On the Quad

Volver a Panama!

For the first time since Spring 2019, CSW students were able to study overseas as part of a Mod Abroad. Students and faculty from the “Neotropics of Latin America” course traveled to Panama to practice Spanish, immerse themselves into the local culture, and conduct field research in tropical ecosystems.

Roxbury Jazz

In May, CSW’s Jazz Ensemble performed at the UU Urban Ministry in Roxbury. This was the first time the Jazz Ensemble was taken on the road! They featured traditional jazz tunes by Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and others. Former CSW Music Chair, Marshall Hughes was the special guest, joining them for some tunes.

Basketball Champs

Congratulations to the Girls Varsity Basketball team, who took home the IGC D-II Championship this year after a hard-fought, overtime final against Boston Trinity Academy. The Gryphons tied things up late in the game with some big free throws then quickly took the lead and didn’t look back.

Special Guests

CSW was honored to welcome an amazing array of assembly speakers this spring.

MLK Day Dr. Nyle Fort, minister, activist, scholar, and postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.

Earth Day Deia Schlosberg, documentary filmmaker and producer; director of The Story of Plastic (Outcast Films, 2019).

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Grace Talusan, author of the memoir, The Body Papers (Restless Books, 2019)

Jewish Heritage Month Rita Goldberg, author of Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust (The New Press, 2015)

Dr. Nyle Fort

Anthropocene

CSW students involved in the Zora Foundation, a student group focused on art and activism led by Fiona Huang ’23, and leaders from the school’s Sustainability Committee partnered with students at Weston High School to produce Anthropocene, an art and environmental justice exhibition at the Weston Art and Innovation Center in April.

Deia Schlosberg

Rock/Pop

Student performers in the 2022 Rock/Pop concert (which, due to rising COVID cases, had to be pre-recorded and viewed via Zoom watch party), paid tribute to three amazing performers: Nina Simone, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin.

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Scholastic Art Awards

A total of 8 Gold Key awards, 9 Silver Key awards, and 19 Honorable Mentions were presented to CSW students across 8 different categories, making for a total of 36 awards. Gold Key winners went on to be considered for national awards.

Gold Key Awards Milly Chen ’23 Eirwen Kamphorst ’23 Yuetu Peng ’25 Catherine Qin ’24 Liya Serikova ’24 Tallulah Stallvik ’24 Coco Wu ’23 (x2)

Silver Key Awards Ziyao Cui ’22 (x2) Naomi Fuhrer ’23 Haiqi Li ’22 Oliver Rabinov ’22 Wren Rearden ’22 Coco Wu ’23 (x3) Honorable Mentions Lu Beard ’22 Ziyao Cui ’22 Sophie Hall ’25 Emily Li ’23 Haiqi Li ’22 (x2) Noa Narisawa ’22 Yuetu Peng ’25 Maya Rabin ’22 Oliver Rabinov ’22 Tetsuya Tanaka ’24 Alice Wang ’23 Stella Wang ’25 Coco Wu ’23 (x4) Lucia Yu ’24

1. Horse’s Mouth by Oliver Rabinov ’22 (Honorable Mention); 2. Ambivalent Unknowing by Eirwen Kamphorst ’23 (Gold Key); 3. Expecting by Richard Cui ’22 (Silver Key); 4. Landslip by Tallulah Stallvik ’24 (Gold Key); 5. The Play Ground by Amber Peng ’24 (Gold Key); 6. Versatile by Coco Wu ’23 (Silver Key)

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Decolonizing History and Society

The topic for this year’s annual Michael H. Feldman ’67 Social Justice Day event was “Decolonizing History and Society.” The featured speakers were three indigenous-identifying researchers: Danielle Lucero, a Ph.D. candidate in the Justice and Social Inquiry program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University; Cecilia Marek, a Gender Studies Ph.D. student and teaching assistant at Arizona State University; and Nicholet Deschine Parkhurst, a Ph.D. student in the Justice and Social Inquiry program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

In the days leading up to the event, CSW’s library, led by Jenna Wolf, CSW’s Director of Library and Technology Integration, hosted an online exhibit demonstrating the decolonization of space and collections. Jenna, who is a citizen of Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, also paired up with History Teacher Jordan Clark ’05, a citizen of the Wampanoag tribe of Aquinnah, to make an introductory video for the community to set context for the day and introduce students to important concepts related to the speakers’ prepared talks. After the event, students broke out into advisory groups to discuss the day.

To read more about the speakers and view recordings from the event, please visit the Social Justice Day landing page at www.csw.org/social-justice-day

Mama Mia!

After numerous delays due to the pandemic, the Theatre Department was able to put on a rousing performance of the musical Mama Mia! in June.

Back for African Dance

Last spring, Malik Gomes Cruz ’19 returned to CSW to teach Sente Dance to Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s “West African Dance” class. Malik is currently attending American University majoring in African Diaspora Studies and Dance. He never intended to major in dance when he graduated, but learning how similar the dance program at American University was to CSW and how rich the DC dance community is, he felt compelled to give it a try.

“I took a West African dance class because I had space in my schedule and it made me realize that the dance major at American is heavily research based and not just performance based. We use dance as a research method and tool which combines my scholarly work and the things I wanted to do, with all of my creative interests,” he says.

Cerebration

Dance Concert performers returned to the stage in front of a live audience this winter, with a moving collection of student and faculty choreographed pieces under the title, Cerebration.