Arts
Bryn Athyn College offers both courses and extracurricular arts opportunities in studio arts, theater, and music. Arts courses at Bryn Athyn include drawing and painting, ceramics, metals, photography, and art history.
Students with any level of experience can participate in the College’s annual winter production, a main-stage play or musical with students serving as cast and crew members, costume and set designers. Some recent Bryn Athyn College productions include The Glass Menagerie, Antigone, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Wit, Into the Woods, The Crucible, The Miracle Worker, and more. College plays are performed at the Mitchell Performing Arts Center, a newly renovated theater on campus.
The Bryn Athyn Orchestra and College Chorale are the primary opportunities for musicians at the College. Students can audition to be a part of the Orchestra, and anyone can take the chorale class. Some students join other community members in participating in the Bryn Athyn Cathedral Choir, which sings regularly at worship services at Bryn Athyn Cathedral. Special choirs are formed to present the Bach Magnificat at Christmastime and Faure Requiem on Good Friday. A joint student-faculty group, Bryn Athyn College ROCKS!, regularly hosts concerts to raise money for the new science center for the College or the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
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