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2023-2024 Year-End Briefing
June 21st, 2024
As our ninth academic year comes to a close, we've compiled our annual progress into a 2023-2024 Year-End Briefing. As in years past, this briefing outlines the diligent work of our incredible faculty, staff, and student body toward the fulfillment of our strategic plan—Pacifica 2025.OC Register's Artist of the Year Semi-finalist: Jessie Levasheff
March 20th, 2024
Students across Orange County were nominated for the 2024 Artist of the Year in dance from teachers and private instructors at OC high schools and arts organizations. Pacifica Christian High School is honored to announce that one of our Tritons was named a semi-finalist!
Posted in: Arts, In The PressPacifica Releases 2022-2023 Year-End Briefing
June 24th, 2023
As our eighth academic year comes to a close, it is my honor, on behalf of the Board of Trustees, to share with you our 2022-2023 Year-End Briefing. As in years past...
Posted in: Academics, Admissions, Advancement, Alumni, Arts, Athletics, College Counseling, Head of School, News, Student LifePacifica Student Artist Designs Artwork for Annual Christmas Card
December 22nd, 2022
Congratulations to Visual Arts student, Emily Bush (Class of '23), for creating the beautiful artwork that was chosen as the cover for our annual Christmas card mailed home to families in our community! Merry Christmas from our Pacifica family. Well done, Emily!
World-Renowned Artists Speak to Pacifica Students
February 22nd, 2022
Pacifica Fine Art students were delighted to meet with and learn from two extraordinary Danish artists, Peter Brandes and Maja Lisa Engelhardt. A married couple from Denmark, Brandes and Englehardt are world renowned for their work restoring and beautifying Danish churches. Additionally, Brandes hol...
Tickets on sale now for Harvey, a comedy classic
February 15th, 2022
March 10, 11, and 12 Pacifica Arts is thrilled to announce that tickets are on sale now for our spring production of Harvey at the Rose Center Theater in Westminster. This Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy by Mary Chase is the story of a perfect gentleman named Elwood P. Dowd who lives with his w...
Tickets on sale now for All Shook Up, a musical comedy
September 28th, 2021
November 4, 5, and 7 Pacifica Arts is proud to open the 2021-2022 season with All Shook Up, a rock 'n' roll musical comedy featuring the songs of Elvis Presley. This toe-tapping Broadway blockbuster is perfect for the entire family, offering lessons in love, hope, and happy endings....
Pacifica Arts proudly presents Surpassing Shadows
March 17th, 2021
April 15, 16, and 18 Pacifica Arts proudly presents Surpassing Shadows, a full-scale, multimedia production that explores the beauty and complexity of life.This showcase of student talents intertwines a one-act play with art, song, music, and dance to communicate ideas and conversations that ring...
Pacifica Publicly Launches Building A Home Campaign
March 8th, 2021
Purpose, direction, goodness, and belonging. In the midst of our culture’s confusion, teenagers yearn for things that help them flourish—things beyond themselves. By providing our students with a superior academic experience steeped in faith and community, Pacifica Christian High School exists t...
Pacifica Christian Plans for the Future
February 26th, 2021
Pacifica Christian High School's mission is to teach students to think and live well. At the heart of that mission is a deeply-held desire to help young people flourish in school and for all of life. Over the past five and a half years, we have built a strong foundation in support of this missi...
After the Calamity: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
November 2nd, 2020
By Rev. Hayden A. Butler Feste. Good madonna, why mournest thou? Olivia. Good fool, for my brother's death. Feste. I think his soul is in hell, madonna. Olivia. I know his soul is in heaven, fool. Feste. The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven. Take...Pacifica Arts proudly presents Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Fall Art Gallery
October 14th, 2020
November 5, 6, and 8 Pacifica Arts is proud to present Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) with three live performances of Twelfth Night, a fast-paced romantic comedy featuring several interwoven plots of romance, mistaken identities, and practical jokes. This hilar...
Tritons Make Waves at State Thespian Festival
April 24th, 2019
Seven Pacifica students earned Superior rankings from judge panels at The California State Thespian Festival and have been invited to perform at the International Thespian Festival this summer. Earning a Superior rank is an honor described as “the theatre arts equivalent of winning both CIF and St...
Posted in: ArtsThe Metaphorical Significance of Into the Woods
March 26th, 2019
Stephen Sondheim’s 89th birthday was March 22nd of this year. Music Theatre International contacted teachers and artists from all over the country requesting that birthday wishes be sent to him. They asked that the notes close with the phrase“So help me, Sondheim”. Indeed, Sondheim is revere...
Posted in: ArtsWhat’s in a Name: Pacifica’s Production of Into the Woods, from Hammerstein to Sondheim to Gremillion
March 12th, 2019
Oscar Hammerstein is credited with changing the face of American Theatre. Hammerstein, a native New Yorker, was bequeathed - at birth, by his very name - the heritage of a true world changer. Hammerstein’s full name was Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein. Hammerstein was named after the famous...Posted in: ArtsHidden Treasures in the Woods - From our Director
March 5th, 2019
Frederic Bastiat, a French classical liberal theorist who influenced American political thought, popularized a simple—but revolutionary—idea regarding what is seen and “what is not seen”. Bastiat wrote: “an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect but to a se...Digital Arts teams up with Pacifica Athletics
December 21st, 2018
This year, our Advanced Digital Arts class is focussing on Graphic Design. In the first semester, they have worked with “in-house” clients at Pacifica including Yearbook Club, Athletics Department, and Marketing Department. As part of their projects with the Athletics Department, they organized,...
Creating Beauty - AP Studio Art
December 21st, 2018
This year, Pacifica added AP Studio Art to the curriculum providing advanced art students the opportunity to express their creativity in new and challenging ways while showcasing the skills they have acquired over the past three years. [caption id="attachment_3428" align="aligncenter" width...
Posted in: ArtsFrom Shakespearean Tragedy to Musical Fantasy: A Season of Adventure in the Arts
December 15th, 2018
The elegant, historic Ebell Theatre was a perfect setting for Pacifica’s magnificent production of Macbeth. More than 62 students from ages 6 - 18 brought life to the beautiful lines of Shakespeare. The music, song, and dance in the richly costumed production allowed students to showcase their man...
Posted in: Arts10 Days Left to Register – TGC Symposium
September 21st, 2015
10 Days Left to Register! SYMPOSIUM DATES Friday evening, October 2, and Saturday, October 3 (detailed symposium agenda below LOCATION St. Andrews Presbyterian Church 600 St. Andrew's Rd Newport Beach, California, 92663 ONLINE REGISTRATION Registration is required to attend TGC Symposium. Click...
Director of Visual and Performing Arts Announced
March 13th, 2015
Pacifica Christian High School-Orange County announces the appointment of Leslee Myers as the founding Director of Pacifica’s Visual and Performing Arts Program and its first performing arts teacher. Ms. Myers recently returned to Southern California after spending two years at New York Universit...
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