second annual joint concert with North Yarmouth Academy to benefit the Middle School Help Haiti activity.

The evening will start off with dessert and coffee and a performance by the Middle School Steel Band in Sills Hall at 6:00 p.m. The concert in Franklin Theater begins at 7:00 p.m. and will feature the NYA and Waynflete Bluegrass Bands and the Waynflete Upper School Chorus. At the end of the concert everybody is invited to participate in a Community Bluegrass Jam – “Keep on the The Sunny Side” in the key of C. The concert will be over by 8:00 p.m. The general public is invited.

Donations will support Help Haiti’s partners: Konbit Sante and Powje Espwa

The 12th Annual Upper School  3 on 3 Basketball tournament was held on Tuesday.  The winning team was “Team Chunk” made up of Abel Alemayo ’16, Tom Silk ’16 and Izzy Burdick ’18.

On Thursday, March 10, the Middle School and Upper School Danceflete Ensembles performed Kaleidoscope, a collection of dances presented using different lighting lenses, mystical shadows, colorful special effects, rippling fabric, and beams of brilliant light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBkh_Lzc0c&authuser=0

Filmed and edited by Jesse Brooks ’17

Twin Day of Spirit Week

Students from Seeds of Peace, the King Fellows, and Waynflete spent three hours on Sunday afternoon preparing for their presentation at the New England Identity Summit, which begins this Friday evening and runs throughout the day on Saturday.  These inspirational young people practiced introducing their workshops in front of one another, gave amazing and constructive feedback to their peers, and left feeling they are going to pull off something incredible. They are ready to share dialogue with the world!

Click here to see the Winter Varsity Sports Slideshow.

Photos by Brian Beard, Creative Image Photography. Click here to order pictures.

If they win, the team heads to Denver for Nationals on April 9-12.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Upper School Jazz Combo will represent Waynflete at the Maine State High School Instrumental Jazz Festival on Friday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. The event is open to the public.

This is due to their strong showing at the District II Jazz Festival on Friday, February 26 at Lake Region High School in Naples. Julian Abbott ’18 (tenor sax), Eliza Cox ’18 (alto sax), and Jack Weston ’16 (piano) each received a Maine Music Educators Association Jazz Festival Award as excellent soloists.

High School Instrumental State Jazz Festival performance schedule – Friday, March 11

6:30 p.m. – Combo performs in Lecture Hall
7:00-10:30 p.m. – Division 3 Combo Performances
10:30 p.m. – Awards

Upper School Jazz Combo Members

Julian Abbott ’18 – Tenor Sax
Owen Ardell ’19 – Baritone Sax
Chris Bergeron ’16 – Drums
Will Black ’17 – Tenor Sax
Eliza Cox ’18 – Alto Sax
Owen Gervais ’17 – Guitar
Julia Hansen ’18 – Upright Bass
Alan Wen ’18 – Alto Sax
Jack Weston ’16 – Piano

Our journey has begun. An excited cast and production staff gathered today for the first read through of our April play.

Phuc Tran has just returned from Texas where he had been invited to address the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston. Phuc was the keynote speaker at the organization’s Foreign Language Luncheon.  According to the event’s organizers, he spoke to an audience of 800.

The subject of his address was “Language: Your Passport to the World.” It was introduced this way:

“Like a Moebius strip, the study of languages for Phuc is a looping path on which he find metaphors and parallels for his own experiences as an immigrant, language learner, and Star Wars fan.  He loves to draw connections between the disparate parts of his learning and experience, no matter how far apart and unlikely they are, and today, he shares with students a connection between the invention of the dictionary, language acquisition as an immigrant, and the adverb “hopefully.”

Read his address here.

EC teacher Bob Mills and senior Arianna Giguere Looking On