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Howe Finds Adventure and Business Success in Tanzania — The Heights
Boston College graduates might opt for something different by moving out West Coast after graduation. But for one 2010 graduate, that wasn’t nearly adventurous enough. Alexander Storm Howe ventured all the way to Tanzania. And not just for a safari vacation. “I left America because I was looking for adventure,” Howe said. Originally, Howe wanted to pursue a career in Tanzania’s vast hunting industry. “I had grown up hunting and being big on the outdoors,” Howe said.
Announcing winners of the fifth World Bank and Financial Times youth blog competition
It’s been a complicated—and often frustrating—few years for students all over the world. The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly changed the way children around the world learn. Remote classes. Closures. Masks. It was a lot to deal with, and the long-term consequences could be severe. So, what lessons can we learn from the past three difficult years? High schoolers have a lot of thoughts on the matter, and they weren’t hesitant to share them in the World Bank-Financial Times Youth Blog Competition.
The Skinny on... Iona Lee – The Skinny
What’s your favourite place to visit and why? My favourite places tend to have something numinous about them. Warriston Cemetery. Dunino Den. The Isle of Iona. Currently, it’s Borthwick’s Close on the Royal Mile. There’s a pigeon couple down there that have built this terrible nest from twigs and bits of broken zip tie, and it's teetering on top of anti-bird spikes. I’m very moved by them and their endurance in the face of such adversity. Favourite food and why? Probably my dad’s roast dinner.
Iona’s Summer Swan Songs
Next up in Bella’s Top 20 Series, Iona Lee catches the last rays of the summer sun … [you can listen to the previous HERE ] Another August turned to embers. September is bittersweet. But have you ventured outside in the last few days? Because it seems that summer 2023 is enjoying something of a swan song.
Class or Pass?
It was 11:36 p.m. and Zoe Kramar ’24 scrolled through her course selections, eagerly checking numerous boxes, including the one next to Latin American Studies. A few weeks later she received an email from her dean explaining that the class had been canceled due to a lack of sign ups. Kramar said she was frustrated since it was a class she had been excited about taking for a long time. “I was really disappointed,” Kramar said.
Birlinn Ltd - Independent Scottish Publisher - buy books online
About the Book Iona Lee’s debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth and tale telling. Characterised by a deep love of language, its music and its magic, these poems reflect on memory, the future and other hauntings.
Administration hires three new Deans after multiple departures
The school hired Sarah Miller, Jesse Reuter and English teacher Adam Levine to serve as deans beginning in the 2023-2024 school year. Miller, who currently works at Marymount High School as the Co-Director of College Counseling, will replace departing Dean Sara Miranda, inheriting her existing group of sophomores and juniors. Reuter, a counselor at Loyola High School, will do the same for Celso Cardenas, who is also leaving.
Anamnesis - Books from Scotland
Iona Lee Iona Lee is a writer, of poetry and non-fiction, an artist, illustrator and spoken-word performer from Edinburgh. She has been a prominent member of Scotland?s live poetry scene for almost ten years, appearing on radio and television, and reading her work in venues and on festival stages across the UK and Europe, including Glastonbury, the Albert Hall and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Iona has been published extensively, in newspapers, anthologies and journals.
Grade A Friendship
Garrett* sat in the back of his math class with his computer open. He watched as Guest6598344956 moved a knight and waited for his own turn in his chess game. Meanwhile, his math teacher lectured about polar coordinates in the background. Garrett, like many other students, said he frequently plays games in class. “I only play games on my computer in classes that don’t really matter and are easy,” Garrett said. “Like in math, I don’t think it really affects [my grades] too much.
Wolverine Cult-ure
Features Features Archives Students and faculty reflect on the reputation, dynamic and traditions of various student groups, clubs and sports on campus. It’s quiet on campus. Georgiana* and the rest of the girls from the theater department gather in a circle, tucked away in one of the campus’s most secluded locations. They believe they are alone.
Unified course surveys rolled out
Upper school students completed surveys for each of their courses during January, the first time the administration has conducted a universal survey instead of ones created by individual teachers. Through the school’s website, students answered the same questions for each course and left written feedback about class curriculums and teacher instruction. Director of Institutional Research Mike Barker was hired by the school in 2020 to collect data in order to improve various aspects of school life.
Poem of the week : Dune
I dreamt we were in the Gaeltacht Wet waxed hoods over windswept heads Peat intense nostrils crept Cheeks embered we climbed whitewashed steps And slept a wooden chair and a cotton bed. I dreamt we were in the Gaeltacht Perched on dune-built sands Light nicotine drawn through pink knobbled hands Sun burned orange on skin where it lands Just us, some cans and the Atlantic.
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A Memorial for Scotland’s Witch Trials
Circle of Friedrich Brentel the Elder – A Witches Sabbath at the Full Moon, 1580-1651 The witch has become a paradoxical symbol of female power, and of female oppression. She is not simply a creation of the patriarchy; women (indeed anyone who identifies with the witch) have invested in the character as a fantasy which allows them to express untidy desires and revolutionary ideas. I became actively invested in the study of witchcraft, and the subjects which revolve around it, in 2018.
Art For Sale - Student Uprising at the Glasgow School of Art
The commodification of education is a tragedy, but if that is the way that things stand, then should students not be afforded the same consumer rights as, say, someone buying a defective product? The pandemic has made life problematic for everybody, but its impact has been more severe on some areas than others. The delivery of higher education has been fraught with difficulties, with practical courses perhaps suffering the most.
20 On 20
It would appear that Hogmanay is happening, so we have asked twenty of our favourite artists, and some of the artists that we feel made an impact on this year, to bless us with a wee reflection. John Niven – Novelist and Screenwriter “2020 – Being in Central Park with my daughter when I got a phone call telling me Andy Weatherall had died.
Touching Without Touching
In deepest darkest lockdown I was walking for at least an hour every day. It was important that I left my flat and perambulated – I needed to explore my neighbourhood, I needed to have a reason to be outside. The world had suddenly become window-shaped. We whirlpooled with people on the street, doing our best not to touch each other. The news was backlit and constant. They were jettisoning grey men from history. There was change and anger in the air. There was so much happening … somewhere.
Girls Who Play Guitar
There has been anger recently at the gender balance on ‘Scotify’, Spotify’s largest curated playlist for emerging talent in Scotland. It was noted by Pop Girlz Scotland that of the artists featured, 68.5% were male – with several of those artists having more than one song included. After a week of heated discussion on social media, the playlist has been updated and now features 60% male artists, which is only a minor improvement. There is a plethora of musical talent in Scotland, much of it female.
Saturday Night at The Howff with Loki, Karine Polwart and Jigsawtiger
howff /haʊf/. A favourite meeting place or haunt, especially a pub. This week at the Howff, we welcome Jigsawtiger, Karine Polwart and Loki. The multi-award winning Karine Polwart – folk singer, storyteller, author, theatre-maker and musician extraordinaire – has just released a brand new BIG collaboration project.
List of Hardship Funds for Artists
It seems the Winter of our discontent is on the cards. So, here is a list of hardship funds and awards currently available to artists and freelancers in Scotland : If you are aware of any more hardship funds or awards available to artists in Scotland currently then please comment below and they will be added to the list.
Theatres With Walls
Theatre is in decline. It has been for years. Lockdown has merely drawn attention to an industry which was already suffering through long-term neglect. Ever since televisions became cheap and popular, theatre has suffered from a false comparison. As theatre-going has declined, the number of places where theatre is produced has declined.
Saturday Night Howff with Ruby Gaines, Zoe Graham and Trashcan Sinatras
howff /haʊf/. A favourite meeting place or haunt, especially a pub. Welcome to Saturday night at the Howff, Bella’s lounge for the lockdown. This week we feature Ruby Gaines, Zoe Graham and Trashcan Sinatras. Ruby Gaines is the powerful new two-toned project of Glasgow-based singer, songwriter and guitarist, Megan Airlie. Airlie assembled her new moniker from the names of her two grandmothers. As she says, ‘I always have been one to carry the past with me’.
Essays — The Spit It Out Project
Witches and Wordsmiths, Sorcerers and Storytellers by Iona Lee Words conjure what is not there. Words can be weapons or tools. They can terrify or pacify, please or disgust, influence and alter. As a wand conveys a spell, a word brings with it feeling, meaning, abstraction and history. A tyrant will cast chaos with his oratory. A storyteller will move with rhyme, rhetoric and rhythm. A salesman will mystify with jargon.
Poetry Playlist
Welcome to the Poetry Playlist! Once a month, we are going to recommend one of our favourite poetry collections to you. It could be newly published, an old classic, or a little-known gem that we found collecting dust in the back of a charity shop. All that matters is that our Arts & Music Editors love it, and think that you might too. First track on the Bella Caledonia poetry playlist, recommended by Iona Lee, is POEMLAND by Chelsea Minnis. No one writes like Chelsea Minnis.
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