Sem Snippets - March 2009 - GrowinG our Global Community

Aug 26, 2026

Sem Snippets March 2009 highlights Buffalo Seminary’s focus on global community and arts programming. The publication describes enrolling nine young women from China, Israel, Korea, Mongolia, and Wales, including host-family connections that broaden cultural understanding for both international and domestic students. It also covers the Theatre of Yugen’s East-West Noh-inspired performances and the Marion McNulty Dillon drama series, plus the Wilkinson Poet event welcoming Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn and the Wilkinson Poetry Chair workshops.

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GrowinG our Global Community

East Meets West at Buffalo Seminary

Noh theatre and Theatre of Yugen

senior honored by nFJC

wilkinson poet

Sem Snippets March 2009 GrowinG our Global Community Tocaymp’segtelonaelachndaecnlgeaersemanderstnternatding ofiothneaichness of our varied cultures. Buffalo Seminary has decided to grow its course offerings to increase international awareness and to expand its residential program to include more international students and residential students from other parts of the U.S. This year, Sem had the opportunity to enroll nine young women from around the world. These students came from China, Israel, Korea, Mongolia, and Wales. The majority of these girls have had the unique experience of living with an American host family. These host families, who have a direct connection with Buffalo Seminary, have provided the girls with firsthand exposure to American culture. Sem is a place of life-changing opportunities. During their time here, our students build relationships with some of the very best educators in the world-our faculty and staff-and through those relationships build lives of good character, inquiry, and community. Their lives are enriched as well through their interactions with their classmates-young women from around the world with diverse interests, abilities, and backgrounds. Sem recognizes the invaluable experience that enrolling international students provides, not only for them but also for our Sem community. The school plans to enroll additional residential students next fall and will provide small residential settings for both international and domestic students. We have already had inquiries from interested Buffalo Seminary alumnae who have moved out of Buffalo but still want their daughters to experience the superior education that Sem provides. We have inquiries from Massachusetts and New Mexico to China and Vietnam. If you know of a young woman who would be a great match for Sem or if you would like to consider hosting a Sem student, please contact the Admissions Office at 716.885.6780. Japanese noh theatre takes the staGe EaSt MEEtS WESt at Buffalo SEMinary From the frontpage of Buffalo Rising, September 27, 2008, by Kate Sorice Buffalo Seminary is in a league of their own and one of a kind. They’re the only non denominational all girls college preparatory school in the area. The classes are smaller and they focus on academic excellence, creativity and giving each girl a voice. Every year the Fine Arts and Music program calls upon a different artist to come in and work with the students to introduce them to a new kind of theatre. Last year they focused on Commedia Del’Arte, which is the basis for a lot of improv and physical comedy today. The Theatre of Yugen was chosen to come in and assist this year since there is a focus on East Asian Studies at the school. Theatre of Yugen is an ensemble based in San Francisco and dedicated to fostering intercultural understanding through their performances. Toni Wilson, head of the Fine Arts Department, is incredibly excited to have this opportunity to have Yugen work with the girls on these performances.“Noh theatre is very much based on simplicity and there is a beauty and mystical element in it. This production is a fusion of East and West,” Wilson said. Seminary was proud to host Theatre of Yugen, October 3, 2008, as part of the Marion McNulty Dillon‘22 Drama Series, established in 2004 by the Dillon family in memory of their mother, Marion M. Dillon. This endowed fund seeks to enrich and enhance drama in the Arts Department. Theatre of Yugen is an experimental ensemble committed to the pursuit of the intangible essence called yugen through its exploration of dramatic and literary classics and the crafting of new works of world theatre. Seminary students were fortunate to work with artist-in-residence Jublith Moore, Theatre of Yugen artistic director, from whom they learned Noh techniques-skills used for Sem’s fall production of At the Hawk’s Well by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1916). This piece, the first English play to use Ja

FAQs

What is the purpose of enrolling international students at Buffalo Seminary?

The school emphasizes enriching both international students and the Sem community through shared learning, relationships, and expanded residential options.

Which theatre company is featured in the East-meets-West program?

The publication features Theatre of Yugen, an ensemble from San Francisco that fosters intercultural understanding through performances.

Who is the Wilkinson Poet for this year, and what recognition has he received?

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn is welcomed as this year’s Wilkinson Poet, with honors including major literature prizes and fellowships from arts organizations.

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