Exploring Urban and Rural Places at Act Five: Students’ Perspectives
For Act Five students, this year is full of a lot of contrasts. One is the practice of balancing silent starts to our days with the busy-ness that comes with […]
Hope in a weary world : A Word from the Director
As I write today, the US Election has captured the world’s gaze, the winter season is creeping in (though we are loving this warm week!), we are 7 months into […]
Reflections on Ordinary Time at Blake Street
Kathleen Norris is quoted saying that “it is the paradox of human life that… it is the routine and the everyday that we find the possibilities for the greatest transformation.” […]
Lessons from Temagami
Our students got back from their canoe adventure in Temagami, Ontario almost 2 weeks ago now, and it was just last Thursday that we drove back down from Coldwater‘s base […]
Act Five Year Two is Underway!
On Labour Day of 2020, 16 students moved into our house on Blake St in Hamilton, signifying the start of Act Five 2020-2021. Students decorated their bedrooms, unpacked their belongings, […]
Beginning Year Two: Faithfully Improvising
“So? Is it happening? Is Act Five on for this fall?” In a dozen or so iterations, this question has been asked a hundred times the past months. Whether by […]
How does one measure impact? – Parent Testimonies
Since its inception, the number of those supporting Act Five has steadily grown. For those of us involved with Act Five, we – perhaps obviously – wholeheartedly believe in this […]
Thank you, and a note on what is to come.
To begin… As a final post for this inaugural year of Act Five, I want to say thank you. Thank you to all of you reading this who have followed […]
Second Term Recap
One of our students writes that “the second semester is when it felt like we were living real life and not just this incredible dream. “Second semester and our storytelling […]
Taking Time for the Gaps
My husband Dave and I moved into the Act Five home on Blake Street as Resident Leaders from just four streets over, but the transition was impossible to overestimate. We […]
