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FALCON FAMILY NEWS A MESSAGE FROM OUR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Dear Families,
critical the arts are to the education of a whole person. We have teachers who devote many Take a moment to imagine that you are a CB hours beyond the classroom. We have parents student. You arrive in the student parking lot in who volunteer their time and show up to help the morning and park in a space painted by a students pursue their passions. senior on the brink of graduation. At the end of your first class, our campus television station, For all of this, I can only express gratitude and KBFT, brings you the announcements, sports the hope that you will join us for a concert, a play, highlights, and videos about the CB community. an Open Mic Night, or the LaSalle Art Show this As you walk from class to class, you see posters spring. Let our student artists show you why CB advertising the spring play containing original is the place to be creative! for the next phase art designed by one of your friends. Next, you of excellence in education at Christian Brothers head to a liturgy where the choir and a string High School. quartet provide music during communion. At lunch, you sit with your friends under the Senior Wall, designed and painted by student artists. As school ends, The Talon posts its weekly edition on Schoology with a feature article on your club, Model UN. You stay after school for Holy Hoops, where the drumline and pep band get the crowd fired up to support the team. On Saturday, you’ll devote some service time to Sincerely, helping build scenery for the play. You’ll be on Ms. Heather Christianson ‘01 the tech crew next month and can’t wait for the Technical Director of the George Cunningham ‘40 Performing Arts Center audience to enjoy the show. The arts and our student artists are an integral part of the fabric of our CB community. They help make our school beautiful, informative, entertaining, and reverent. Our arts faculty serve a dual purpose: to ground their students in artistic and collaborative skills and inspire and challenge them to produce their own art. Students at CB can embrace the arts through a wealth of courses, extracurricular opportunities like student-run choirs, Open Mic Nights, musical and artistic clubs, and theatre productions, or simply by showing up to support their peers in these pursuits. Through everything, we have the support of a school that recognizes how
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• Arts Events & Opportunities • Class Pre-Registration • Stress Less Workshops • Grade-Specific Updates • Lasallian Student Life
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