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CW NEWS
Note:
An excellent, frequently updated source for news
of the general SOTA community is the
SOTA PTSA website.
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july 20, 2006
Three video
clips from this year's playwriting show, "Metro,"
are now up for viewing on the
Video page. Clips
are from The Niles Show by Seph Kramer,
Soul Stone by Felicia Wong, and Mama
by Tanea Lunsford.
june 12, 2006
Finally! -- We
have our first student-written "First Person" piece,
supplied by Angelica Santana, who is moving
on from CW after two years. You can read her
account of visiting New Orleans
here. A
permanent link to the First Person section will now
be found at the top of this News and Calendar page.
JUNE 11,
2006
Creative Writing
was well-represented among Literary Arts Awards
winners in the 2006 San Francisco Youth Arts
Festival, which ran from June 3 - 10 at the new
deYoung Museum. Jasmine Moser '06 and
Susan Kane '08 won Gold Awards -- and
generous checks -- in the categories of General
Writing Portfolio and Dramatic Script, respectively.
Silver Awards went to Sloane Martin '07
(Poetry), Tanea Lunsford '09 and Eli Wolfe
'09 (Dramatic Script), and Fiona Armour '09
(General Writing Portfolio). And Bronzes were
pulled down by Seph Kramer '07 (Short Story),
Nicholas Sanz-Gould '07 (Poetry), and
Erika Bojnowski '06 (General Writing Portfolio).
Congratulations to all.
MAY 29, 2006
Congratulations to C-dub
Natasha Weidner '09 and Anabel Hirano, also from
the SOTA class of 2009, for winning the award for
Artistic Expression in the KQED High School Digital
Storytelling Contest. Natasha and Anabel won a
digital video camera from KQED. Their film was
screened with other winners at a special KQED party
on Friday, May 26.
Creative Writing
also fared well in the national Jack London Writing
Contest, whose 2006 winners were just announced.
Seph Kramer '07, Susan Kane '08, and
Eli Wolfe '09 won Honorable Mentions, and
Erika Bojnowski '06 and Natasha Weidner '09
received Certificates of Merit.
Aidan Gardiner
'07 supplied poem and voice for a dance piece in
the SOTA dance department's big spring performance
TranscenDance. A few jam sessions earlier in
the year evolved, through months of tweaking,
auditions, and rehearsal, into a number titled "Walk
Poem Revisited (Fight the Skies)."
Dan Millman,
an author who has met and spoken with C-dubs in the
past, will soon see his 1980 novel, Way of the
Peaceful Warrior, come to the big screen.
The film, titled The Peaceful Warrior and
starring Nick Nolte, opens on Friday, June 2.
Read about the book's history and transition to the
screen in this May 28
article in SF Gate.
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MAY 1, 2006
May brings the highly anticipated
third volume of umläut, the journal of
writing and art produced by Creative Writing
students. There's only one issue this school
year, so it's a big one. See the
Calendar for details of the
release party on May 19. And go to the
umläut page to read
about the journal and to order this or past issues.
APRIL 25, 2006
More news bites:
Alex Henderson
'09 and Nick Sanz-Gould '07 recently had
roles in an underground film titled I Love
Rockets. Funded and created with the help
of Oddball Studios, and produced by Romy Itzigsohn,
the film was shot over the course of three days in
various Bay Area locations. It is a
"mockumentary" about the subculture that has formed
around the annual rocket launches in southern
Florida.
Susan Kane '08
served as Production Assistant in recent Bay Area
rehearsals and productions of My Name is Vera
Cupido, a new work by New York author Stephanie
Fleischmann. Susan read stage directions in
the professional staged readings of the play, which
were sponsored by the Playwrights Foundation and
directed by recent CW writer-in-residence
Octavio Solis.
Read about the play at the
Foundation website.
And finally,
proof that some C-dubs have muscles in places other
than their fingertips and between the ears: Seph
Kramer '07 was a member of the Mission High
School soccer team that recently won both the San
Francisco and Trans-Bay championships of the
Academic Athletic Association. Seph, who has
played for Mission since his freshman year, was
named to the All-City second team. Sasha
Schmitz '09, a fencer, medaled and was a
finalist at the Pacific Coast Championships.
She attended the Junior Olympics this winter, and
later this year will compete for the second
consecutive year in the National Championships.
APRIL 19,
2006
Another
rush of CW news and event items:
Exciting news for
Tanea Lunsford '09: Her play Mama, a
scene of which appeared in the February 24
department performance Metro, is a winner in
the 14th Annual Blank Theatre Company Young
Playwrights Festival. She will fly to
Hollywood in June to participate as the play is
worked up and then presented by professional actors.
Dates will be posted in Calendar when known, for
those who might be in L.A. at that time. You
can read about the festival at its
own
website.
Recent
writer-in-residence Dan Hoyle will debut his
latest one man show, The Nigeria Show, at the
Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley, on April 24.
The show is part of the Global Age Project.
The Aurora website provides the following thumbnail:
"Dan Hoyle returns from Nigeria with a funny and sad
one-man tale of the brutality of African politics,
the contradictions of American intervention in an
age of Empire, and the search for a common moralism
in a land devoid of heroes or hope." More
details available at the Aurora website
here.
On May 24,
Deborah Santana (author of Space Between the
Stars, and a CW parent) will read at Book
Passage bookstore in Corte Madera. Also
reading wil be Anaia Gilliam '06, Jasmine
Moser '06, and Aidan Gardiner '07.
Eli Wolfe '09
has been accepted to the Iowa Young Writers' Summer
Program. Brief info and a link for that
program appear on our Good Links
and Resources page.
Renya Collins
'07, Sophia Olkhova '08, and Aidan
Gardiner '07 will attend the third annual Human
Rights Summit at San Francisco State University, on
May 5th, taking part in a Youth Speaks writing
workshop and performance.
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April 3, 2006
Now appearing on the Youth Outlook site, an
account by Sam Chiang '07 of his experiences
as member of a punk band. Read it by going to
http://youthoutlook.org/news/ and scrolling down
to find the article titled "Mutual Abuse: Life in a
punk band."
March 4, 2006
We have a flurry of news items today. Many
thanks to CW website correspondent Susan Kane '08
for sending them along ready to go.
Just in time for
our playwriting unit, Aaron Goldman-MacLachlan
'09 won an award at the 2006 San Francisco Young
Playwrights Festival. His play was one of five
selected from over fifty for performance by
professional actors, and from now until May he will
be working with a mentor to polish his work.
Performances of A Way Away will be at the
Diego Rivera Theatre at City College of San
Francisco, May 26 and 27 at 8 p.m. and May 28 at 2
p.m.
Tanea Lunsford
'09 won the Take Wings Essay Contest earlier
this year, the second time she had received the
honor. She was awarded with an
all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles for
ceremonies, workshops, and a live taping of Half
n' Half, where she met all the show's actors as
well as the musician George Clinton ("Funkadelic").
C-dub activist
Sam Chiang '07 was the recipient of the
prestigious CTA Peace and Justice League's 2006
Youth Activist Award. Sam, who spent his
winter holiday rebuilding homes in New Orleans, flew
down to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony.
This is just the second year the award has been
given, and Sam was this year's only recipient from
San Francisco.
Sloane Martin
'07 is going to be the artist's model for the
main character in Carrier, a graphic novel
written by renowned local author (and CW
writer-in-residence) Michelle Tea and illustrated by
Laurenn McCubbin. Carrier is the story
of a teenage girl who, after her mysterious
transformation into half-pigeon, joins a gang of
other mutated outcasts in her dystopian beach town
and takes up the mantle of a superhero. Look
for Sloane as the model for Carrie Hazelton.
Over Presidents'
Day weekend, Marico Moredo '07, Tanea
Lunsofrd '09, Gia Harris '08, and
Susan Kane '08 attended the San Francisco
Writers Conference on full scholarships provided by
local publisher Peter Wiley. It was a
first-hand experience with the world of publishing,
and a great opportunity to meet editors, agents, and
other writers from the Bay Area and beyond.
January 31,
2006
The third parent potluck of the year was well
attended, and, as usual, well supplied with great
food. Many thanks to hosts Jeanie and Chuck
Poling! CW Program Director Heather Woodward
shared details of the updated assessment/student
development rubric, explained her process in judging
semester portfolios, and shared student work from
those portfolios. Parents and students
(current and prospective) can download both the
rubric and portfolio expectations; see the
Program Basics
page.
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January 13,
2006
Yet another large, enthusiastic crowd showed up
for CW's second performance of the year, D is for
Dahl. Consensus seemed to be that set
design, lighting, and costuming were particularly
well integrated, and that C-dubs' sense of
themselves as performers continues to grow and
mature with each show. There were a number of
strong readings, and plenty of humor. And
there were a few surprise turns -- including what
was almost certainly CW's first reading delivered
from underneath a bed...
January 8,
2006
Our first pictures -- stills captured from the
Factory Night video -- are now up on the
photo gallery.
There's more to come from other performances,
bookstore readings, and maybe even the classroom.
As always, the site welcomes all photos related to
C-dub life.
January 4,
2006
The video gallery
is now open for viewing. Photo gallery will be
coming soon. C-dub students and parents are
welcome to send photos for inclusion.
November 19,
2005
CW student Sam Chiang '07 left this
weekend for New Orleans. Along with James
Tracy and a committed group of activists, Sam will
be spending most of the Thanksgiving week helping to
rebuild two African-American neighborhoods after the
Hurricane Katrina flooding. James Tracy
explains the group's mission in an op-ed piece in
the Bay Guardian; read it
here.
October 27,
2005
CW student
Sloane Martin '07 has had a short story
published in issue number two of
Instant City, a magazine that bills itself as "A
Literary Exploration of San Francisco." Sloane
was one of four contributors reading an excerpt
tonight at City Lights Bookstore in North Beach.
October 14,
2005
Creative Writing's first performance of the
year, "Factory Night" (see above), was well-received
by one of the largest audiences in recent CW
experience. A number of enthusiastic SOTA
freshmen helped fill the seats and competed in a
"glam" costume contest at intermission. The
show featured a guest appearance from Bronwyn Mahon
'04, who played the role of Factory regular Edie Sedgwick.
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