This video stars the Bantam mascot, who has been working hard in anticipation for March 1. Our furry friend and young Trinity alumni will compete with NESCAC rivals, in a quest for a third straight March Mania title. For more visit, www.marchmania.org.

Leslie Ahlstrand ’12 was one of five undergraduates in Connecticut selected as a Poetry Circuit winner this year. The five students present their poetry at schools around the state. This performance took place at the Smith House on the campus of Trinity. The work of the winners of this prestigious competition, which began in 1968, is also published in Connecticut Review. Ahlstrand, a double major in Public Policy and Law and English, is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, The Watkinson Creative Fellowship, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Alumnus Prize in Fiction.

This is a backstage shot from this year’s production of the Vagina Monologues at Trinity. The production, in it’s thirteenth year at Trinity, was directed by Brittney Payton ’12 and Jeanika Browne-Springer ’12.   (Complete photo gallery: http://goo.gl/VGz4U) The event benefited the Hartford Interval House, a battered women’s shelter; and, Haitian female survivors of sexual/domestic violence.  The event was sponsored by the Trinity College Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC); Trinity College Students Against Sexual Assault (SASA),  Entertainment Activities Council (EAC), and Trinity’s Sexual Assault Response Team (SART).  For more info on the Vagina Monologues, visit <a href=”http://www.vday.org” rel=”nofollow”>www.vday.org</a>.

Photos by Nick Lacy

The 2nd Annual International Culture Show at Trinity College took place at the Washington Room in Mather Hall on Trinity’s campus on Friday, February 17, 2012.  The event, sponsored by the International House (a student theme house at Trinity), featured International Poetry, steppers, Bollywood and Bollywood with a Spanish twist, a “Salute to Humanity,” African Poetry by the African Development Coalition (ADC), a performance by the Latin Dance Club, Afro Jazz, and the Trinity Samba Ensemble.  For a complete photo gallery, visit: http://goo.gl/j3fmd.  

Photo by Nick Lacy

Here is a short video highlighting the beauty of the historic Long Walk building at Trinity College. The song, entitled “The Long Walk,” was composed by Patrick Greene ’07. For more on Greene, visit http://www.patrickgreenemusic.com. William Burges, one of England’s leading architects, designed The Long Walk in the 1870’s, and Francis Hatch Kimball served as the local architect.  The Long Walk underwent a $32.7 million renovation in 2008. For a post-renovation article on the Long Walk published in The New York Times, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/nyregion/connecticut/12trinityct.html?pagewanted=print.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the Trinity College Quirks and Accidentals.  This clip is an exerpt of a rendition of Michael Jackson’s, “Will You Be There,” was shot at the Trinity College Chapel in anticipation of the a Cappella groups’ upcoming Valentine’s Day Show, “Accidentally in Love with the Quirks.”  For more on the Quirks, visit: www.trinitycollegequirks.com For more on the Accidentals, visit: www.trinityaccidentals.com

 
Destin Dopwell ’15 performs “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” alongside pianist Sergei Novokov at The Mill’s Holiday Show at Trinity this year.

 
The Trinitones A Cappella group performs “All I Want for Christmas is You” at The Mill’s holiday show at Trinity this year.

The Chapel Singers perform a piece by Robert Edward Smith, Composer-In-Residence at Trinity, at the annual Lessons and Carol’s service at the Chapel this year.

Anne Teschner (Trinity MA ’06, American Studies), executive director of the Care Center in Holyoke, Mass., stands alongside Tashia Davis, a student at the Care Center, and First Lady Michelle Obama.  The Care Center received this year’s National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, given annually as “the Nation’s highest honor for outstanding arts and humanities programs that reach underserved communities.”  The Center, one of 12 winners out of 500 nominees, won a $10,000 prize plus national recognition for its extensive work supporting teenage mothers.  “We have seen over the years that, when young people are provided with an academically rich and engaging environment that includes the arts and humanities and provided with the support they need to focus and study, they will flourish,” Teschner said.  “This award puts us more centrally in the nationally discussion about the power of quality education and the effective approach to poverty.”  Teschner said her time at Trinity was useful to her work today.  “I had a great experience as a graduate student at Trinity,” she added.  “My work there has definitively informed my work at The Care Center.”

To watch the White House award ceremony, see below, or visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/11/02/first-lady-honors-arts-and-humanities-programs-youth.

For more on the Care Center, visit: www.carecenterholyoke.org.

At the start of the fall semester, the new Deans’ Scholars enjoyed dinner with their faculty adviser and the sponsoring deans: Dr. Rena Fraden, Dean of the Faculty, and Dr. Margaret Lindsey, Dean of the First-Year Program.  The distinction of Deans’ Scholar is awarded to those first-year students who, at the end of their freshman year, have achieved the top 25 grade point averages of their class. They are rewarded, as well, with a dinner held at the beginning of their sophomore year.  The shot above includes Emily Parsons ’14; Dan Mullen ’14; and Madalene Spezialetti, Associate Professor of Computer Science.  (Photo by Margaret Lindsey)