Buffalo Academy For Visual And Performing Arts
The Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, also known as BAVPA, is a magnet performing arts high school and part of Buffalo's public school system. The current principal is Ms. Jody Covington, and the current assistant principals are Dr. Eileen Czarnecki and Mr. Jonathan Welka.
The school holds classes from grade 5 to 12 and requires students to apply (as if for a job) in the field of their desired "major concentration". Majors taught in the school are Visual Art, Television and Film Production, Dance, Theater, and Music (vocal or instrumental).
Usually near the end of the school year, the TV/Film Production Department has a film festival at Delaware Park. The film festival shows the work the TV/Film Production students have throughout the year.
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—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)
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—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
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From the number it was backing away from as it stopped:
It was performing prettily; the puncture stayed unseen....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)