Hello
readers of “The Crispy Waffle's Syrup Blog”! My name is Iqbal and today I
shall be blogging about the program our class participated in, “Creativity
Rocks”. This was a program which had four main activities/parts which were
creating artwork, blogging, creating “Human Rights” poems and our performance.
Today, I shall discuss a bit about each part, my role in each and the process
in which we completed each part. So, let’s dive straight in!
The first
thing we did in this program was create artwork. Just like all the other
activities, the artwork was for research in creativity. I personally had a lot
of fun creating the artwork and felt a bit more creative in the process. You
probably know quite a bit about this as the other students and I have already
blogged about this earlier this year.
The second part of this program is
coincidently blogging! If you have been following our blogs, you know that we
first blogged about our trip to the Nelson Art Center and the pictures we
created there. Then, our second blog was a comment on another person’s blog.
The third blog was about other students in our grade and the artwork they also
created. Blogging has been a long process and we have been doing this for quite
some time. I overall enjoyed it. Now I
am going to be talking about the more “juicy” events...
The third
part of “Creativity Rocks” was creating “Human Rights” spoken word. Up until
this part of the program, I had no idea what spoken word was and at the time, I
was really interested in learning about it. Unfortunately, I was away on the
day that my class created the spoken word poems so I kind of missed out but, at
least I got to see the final product! The poem my classmates made was amazing
and I realized that even if I did come, I probably wouldn't have helped the
poem. I actually mighty have made it worse as I am terrible at poetry. Anyways,
using the poems we started to put together our performance!
The fourth
and final part of this whole program was our performance. Our class’s
performance was an interpreted dance while the poems we created were being
recited. I wasn’t a good speaker so I volunteered to be a dancer. We split into
4 groups for the 4 different poems. My choice of being a dancer was a good idea
as it helped even out the number of dancers and speakers per group. After we
had decided on who’s doing what, we started practising. We practised for about
3 periods in total (a period is about 50 minutes, so about 2h and 30 minutes)
at our school. This excluded the 3 dress rehearsals. Long story short, we put a
lot of effort into the performance and on April 17th, it all paid
off. I had worked a lot with the two other dancers in my group, Rashawn and
Chealsea, and the two speakers in my group, Saksham and Brian. Sometimes, the
dancers and speakers would work separately but we came together in the end to
see how far each other had got. We soon had to practise together more often
though as we needed to time our moves with the poem. I still remember how our dance/drama/music
teacher, Mrs.Walton, had done this exercise where you’d perform and she would
find every little mistake you made and make you fix it. You then had to redo
the whole performance from the begging every time. Our group was one of the
more luckier ones as we didn’t have to redo the performance as often as others.
It still was annoying though but looking back, it was probably what helped us
do so well during the performance. Speaking
of the performance...
At the
performance, there were a lot of different people ranging from parents,
artists, politicians, teacher, principles, and even some representatives from
“Creativity Rocks”. The performance was
at the Nelson Art Center, the same place where we created out artwork. Speaking
of art, when I went into the gallery, I was so surprised and happy to see my
artwork. It felt so nice to have it up
there. Truth be told though, I think it was my first painting that got me up
there as it was quite unique. My second painting was horrible though. Anyways,
that’s a topic discussed in a previous blog. During the performance, we all
tried hard not to mess up, especially me. It all turned out really well and we
even got an amazing applaud. I know I’m kind of all over the place but did I
mention that there were photographers? Here, have a look at some of the
pictures: http://jeremysale.zenfolio.com/creativity_rocks_2013
!
I think it’s about time I wrap
this blog up. I overall enjoyed the program and hope to do it again next year
but, only if we do different activities.
I actually learned quite a bit through this program and I am really
thankful for being in it. If you are another student reading this, I highly recommend
that you try to get your class to be a part of this program! And remember, “Creativity
Rocks”!
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