Southwestern Arts Society

On Friday, Oct. 12th, about a dozen Southwestern Academy students participated in the annual Pasadena Art Night. As in past years, They started at the Pacific Asia Museum, and continued on to the Pasadena California Art Museum around the corner, then ducked into the Pasadena Public Library to check up on our classmates doing community service and see an exhibit of artwork done by a class of disabled adults. Then we hopped on the shuttle bus to Art Center, where we observed a sculpture class in progress. Under heavy security, a trove of rare books and artifacts from The Huntington Library were on display there.

Tianna and Alexandra Brouke at the Pasadena Museum of California Art on Art Night. Photo by Nancy Ruiz.

Pasadena City Hall, lit up for Art Night. Photo by Nancy Ruiz.

The Southwestern Arts Society has sponsored five field trips during the first month of the school year, and we are pleased with the interest shown by our fellow students. Our opening trip was to see Carson McCullers's "The Square Root of Wonderful" in a small theater called The Raven Playhouse in North Hollywood. Next came two musical hits, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the performing arts center in La Mirada, and "Ain't Misbehavin'," at the International City Theater in Long Beach. Last Friday, a van full of curious students accompanied Mr. Pierpoint's English IV Honors group to a performance of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar at the New American Theater in Hollywood.

Tianna and Isaiah Glenn at the Raven Theater in North Hollywood after a pizza dinner, waiting for the show to start. Photo by Nancy Ruiz.

Looking ahead, we have scheduled two classical music events. The first will take place on the 27th at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, where we'll hear the Colburn Symphony Orchestra perform works by Strauss, Debussy, and Mahler.  On the following Friday (11/2), we'll have dinner in Los Angeles and then hear an all-Brahms program at the Colburn School of Music.