2009+-+2010

2009 - 2010

=2010 Merivale Fine Arts Certificates were presented at our June commencement= == =**MUSIC —** **Alex Teutsch, Ben Curran, Dylan Fox-Altherr, Maxim Ralchenko, Alicia Lim,**= =**Ross Manson, Ylan Chu, Travis Suitor, Tristan Whalen-Hughes, Courtney King and Robbie Thuot**= =**ART —** **Haley Canavan, Blair Davidson,**= =**GENERAL —** **Caroline Mitchell, Megan Raddatz, David Stringer**=



WE WIN 3 CAPPIES!!!!!!!!!! 

ONE ACTS Our Drama Department drew great crowds at the ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL held in the Merivale Cafetorium on June 2 and 3. There were many outstanding performances ==  ==

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SHSM STUDENTS TAKE ALGONQUIN MEDIA ARTS TOUR  

Many thanks to Diane Banks for arranging a terrific tour of Algonquin College's Photography, Animation, Photography, Graphic Design, Multi Media and Interior Design programs

QUARK XPRESS' CHRIS EDWARDS VISITS MHS Chris Edwards spent a day at Merivale, checking out projects we created with XPress. Quark donated 30 seats of the software to Merivale in 2009.

MERIVALE ART SHOW

SPECIAL THANKS TO .....
8:00-9:00 - Laura Teutsch and Janna Balkwill 9:00-9:30 - Stephen Rouble 9:30-10:10 - Natasha Chander 10:10-10:50 - Nancy Jones 11:00-11:30 - Stephen Rouble 11:30-12:30 - Janna Balkwill 12:30-13:00 - Tristan Whalen-Hughes 13:00-14:15 - Ylan Chu 14:15-15:15 - Jason Wong 15:15-16:15 - Ylan Chu 16:30-18:00 - Nick Maclean
 * Bleeker's Stereo and TV
 * The City of Ottawa Archives
 * Kelly Ryan
 * Shane Williams
 * Ylan Chu for organizing the music schedule
 * Our terrific Custodial Staff
 * WADE TECH - Mr. John Gagnon





The GRAND FINALE concert was terrific! Many thanks to guest conductor Ms. Melanie Reeks for helping us with the Steel Pans, Vocals and the Senior Concert Band.

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David Stringer

**May his memory be a blessing.**




YOUNG at ART AWARDS were presented on Wednesday, May 12 7:30 pm at Ben Franklin Place.

**What is Young at Art?**
Young at Art is a rare opportunity for young artists unlike anything else in North America. City of Ottawa youth are encouraged to reach out to their communities through the experience of a citywide, juried art competition that brings their remarkable artwork to local community art galleries. Submitted artwork goes through a jury process to determine which pieces will be exhibited in galleries in the east, west and central regions of the City. Young at Art juries are a diverse mix of youth and established artists from our community who volunteer their time and expertise to help deliver exciting, quality exhibitions based on common assessment criteria.

We are well represented with 22 Merivale pieces on display! Six Merivale artists were recognized for excellence

 * Drawing Senior – Best of Drawing, BLAIR DAVIDSON
 * Mixed Media Junior - RAHUL CHANDAN
 * Mixed Media Senior - the AWE3O Graphic Design Class
 * Other Media Senior - BETHANY DEAN
 * Digital Graphic Design - SARA HAERIAN-ARDAKANI
 * Issak Skiner - Alternate: YAA Short Term Studio Grant

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**SPECIALIST HIGH SKILLS MAJOR STUDENTS at ALGONQUIN**  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px; line-height: 46px;">

**College's Chris Jones for making this experiential learning possible for our students.**
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**and Laura Sauer were on hand to greet us!**


media type="file" key="Mattress.m4v" width="300" height="300" =**WE HAD A TERRIFIC RUN! Congratulations to Ms. Woods, Ms. Davidson, Ms LePage, Mrs. Cañas, Ms. Watson Laird, Mrs. Gale**= =**and all the cast and crew that made this another outstanding Merivale Musical.**=

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px; line-height: 46px;">**CAPPIES CRITICS NIGHT @ MHS** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px; line-height: 46px;"> **Merivale hosted the CAPPIES CRITICS on Thursday, April 29. Many thanks to Lisa Nash and Cheryl Calof** **for doing such a great job organizing this important arts evening and for arranging all the centerpieces** **and** **decorations.**

**We also wish to express our gratitude to parents who provided food and to** **our school Admin team** and to Dr. Joan Strong
 * and** **the MHS** **English Department who** **pitched in to make this a very festive event.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px; line-height: 46px;">**CHRIS JONES @ MHS** Chris Jones, graphic design coordinator at Algonquin College dropped in on Monday, April 12 to talk about the Graphic Design program at Algonquin and also to distribute copies of the 2010 Algonquin Graphic Design Yearbook. He looked at some of our projects and engaged students in a lively discussion about future design trends.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px;">ALIEN VISITS MERIVALE =**Senior Graphic Design students will be revisiting the layout and design possibilities presented by the tabloid press. We recruited an alien - our own Cameron Stewart! Many thanks to Metro, Popeyes, Best Buy, HomeSense and Constable Ross of the OPP for participating in our photo shoot.**=

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 40px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px;">SILK SCREEN WORKSHOP at the SAM GROUP =**On March 31, FOCUS Program students printed Tshirts at the SAM GROUP. Many thanks to Steve Maher, Robert Way and his son Alex for making this opportunity available to our student as part of the Specialist High Skills Major initiative.**=

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 31px;">SKATE PROJECT =FOCUS Program students recently spent a few periods drawing hockey and figure skates and roller blades at our neighbourhood SportChek store. They will be doing a number of studies that will be used to create full scale mockups of skateboxes.=

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=On Wednesday, March 3, Merivale High School’s Communication and Design FOCUS group was treated to an outstanding presentation by Teknision Inc’s TONY MACDONELL, one of Canada’s leading Interactive Designers, and all around great guy. Tony had a lot to say about the future of design and how in a short time, people are going to interact with the virtual world in ways we never thought possible.= =He finished his talk by engaging the class in a demonstration of “Sayback”, an iPhone application designed by his studio.= =We are grateful that Tony made time to speak to our students. His talk will count towards the experiential learning component in Merivale’s Specialist High Skills Major initiative.=

<span style="color: #f60e0e; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 65px; line-height: 97px;">MUSICFEST 2010 RESULTS ! <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;"> MUSICFEST 2010 — Jr. Jazz Band <span style="color: #808080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 45px;">SILVER MEDAL! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;"> MUSICFEST 2010 — Dixieland Band <span style="color: #808000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 19px;">GOLD MEDAL! <span style="color: #808000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 19px;">media type="file" key="Down by the Riverside.mov" width="300" height="300"

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 19px;"> MUSICFEST 2010 — Sr. Jazz Band <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 45px;">SILVER MEDAL! <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 45px;"> media type="file" key="SrJazz.mov" width="300" height="300"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;"> MUSICFEST 2010 — Sr. Concert Band <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 45px;">SILVER MEDAL!





<span style="color: #e60f0f; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">MUSICFEST 2010 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">— Jr. Concert Band <span style="color: #808080; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">SILVER MEDAL!

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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #f60e0e; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 40px; line-height: 97px;">CENTRALAIRES Merivale Music hosted another very successful and well attended CENTRALAIRES CONCERT on Wednesday, February 17. Conducting the Centralaires was Fran Chilton McKay. Fran was head of the Music Department at JS Woodsworth for many years and we were also fortunate to have her at MHS for one year before she accepted a professional music position with the Canadian Armed Forces. Both Mr. Ramin and Ms. LePage play with the Centralaires. The final piece in the concert feratured a joint effort with members of our bands playing "Ireland" with the Centralaires!











=**Many thanks to all the students, parents and teachers that helped make our 24 hour Band-a-Thon a terrific event!**=

=Art Students have had a very successful first term! Many of their projects will be on display at the ART SHOW in May!=

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=Mr. Ramin and the Dixieland Band served up a terrific set at SUZART's Kraig-Paul and Friends fundraiser= =held at Woodroffe United Church on Saturday, January 23! Many thanks to Lisa Nash for arranging this gig for our students.= ==

**This year's imaginative yearbook cover** **was created by Grade 11 Graphic Design** **student CURTIS TUPIN.**

=MERIVALE ARTS were well represented at the recent Grade 8 Parents Night held on Tuesday, January 12, 2010.= =Many thanks to Ms. LePage and Mr. Ramin for conducting the Steel Pan and Dixieland Band.= =Ms. LePage also supervised the first performance of the //Once Upon a Mattress// ensemble, that also included violins! CONGRATULATIONS to Ms. Wood for putting together a //Once Upon a Mattress// teaser on such short notice. The cast was outstanding!= =Mrs. Gale hung a terrific ceramic and art display in our Library and also profiled the Grade 9 and 10 art program in Room B101.= =Mrs. Canas and Mr. Fried showed an impressive selection of photos and graphics in Room A107. Mr. Fried also designed the spirited powerpoint presentations that were also very well received.=

Ceramics students taking part in a pottery wheel workshop on Monday, December 14. Many thanks to artist Susan Gold and Corrie Keevil, coodinator of the Nepean Visual Art Center.

=A strong contingent of Merivale Fine Arts staff and students attended SUZART's the December 12 excellent performance of Beauty and the Beast. Ms. Woods and Mr. Osterer joked about how we could get their chorus of youngsters who played plates, napkins and wolves into //Once Upon a Mattress// :-)=

=Many (many) thanks to Lisa Nash for following through with this initiative. The SUZART people were happy to see us and have pledged to help us with costumes for our spring musical. We look forward to sustaining this excellent fine arts relationship for many years.=

==On Friday, December 11, the Department went on its annual first term visit to Montreal. The day trip was organized by Mr. Fried and included visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canadian Center for Architecture and a little seasonal shopping.==

The WINTER WONDERBAND concert was terrific! Many thanks to guest conductor Mr. Steiner for helping us with the Steel Pans and the Senior Concert Band.











=**Our Fall presentation of //The Curious Savage// enjoyed a terrific three day run - with close to 150 people in the audience at the Friday performance!**=

=The November 24 Coffee House was a rousing success. Many thanks to Ms. Rafus, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Williams and all the staff, students and parent volunteers that contributed to an outstanding evening.=



==**At the request of Councillor Gord Hunter, Merivale's Vocal Ensemble opened the November 16th session of City Council with a rousing rendition of the National Anthem. This was the meeting that ultimately decided the fate of the Landsdowne Live proposal.**== //**Many thanks to conductor Michele LePage, terrific parent volunteers Lisa Nash and Huong Nguyen for helping with transporting the group to City Hall!**//

=AN EVENING OF THE ARTS - NOVEMBER 5, 2010=

=**Merivale's Fine Arts Department hosted "An Evening of the ARTS" on November 5, celebrating a new partnership between Suzart Productions and Merivale High School. Suzart is a local, non-profit musical theater company whose mandate is to offer terrific family entertainment and also to provide an oppportunity for everyone, particularly youth, a chance to experience all aspects of musical theater. Our feeder school, Sir Winston Churchill PS also participated in this very well attended arts production!**= =**Many thanks to LISA NASH who organized the event, and to our new Drama Lead Cynthia Wood who coordinated most of the evening. Scott Hughes was our excellent MC while Michele LePage and Charlie Ramin (music), Lisa Gale (visual art), Brian Fried (all photography) Andrea Davidson (stage manager), Shane Williams and Jaclyn Canas were instrumental in making this a terrific night for Merivale Fine Arts!**=

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**MERIVALE FINE ARTS at the WORLD of WORK CONFERENCE - Aberdeen Pavillion - October 28, 2009**
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=• At MHS, we are proud of our well deserved reputation for excellence in the Fine Arts.=

• Our recent graduates study at the most prestigious post secondary art, music, media and drama schools in this country.
==• Our arts teachers are among the most committed and passionate in our system. They are outstanding people who do an extraordinary job and have been recognized by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board==

2009 OCDSB ARTS AWARDS == =Once again our Merivale community has been cited for excellence in arts programming=

** Dr. Joan Strong ** is the recipient of the Arts Recognition Award for Secondary Literary Arts for 2008-2009. Joan’s enthusiasm, dedication and long hours of hard work inspiring students and initiating literacy projects is truly outstanding. As Cappies mentor and Cappies Critics Leader at Merivale, Dr. Strong helped elevate the standards of writing which enabled our students to see many of their reviews published and the team win Cappie Awards for “Top Critic Team” and Lead Male Critic

Scott Hughes accepted the Arts Recognition Award for Secondary Media Arts for 2008-2009.Scott’s work with students to produce prize-winning newspapers and short films and videos, in-house MTV channel and new Flash animation course have made a significant contribution to the Merivale learning community.

The Arts Recognition Award for Community Volunteer for 2008-2009 was presented to **Huong Nguyen** . Huong’s tireless assistance at every concert, theatre performance and music event and her generous support in fundraisers and the annual Cappies Gala are truly remarkable. Her passion for the arts has made a huge difference in the lives of so many students.

Department Head ** Irv Osterer ** was also recognized for his leadership in the arts

We also congratulate Mr. Gerard Loehr, Sir Winston Churchill's music teacher for being recognized as the Elementary Music Teacher of the year.

<span style="color: #cf2020; display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 36px;">2009-10 CHEO POSTER CONTEST =The 2009 Grade 11 Graphic Design class created artwork for CHEO's annual "Wear your Bear" poster competition.= =Congratulations to Laura Harvey whose work was one of the finalists.=

== //Students must complete seven visual art courses and achieve a mark of at least 70% in each elective.//
 * To qualify for a Fine Arts Certificate : Visual Art**

//Students must complete seven music courses and achieve a mark of at least 70% in each elective.//
 * To qualify for a Fine Arts Certificate: Music**

//Drama students and others who take arts courses without a concentration in visual art or music, are eligible for a Fine Arts Certificate, if they take any seven arts courses and achieve a mark of at least 70% in each course.//
 * To qualify for a General** **Fine Arts Certificate**

The Department will also accept one of — Creative Writing EWC4U or IDC4U1 Yearbook/Newspaper towards the General Fine Arts Certificate. Fine Arts teachers will be reviewing student transcripts in May. Certificates are presented at the Graduation Assembly in June.