EDITOR’S NOTE “A place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.” This is the place. The place where students find themselves. Coleen Douglas - Director, Marketing and Communications
In this ISSUE Principal’s Desk The Mutuality of our Being Teaching Drama in a Pandemic with Elizabeth Montoya-Stemann Zooming in at Rex Nettleford Arts Conference Saluting our Graduates 2021 Culture Corner with Dr. Amina Blackwood Meeks,BH{M} Guidance Counsellor Sharon Hare Checking Boxes & Gathers Stones The SBDC at EMCVPA Published by Marketing & Communication Department Editor: Coleen Douglas Proof Reader: Stacy-Ann Lewis Kimberly Hyatt Graphic Design: Robert Ayre Photo Credits: Joni Gordon Robert Ayre Bryan Studios Limited Administration: Sandrene Gregory
The place where staff live their purpose. The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts remains the place for the highest quality education in the visual and performing arts in the Englishspeaking Caribbean and simply the coolest little place in Kingston, Jamaica. For those who knows, know and for those who don’t pay us some attention and I promise you will come to the fullness. The covid-19 pandemic has completely changed the vibe on campus, and I truly miss the live lunch hour shows, the consistent drumming at school of dance throughout the day and even the students walking by my office window using it as a mirror unaware that they are being seen. Somehow, we managed to get through another semester online and even managed to open the campus a bit, but it is not the same and I look forward to better days when normalcy returns. Please forgive us for the late distribution of this issue as technology struggles slowed us down last semester and so our culture corner with our College Orator Dr. Amina Blackwood Meeks tells a Christmas Story (as I write this, it is Ethiopian Christmas anyways)! Semester 1 was filled with positive vibrations from Rex Nettleford Arts Conference which demonstrated the talent and resilience of our staff and students. We salute the graduating class of 2021 who weathered a really tough time but pulled through to the end. Please help me welcome our Interim Principal Ms. Dorrett Campbell who shares with you in the Principal’s Desk for the first time! Dr. Trudy Ann Barrett bids us farewell in her capacity as Acting Principal as she returns to her substantive post as Vice Principal Academic Affairs, and we give thanks for her hard work over the last two years. Guidance Counsellor Sharon Hare helps us to navigate these times with “checking boxes and gathering stones” and Elizabeth Montoya Stemann shares how she managed teaching drama online in the pandemic. I am pleased to share a bit of our campus life with you especially in these times and hope you enjoy our first Issue for the Academic Year 2020/2021. One Perfect Love Coleen Douglas Director, Marketing and Communication
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