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Harker Aquila

Dancers in the Harker Dance Company stand on props in the first few measures of the 2021 dance production. After the senior members of Harker Dance Company opened the number, the rest of Harker Dance Company and Kinetic Crew joined for their segments.

Leaping “Outside the Box”

by Emily Tan, Winged Post Features Editor May 20, 2021

From breaking free of Zoom squares that have confined dancers all year to thinking creatively in terms of choreography, students and faculty involved in this year’s upper school dance show have had breakthroughs...

“I realized that I'm sick of everyone and everything trying to be the same. My approach in life is to say something, do something, write something, that no one's ever written, thought or done before. I'm outgoing, extroverted, silly, adventurous, but I really try to lean into the strangeness, the unknown, the mystery,” Benjamin Gicqueau (12) said.

Humans of Harker: The magnificence of mystery

by Anika Maji and Medha Yarlagadda May 3, 2021

When high school students describe their passions in life, having conversations with senior citizens probably wouldn’t factor into most of their lists. For Benjamin Gicqueau (12), this is not the case....

Neeli Cherkovski, renowned Beat Generation poet, speaks to students in Charles Shuttleworth’s Jack Kerouac class on Thursday, Dec. 1 during first period. Cherkovski read from his newest poetry book, "Hang on to the Yangtze River," and also spoke about his life journey with poetry.

The Poet’s Project: Beat Generation author Neeli Cherkovski finds the world through poetry

by Sarah Mohammed and Isha Moorjani December 8, 2020

Poet Neeli Cherkovski recounts afternoons of picking lemons from a lemon tree in his home garden and listening to his little dog yapping at squirrels on his redwood deck in the distance. As hummingbirds...

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