Muestra en Proa

Visita a la Fundación Proa, “Ayre de Lyon”

La  muestra Aire de Lyon se montó en La Fundación Proa, en el barrio de La Boca. Este es un centro de arte contemporáneo ubicado en la Av. Pedo de Mendoza donde se realizan exhibiciones con ciertos ciclos de cine y muestras de Artes visuales.

                 La exhibición Aire de Lyon inició la temporada de Proa 2012. Esta muestra tiene su origen en la Bienal que se realizó en la ciudad francesa de Lyon desde septiembre a diciembre de 2011. La curadora de esta muestra es la Argentina Victoria Noorthorn.

 Las obras expuestas, demandan una participación activa del espectador, ya que debe  interpretar lo que está viendo e imaginarse lo que el autor trata de transmitir. Es decir todas las obras tenían un significado que debía ser resuelto por nosotros mismos. Esta exposición ha sido realizada para compartir en la Argentina algunos de los contenidos y mensajes que conformaron la Bienal de Lyon 2011. En la muestra  participan 35 de los 78 artistas de la Bienal cuyo título basado en el poeta William Butler Yeats fue: una terrible belleza ha nacido,  que significa que el proyecto presenta  la imaginación como el medio principal del conocimiento.

 La exposición se realizó en un único y amplio recorrido a través de varios rincones de la sede de Proa cuya característica y contenido van cambiando y se van contraponiendo, permitiéndonos reflexionar sobre la condición humana y  del arte, y  sobre el poder de transformación de este último. El tipo de obras expuestas eran abstractas realizadas con  materiales heterogéneos y diferentes objetos que estimulan nuestra percepción y nuestra imaginación.

 La obra que mas me impactó fue " 10: 51" de Jorge Macchi artista argentino nacido  en Buenos Aires en 1963 donde vive y trabaja. Su obra conceptual es una  una  videoinstalación lo cual la hace muy interesante. Es un reloj que no se lo ve completo y que tiene la hora parada marcando las 10:51. Lo interesante de esta obra es que las agujas jamás completan una vuelta entera sino que cuando las agujas chocan contra el techo de la fundación vuelven a su posición inicial como si el espacio estuviera deteniendo al tiempo. Me gustó mucho su obra ya que me pareció inquietante  y jamás se me habría ocurrido realizar algo así. Me hizo pensar y reflexionar sobre qué era lo que quería transmitir haciendo que el tiempo volviera hacia atrás.

~ Maria del Mar Lapeña

   ES 5 Arte

Imagenes de la Fundación Proa

IB PLAY 2012: Los futuros

Textura y color. ES 5

Textura y color en obras de alumnos de ES 5, Artes visuales.

Con telas de diferentes calidades y grosores, los estudiantes de ES5,
realizaron sobre un soporte de madera experiencias , inspirados en una corriente artística llamada Informalismo.
Luego de trenzar, pegar, doblar, cortar, superponer y estirar, entre otras habilidades algunos decidieron darle color uniforme, y otros lograron distintos contrastes a partir de la experimentación. 
Abajo, algunas imágenes del proceso y obras finales de estos creativos artistas !

Music Concert & Art Exhibition This Week!

Drama & Theatre Arts in March

All six year groups started 2012 with noteworthy creative energy and passion.

ES1 students are working on a mime unit that will see them performing both individually and in small groups.

ES2 is currently presenting El reglamento es el reglamento, a short piece by Adela Basch, for which they also designed props and costumes.

ES3 students are rehearsing scenes by Oscar Wilde, Eugene Ionesco and David Ives as their first text-based pieces of coursework for Paper 2 of their Drama IGCSE. Their work so far bodes very well for the future of theatre in St. Georges.

ES4 students have already devised and performed two of the three devised pieces for Paper 1 of their Drama IGCSE which they will be sitting in May. Their first piece, based on the phrase Made to Measure prompted dark, ironic looks at body fascism in the music industry, the selfish greed of politicians, and the search for alternative burial possibilities. Their second piece, based on the phrase Dead as a dodo resulted in bold and striking pieces denouncing the selfish and irresponsible exploitation of nature for our short term benefit. Before tackling their last devised piece for Paper 1, they will work on Act I of Christopher Durang’s Mrs Bob Cratchitt’s Wild Christmas Binge—this year’s set text.

ES5 has begun work on an ambitious devised piece which explores the grotesque world of daytime TV chat shows: expect lurid wardrobe, bad prosthetics, social masks in heavy mascara, melodramatic acting out and vicious acting up, chewing the scenery and scene stealing, and much much worse.

ES6 is currently putting the finishing touches to a piece of Theatre of Cruelty which grew out of their work last year with Alice Fairhall on physical theatre and corporal expression. An exploration of the surreal world of nightmares, The Horizon is Drowning promises to embrace the theatrical potential of set, lighting, sound, costume and make-up designs in order to expand the production of meaning.  

In addition, ES5 and ES6 students are currently devising this year’s IB Play—a look by turns ironic, poetic, apocalyptic, and even hopeful at THE FUTURE. Following 2009’s For $how and last year’s Junior Play Feo, this will only be the third devised school play in the history of St. George’s College. I’d like to tell you more about it, but who know what’s going to happen…

Music In March!

The Music Department in 2012 has kicked off the year with performances for all ES1 and ES 2 students. It was amazing to see the level of progress ES2 had made in terms of organisation and approaching their performances like young professionals!
ES1 also needs to be given a lot of credit as they are the new students of College. The amount of musical talent that was discovered in ES1 was fantastic! We are really looking forward to see ES1 continue to grow musically with more performances coming in Trimester 2!

CAS Creative Arts Workshop has also been hosting classes in drumming, dance and painting for children from 'Filochicos,' which is a school dedicated to giving young people who have no access, the opportunity of getting an education. Our ES6 students host the children once a week and work with them in creative ways. In our video you will see us rehearsing dance and doing an African drumming workshop with students from Filochicos.

We hope you enjoy the video which showcases all the hardwork, performances and dedication of our music students.

~ M.Koelma, Music Department

Artes visuales, marzo.

Los alumnos de ES 1 realizaron a partir de sus nombres, composiciones donde utilizaron líneas, puntos, grafismos diferentes y cada uno realizó una interesante y divertida  "obra de arte" .

D. Gluzmann.

March update 2012

Well, it doesn't seem even a few days since I began to update the SGQ Creative Arts blog but March is nearly done and we are beginning to get into overdrive. Already, we have enjoyed a busy but productive month and both classes and rehearsals have set the tone for the year. In Kindergarten, Miss Ruth is working on practical classroom based music making and also, in line with the whole college vocal strategy doing much vocal work with our youngest students in K1, 2 and 3. Our dancer in residence, Alice, is also in the first part of the year heavily involved with both dance and vocal work in kinder, we are very much looking forward to our students input in upcoming events and assemblies.

 Prep Year 5 Students ready for action

In the Prep school we have our new super team of Mr Chris and Miss Elizabeth teaching music to all from years 1 through to 6. The prep school is enjoying a wonderful musical 'buzz' as choirs spring into life and rehearsals begin on the first prep production of the year. In addition to this, we enter the second year of our new instrumental programme for year 4 students - all of which are about to take their own school instrument for a period of twelve months. Students are very excited about the prospect of being able to work on their instruments away from college. Some of the current year five are also working closely with instrumental teachers to form the very first St George's Orchestra. The project was conceived to have the maximum impact and it is hoped in five years we will have a flourishing college orchestra.

In college, rehearsals are underway for the IB play as well as the College Production in May and June.
Other ensembles already restarted are Chapel Choir (which this year is part of a special reward system) Senior Vocal group and various other bands and smaller ensembles.
Gospel Choir this year has been attracting 80 plus students each week and is in such demand that after the Easter break will go to two rehearsals each week. ES 4,5 and 6 as usual on a Wednesday lunchtime and ES1, 2 and 3 on a Friday. The groups will learn the same material and hopefully form a bigger even more impressive choir when performing together.

Gospel Choir eating lunch before rehearsing today......

Whilst enjoying every opportunity to rehearse and be creative outside of lessons, let us not forget the academic importance of creatives to cognitive thinking, confidence team building and the power for creative deep thinking linked to education of our students. In college students in ES1 have enjoyed their Art, Drama, Music and Dance lessons and already we are seeing a huge wealth of talent emerging. In Drama ES 2 have been engaged in a project purely based on body language and no facial expression. 'The Hamelin' project has been enjoyed by all ES 2 students and below are some pictures from their recent practical assessment task:-

The Hamelin Project 

In addition to lower school classes, examination level students are currently preparing for IGCSE's in Art, Drama and Music and  IB Music, Theatre Studies, Film and Art are extremely busy working towards important examinations later in the year.
A busy time for all indeed.................................................................
Finally........last week we students and staff had the pleasure of hosting thirteen visitors from St Paul's Girls School in Baltimore USA. The ten students and three staff were on a Spanish language tour of Buenos Aires and also came to college for five days to enjoy classes and the atmosphere of being at SGQ. Very strong  bonds and friendships were made and we certainly hope to be able to return the visit in the not to distant future.......please see picture below of our host students and their new American friends......

  A huge thank you to the creative arts team in Kinder, Prep and College.................

Extra Curricular Timetable 2012

Welcome Back! 2012 Already!

Well, here we are at already at the start if March 2012 and the long and peaceful summer vacation has passed.
If the last two years have not been exciting enough, this year is set to surpass all others in terms of our collective creative energy and expectation.
First of all a huge welcome to our new prep team Chris, Fabiola and Elizabeth. Chris is going to coordinate music across all years in prep along with Elizabeth, he is also taking on the role of' 'Technical Theatre Manager' for the centenary theatre. We are also very excited to have Alice our dancer in residence with us. Alice will be working in Quilmes and St George´s North until June of this year.

In terms of what to expect from us?
More of the same would be a very good description, just bigger, better in offering as many Kinder, Prep and College students, as many creative possibilities as we can.

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Just some of this years highlights are to include:-
Music Department Concert April 18th 7:30pm

nCollege Musical and Art Exhibition May 31st  June 1st

nIB Play June 27th and 28th 

nThe Big Sing June 29th 

nGospel Choir Junior Tour within Argentina  - September TBC

nJunior College Production and Art Exhibition September 4th and 5th 

Plus - College Carol Service / Talent Show and Woodstock…………………….

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone back and wish you all a very creative and happy new school year..........Mr R