DesertAcademy

SPRING THEATER PRODUCTION “DATING.COM“
Thursday, March 29th and Friday, March 30th at 7:00pm Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students.
Tickets are available at the door. Seating is limited.
Get ready for a roller coaster ride of laughter!  Desert Academy Performing Arts presents “dating.com,” our first long-form improv with music.  Randy Bennett uses his thirty plus years of improv experience to direct the show.

The performance begins by taking several suggestions from the audience.  The actors use these suggestions to create characters on the spot. Then, we meet the actors on the big screen as they videotape their dating monologues from the dating.com studio offstage (in the library!). Then the audience does the matchmaking! We follow the cast, all of whom attend college somewhere in the Santa Fe area, through a series of scenes including their first date, their first big fight, and the proposal, all the way to their fifth anniversary (if they make it that far).  That’s up to the audience, too.  Along the way, the cast will be improvising songs…love songs, bee bop girls’ songs and boy band songs…all based on audience suggestions. Juliana Peterson serves as musical director.

The cast for the show is comprised of students in Mr. Bennett’s “Acting for the Stage” class. They are Jasper Grossman, Onima Heilbron, Ariana Montez, Sarah Nuamah, Gabby Medina, Cole Tolbert, Katie Waldron, Marley Medina, Luna Redondo-Campiglio, Sophie Stroud, Vale Traub (a foreign exchange student from Germany), and Forrest Sanchez. Alea Campbell serves as Mr. Bennett’s assistant and will stage manage.

BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE STORY IN THE NEW MEXICAN PUBLISHED MARCH 29!
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/In-pursuit-of-love

FOR PARENTS OF 8TH GRADERS:
Our High School Transition Event will take place Wednesday, 2/22 in our Big Room from 6:00-7:00pm. Please join Terry Passalacqua, Head of School, Amy Miller, Assistant Head of School, and Isabelle Thiebaut, Diploma Programme Coordinator, for this important, informative night. We will discuss the high school program at Desert, how it differs from the middle school program, how to prepare your students for the IB Diploma Programme, and the significant emotional and psychological transitions you can expect during these years. This meeting is crucial for ensuring a smooth transition to high school for your 8th grader.

Desert Academy is on a 2 hour weather delay today Wednesday, February 15. 1st period classes will begin at 10:10.

The Desert Academy Leos are hosting a school supply drive for the United Way After School Program at Aspen Community Magnet School, where the Leos have been tutoring elementary students for two years. Please help the Leos by donating your gently used school and art supplies (markers, crayons, glue scissors, paper, etc.) to the children in this program. Supplies can be left in bins labeled “Leos school supply drive” in the Big Room or sent to advisors. Thank you so much for your support in making a difference in the lives of these elementary school students!

Leos Club Fundraiser Dance-a-Thon

The ERB Writing tests will take place for all students next week during English classes.  It is a nationally normed assessment of your students writing skills. There is no preparation necessary.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 4-6PM, Santa Fe University of Art & Design
Please mark your calendars to attend the closing reception on Friday, March 30 from 4-6pm.
The exhibition, with over 20 works from each student, is the culmination of a two-year rigorous art class and features a variety of media including drawings, paintings,  prints, and mixed media. Desert is extremely grateful to the support of Gerry Snyder, (Mack Snyder’s dad), who is Vice President, of  the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and helped facilitate the use of this beautiful space to exhibit this worthwhile work .  Please come and support these talented student’s efforts.

Also, we could use volunteers with gallery or museum experience to help install the exhibition from March 26-28. Please contact Sheila Miles, Chair Visual Arts, at  smiles@desertacademy.org  if you are interested in helping.

“MOONLIGHT IN MOROCCO” AUCTION AND GALA
Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:00 pm
“Moonlight in Morocco”  Auction and Gala Saturday, April 21, 2012 6:00 pm. Come join the Desert community and have a great evening!  We’ll have fantastic food, great auction items, and a very fun evening.  Still time to purchase your tickets!  Bring the form to school or call 992-8284 ext. 23 with your credit card.  Invite your friends and get ready for a great time! Volunteers for the evening of the event are still needed!  Are you available to help for part of the evening? Give Kay a call 992-8284 ext 23  Much more fun when you get involved!

PARKING – will be on Murales, at the two parking lots just past the fire station, only a 5 minute shuttle to Mansion Ridge Rd.  Here are thedirections:  From the Plaza, go north on Bishop’s Lodge Rd. and thenleft on Murales and go up the hill.  The parking lots are on your left and right just past the fire station.  The shuttle will pick you up from the lot on the south.  Please ride the shuttle as parking along Mansion Ridge Road is very limited.  There are 60 spaces in the two lots on Murales so if you can, please car pool.

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