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Spring Arts Open House
Saturday, May 26th
We invite you to get to know us during our Spring Arts Weekend. Come tour the campus, meet students and faculty, and see the artistic work of our talented student body.
The Open House will begin at 11:00 am – you are welcome to stay for lunch and for the afternoon musical performances.
To RSVP and for details: Admissions@BuxtonSchool.org or 413-458-3919
Word Play is a weeklong celebration of the power of words. In a fun and mutually supportive setting, kids develop a personal writing portfolio and have the chance to share their literary creations.
WHO IS INVITED:
Session 1:
AND
Session 2:
Spotlight on fiction and memoir writing
For kids entering 6th through 9th grades
When: July 9-13 from 9:00-12:00
WHERE: Buxton School in Williamstown, Mass.
Cost: $175.00
For further details, please contact Jane D. Smith (Pine Cobble Upper School English teacher and children’s book author): 413-281-6997 or janesden@gmail.com
Buxton Performing Arts June 18-29
Several classes in performing arts are offered June 18-29 to children ages 6 and up at Buxton this summer. Mask Making and Commedia Dell’Arte Drama Workshop, led by instructor David Lane, guide campers through the creation of their own Commedia Dell’Arte-inspired masks to use in the following week’s performance workshop. Rhythm in Movement, taught by Buxton’s Kathleen Oliver, explores West African, Caribbean and modern influences in movement. More information and registration forms: Summer Performing Arts Information and Registration.
New England Puppet Intensive August 3-14
The New England Puppet Intensive is 10 days of vigorous training in the creative art of puppetry and animated object performance presented by members of The Old Trout Puppet Workshop. The program is open to puppeteers, actors, dancers, directors, designers, teachers, visual artists, writers, and anyone with a willing spirit.
Workshop Dates & Capacity
August 3 — August 14, 2012. The workshop will accept up to 16 participants.
More information and registration
Buxton School is pleased to announce an opportunity for local youth to work in its recently-built art studios with current Fine Arts teachers Amrita Lash and Frank Jackson. Amrita and Frank are both local working artists and have many years of teaching experience.
Classes will be offered for 7-8 year olds and 9-13 year olds. Both age groups can choose to enroll in half day or full day programs. If they enroll in the full day program, your child will bag a lunch and their day will go from 10am until 3pm. During the lunch break, campers will picnic outside and play games with each other on the beautiful Buxton campus. Grassy hills, tree swings and more.. 
~Ceramics will include learning to throw on the wheel, making large sculptures and working with colored slips.
~Studio Arts will include making landscape paintings in nature, self-portraits, still-life pictures, drawing, printmaking, collages, and crafts.
More information and registration form: Buxton Arts Camp Registration Form
First Session: July 9 – 13
Second Session: July 16 – 20
Half Day $200 or Full Day reduced to $350
Buxton invites you to join us for our 12th annual
Buxton in NYC!
February 3, 2012
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Solas
232 East 9th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues
Hors d’oeuvres by Matthew Tivy ’79, cash bar
RSVP to Bonnie Holden, Bonnie@Buxtonschool.org or 413-458-4970.
Attending:
Alice Mackler ’50
Jan Greer and Michael Kokas
Sarah Friedman ’01
Maurice Quick and Tracey Wise-Quick
Kevin Woody ’83
Nancy Newberger
Otis Kidwell ’41
Kester Hodge ’85
Linda Bratton ’61
Jessica Mezzacappa ’85 and John Zieman
Daseta Gray
Jane Greenberg ’77
Isaac Zaur
Alex Matisse and Connie Coady
Grae Fincke ’61
Ame Silver ’74
Douglas Green ’73
Josephine McKee ’82
Linda Bastian
Everett Williams ’90 and Iris Williams
Rebecca Wu-Norman ’98
Molly Foresta ’00
Yolanda Holland ’00
Torie Nichols
Carmen Welton
Maria Vincent
Franny Shuker-Haines with Timothy Shuker-Haines and Rose Shuker-Haines
Bill Bennett
Pete Smith ’74 and Jane Smith
Jacob Spector ’02
Dan Pacheco and Esther Chang
Alice Sardell
Margo Cardner
Nick Brown ’02
Amanda Ross ’84
Zaza Acevedo ’04
Cricket Coleman ’84
Kevin Donaldson ’84
The ceramics building, the third and final phase of Buxton’s recent capital campaign, opened for classes today, October 5. It joins the music and art buildings to complete the Ellen Geer Sangster Arts Complex, named for Buxton’s founder and dedicated at the June 2011 Reunion.
Come learn more about Buxton School! We hope to see you there!
North Shore Secondary School Fair
Shore Country Day School
Beverly, MA
Monday, September 19th
5:30-8:00pm
South Shore Secondary School Fair
Derby Academy
Hingham, MA
Tuesday, September 20th
6:30-8:30pm
Renbrook Secondary School Fair
Renbrook School
W. Hartford, CT
Monday, Ocotber 3rd
6:00-8:00pm
Secondary School Admissions Panel
Berkshire Country Day School
Stockbridge, MA
Tuesday, October 4th
5:30-7:00pm
Pioneer Valley Independent School Fair
Bement School
Deerfield, MA
Saturday, October 22nd
10:30am-12:30pm
This year’s Spring Arts weekend was full of amazing art work and wonderful performances. Drama III presented Cut by Ed Monk, and the play was Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer. Orchestra performed Machaut’s Kyrie, Bach’s Sinfonia, and an original composition by Mark Jordan-Kamholz ’11, while chorus treated us to Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Ensemble pieces offered a variety of vocal and instrumental performances, and the creative writing group read from their work. Science and geometry projects were shared in the classroom building. African dance and drum and Balinese dance and instrumental groups rounded out the weekend on Sunday. It was great to have so many families and alumni joining us for the weekend! We hope enjoy watching some of these performances and seeing the photo gallery of performances and and artwork. Click on any of the performance links to watch on our Youtube channel, and click on the first picture to view the gallery as a slide show.
Performance links:
Starting in 1992, Linda Burlak and the Marine Biology class travel each year to Cape Cod for a four-day weekend. The group rents a house and takes turns cooking. The past few years, the house has had kayaks that the students used to explore Broad Cove in Onset. The class this year chose to get lobster for one of the meals and dissect and eat them!
On the first day of the trip, the class met with Dr. Al Bradley (retired) of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) who does engineering on remote underwater vehicles; he gave us a presentation on ABE, (Autonomous Benthic Explorer) which was the one he did the most work with, and showed us the undergoing renovation of ALVIN which is one of the deepest, and probably the best known, deep-sea submersibles. A visit to the WHOI exhibit center followed to see a mock-up of ALVIN as well as examples of all the other work done at the Institute. After that, students met with researchers in the lab of Dr. Roger Hanlon at Marine Biological Laboratory, who showed us their work with cuttlefish and octopus and toured their Marine Resources Center.
The next morning was spent at Waquoit Bay Estuarine Research Reserve near Falmouth, learning about their work and did water quality testing and sampling in their estuary. The NOAA aquarium in Woods Hole was on the schedule for the afternoon.
The following day was spent exploring the outer cape areas: National Seashore headquarters and museum, Marconi Radio site, Cedar Swamp trail, Marconi beach and First Encounter Beach for low tide, uncovering a variety of sea life. Click on the first picture to view the gallery as a slide show.
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We had a wonderful time at the Reunion this past June. Over 160 alumni, their families, and faculty past and present came together on a gorgeous summer weekend in the Berkshires. We celebrated the dedication of the Ellen Geer Sangster, led by Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin ’74, Louis See Bingham ’40, and co-directors Bill Bennett and Peter Smith ’74.
Watch the dedication:
Welcome from co-director Peter Smith ’74
Remarks by Governor Peter Shumlin ’74 and Diana Hitt Potter ’51
Closing comments from co-director Bill Bennett and Louise See Bingham ’40
A hard-played soccer game, wood and garden work program crews, music and dancing in the evening, and lots of good food and conversation all contributed to a great Reunion. We’re happy to share these pictures of the weekend; look for more in our upcoming printed Newsletter (unfortunately, no pictures of the magical fireflies that joined the festivities!). Next Reunion is June 2013; please make plans to join us!
Click on the first picture below to view the gallery as a slide show.
As is traditional at Buxton, the entire school community and their families gathered at the Congregational Church in June to celebrate Graduation. Despite the chill and the rain, each of the 30 graduating seniors delivered their speeches with the warmth, humor, introspection and eloquence that have come to mark this annual event. Co-director Peter Smith ’74 addresses the seniors and presented them with their diplomas. You’ll find Pete’s remarks and two speeches featured below. Click on the first picture to view the gallery as a slide show.
Congratulations to the class of 2011!
Animals at Heart by Jake Hochberger
Remarks to the Class of 2011 by Peter Smith
Now in its fourth year, our Bali program welcomed I Wayan Yuda this spring from the Tri Pusaka Cakti Arts Foundation. Yuda joined us for the spring term, and taught Indonesian instrumental music and dance. His students performed at this year’s Spring Arts Weekend, showcasing women’s and men’s dance groups accompanied by a dozen instrumentalists. For the third summer, a group of Buxton students will travel to Indonesia with Kathleen Oliver to study percussion and dance at the Arts Foundation.
Watch video of the performances:
Women\’s Indonesian Dance Performance at Spring Arts 2011
Men\’s Indonesian Dance Performance at Spring Arts 2011
Every year, students in David Denhard’s music classes put their theory skills into practice by composing their own pieces. Each spring, professional musicians come to campus to perform these pieces for the Buxton community. Recently, musicians Nat Parke, Bill Peck, and Jared Shapiro worked their way through this year’s repertoire of 20 duos and trios composed by Sylwia Kotarba, Meaghan Holland, Rabea Fuchshofen, Cecilia Denhard, Mark Jordan-Kamholz, Ollie Bernstein, Joey Cocivera, Henry Birdsey, and Shangren Zhu.
Listen here to Lost Turtle-Meagan Holland
Listen here to Midnight Tango-Joey Cocivera
Recent Work Program crews tackled spring work in the Buxton garden. In addition to preparing the beds, weeding, and getting ready to plant, work has begun to refurbish a chicken coop for the garden’s newest addition: a flock of Bantam hens, who are currently staying warm and cozy in the bio lab. After a cool, rainy start to spring, the garden is finally benefitting from some warm and sunny weather!
In the latest garden development, the summer garden internship has been expanded this year. In this second year, three graduating seniors will return to live and work at Buxton, helping with the summer work in the garden.
Alumni, parents, students, friends and prospective families gathered on a beautiful spring afternoon on April 30 to celebrate the completion of the music and arts buildings. The construction of the ceramics building, the final phase of the project, is scheduled to begin shortly and to be completed by the opening of school this September.
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