The Column

Volume 16, Issue 7

KEEPING CPFA FAMILIES CONNECTED WITH NEWS AND UPDATES

There will be no PALCS or CPFA classes on Monday, March 29 - Monday, April 5 for Spring Break! All classes will resume on Tuesday, April 6.

We ask all students participating in on-site classes to notify your teachers if you or your family have plans to travel out of Pennsylvania or to other regions of the state. This is critical information needed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 upon our return to classes on April 6 and 7.

The next Pillars meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 16 at 8:30 a.m. in Mr. Allen’s Zoom room. All parents are welcome to attend.

Our 2021 Winter Film Festival is now available for your viewing pleasure! Students from our three film classes, Film Analysis, Screenwriting, and Film & Media Production are showcasing their work.

*Click HERE to view the 2021 Winter Film Festival!

**Click HERE to view the film festival with commentary from our panelists on Zoom!

Our next and final FNC show, Friday Night Cafe - Special Edition, will be on Friday, March 5 at 7 p.m. Special Edition has traditionally been the only ticketed FNC show of the year, with funds going to support the high school jazz band's trip expenses. Our Tri-M officers are still organizing this year's final show and will provide details as soon as they are available.

We are proud to announce that CPFA has two Scholastics Art & Writing Award Competition Winners! Hannah Tilton received a Gold Key Award and Elie Pichanick received a Silver Key Award. Both Hannah and Elie have been nationally recognized in a competition with over 32,000 HS student art entries this 2020-2021 school year!

Bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles Mee, and directed by Mr. Reich, will be performed to view online Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 at 7 p.m. A wild road trip through our American landscape, this is a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. Bobrauschenbergamerica is a collage of people and places and music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go. The link for online tickets will be available shortly.

Tell Me A Story is a compilation of poems, short stories, and songs directed by Mrs. Rottman. Our students will be performing virtually on Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27 at 7 p.m. The online ticket link will be available soon.

One of our 2016 CPFA graduates, Katherine Anderson, is on a new HGTV show call, "One Week to Sell!" After earning her BFA for Interior Design from Parsons in NYC, May 2020, Katie continued her paid internship with Taylor Spellman New York, who does design work for high-end residential clients as well as stagings to sell properties in NYC. The company was asked to do a pilot for HGTV, and shortly after they received an offer for a 12 episode season starting this past February! Checkout One Week to Sell on HGTV and Discovery+ !

"One Week to Sell will follow Taylor Spellman as she transforms unsold homes into red hot properties. Taylor and her team will create personalized design plans for these lagging listings and make them market-ready with high-end style on a small budget." -HGTV

All students and families, look-out for information regarding submission of yearbook portraits. We also need your help with photos of our students engaged in any creative process or event with CPFA. Please upload to the yearbook publisher Balfour’s ImageShare.

March is Music In Our Schools Month. We invite all of our music students to take some time to play or sing some music you love.

Music students are cordially invited to attend a presentation from Millersville University’s MBT Program on Thursday, March 4 at 12:00 p.m. in Dr. Roberts’ Zoom room . Distinguished alumnus Jacqueline Ann Hynes will be making an appearance at this presentation to talk about how CPFA prepared her for music study at Millersville!

The Dance Department will be hosting their annual Spring Dance Concert scheduled for Friday, April 30, 2021 with a rain date of Saturday, May 1, 2021. Keeping the health and safety of our dancers and families a priority, the performance will be held outside and ALL are welcome to attend this FREE event! Details about the Dance Concert are still being finalized and information will be made available soon. All the information will be emailed to dancers and parents as well as posted on the CPFA Homepage under the Dance tab.

There is no NHSDA meeting the first week in March. Mrs. Duncan will contact NHSDA members to schedule the next meeting.

NAHS students have volunteered to meet at CPFA on March 5 to take down and organize student artwork from 2019-2020 to return to students in April. They will also begin to curate permanent CPFA student artwork for display at the Enterprise Building along with a murals initiative.

A WW II Holocaust survivor will meet with Mrs. Okcuoglu’s AP Photography class students this March to tell their survivor story and a host a Q&A session. AP students are creating images in homage to Holocaust surrvivors and other survivor stories featuring issues of hate, genocide and social injustices. These works will be part of a contest and exhibition at Moore College of Art galleries this May 2021.

CPFA Fine Arts is on Instagram! Look for FineartsCPFA on Instagram to see current events along with middle school and high school student work in process and as it is completed #FineaertsCPFA

The CPFA Annual Piano Recital is now available online, presented by the students studying piano. The music speaks volumes of beauty, and were hand-selected by the students who have worked diligently the past few months on technical exercises, sight-reading and execution of musical nuances.

The middle school recital can be viewed HERE, and the high school recital can be viewed HERE!

The Winter Art Exhibit is currently on display online for your viewing pleasure. This middle school and high school exhibition is a presentation of all the student work created in Fine Arts classes including painting, drawing, graphic design, sculpture, ceramics and photography.

March 21-27 is International Adolescent Health Week. The theme this year is adolescent Resilience in the Face of a pandemic. Wear lime green March 21-27. The color lime green represents health, happiness and the high energy and passion of adolescents. The purpose of this event is to advocate for successful transition into adulthood. Teens around the world have a lot in common. Celebrate the importance of teen health. Read more at www.iahw.org.

URGENT:

All 11th graders must submit a physical exam with evidence of their 2nd Meningitis vaccine before the end of this school year. Doctor's offices are eager to provide preventative health services! All 7th graders must submit a physical exam and dental exam before the end of this school year. All 6th graders must submit a physical exam and updated vaccine list. Please submit all of the above health requirements to Mrs. Swink tswink1@palcs.org.

We are excited to start CPFA gradual reopening the week of March 8. Please remember key strategies to decrease spread of COVID-19: wear masks, practice social distancing of 6 feet, wash hands frequently, STAY HOME IF YOU ARE SICK. Social isolation is a real thing. Talk to your friends, parents and trusted adults about your feelings. Please notify Mrs. Swink if you have Covid-19 symptoms or test positive for COVID-19. Tracking transmission of COVID-19 at CPFA, before and after reopening of CPFA, is very important. Covid-19 symptoms to report to Mrs. Swink include- fever, cough, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell, fatigue.