around the circle
Film Festival Winner In April, the sixth annual Greenlight Earth Day Film Festival, “Reel(ize) Your Connection,” screened films made by local artists exploring the concept of environmentalism and showing how individuals can help to reduce their environmental impact. Five finalists from each of three age categories were chosen and shown at the festival. The finalists’ topics ranged from environmental citizenship to preserving wildlife habitats. Castilleja junior Emily Wong ’12 won first place in the High School category with her film “Running Out of Time” about conserving resources such as water and clean air. Last year, classmate Katie Kirsch ’12 took home first prize.
Shakespeare’s Birthday Students, faculty, and staff gathered on the Circle for the annual celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday. Students reenacted scenes from Love's Labours Lost and The Merchant of Venice on the Circle, ate “couplet cakes,” hurled appropriately Elizabethan insults at each other, and gathered around to read the many submissions to the Bad Sonnet Competition, which attracted some truly awful poetry this year! Of course the celebration would not be complete without the traditional “Pin-the-Lips-on-Kenneth-Branaugh” game and a piñata decorated to look like Hamlet’s castle!
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