Junior Rachelle Ferguson is not only a talented writer and musician. As of this summer, she is a budding entrepreneur as well. In July, Ferguson launched Kittywham Productions: Plays with a Punch — a business which offers original Christian dramas. According to the website, the company’s mission is “Discipleship through drama: Kittywham produces dramas written for Christians, by Christians. Our...
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Shakespeare meets Bermuda: Tower Players kick off ‘Twelfth Night’ rehearsals
The Tower Players are bringing Bermuda to Hillsdale as they begin rehearsing Shakespeare’s classic comedy “Twelfth Night” this week. While Shakespeare set the scene in Illyria, on the Mediterranean coast off of Italy, director and Professor of Theatre George Angell will set the play in 18th-century Bermuda. He said he believes the new setting fits the play extremely well, since...
Photography: pure and simple? — ‘Pure Photography’ from Syracuse University to offer snapshot into photo history
What makes a photograph a piece of art? Must it be manipulated and stylized to deserve the word, or can it simply be a realistic image? It’s a dilemma that’s sparked raging debates in the art world since photography’s inception in the early 1800s — but a question that, in an era of Instagram, Snapchat, and today’s general overabundance of...
Big Band bringing it this weekend
Hillsdale’s Big Band will perform their spring concert this Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. Teacher of Music Chris McCourry, the band director, is bringing in guest saxophonist Chris Vadala, who currently is the Director of Jazz Studies and a saxophone professor at the University of Maryland. The concert will feature pieces from last semester, this semester, and even some...
