A piece of history!

Looking through some old photos of St George's College Creative Arts, we found these pictures.
These are very old pictures, even dating back to when it was a boys only college.

Musicals and plays are an important part of school life! So enjoy looking back over some pictures of yesteryear.

ES2 Dance Showcase!- Parents Invited!

Correction to the flyer:

Date: Friday 8th July 2011

Time: Showcase begins at 4:00pm

Tea and Coffee served at 3pm.

Updated Extra Curriculum Timetable

Art Exhibition!- Jackie Macrae

Come to Centenary Theater here at St George's College to be apart of a beautiful evening of Art!

ES1 and ES2 students have captured their surrounds through pinhole photography. 

Jackie Macrae has combined their art into her own Art Exhibition!

This will be a fine event- so come along and be a part of the magic!

~ Creative Arts Team

Creative Arts June Update & Webisode 3!

FOR JUNE WEBISODE -CLICK HERE-

And here is the Webisode for June! Click on the link above to view it larger in Youtube.com

So much has been going on in the Creative Arts Faculty!
Musical, Assemblies, IB Play rehearsal, Boarders Jamming, Artworks and Design, Kinder Singing, Prep Musical rehearsal, African Drumming workshops, Gospel Choir USA Tour preparation,  Artwork displays, Drama Performances and the list keeps going!

Keep you eyes posted for more coming soon!

~ Creative Arts Team

Music in May

Congratulations ES1
A huge congratulations to ES1 for all their efforts in the College Musical Production! All the rehearsing during Music lessons and after school really paid off!!

ES2 Music- African Rhythm/Drumming
During Music lessons, ES2 have been working hard at creating a African Drumming composition. They had to compose 24 bars of layered rhythm that had to be notated on the manuscript and then performed in front of the class. The results were fantastic- Well done to all of ES2 for your focus and enthusiasm!

~ M.Koelma- College Music Department

Visual Arts in May

Visita a la Fundación  Proa.

Louise Bourgeois: El retorno de lo reprimido.

El viernes 27 de mayo, alumnos de arte de  ES 5 y Polimodal 3, visitaron la muestra de Louise Bourgeois,  una de las artistas más reconocidas del siglo XX. Nació en París en 1911, y viajó y vivió en Estados Unidos desde 1938 hasta sus últimos días, en 2010.

La exhibición comienza con la famosa araña Maman (1999) en la entrada de Proa, y el interior de las salas despliega un conjunto de 86 obras. Sus primeras esculturas, en las que aparecen ya la espiral y varias de las formas y figuras que vertebran toda su obra, rodean elArch of Hysteria, 1993; Spider, 1997, y las emblemáticas instalaciones Red Room (Parents), 1994, y The Destruction of the Father, 1974. Un sólido y numeroso cuerpo de dibujos y escritos dan cuenta de su radical pensamiento ligado a la reflexión sobre el amor: filial, parental, familiar - el amor en sí mismo -. 

Las obras  evidencian cómo el psicoanálisis intervino en el pensamiento de la artista, y cómo el diálogo con  ese discurso creó un universo emocionante sobre la compleja, conflictiva, y sutil vida contemporánea. El mundo interior, el de las relaciones familiares, el lugar del padre, la madre, la hija y la esposa están tratados de manera singular, propia y personal, y convierten a Bourgeois en un ícono de los temas más trascendentales del siglo XX.

La visita guiada, estuvo bien dirigida por Pablo,  quien explicó de manera clara y didáctica los mecanismos de la artista, a la hora de crear su obra. Seguramente algunos estudiantes encontraron en Bourgeois, una fuente de inspiración para futuras obras.

~ D. Gluzmann- Visual Arts Department

IB Film Studies- Projects

Film studies has had a dynamic start to the year with students producing quality work and demonstrating a great understanding for this new subject.
Here is an example of some student's work and research for this subject:

You can find out more about St George's College Film Studies by visiting their blog: 

http://stgeorgesquilmesibfilm.blogspot.com/

~ P. Wise- IB Film Studies

Music- April/May Edition

ES3 Music 

It is amazing the amount of talent that is within the College's Music Department! 

- ES3 Music 

ES5 IB Music and ES3 IGCSE Music have just completed their first official Performance Assessment Task. This is where students had to choose a piece from any style to perform on their instrument individually or as an ensemble.
These students should be very proud of themselves, because they worked very hard in preparing for their performances. Well done to both Elective Music classes.

ES5 IB Music

ES5 CAS Music- 
This class is also to be congratulated for completing their first trimester of CAS Music. These ES5 students had the opportunity to use these Music lessons to CREATE and be inspired. Students explored working together as a rhythmic ensemble and collected 'Junk Percussion'- where they used recycled broken chairs, instruments, tables, metal piping etc... and used these resources as a part of making percussion instruments. Students were inspired by rhythmic ensembles such as 'Stomp Out Loud' and 'Blue Man' . They put these instruments together and created a variety of interesting and organic sounds. Next week we hope to come around to the other CAS groups to perform some of our work. So keep your eyes and ears open!

Poli 3 CAS Music

Poli 3 CAS Music for La Casa de Niño-
This CAS Music group are a very talented group of students who have prepared excellent Music lessons for the niños. They have been teaching these children songs, games, dances and musical instrument workshops including guitar, bass guitar, keyboard and drums. The children are very lucky to have such creative and enthusiastic Poli 3 students are their Music leaders. Excellent work Poli 3!

Poli 3 CAS Music 

Overall, the numerous vocal ensembles have been extending themselves within the College. Gospel Choir is busy preparing for the USA tour at the start of July. Senior Vocal Ensemble are building their repertoire and being challenged by some very difficult pieces. And the St Georgian Community Choir for all parents and staff of St George's have now grown to over 35 members. It is very exciting to see people coming together who are passionate about Music and singing!

A couple of rock band groups have also been rehearsing weekly within the Music department. It is fantastic to see young Musicians growing and developing.
If anyone is interested in booking rooms at lunchtime for Music/Vocal practice or band rehearsal, then please come and see Ms Koelma to put your name on the booking sheet.

Poli 3 CAS Music

PRIVATE INSTRUMENTAL / VOCAL LESSONS- Are now available! Students have started this week! If you are interested, you need to come and collect a note from Ms Koelma in the Music Department. You can have lessons for singing, drumming, guitar, piano, bass, saxophone to even the accordion! Lessons will be held during school hours- Students will be need to come out of their lesson for half an hour (a different lesson each week so they do not miss too much class time) per week.
Or email: creativearts@stgeorge.org.ar

Here is a Music Webisode of the talent we are seeing within the College:

Enjoy!

~ M.Koelma- College Music Department

Visual Arts- April/May Edition

El grito ha sido un tema recurrente  dentro de las Artes Visuales. Con este disparador, los alumnos de ES5 comenzaron a desarrollar su programa de IB en Artes Visuales. Se tomaron como referencia dos obras maestras del S.XX, “El grito” de Edward Munch, pintor noruego (1863- 1944)  realizado en 1893 y el monumental “Guernica” mural realizado por el español Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ) durante la Guerra Civil Española en 1937. Luego de analizar y comparar dichas obras, los estudiantes desarrollaron sus propias ideas sobre el tema. 

Obra de Florencia Guevara inspirada en
Guernica de Picasso, ES 5

Magdalena Navajas, Poli 3

Collage de Agustina Bottero inspirada en
Guernica de Picasso. ES 5

Obra de Muriel Fregossi. ES 5

Agustina Bottero realizó un collage donde los  colores turquesas y ocres desdramatizan el potente caballo del Guernica realizado solamente en la gama de grises. Florencia Guevara, hace foco en  un personaje  de la obra de Picasso: sobre un fondo rojo, dispone a la madre con su hijo muerto como únicos protagonistas de su obra. Muriel Fregossi realizó un óleo con figuras superpuestas en distintas actitudes y Victoria Arraiz parte de la combinación de su autorretrato con otro rostro para lograr una interesante combinación formal.

Obra de Victoria Arraiz. ES 5

Si usted está interesado, haga clic en el enlace a continuación para leer acerca de Daniel Gluzmann's (Profesor de Artes Visuales) la experiencia artística en Nueva York- Vista al Moma y Las Guitarras de Picasso!
www.daniel-gluzmann-moma.com


~ D.Gluzmann- Visual Arts Department