It’s Worth Noting The following is a compilation of
Friends Visiting Scholar Dr. Joshua Bennett has won a
recent achievements by current
2021 Whiting Award for poetry and nonfiction—joining
Friends students, faculty, and staff.
a cohort of 10 emerging writers whose work shows early
To view more accomplishments by
accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.
community members, follow Friends
The Awards remain one of the most esteemed and
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largest monetary gifts to emerging writers. In addition, Dr. Bennett was recently named as one of two 2021 Guggenheim Fellows in American Literature. Friends Seminary is honored our students had the opportunity to work with him during the 2020-2021 school year
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through the School’s Visiting Scholar Program.
Dance teacher Barry Blumenfeld was recently elected
Dance teacher Adia Whitaker’s dance company, Àṣẹ
President of the New York State Dance Education
Dance Theatre Collective, performed during BAM’s
Association. NYSDEA is the state affiliate of the National
DanceAfrica Festival this past spring. The nation’s largest
Dance Education Organization. The Association serves
festival of African dance paid homage to the ancestral
as an advocate for dance education on the state level as
energy of Haiti with the theme Vwa zanset yo: y’ap
well as providing professional development opportunities
pale, n’ap danse!, in Haitian Creole, or “Ancestral voices:
for dance educators in New York and administering the
they speak… we dance!” The virtual program of dance
National Honor Society for Dance for students.
premieres drew inspiration from the lwa, spirits of Haitian Vodou, and brought together a community from near and far. The Collective also completed an Office Hours Residency at The REACH at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in July 2021.
12 Summer 2021 | Meetinghouse
