I write to share the exciting news that BCD’s Visual Arts Coordinator Sasha Sicurella’s documentary film, “Water, Ice, Snow” was awarded Best Documentary and received the Audience Choice Award at last weekend’s Seattle Shorts Film Festival. Many current BCD students saw the film when she presented the Mongolia project last year. Sasha reports that “it was a very inspiring experience!” Congratulations!
Our very own Jim Fawcett will give the Hop Brook Community Fall Lecture at the Town Hall in Tyringham at 5:00 PM on Friday, November 28. Titled “The Indomitable Human Spirit,” Jim’s talk is based upon Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and takes a look at how one man’s sense of his own worth and spiritual strengths let him survive another day in the worst of worlds.
Next Tuesday, November 25, Jim and History teacher Ned Douglas will present interested BCD alums with an opportunity to re-experience and engage with these beloved teachers during our first annual Master Class Series before Thanksgiving Soup. Jim’s students will read and come prepared to discuss The Paisley Garden, a short story by William Saroyan, and Ned’s students have been asked to read “When Whites Just Don’t Get it,” a recent article in the New York Times about the events in Ferguson, MO that was written by Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof.