Christopher P. Garten HEAD OF SCHOOL
ARTS CENTER RISES — A FORUM OF TALENT, INSPIRATION, AND COLLABORATION As I write, just outside the
lunchroom, half performance venue.
Young Family Library, four
Now, at last, we will have a gathering
huge bulldozers and backhoes
space and a performance venue that
are excavating the site of our
truly reflects the energy and creativity
new Center for Arts and Leadership. In a few short
of this community.
and productions each year. The defining feature of our arts program is the extraordinary amount of creative freedom and artistic decision-making our teachers turn
weeks, after foundations are laid, the massive steel skeleton of this new facility will begin to rise into the sky. This new facility is the culmination of nearly two decades of planning and three years of ardent fundraising and community support, and now we are finally ready to realize this longdeferred dream. Our alumni will remember the Red Barn on the Hillsdale Campus as the performance venue for their youthful
Seven Hills has one of the most robust
over to their students. In performance
theatrical productions and Founders
performing arts programs in our region.
after performance, our students lead
Hall, which was built in 1958, as our
A talented and inspirational faculty
the way, making myriad interpretive
multipurpose cafetorium — half
guides the creative energies of the
choices, such as guiding scenes,
hundreds
creating costumes, designing lighting,
of students
performing solos or improvisations,
who
producing choreography or composing
perform in
original music, and even directing full
more than
productions.
two dozen concerts
This unique approach to the performing arts means not only that our students grow as artists, but that
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