Monday, November 9, 2015

Southwest Dance Tour Fundraiser at Intermedia Arts Monday, Nov. 9 at 7:00 pm



New York City Dance Tour Fundraiser - November 9th at Intermedia Arts

Food, Drink, Dance Performance  

$10 admission to support the Advanced Dance trip to New York in April, 2016.


Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged Open Tuesday November 10 with Curtain at 7 pm


Southwest High School Unhinged, written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, and directed by Sierra Larsen, Allie Feriancek, and Leni Sophocleus. 

Come early for limited seating to the Southwest Blackbox at 7 PM on November 10-13th! 

$10 for adults, $5 for students.

A fun-filled evening of high brow from the great bard.  Be prepared to get educated and laugh.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Southwest Dance at Intermedia Arts November 9 -- 7:00 pm

New York City Dance Tour Fundraiser - November 9th at Intermedia Arts


Food, Drink, Dance Performance  $10 admission to support the Advanced Dance trip to New York in April, 2016.


Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408

Southwest Math Team Earns a Tie for First Place!


Southwest Math Team Earns a Tie for First Place!

We had a competition on Monday, November 2 at Roosevelt High School. In the Minneapolis Division, 154 students from eight high schools participated in the first competition. Over half of the participants were from Southwest – 79 of our own students took part in the competition! 

Southwest High School and South High School earned a tie for first place. Both schools had one student with a perfect score at the meet. Congratulations to Paul Heltemes on his perfect performance! 

Our next competition is on Monday, November 23. We will be traveling to Washburn High School. Our third competition of the year is on December 14 at Southwest High School. 

Contact David McMayer at David.mcmayer@mpls.k12.mn.us for more information. 

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Minneapolis Mayor's Office Delegation Visits Southwest Sister School Kasugaoka High School in Japan


The delegation from the Minneapolis Mayor's office visited our sister school, Kasugaoka High School.  They watched the musical Lion King” and an Aikodo (martial art) practice.  

Since the delegation wore Southwest T-shirts, Staff at Kasugaoka felt closer to the group.  Students received Southwest’s pens and they looked happy.  




Sunday, November 1, 2015

Southwest Building for Our Future

Left to Right: Khay Ross, 11th; Evelyn Jastrow, 3rd; Isaac Van Wert, 10th; and Hanlon Fresco 9th
Another milestone in the continuing project of addition and renovation at Southwest High School.  Marking the "closing" of the shell, students led the way and filled in the last bricks.  Windows will be installed this and next week.  The outer shell will be completed in time for heating against the winter weather.

The building represents the school district investment in the future of our district and our city.  It is only fitting that the students representing our future add their work to completing the brick work for the future - theirs and ours.

Ten new rooms have been opened since the start of construction in March of this year.  The center section and 14 more rooms will be added around the middle of March 2016.  Included in the next year opening will be the kitchen, commons and media center.  The entire project is scheduled to be completed by fall of 2016.


Southwest Dance Concert Nov. 9 at 7:00 pm at Intermedia Arts



The Southwest Advanced IB Dance Class will be performing on Monday Evening November 9th at 7:00 p.m. at Intermedia Arts (2822 Lyndale Ave. S.) for it's Dance Fundraiser.  

The money donated will benefit students who need scholarships money for our New York Dance Trip we will be taking with Theater in April.  We are happy to be inhabiting Intermedia for the first time in many years.  

All 44 students will be performing duet projects that they have been working on for six weeks.  

Dare I say it is some of the nicest, innovative work I have seen yet.  

The photo attached is of course taken by our former colleague and science teacher, Marc Wanvig.  It is from last year's show at Patrick's Cabaret and was choreographed by Tess Dutton and Nate Kay.  

This year's stimuli was to create a work that somewhere includes language(spoken, illuded to, written etc.).


Hope you can attend.   Colleen Callahan Russell, Dance Teacher