Events
Spring 2022 Junior College Trip
Our Junior Class had an opportunity to set foot on three very different campuses. During our overnight trip they visited the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Randolph Macon College. They also spent some downtime in Carytown.
Spring Lycée Day 2022
Lycée Day topics this semester stretched across a variety of interests. We’d like to thank ALL of our presenters for their time, energy, and passion in sharing their hobbies and expertise with us during the these Spring Lycée sessions. Explore our other Lycée Days by clicking here.
CHS Fall 2021 Production of “The Tell-Tale Farce”
The Theater Department of Community High School presented two performances of Don Zolidis’ comedy, “The Tell-Tale Farce,” and had their audience rolling with laughter! Set in the Dowling’s drawing-room in the 1840s, the widow Dowling has hired Edgar Allan Poe to write a poem to commemorate her long-faded beauty. When her niece, Sarah Dowling’s suitor […]
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“Homer-o-stasis” lab
There is nothing quite like a “Homer-o-stasis” lab. For this homeostasis lab our Biology students had to keep their Homer Simpson alive for five minutes. This involved keep his temperature, water level, and yellowness steady, even though water was pouring out of the bottom of Homer’s cup.
Daisy Art Parade 2023
CHS Humanities and art teacher, Brian Counihan, was the SE Artist in Residence who lead up the parade and weekly workshops for the Daisy Art Parade in 2023. Brian used to organize the Marginal Arts Festival, and the parade was what Roanokers looked forward to most. Local community groups and individuals were invited to create […]
Zeljka (Schelly) Shares the Significance of Her Yearlong CHS Exchange
Hey, my name is Zeljka and I’m visiting from Germany. I have always wanted to do an exchange year in America, to grow, step out of my comfort zone, and become more independent. I also realize who my true friends are, appreciate everything more that I have in Germany, and am also finding myself. That’s […]
Appropriated Press
The Appropriated Press was founded in early A.Da. 87 (2003 Anti-Vulgar) by David Hartke, Olchar Lindsann, and Aaron Andrews in the wake of the first American Post-Neo Show, Re: Pete: The Novel: The Exhibition, and ran eight issues through early A.Da. 90. During this time it represented the main published venue for the Post-Neo group […]
Rêvenance by Olchar E. Lindsann
Olchar E. Lindsann brings us Rêvenance: A Zine of Hauntings From Underground Histories is the flagship journal of the Revenant Editions series, dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and other countercultures. It includes essays, translations, and many experimental forms of historical writing and research that connect those traditions to continuing radical […]
Olchar E. Lindsann – A Social History of the Avant-Garde
On July 4, 2019 at the AfterMAF festival in Roanoke, VA, Olchar E. Lindsann delivered a lecture on the 19th Century Avant-Garde, focusing on the social history, rather than the aesthetic – an anthropological and micro-historical rather than “art/literary history” approach. Here’s the video of his presentation. Olchar only got through the Symbolists in the […]
Olchar E. Lindsann
Olchar E. Lindsann wears many hats in the academic and artistic community. While he is known for his exceptional teaching skills in Creative Writing and Humanities courses, he is also an accomplished published author. His literary prowess extends beyond writing, as he has performed extensively in both the United States and England, showcasing his captivating […]
Olchar E. Lindsann – The In-Appropriated Press
The In-Appropriated Press from Olchar E. Lindsann is the second, re-launched incarnation of the first Post-NeoAbsurdist journal The Appropriated Press, whose original run stretched from 2003-2006 and focused on the Columbus, Ohio Post-Neo community. The new series continues its raucous, diverse, and often willfully inane onslaught, splitting its focus between the Roanoke, Virginia community and the wider […]
The Autonomous Library
This site hosts the online catalogue of Olchar E. Lindsann’s archival library of micropress publications, which currently contains approximately 3,000 chapbooks and zines (1,700 catalogued so far). Its emphasis is on the anglophone avant-garde of the last 30 years, but it also contains significant amounts of material from Anarchist, Socialist, and other radical countercultures with […]
mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press
mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press is administered by Olchar E. Lindsann, and focuses its activity upon and among the international Post-Neo community, marginal writing communities, anti-capitalist avant-garde networks and the Eternal mail art Network. It also attempts to explore the connections between the avant-garde and other marginal communities such as Hermeticism and Occultism, Anarchist and Utopian Socialist networks, […]
Revenant Archive
The Revenant Archive, stewarded by Olchar E. Lindsann, attempts to chart and provide the materials for the detailed reconstruction of 19th Century avant-garde communities–a long, rich, and complex history that has been almost effaced from the communal memory of today’s Eternal Network of avant-garde counterculture. This DIY micro-archive is assembled, maintained, and designed to function […]
CHS Students Travel To France
Eleven students and two teachers traveled to France for a two week adventure which included an exchange with Lycée Privé Charles Péguy in Gorges, France. Click the button below to learn all about the areas they explored on their trip, including their time in Paris. Read about their Trip Here!