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Students Recognized with Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Students Recognized with Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Senior Zoe Serbin, a writer and artist, recently won two Gold Keys, three Silver Keys, and seven Honorable Mentions from the California Region of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. “I was really surprised to hear that I won all of those awards, but I was also pretty excited.  It was my last year to more »

The Yale Whiffenpoofs Are Coming to Laguna

The Yale Whiffenpoofs Are Coming to Laguna

Laguna alum Spencer Klavan is in his senior year at Yale and was accepted into the oldest collegiate a cappella group in the world, . The group is all-male, and consists of fourteen singers who commit to working together as a group to bringing their music around the world. The “Whiffs” will perform in Ruston more »

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Visual and Performing Arts Collaborate

Very few events bring together the entire Hope Ranch community – Jogathon, club fair, theater productions – but on Jan. 17, the Visual Arts and Performing Arts Departments came together to unveil one more bridge between students: the “Imagine Project.” The collaborative event, which featured performances from students in Middle School Band, Upper School Band, more »

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Cutting the Arts Cuts Opportunities

As a musician and an actor, our lives have always revolved around the arts. The stage is a workspace and a place where we are free to express ourselves as artists. For both of us, the arts are our passions, possibly even our future careers, and we have dedicated our hearts and our free time more »

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Films by Miles Crist

About Miles Crist Miles Crist is 15 years old and comes from Los Angeles, California. Currently, he is a sophomore at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara, California. His films have been recognized with top honors from the National YoungArts Foundation, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Los more »

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THE LIAR Student Matinee

THE LIAR Student Matinee

Ensemble Theatre Company Presents Introduce your students to a hilarious adaptation of the 17th century French comedy by Corneille. The Liar is about a debonair and charming pathological liar who falls in love … with the wrong woman. His trusty assistant, meanwhile, has one weakness: he must always tell the truth. Told in rhyming couplets, more »

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Seniors Bring Nutcracker to Life

Since she was two years old, senior Jeté Dongieux has been a ballerina, and every year thereafter, she has been a dancer in the Nutcracker Ballet, based on the story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice” written by E.T.A. Hoffman. Such a long commitment clearly demonstrates why Jeté loves this show: “I think so more »

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War of the Tablets

    The holiday season is almost upon us, and some of the most popular gift items are tablets. Whether it is for work, for play, for watching movies or reading books, tablets have become extremely popular. However, as a result of this popularity, a whole variety of tablets have emerged on the market, often more »

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Arts Instructor Delphine Louie Chosen as Featured Artist at I Madonnari Chalk Festival

“Irefuse to work next to anyone painting SpongeBob,” said Delphine Louie when asked about her experiences with the chalk painting festival, I Madonnari, an event held annually by the Children’s Creative Project. According to Ms. Louie, there is a lot more grime than glory involved in turning a section of asphalt into a masterpiece at more »

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Coachella

This year’s Coachella Festival was special and like no other because of mastermind Dr. Dre’s idea of having a ‘Tupac Shakur Hologram’ perform live at the festival in the desert. The supposed shot and killed infamous rapper Tupac came back alive last month on the weekends of April 13-15 and April 20-22 at the 2012 more »

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