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Dickinson Convention

Our first big competition of the year! Prepare for a change of pace in club as we start working on our many art projects from carefully designed maps to last minute greeting cards. Artistic skills not required (though thoroughly appreciated).

Cerialia

Since this is the festival of Ceres, goddess of agriculture and grain, there's really only one right way to celebrate: with a cereal bar! Additionally, we'll play a mythologically-themed game of tag and make paper flowers to throw in the faces of our friends.

Vinalia

Here at Latin Club, we care A LOT about food. And it turns out the Romans did too! Vinalia is actually only one of TWO specifically WINE themed holidays. So let us bond with the ancient Romans over the one thing Latin Club is truly all about: FOOD.

Lemuria

Though it may not be the spoopy time of year, it is a ghostly one. We'll ward off all the spirits you'll learn to fear today with liberal amounts of beans! Black beans may be traditional, but unfortunately, all we have are jelly beans...

PAJCL Convention

THE event of the year, PAJCL Convention, is finally back in person after a three-year online period. Get ready to paint portraits, study mythology and perform your favorite songs translated into Latin!

(Photo from 2022's Pre-Convention Banquet)

NJCL Convention

Want to take your Latin-nerdom even further? This is the convention for you! We will be travelling to the national convention, located at Emory University in Georgia (July 22nd-27th), this summer for a week of spirit, academic tests, late nights, and dining hall soda machine exploration. It’s a great chance to meet delegates from other states and make lasting connections.

Initiation

Our first official meeting of the year! Initiation is a time-honored tradition of playing games based on various myths, wearing togas made of bedsheets, and eating lots and lots of good food. Although "initiation" may sound intimidating, we promise you'll have lots of fun.

Fall Fest

A PAJCL-wide event that falls (ba-dum-tss) in late October! This will be a jam-packed day of Classical fun that will give you a taste of the kind of memories you'll make at Convention in the spring.

Pep Rallies

As the most looked-forward to part of the pep rally (if we do say so ourselves), Latin Club performs a wild routine to help psych up the crowd for whatever big game and fuel the fires of competition. Is it embarrassing to dance in a toga in front of the entire school? Absolutely! But to pull together a routine within a week is a chaotic bonding experience we highly recommend.

Halloween

Technically speaking, Halloween isn't a Roman holiday, but it's fun to celebrate anyways. Between learning some haunted Latin vocabulary and our typical feasting you'd think it was a pretty normal club day. WRONG. Get ready for a showcase of spooky mythology skits created just 10 minutes before showtime!

Made on the Mainline

Every year Harriton hosts Made on the Mainline in Narberth Park as a fun day to listen to student musicians, play games, and support clubs. Latin Club usually hosts a bake sale (oftentimes naming goods things that are Roman/Greek inspired).

Thanksgiving

The Romans didn't have the traditional American Thanksgiving, but they did have massive feasts during military triumphs. Join us for our own Roman celebration, that just so happens to fall near Thanksgiving :)

Saturnalia

Io Saturnalia! There's something in the air, and it's not just smoke from scented candles. Join us in celebrating the solstice with food, games, and a concoction of water and juice carefully mixed by our arbiter bibendi. We'll party until dawn-or at least until the late buses leave.

Compitalia

As rowdy as the Romans may seem, they had a lot of respect for their ancestors. Learn about the Lares and take part in some modern interpretations of their rituals! Make sock puppets instead of woolen dolls and sacrificing children to... oh... Well I guess we'll skip that one. Never said the Romans didn't deserve their reputation.

Lupercalia

One of the wackiest Roman holidays involving priests, wolves and ancient rituals in caves. Join us in celebrating the founding of Rome with food and games. We can't promise that there won't be any historically-accurate shenanigans, but we will keep the blood sacrifices to a minimum.

Roman New Year

Since the Roman calendar initially began with the month of March, March 1st was the technical start of the year. But just because it's old, doesn't mean it isn't fun! Renew the fire of Vesta and learn an old founding myth that sounds suspiciously similar to The Emperor's New Clothes...

The Ides of March

Beware the Ides of March! As the day of the infamous death of Julius Caesar, Latin Club has in the past celebrated by making paper daggers and faking stabbing our friends (just like Brutus would have wanted us to), reenacting Caesar's death according to Shakespeare, and eating "bleeding cupcakes."

Quinquatria

Hail Minerva! The time has come to beg the goddess of the arts to bless us for PAJCL. Enjoy the fun animal themed games and practice your fortune telling to ensure our later success!

(Painting of Minerva by Clara Zhu)

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