Events
All Star Jam
The Record Store AllStar Jam celebrates the culture of independently owned record stores in Roanoke, while raising funds for Community High School. The CHS band also played that night at Spot on Kirk.
Shakespeare Monologue Competition 2017
Kimberly represented Community High School at the 2017 English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition at the Whitman Auditorium at Virginia Western Community College.
News
Warren’s “Visions of Tomorrow” Art Exhibit
CHS arts and humanities teacher, Warren Fry, curated a youth art exhibition for young artists in the Roanoke area: For this exhibit Visions of Tomorrow, we asked local teen artists to respond to the following question: what does “tomorrow” mean to you. Whether struggling from day to day, or looking ahead to a future beyond our […]
Working in the CHS Garden
Students from Meg’s “Food, Farming, and the Future” class got out and worked on the CHS school garden.
A Third Course of Gristle-Butter
The third issue of Gristle-Butter, the CHS Creative Writing Zine, is ready to be eaten. If your literary diet has been sorely deficient in Gristle-Butter due to the covid-proofing delays this semester, fear not! Click here for a solid dose of creativity, tendony-typos and all, by your peers in the CHS Creative Writing Classes.
Practicing Language Through a Virtual Student Exchange
The CHS French students participated in an inter-institutional live chat exchange with students living in France and Germany who are studying English and French. The students in France (currently learning English) joined us from their classroom at Lycée Professionel Saint Joseph in Bucquoy, northern France. French students in Germany also logged on to connect with […]
QuarantZine #10 is Available For Your Enjoyment!
You can download it here! The Zine Club is asking for artwork submissions for the covers and interiors of both zines, Gristle-Butter as well as QuarantZine. No themes are assigned, but artwork should be able to be used in B&W. Get in touch with Olchar! To see all of the past issues, go to the […]
Your Next Heap of Gristle Butter Is Available!
The Second issue of Gristle-Butter, the CHS Creative Writing Zine has arrived! Click here to enjoy over 50 pages of Poetry and Fiction by your peers in the CHS Creative Writing Classes.
The Bookmasters Class Shares Their Research
Click here to read the independent research blogs from the 2020 fall semester’s Bookmasters Class. Most of the students chose to draw upon topics and methodologies from across the whole school curriculum, with many of their topics inspired by previous classes.
Our Last Friday Activity of the Semester was Coordinated with Olchar’s “Becoming a Bookmaster” Class
Olchar brought in some of the strangest, rarest, oldest, nicest, and most fun examples from his archival libraries of underground and countercultural books from the 18th-20th Centuries. From 18th Century newspapers, to an abolitionist book drawn by kids in 1850, to a one-of-a-kind Serbian Surrealist collaged book, to contemporary avant-garde Russian zines, we informally browsed […]
Quarantzine #9 Is Now Available!
Check it out! We want this zine to continue, and so we need YOUR words/doodles/thoughts/pictures/memes/etceras! QuarantZine features stuff by ANY AND ALL CHS students, faculty/staff, and alumni. QuarantZine isn’t just “High Art”! Whatever you used to leave on the Library Markerboard… is what we need now! To see all of the past issues, go to […]
“In the Moment: Artists and Their Work” Olchar Lindsann and Brian Counihan
Olchar Lindsann and Brian Counihan spoke about their creative processes/work at CHS as part of a speaker series at VT’s Moss Arts Center. In a series of 45-minute chats, the Moss Arts Center gave an exclusive look inside the homes and studios of these [Southwest Virginia] artists where we experienced their work, asked questions, and discussed […]
“In the Moment: Artists and Their Work” Brian Counihan and Olchar Lindsann
Brian Counihan and Olchar Lindsann spoke about their creative processes/work at CHS as part of a speaker series at VT’s Moss Arts Center. In a series of 45-minute chats, the Moss Arts Center gave an exclusive look inside the homes and studios of these [Southwest Virginia] artists where we experienced their work, asked questions, and […]