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Film club producer Ethan Guan (11) and main actor Iris Fu (12) read out the films screenplay on March 5. It was a very low-stakes environment and we were just having fun with the script, Iris said.

Film Club prepares for production with screenplay read-through

by Mendy Mao, Assistant Copy Editor March 18, 2024

Cast and crew of Film Club’s short film “And I’ll Do It Again” met for a table read of the screenplay during long lunch on March 5 in Graduate’s Grove.  Director and screenplay writer Sophie...

Art Club officers Emma Li (10) and Laurel Davies (12) and Student Diversity Coalition Leader Dina Ande (12) draw in chalk outside of the Rothschild Performing Arts Center on Friday. Students responded in chalk to the prompt What do you hope to see in the future?

Culture Week Days 4 and 5: Students collaborate on chalk mural, mark countries of origin

by Janam Chahal and Lily Shi March 2, 2024

Upper school students contributed to a school-wide collaborative art piece outside of the Rothschild Performing Arts Center during lunch on Friday, marking the end of Culture Week’s activities. Student...

Modern haikus bend traditional rules; they blend old and new again.

Haikus for National Haiku Day

by Jessica Wang and Claire Su May 24, 2023

Learn about the history of haikus in a series of 5-7-5 poems we wrote to honor National Haiku Day on April 17! Sparse syllables flow Haikus born in Japan's past Bashō's artistry  Seventeen sound...

Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.

Music Monday: Figure out Frank Ocean with Aquila

by Gabe Sachse, Sports Columnist April 24, 2023

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. Elusive singer, rapper and songwriter Frank...

Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.

Music Monday: Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month with Aquila

by Katerina Matta, Assistant Features Editor April 3, 2023

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. In honor of this April’s Arab American...

Phoebe Castle (11) takes in a work from the Color Trip: Yoshida Hodaka’s Modern Prints exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco during a field trip on Mar. 27. I was immediately drawn to the different themes of color in each one of the [prints], she said.

AP Art History students tour San Francisco Asian Art Museum

by Felix Chen and Katerina Matta April 3, 2023

Advanced Placement (AP) Art History students visited the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco during a field trip on Mar. 27.   After attending their fifth period classes, students left school from the...

Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.

Music Monday: Eat, sleep, breathe ‘boygenius’ with Aquila

by Gabe Sachse, Assistant Sports Editor March 27, 2023

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. Continuing the new releases trend, indie...

An illustration of the choreography in “Naatu Naatu, which inspired a variety of dance trends on Instagram and TikTok. This song won at this years Academy Awards for Best Original Song, making it the first Indian film song to be both nominated for and win an Oscar.

The significance of ‘Naatu Naatu’’s Oscar win for India

by Ananya Sriram, Co-Features Editor March 23, 2023

“Not salsa, not flamenco, my brother … Do you know Naatu?”  And with the pulsating beat of drums, the tune of a mandolin and bright vocals, the concept of “Naatu” comes to life. As I sat...

Music Monday is a new installation featuring a different category of songs on a weekly basis.

Music Monday: Live, laugh, Lana with Aquila

by Alison Yang, Assistant A&E Editor March 20, 2023

Music Monday features a different category of songs on a weekly basis. Each Monday, Harker Aquila will release seven songs, one song for each day of the week. The legendary Lana del Rey needs little...

Downbeat performers pose for a photo at the International Championship of High School A Cappella (ICHSA) on March 10. Downbeat placed fourth in the quarter finals against seven other a cappella groups from California.

Downbeat places fourth at ICHSA quarter finals

by Young Min and Alison Yang March 20, 2023

Harker’s show choir, Downbeat, placed fourth in the quarter finals of the International Championship of High School A Cappella (ICHSA) on March 10 at John Burroughs High School, competing against seven...

Anna Yang is a twelfth grader at Notre Dame High School in San Jose and is the 2022-2023 Santa Clara Youth Poet Laureate. Anna’s writing has been published in The New York Times and KQED. Anna spoke with Harker Aquila about her experiences in poetry, and how it relates to her identity and past.

The Poet’s Project: ‘Depths of my mind’

by Felix Chen and Aishani Singh March 16, 2023

Anna Yang is a twelfth grader at Notre Dame High School in San Jose and is the 2022-2023 Santa Clara Youth Poet Laureate. Anna’s writing has been published in The New York Times and KQED. Anna spoke...

AP Art History recreates Georges Seurats A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The AP art history tableau is a beloved Hoscars tradition.

Trip down memory lane: Nostalgia-themed Hoscars return for fifth annual run

by Jessica Wang February 21, 2023

Spotlight. To thunderous applause and a dramatic backing track, on saunters Gordon Chen (12) carrying Kris Estrada (12) to the center of the stage. And so begins the fifth annual Hoscars performances,...

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