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Just as taking notes while you're part of the
discussion can be challenging, Dragon education involves so much doing beyond
traditional studying that it can be hard to keep up with us. What are we doing,
contemplating, reading, discussing? What opportunities are there to come see us
in action? Our HAPPENINGS page will link you to the school year calendar, our
Open House schedule, recent and upcoming Dragon events, the Principal's blog,
the exciting topics our students discover and debate on This Week in Science,
the Integrative Projects which explore ideas across subject fields, and, under
New and Noteworthy we'll share information on performances, films, broadcasts,
books, speakers of special interest.
- Breathing Fire
A global market, a commercial press,
greed for a mass]market audience all make it hard to hear the voices of
our own community. We are pleased to announce the second annual Dragon reading
series, Breathing Fire, offering a platform for emerging and outsider voices,
the strong and beautiful voices of our community. Come be part of this unique
reading series, held on Thursday evenings at Dragon Academy, and share wine and
words, cheese and talkback.
RSVP:
MEGFOX@DRAGONACADEMY.ORG
Thursday,
January 26th 2012 @ 7PM: Michelle Fost , poetry
 Michelle Fost is a writer of fiction,
essays, and poetry. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review,
the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Phoenix Literary Section, and the Painted
Bride Quarterly. She received her MA in English from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Michelle has worked at the University of Toronto for many years as a Writing
Instructor and as a Learning Skills Counselor. One area of particular interest
is helping students understand writing--including academic writing--as a
creative process. Her two sons, Gabriel and Nathan, are students at the Dragon
Academy. She is delighted to be reading in the "Breathing Fire" series of
readings.
- UNDER FIRE: JOURNALISTS IN COMBAT The
psychological cost of covering war
REVUE CINEMA – 400 Roncesvalles
Avenue
Tortonto Exclusive Engagement December 19 thru 21, 2011 7:00 PM
Journalism in times of war has become an increasingly lethal – and
sometimes traumatic, endeavor, as correspondents are now viewed as natural
targets by combatants. Only two journalists were killed in World War I and 63
journalists lost their lives in World War II. In the last two decades, at least
one journalist a week has been killed, with the dead now numbering in the
thousands. With journalists facing kidnapping, torture and even beheadings,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is on the rise among front line war
correspondents.
UNDER FIRE weaves together combat footage and
first-hand accounts by journalists who reveal what they saw, thought and felt
as they confronted both the savagery of war and the insatiable 24-hour news
cycle.
MARTYN BURKE, the writer/director who has made documentaries
about wars, and ANTHONY FEINSTEIN, the psychiatrist who has been virtually
on-call to CNN and other major news outfits, delve into the experiences of
major journalists from the New York Times, AP, Times of London, BBC, the LA
Times, and others, to bring a deeper understanding of the psychological cost of
covering war. (Running time-1:30)
 - The president of Quest University Canada, David Helfand PhD., who is also
the Department Chair of Astronomy at Columbia University in New York, and newly
elected President of the American Astronomical Society, will be talking at an
off-campus preview event in Toronto.
The event will be held at the
Toronto Waldorf School on October 19th at 7:30PM. All are welcome, so
save the date, and join us for a fantastic evening discussion about the liberal
arts and sciences, the Block Plan, experiential learning and what Quest
University Canada is doing differently. For more information on David please
follow this link: If you would like to learn more about David please follow
this link to his full biography.
- THE GREEN DRAGON information flyer
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