Written by community liaison Susan Curnow Breedlove, and CHS staff Christopher Michael, Paul Compton and Marcus Zachery
Students are currently leading several initiatives at Camden High School (CHS). The following are three such groups who also invite participation and interaction of Camden News readers.
The Public is Invited – Latino Family Night
A Latino Family Night is being planned by students of the Camden Latin@ Student Council. The mission statement of this group states, “Our club is here to represent and celebrate the Latin@ culture in our school and community. You don’t have to be Latin@ to join.” Two principal leaders are Jesus and Roberto. Th This is Latin@ Student Council! Ou The upcoming family event will include live music, food and entertainment on November 1, from 6 until 8 o’clock. Free admission! For further info contact Marcus Zackery, Public Relations Coordinator, Camden High School, at 612-668-2000 or Marcus.Zackery@mpls.k12.mn.us.
Now On-Line – Camden News hour
An elective choice, Student Council Class, has been added to the curriculum of Camden High this year. The core of the class are members of the student council with additional nine through twelve graders joining with their teacher Paul Compton. The students were given the directive to brainstorm ideas focusing on tasks that they felt were needed at CHS. Main choices they came up were creating a yearbook or creating a news show. (Note: No one has been directed to coordinate a Camden yearbook for 2025, there was no Henry/Camden yearbook for 2024, a staff person noted in May of 2023 that no one was creating a yearbook for that year, so he voluntarily jumped in “last minute” and pulled together a version.)
The first choice of the class was to resurrect the former news hour left vacant when its creator instructor Alex Conover was transferred out of Camden to the newly established Tech Center. This year’s news program is shown to staff and student body along with student announcements.
You will find the CNH (Camden NewsHour) informative and engaging, providing a camera into the daily and event activities of the school. See the attached YouTube link below for this program. Or, go to YouTube andsearch @Camdennewshour.
Coming Soon – Some Pig at Camden High
A play by the Camden High Drama Club
Synopsis: Some Pig is a new drama written and workshopped by students of the Camden High Drama Club (formerly Henry Drama Club). It explores themes of domestic violence and is inspired by the Power and Control Wheel, created by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth, MN. The play tells the story of a young woman who has taken shelter with her mother from an abusive father, only to get caught up in an abusive romantic relationship. Within this story, several other victims of domestic violence get a voice through allegorical monologues inspired by the animal characters of Charlotte’s Web as we try to answer the questions: How do we identify victims of domestic violence and how do we help them? The play is a call to action for our audience, and all ticket sales will be donated to Praxis International to help victims of domestic violence.
The play is written by Christopher Michael, John Woehrle and Amber Corbett, with the students of Camden Drama Club.
November 14 and 15 at 7 p.m.
November 16 at 1 p.m.
$10 online, $12 at the door
Tickets: https://our.show/wn3w4bsewr
Thank you!
Christopher Michael (he/him/his), Theatre/Dance Instructor, Camden High School