Shanthosh's Thoughts on the Whole Project

  The whole project was amazing and I liked every single bit of it. From drawing the art to performing our own poems in front of a live audience, they were all a great experience. There is not a specific part that I liked in the project but if i had to say one it would be this blog. The blog let us show others are art and get feedback to about what they thought and also I got to see other's art and provide feedback. So this project was the beat and I bet my whole class thinks the same also.

  In this project I learned many things.The main one was that there is creativity in all of us and it doesn't have to be in art, dance or music. It can be in anything you do but you have to discover that yourself an hopefully you do. So if you think you are not artistic don't worry because expressing art can be in anything you do.

  This project had changed every opinion or thought I had on art and especially imagination. Before I was not a big fan of art and now I think i am since I know how to express myself.Also for me I did not a good imagination and after this program I think my whole brain and life is probably running on imagination and blood, oxygen, food, water and those other things. So this is my review on the whole project.

Femi's Art Finale!

 



I liked a lot of things about the whole project.  Starting with doing art, not for marks or grades just to express yourself in the most creative way possible.  I also liked this whole blogging tool because we get to use technology (saving the trees) to write and comment on other people's art and explain your own piece of artwork.  I am so glad that our class was given the opportunity to be involved in the project, which was awesome!

 

While taking part in this project, I learned that inspiration can come from anywhere, even an apple :).  I also learned that you can express yourself using art, and not just visual arts.  Another thing I learned was that CREATIVTY ROCKS!!!!!

 

This project really changed me in a lot of ways including my feelings about art, imagination and creativity.  Before this project I wasn't too happy doing art (don't tell Ms.Walker) but now it is a whole different story.  Now I really like expressing myself with art becaue it is fun and uses imagination and creativity, which can help you in other subjects too and that's no joke.

 

So now, everybody should know....

 

 

CREATIVITY ROCKS!!!

 

 

Amina's thoughts about the whole experience :)

I personally thought that this project was really fun and creative. I loved the whole program and how it was planned, we all got to work together and see the deep side of art. I learned a lot about art during this whole project because art was really boring to me, but after this project, i got to know that art is not all about color, lines, and perfection. Art is really about what you imagine, its all imagination (in my opinion). This project changed me in a way, that i did not even know. I hated preforming on stage but now when this project was finished i think back to the nervousness and the excitement that was inside of me, oh i almost forgot the butterflies too. All of that only comes when you are preforming on stage. Also i would like to give a big THANK YOU to Enna, Robin and everyone from the nelson art center for coming and making this project a success. Another huge THANK YOU to all the teachers that were with us and who encouraged us.

The CR project by thirukkumaran

I like about the CR  project because we got to do a lots of thing like blog,draw picture perform the poem about humans right.it was very fun to perform because people will see you and you will to popual.i like it because we learned about human right because i didn't know about human right. 
i enjoyed the every thing about the crispy waffle.we learned about art and dance. 

i learned from the project was human right and art. in art they is no mistake.

the project change by not being shy and i get smart. so this project help me so much.             


thirukkumaran

This is the end

Well This Is It The End Is Here

 

the thing that i liked most about the poject was that when we were told to make something that we had no limit to what we did and that we were all going to end up with something different. and whatever we did was going to not be called ugly or that it was not good even to go into the art gallery. and that we had fun with art because usally when you do art you want it to look pretty but you never want to put what is in your brain on paper. and that we got to perform in front of people you took the time to actually listen to what we were saying and that child have a voice and the saying "kids should been seen and not heard" is not ture.

I learned that you  dont have to care what people think of your art as long as you like it that all that matters. and i learned that as people we have more human rights then you think and to have fun with what your doing and that you dont need to be scared to perform if you beleive in what your doing is right. 

And lastly the project change me because i dont care if people don't like my art because it is right to me. and now when i perform it won't matter what people think because i beleive in what i am doing what is right. to me and i see art in a whole new way now. and that people see thing in differnet ways so i don't have to get mad if people don't know what i am drawing.

Well this is the end to my blog i hope you like what i wrote and i really loved doing this project and i hope you enjoyed it to -Alessia Duarte  

My thoughts on the Crispy Waffles Project

The Crispy Waffles Project was a really fun and enjoyable project. My favorite part of the project was the performance. I liked the performance because we got to perform the poems we wrote about human rights and get to express it in movements. 

I learned a lot from this project  when we did the 2 drawings, I learned that we can express our feelings and thoughts in art. I really enjoyed that.

This project changed me a lot because of the 2 drawings we did. When the instructors said we can use our imagination i was really happy because i can do what my mind feels like doing. This changed my art skills and how I draw.
                     

Well so long and farewell.

This has been awsome partcipating with the creativity rocks program. now its done and we have to go so now we have to remember all of the fun times we had  creating the peoms and makeing daneces. but still this was very exciting and great to do.  I loved the full day we were going to preform because we made up new games and we preformed the dance.  I learned that creativity come from anywere and as long as your still alive you can create. This changed me a little bit because I think that our class is more connected now because we got to spent this time together it has created a better bond.  Any ways so long fare well and hope we will meet again  I will definatly remember this.
By: Lisa

My Final Thoughts-Abiraam

I liked this project because we got to draw 2 pictures and talk about each of them in a group. We also got to make a performance based on a poem that we made using the statements of the Human Rights this was all fun and I enjoyed.

 I learned that you can use your imagination not for just art but for everything that you would like to do like dancing. I also learned that your imagination can be wilder than you think it is.

The project changed my way of thinking of about my imagination since I thought it could only be used sometimes but now I know that you could use your imagination for other things too.

Nishanthan Arudsivam

   My thoughts of creativity rocks project was when we had to write a poetry and it was really fun because we can use our imagination.When we performed the poem I was really scared because I thought that I was going to mess up but overall our group did a really good job and I will never forget it.

           Gbemisola Akerele's View of Crispy Waffles

   The best thing I love about this project was drawing my emotions, writing the  poems my group made and also dancing and performing the poem.

    I learned that drawing pictures is not just a way of expressing our feelings but we can also use dancing to express our feelings. 

    The project changed me in a way that I will use in future. For example I  really learned to love poems and this project made me write more poems.

Jay Patil's thought on the project .

My thoughts on the creativity rocks project was that it was great. My group and I worked toghther very well. And to see it all unfold was absoulutly amazing. I learned that creativity could be expressed in any way. This project changed my oppininon on creativity. Now I truely know that creativity rocks!

My thoughts about the -Project- - Malaika

                  I personally loved the whole project but if I were told to go deep into details and stuff , (which I am :/ ) I would say I really liked the part where we got to do the art and let our minds lead us not our hands. We had absolutely no rules. We were told that our mistakes were art too. I learned allot of things from this project and one of them were there is no Right or Wrong in art. I also learned that imagination can take you any where in the world.The project changed the way I thought about art, i think art is a really pretty and beautiful part of life and if we didnt have it life would be boring.

My thoughts about the project -- Asvija

To me, the project was all about creativity and fun. My favorite part was when we preformed because now all our hard work paid off. Also my favorite part was when we were rehearsing because i got to see all the other groups performances. I learned that art is not about drawing,  painting and sketching but is more about creativity and imagination. This project changed me by taking away my stage fight for about 4 hours. I felt like I could accomplish anything. When we were on the trip, my friends and I enjoyed ourselves more than normal because preforming this was like being real performers because we didn't know anyone in the audience. A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERY ONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE CREATIVITY ROCKS PROGRAM!!! THANK YOU......!

the great art that 7c made nigiuna

                                      The great art that 7C made


I like how are class was making art it was so much fun.And how you can draw any thing you want and i like gbemi hers was really good and funny it made me so happy when i look at it. and i like my on to. My was like you were like kinda happy are for you guys to it maybe some thing that you like.I leand that you can use your imagination in any thing you want to draw. And how you can draw any thing you want and and dont be scared to do it and also the same with your imagination.    

The End and Finale.

       Okay, so this will be my finale blog entry ever on this blog. Let's make it a good one. So after being with this program since November, the experience has been exhilarating! After being in this program for quite some time (years), it was the first time where I actually had this much followup to the initial field trip. My initial feels on the program were like how all other field trips went to the Neilson Park Centre. Honestly, I felt that it was a snooze-fest (no offense). I knew what was coming; I knew that we were going to make some oil pastel drawings and we were going to discuss them. I thought that was it. What I didn't anticipate was this whole big performance and this blogging thing that came later. Frankly, I thought it was a nice experience and something different. I've already talked about how I felt with the initial thoughts on the trip, but now, let's talk about the whole spoken word process!

       The first thing we did was choose a human right from a list. My group had some difficulty choosing a right due to some indecisive people *cough*. So like any group of wise men, or should I say 'wise guys', we decided to take a vote. Eventually, we chose the right: Everyone has the right to a fair and public trial. We choose to this right because my group thought it would be the easiest to write about and take the least amount of time. However, due to time constraints, we actually took the longest time to write than any other group. I actually found that ironic how in our effort to try to find the right which would save the most time, we actually took the most time to write our poem. Funny ain't it? Heh...

      Over the next weeks, I got assigned to a poem with my partner, Adrian. Our poem that we had to recite was about the right: Everyone is equal despite differences in skin colour, sex, religion, and language. Much to my dismay, it turned out that this poem just somehow ended up being twice as long as any other poem. Thanks Brian... We learned the to coordinate our voices to deliver the poem more effectively, which is quite hard; harder than you'd expect. Not only getting the timing down was hard, but you'd also have to do this in sync with the movers of your group. Speaking of which, our movers were Sion, Sabhat, and Jaedan. I think they did a good job conveying the poem, but occasionally, they requested us to slow down parts, but other than that, reading was pretty straight forward. One of the most problematic parts was at "Whether black or white, it doesn't matter." That seemed to be where I would mess up a lot. I had slow down at that part but also pause before reading it. I felt that this would often through me off balance and completely change up the pace of the poem. Another controversial part of the poem is at the line "I may be a female." This would initially always get a chuckle. I think its due to the little kid in all of us. Eventually we got over this (we had to), and got our routine pretty down pat.

       Later on when we were ready, we did some rehearsals. The first couple of times were just by ourselves and we ended with Mrs Walton doing a final nit-picking session (where she stops us multiple times during our performance to make it perfect). I didn't like that part very much, mainly due to the fact that I GOT STOPPED THE MOST TIMES OUT OF ANY OTHER GROUP! Argh, I nearly had a heart attack! Anyways, with that aside, the next rehearsal we did was with all the other classes. My class was the last performance which gave me time to study the script. At first we did everything like normal but then Mrs. Walton decided to have all the speakers say the last line for effect. I personally thought that this added to the performance and ended it with a 'boom'. Overall, I think the performance was pretty good.
     
       Well, now's the time for the big performance. When we arrived, it was like a blast of nostalgia right in my face. I don't know if you can relate though? So basically long story short, we bummed around, played ninja, had a coaching session for the speakers, and ate pizza. Until the big performance where we had get real and clean up our act. But before that, we also did 2 rehearsals. The second of which was not my finest moment... Basically at the end, me and Adrian were supposed to say the last word (vanity) together, however, I missed it and it sounded like "Vanity-ity." Shortly after, I whispered "Dammit," and it got picked up by the microphone... So... Yeah... Enough about that, on the actual performance though, thankfully, I didn't repeat the same mistake. Could you imagine what would've happened?! I was so relieved that it actually felt like time sped up, as it seemed like moments later I was back at school.

       Overall, I thought that this experience as a whole was certainly good. It took a little time for me to get into it but once I did, it was rewarding. This performance to me was one of those moments where I don't want to do it, but I'm happy about myself that I did it. If you gave me another chance to do this, I certainly would. Seeing the whole performance come together was certainly something to remark and I don't think that the moment could be captured again. It was like watching the end of a good movie or something like that. Where you feel completed that you watched it all but sad that its over. I can relate because the movie "Wreck-it Ralph" gave me the same feeling. I loved the quote: "I'm bad, and that's good. I'll never be good and that's not bad. There's no one that I'd rather be than me..." Anyways, as I'm writing this, I'm wondering, what is one quote that you strive to live by? I'd love to get some interesting results! Anyways, I'm getting off topic, but to all reading this, cheers!

All good things must come to an end...

Hello to all!

As you know, on Thursday, November 29, 2012 Mr. Cornell’s class went on a trip to the Neilson Creative Arts Centre.  Since we do this trip almost every year I thought that when we returned to school the next day, that concluded our work with the amazing Milkweed Collective.   However, I was thrilled to find out that the fun wasn't over!

In Drama, Dance and Music class we were all split into groups of three or four and were told to create a poem about any Human Right that we wanted.  Sabhat, Tashifa, Rashawn and Baarath were in my group.  The right that we chose was: Everyone has the right to say what they feel and to receive information.  We decided to only focus on the first part.  And instead of focusing on the importance of our right, or what it means.  We decided to address the fact that it is not really a right that we have.  I thought that creating the poems was a great experience because, I personally really like spoken word/poems.

In our next Drama, Dance and Music class, were were split into groups based on whether we wanted to read a poem or create and perform a dance to accompany it.  Baarath and Harsimran were in my group.  We were assigned to do the poem that my group had created.  I really liked the fact that once we were assigned our poem, we got to make the action anything that we wanted, so there wasn't a lot of structure.  I liked this because I think structure would have liited our creativity and not allowed us to think out of the box.  This was the poem:

They say that I can say what I feel

All I wanna say is that none of this is real

We built up a façade with breaks made of lies

But all it is doing is leading to our ultimate demise

The truth is what I yearn to speak

Yet my words to you are accepted as weak

I want to proclaim from the tallest tower

That I am no longer satisfied by this illusion of power

Once we had created our presentation, we practiced twice with Ms. Walton and Mrs. Orszulik’s class on the stage.  Although it was a little bit smaller than our real presentation space, I think that this was very important for us to understand the big picture of the project.  I did not really like that we were not allowed to see the other groups perform while we were practising.  But when the video is released, we will get that opportunity.

When it came to the actual presentation day, I was quite excited.  After practicing twice in our real presentation space we got pizza, cookies, juice and water while we waited for the audience to arrive.  Then we played a game called Ninja till it was time to perform.  I was not nervous at all that entire time.  However, moments before it was my time to present, I got extremely nervous; my heart was racing, I couldn’t breathe, and I forgot everything.  But we went downstage, and it seemed to fall in place!

One of my favourite parts of the program was getting watch a slam poet named Andrea Thompson perform.   Her words were thought provoking and very engaging.  Her words of advice to everyone after her performance were to keep a journal, create a writing group and write poems in my spare time.  These are amazing ideas and I am already working on keeping a journal and writing poems in my spare time.  I'm very glad we had the chance to meet such a talented artist.

Overall, I think that the Creativity Rocks Program was a great experience and I would love to see more schools get involved.  It seems this wonderful blogging experience has come to an end, and I will no longer be posting.  I’d like to end with a quote by the prominent cartoonist and writer, Scott Adams:

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Blog #4: Creativity Rocks! - Iqbal Banwait

                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 17^th, 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”!

Final Blog of mine... Harsimran Darhan

  From the simple trip to the Neilson Creative Art Centre, to the final presentation, this process was nonetheless one of the most interesting experiences of mine. At first I thought "Yay I get to draw what I want for one day", but I then realized it was much more than that. To start off I would like to "blog" what my favourite part was. Blogging. Funny, that I'm blogging about liking to blog. Blogging was my favourite part because I had the chance to talk about my peers' pictures, my pictures and overall my experience. So here I have it, my final blog.

  Might I say that the Neilson Creative Art Centre is a wonderful building, showing many different pictures by famous artists. After visiting it on the first day, I enjoyed it. It was calm, relaxing, and I had a fun time drawing. After a few months though, I learned that we would be going back there. In our Drama Dance and Music class, we started to create spoken word poems based on one huge topic. Human Rights. It turns out that human rights was the theme of Creativity Rocks. 

  Spoken Word was new to me. I had never written or performed it, or that's what I thought. Anyways, after creating the poems, we got into our groups. Members in my group were: Debbie, Baarath, Shazi, Baseer and I. Debbie, Baarath and I decided to act while Shazi and Baseer decided to speak. Our performance seemed cool, but had a strong message. Our topic was : Everyone has the right to be free and receive information.

  So far, I was enjoying what Creativity Rocks was planning for us. But I still had one question. How did creating drawings at first relate to human rights in anyway? I was confused at first but I was interested too much to care. It turned out that we were going to perform at the Centre on the final showcase. We had quite a few rehearsals before the big day.

  Then came the final performance. It was on Wednesday April 17th. Our class had chosen to wear the colour green. Mr Orszulik's class and Ms.Walton's class chose to wear black and blue. Once we had arrived at the centre, the classes started to rehearse. One huge thing I noticed was the fact that the famous paintings on the walls were replaced by our own drawings! I noticed mine on the wall and got a picture taken with me standing beside it. There was a small attendance at the centre, but that just meant only a few people were about to witness our amazing acts. A nice thing that was given to us was a free diner, with pizza and juice. Anyways when it was my turn to perform, I felt a little worried that I'd mess up. It turned out that the performance went well.

  Well there you have it. My final blog. I liked working with Creativity Rocks, but I had a few questions left un-answered. Overall it was a magnificent experience that I've never had a chance to do before.

Below is a picture of me and my painting. Hope you enjoyed my blogging!

Blog #4 By Adrian (Yay For Creative Titles)

            

This will be my last post about the “Learning Rocks” process/adventure. Truthfully, I would have loved to blog more about the adventures that we had while making/presenting our finished product, but we as a class (and as a school!) have blogged more than most people blog in their lives! So, without further ado, onto the last blog!

            Our class had spent three periods practicing for the presentation in the gallery of the Neilson Creative Arts Centre. The people that acted out the scenes for us (Sion, Jaedan, and Sabhat in my group) had obviously practiced more than that. Mingwei and I didn’t really have to practice as much because we were only saying the poem, but we still practiced nonetheless. Our poem was four paragraphs long (the longest poem from our class) consisting of four lines each.

Throughout these three periods, Mingwei and I had practiced speaking the poem, while Sion, Jaedan and Sabhat made up all of them moves and then practiced them. During the second period, we had a mock presentation and we were critiqued on our performance. From there, it was just a matter of fine-tuning our presentation and getting it ready for the big day.

However, that wasn’t the only thing we had to worry about. Every class had to have their own colour that they wore on the day of the performance. Unfortunately, our class had many troubles with this. One of my friends had said it was like “slamming your head on a wall covered with spikes”. In the end, we chose the colour blue. There was only one problem with that though; Mrs. Walton’s class had already chosen blue! We were back to the drawing board. After a long three days of deliberations, we finally came up with the colour green. Nobody seemed to object, so that was the colour that we had gone with. Green is the universal colour of peace anyways, which made me think it would be the best colour to go with.

The day of the presentation, we had a tech rehearsal, which was basically practice for the real thing. We used the stage as our practice area, and everything worked out perfectly. We were ready to finally present!

When we were ready to preform, I felt kind of nervous, but not overly nervous because there wasn’t a lot of people at the gallery staring at me. We did the performance, and it went perfectly. There were no signs of mistakes as far as I know. All in all, we did very well and I’m proud of North Kipling as a whole. The one thing I was curious about during the entire process though was: what did Human Rights have to do with the gallery?