"We must come face-to-face with this new reality and prepare plans for how we intend to open our schools and what arts education - visual and performing arts - will look like." "Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) is inherent in the arts, but it needs to be activated, [..] and intentional to have an impact"…
Continue reading ➞ PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS – A CALL FOR PARENTS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
The drama program in the Visual & Performing Arts Pathway is one that provides many unique, real-world opportunities for its students. Taught by Awele Makeba, she consistently uses her professional connections and personal resources to benefit her students. Most recently, she used the consolation prize money she received from her NBC Sports Bay Area Teacher…
On Thursday, December 19, Skyline's Professional Drama students will perform Lockdown: Await Further Instructions, a timely play co-written by teenagers in New York City and Oakland that reminds us about just how vulnerable schools are to gun violence and how vulnerable teens are to acute stress in their daily lives. The play takes us into…
Continue reading ➞ “Lockdown: Await Further Instructions” directed by Ms. Awele
For the last 3 years, Drama students and Ms. Awele have offered creative work to our community that explores school culture and climate, the importance of healthy relationships and communication to building trust, standing up against intolerance, repairing harm and making amends, restoring balance and trying to heal as best as possible for all to…
Continue reading ➞ Highlight: “Romeo & Juliet” directed by Ms. Awele
On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Professional Drama students Tessa, Sahara and Avelina stepped on the SHN Theater Hamilton stage to perform their original spoken word piece, History Unwritten, in front of more than 2000 of their peers. History Unwritten was created in the Professional Drama class as part of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American…
