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Striking a chord
Inaugural music composition competition brings student-created music to center stage.
Why I love teaching at Exeter: Kris Johnson
In the first of a series, Instructor in Music Kris Johnson describes what he appreciates most about Exeter students.
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"You realize ... at Exeter that not everything’s going to be easy ... but there are people there to support you.”
Osiris '21
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"I was blown away by the enthusiasm and love among students for their teachers."
Anjali '20 and Meili '20
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Exonians reel in national writing, art honors
Nineteen students honored in the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Lost in Transit
It wasn’t Venice, but the 16 student musicians whose trip there was short circuited by the coronavirus turned The Bowld into a magical place Thursday night.
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Technology: A Winter Dance Concert
How have seismic shifts in technology and digital communications affected our interpersonal relationships? Exeter's Winter Dance Company tackles that question with original choreography in a variety of movement disciplines.
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The Secret Garden
The Winter Mainstage brings Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic to life at the Goel Center.
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'A love letter to Exeter'
Artist inspires Justin Li ’20 to take action and express his own truth through art.
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"That’s one of the best things about Harkness: You have to listen for the system to work."
English Instructor Alex Myers '96
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"History is not static .. the past isn’t past, it keeps affecting us."
James Meyer '80
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“You always listen to every instrument just to get to know how your part collaborates with the others."
CarlyMae '21 and Lily '22
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Lamont Poet Jericho Brown
A jam-packed Assembly Hall greeted the author of “The Tradition,” a 2019 National Book Award Finalist. “I write the poems I wish I was reading,” he said to Exonians.
Lamont Gallery presents ‘Cut Up/Cut Out’
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Master of puppets
Theater Instructor Rob Richards taps into students' imaginations in Puppetry and Props.
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9 questions for Arthur Sze
Felix Yeung ’21 sits down with the poet of “deep noticing” to discuss the writing process, the creative impacts of being bilingual, and how writing has changed Sze’s life.
The Goel Center
The David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Theater and Dance has elevated Exeter’s performing arts to a whole new level.