Mark you calendar now, the Hartsbrook Carnival is returning!

When: Saturday, March 1st, 7:30 - 10:00pm

Where: Piening Hall

This is an evening to let your hair down, sing a song, do stand-up comedy, BYOB, and laugh together. AND it doesn't cost you a penny! Have you always wanted to read a poem to an audience? Write and perform a skit with your friends? Sing a folksong? Or a punk song? Or your own song? Here's your chance. Even if you'd like to just be an appreciative listener, we need you there.

SATURDAY, MARCH 1st, PIENING HALL. DON'T MISS IT!

The High School held its annual Coffeehouse event last Saturday night, with the seniors hosting us in a 50s style diner.  Their chosen theme of the 1950s and 60s allowed for some creative tensions between decades, and we were visited by many luminaries of the era such as Elvis, James Dean, Doris Day and Ed Sullivan.  Musical talents were on proud display, dramatic talents were... well, attempted, and we were even treated to a kung fu demonstration.  My advice: don't get in a rumble with the 9th grade. 

Have you considered lately that you began life as a single cell?

This month the Tenth Grade Embryology block collaborated again with Dr. Josef Trapani and the students of his laboratory at Amherst College. Dr. Trapani and his students use the zebrafish, a small member of the minnow family, to study development and adaptation in the nervous system. Zebrafish are useful for studying development because fertilization and all subsequent growth occur outside of the mother. The developing embryo is transparent and can be easily observed under a microscope. Over the course of a week, the Tenth Grade observed fertilized embryos from the one-cell stage of development until the larvae hatched from their chorions and swam around. We also visited the Trapani lab to learn about Dr. Trapani's research. Thanks again to Dr. Trapani and his lab!

Alex Workman, Life-Sciences

Create Your Own Story ~  Introduction to Art and Biography

Can you see yourself with open eyes, an open mind and an open heart?

Join us in a journey of self discovery through art. No experience needed. A play date!

February 2,  from 1pm-4pm  $35 

Great Room at Hartsbrook School

To Register: Stop in to the office or contact Vesna

For Questions: Contact Kathleen 413-320-1723

With Facilitators Kathleen Bowen and Amy Spalding-Fecher

Kathleen Bowen is a certified biography worker, coordinator and a founding board member of the Center for Biography and Social Art, fiber artist, adult educator and mother of two grown children. 

Amy Spalding-Fecher is a process oriented art facilitator, artist, architect, and mother of two daughters.

Coming soon: 

Aware, Awake and Alive ~ Art and Biography

Meeting yourself through art. What lives in you? Can you see yourself? Where is your balance?

Exploring empathy, temperaments and unexpected teachers in our lives. Almost every aspect of us has arisen as a result of this or that person having influenced our lives by helping us or teaching us something.

Journey into story and fairy tales as we find archetypal themes and windows to look through, to view and experience our own lives. Every life is an unfolding story.

Kathleen Bowen and Amy Spalding-Fecher

Each year the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America holds an annual conference for teachers from the North American continent. This year, for the first time,  the conference will take place at Hartsbrook from June 23 - 26. The theme is "Cultivating Humanness Within a Technological World," and the keynote speaker is Craig Holdredge, Director of the Nature Institute. Parents are welcome to attend the lectures for a small fee.