Drama
Drama started at Collège Sainte-Anne in 1893. Throughout the years,
many plays were presented indicating a lot of interest on the part
of the early faculty and students. Plays were held in both French and English
and varied from dramas to comedies. The 1960s saw a reduced enthousiasm
for drama and after a ten-year hiatus, a new theatrical group was formed created by Jean-Douglas Comeau.
Called Les Araignées du boui-boui, this group is still directed by Normand
Godin and performs a variety of plays, notably the musical drama Évangéline
which is gaining national and international recognition.
La malédiction (1893), Un brave (1918), Jesraël
le Prodigne (1925), Chantepie (1926), Joseph (1929), Bréboeuf (1933),
The Flash (1934), The Conversation of Faust (1929), Crime
Conscious (1931), and The man in the shadow (1935) are some of
the plays that have been presented at the College throughout the years.
The School Band
1892 marked the beginning of a college band for Sainte-Anne when musical
instruments were donated by the Eudist College at Saint-Jean de Versailles
in France. The band members not only included students from Sainte-Anne's,
but also local residents and many concerts were presented at Sainte-Anne
as well as in the surrounding villages. During World War II, the band travelled
somewhat with Professor Ulysse Comeau as director. At the end of the 1960s,
the school band became inactive but was brought to life again after 1974
with the hiring of Father Maurice LeBlanc as the university's artistic
director. Today, the Fanfare régionale de Clare still operates
as part of the university's socio-cultural activities with faculty, students,
and local residents as participating members.
Student Newspapers
Throughout the years, Sainte-Anne has published four different student newspapers.
The first one, entitled Les Cloches de Sainte-Anne (1908), was written
by the priests and it was published every Sunday until 1910. Le Trait
d’Union was first published in 1923 but only lasted for one
year. The student paper, Les Stromates, first appeared in
1937 and lasted for ten years, first as a weekly newspaper and
later a monthly. In Les Stromates students
were able to voice their opinions more than at any other time as the strict
control held by the priests in the past became more relaxed. Le Reflet
is today's student newspaper at Université Sainte-Anne and is
totally under student control.
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