Creative Arts Week
A celebration of Brazilian culture and performance featuring over 450 students.
Throughout the Creative Arts Week challenge, students drew on their creativity and collaborative skills to learn about the artistic, musical and cultural traditions of Brazil. Their determination, resilience and independence culminated in a stimulating and colourful performance featuring over 450 students. Brazilian music and dance are punctuated by some of the most challenging and complex rhythms and movements, and staff were continually astonished by the dedication and energy of our students through the week, notably year 6, who accompanied by Year 9 and 10 Music students, performed Samba inspired dance routines with only 3 hours of rehearsal. The QEII hall in the Creative and Performing Faculty was awash with the colours of Brazil, alongside the colours and flags representing Churchill, Bryon, Keller, Sonakul, Suriyothai and Nehru as well as featuring large Favela installations completed by Year 8 artists and laser cut headdresses from our Year 7 designers.
What started off many years ago as a Year 6 Challenge Day has since become a holistic event for the whole Prep and Shell Phase, making Creative Arts Week a unique extension to our engaging creative arts curriculum. I would like to thank all staff from the Media department and Creative and Performing Arts faculty, especially Miss Greenridge and our talismanic King of Samba, Chaiyo.