Hartford is gearing up for the 2012 Trinity Samba Fest by brushing up on their dance moves at a samba dance workshop held on Thursday at the Vernon Social Center on the campus of Trinity College. Trinity students and members of the Hartford community joined to learn the rhythms and patterns of Afro-Peruvian and Puerto Rican dances. The workshop was conducted by the music and dance ensemble Bomba Ashe, who instructed participants in bomba, a dance form developed on the sugar cane plantations of Puerto Rico. For more photos from the set, visit: http://bit.ly/I5mj0I. The Trinity Samba Fest will be held May 5, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Riverfront Recapture in Hartford. www.sambafest.com. 
D.B. Sweeney, known for his roles in The Cutting Edge, Eight Men Out, and many other films and television shows, voices his support for the Trinity Film Festival, on May 5, 2012. Today is the late deadline for submissions, so make sure to get them in!
Last week, The Quirks and The Accidentals a Cappella groups, were invited to sing "America the Beautiful," during the seventh inning stretch of a New Britain Rock Cats game. The Rock Cats are the AA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major league baseball team. Trinity's SGA and Office of Campus Life provided tickets and transportation to the game for students. (Photo by Wil Goldsholl '13)
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Kristen Duquette '13 (right) with Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, and Governor of Connecticut, Daniel Malloy, at the Bushnell Center for Performing Arts. Duquette has set her sights on the Paralympics in London this summer. The qualifying trials are in June in North Dakota, and she will attempt to make the U.S. team in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle. For more on Duquette, visit: http://goo.gl/72CVF
(Photo by Nick Caito)
Trinity students Joseph Laws '12 and Angela London '15 (pictured), and Shanice Hinckson '15 collected signatures from hundreds of their classmates, who pledged support toward the elimination of the word "retard-ed" when used in a derogatory fashion. Last year, over 300 students signed the pledge, and this year, the Trinity College Best Buddies chapter organizing the campaign is aiming for 600. Students that pledge receive a Spread the Word wristband, and a Spread the Word flyer to put in their windows. For more on the nationwide movement, visit the Spread the Word campaign website: http://www.r-word.org/. To join Best Buddies, email trinitybestbuddies@gmail.com.
This video stars the Bantam mascot, who has been working hard in anticipation for March 1. Our furry friend and young Trinity alumni will compete with NESCAC rivals, in a quest for a third straight March Mania title. For more visit, www.marchmania.org.
Leslie Ahlstrand '12 was one of five undergraduates in Connecticut selected as a Poetry Circuit winner this year. The five students present their poetry at schools around the state. This performance took place at the Smith House on the campus of Trinity. The work of the winners of this prestigious competition, which began in 1968, is also published in Connecticut Review. Ahlstrand, a double major in Public Policy and Law and English, is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including the John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, The Watkinson Creative Fellowship, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Alumnus Prize in Fiction.
This is a backstage shot from this year's production of the Vagina Monologues at Trinity. The production, in it's thirteenth year at Trinity, was directed by Brittney Payton '12 and Jeanika Browne-Springer '12. (Complete photo gallery: http://goo.gl/VGz4U) The event benefited the Hartford Interval House, a battered women's shelter; and, Haitian female survivors of sexual/domestic violence. The event was sponsored by the Trinity College Women & Gender Resource Action Center (WGRAC); Trinity College Students Against Sexual Assault (SASA), Entertainment Activities Council (EAC), and Trinity's Sexual Assault Response Team (SART). For more info on the Vagina Monologues, visit <a href="http://www.vday.org" rel="nofollow">www.vday.org</a>.
Photos by Nick Lacy
The 2nd Annual International Culture Show at Trinity College took place at the Washington Room in Mather Hall on Trinity's campus on Friday, February 17, 2012. The event, sponsored by the International House (a student theme house at Trinity), featured International Poetry, steppers, Bollywood and Bollywood with a Spanish twist, a "Salute to Humanity," African Poetry by the African Development Coalition (ADC), a performance by the Latin Dance Club, Afro Jazz, and the Trinity Samba Ensemble. For a complete photo gallery, visit: http://goo.gl/j3fmd.
Photo by Nick Lacy