Virtual Space

WAAE calls arts educators and artists to share with their peers their professional experiences in arts education for the WAAE Virtual Space (including a visual gallery and performance halls), please send us information about your projects; performances and collaborative works with learning communities. We will present your arts education projects and actions here. CLICK HERE TO SEND YOUR STORY ( PLEASE SEND THE TITLE OF THE PROJECT; 250 WORDS DESCRIPTION; LINK TO THE PROJECT; 1 PHOTO)

The Brazil Nut Trees Remember (the Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás)
The artistic-pedagogic narrative about the collective creation of the community monument built to remember the Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará, Amazônia.

Wicked Arts Assignments

Wicked Arts Assignments is a project of the Research Group Arts Education of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. The project reflects the oeuvre of contemporary arts educators around the world. Wicked Arts Assignments are bold, unusual, contrary, funny, poetical, inspiring, socially committed, or otherwise challenging. . The book Wicked Arts Assignments (Valiz publishers) and this website are both a tribute to and a source of inspiration for arts educators. The website collects artistic results and new assignments can be submitted.
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Musicking with Sanjeevani is an initiative (based out of India) where the power of music is experienced and leveraged for personal growth through crafted learning modules and workshops.
It is based on the premise that music is integral to human existence. It has biological, cognitive, spiritual, and cultural implications that hold the potential to transform an individual. For children and youth, ‘musicking’ helps in character building and personality development, while for adults ‘musicking’ serves to fulfil unfulfilled potentials and empower emotionally. For everyone, musicking has a tangible impact on overall health- physical, mental, and emotional.
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As a tragic person in ancient Greece, a resurgent by the archaeologists and a little ambassador of United Nations, Myrtis connects the current Coronavirus Pandemic to the Great Athenian Plague, and encourages the young children all over the world to fight against diseases and hunger. After the translation of the video “Myrtis” which is an initiative by Prof. Manolis J. Papagrigorakis and United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, we decided to introduce Myrtis to Chinese children through drama classes in the primary schools. Though Myrtis was not familiar to Chinese children, the story attracted the children immediately, and caused their thinking to the current pandemic which they are living in. It would be helpful for the children to see the influences of the pandemic to their lives, to see the changes on their future, to understand the world.
link to the project: https://www.miaobin.net/blog/from-ancient-athens-of-plague-to-modern-china-of-coronavirus

HUMAN SIGNS

HUMAN SIGNS is a global dance and voice artwork born during the COVID-19 seclusion. Interpreting the viral aesthetic of this unique historical moment, it has gathered till now more than 200 performers from 50 countries, each proposing a deep individual art-testimony which converges into a powerful expressive multimedia fresco.
HUMAN SIGNS desires to expand its creative potential, turning the human inviting exceptional dancers and movement artists, contemporary and experimental singers as carriers of unique traditions.

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‘ We are working online, using an education platform, and for this specific project we used a digital tool to create the sand paintings, in an abstract style. The project is a success because even the students who wouldnt't usually engage during lessons were fascinated by the process of creating the artwork, choosing the colors, thinking about the composition, and so on’. Delia Andrea Groller

In celebration of the Lunar New Year, STEPS collaborated with lead artist PUFF Paddy, and two emerging artistic facilitators from OCAD University to facilitate and develop a community engaged public art installation for the Chinatown BIA (Business Improvement Association). Through four intergenerational community art workshops to engage, over 100 lanterns were created.

Yue Moon was designed to unite the Chinatown community together while exploring a contemporary approach to the traditional art of lantern making. Over three weeks STEPS engaged over 100 participants ranging in age from 2 to 80+ in four community workshops. Each lantern created during the workshops collectively formed the final public art installation unveiled as part of the Chinatown BIA Lunar New Year celebrations at Dragon City Mall. The results of this project created a space for community members and artists to connect, contribute, and express themselves in their community through a unique public artwork and collaborative experience.

Virtual Reality, KERIS, Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea

The content was developed by following researcher and elementary school teachers : Eun-young Lee, Yu-shin Park, Jeong-yu Park, Sung-hwan Lim, Hoe-jin Chung, Do-haeng Chung, Eun-ji Ko. The purpose of this application development is to focus on elementary school students seeing and exploring art works in a contemporary(time and space and sense)space. Students experience a virtual reality space with their V.R device or smart device. In this space, students develop the ability to appreciate factors surrounding the work in three dimensions, contextually and comprehensively, such as the artist's emotions, stories, and connections between works.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keris.KerisArt, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keris.kerisAudio

Dance to Learn is a 4 year interdisciplinary curriculum dance residency that teaches students the elements of dance ( space, time, energy) using improvisation through a series of prompts incorporating academic subjects. Roxey Ballet specializes in working with the special needs community allowing them to realize a different way of communicating, which is even more important now during this time in the world.

I was commissioned by Multistory, to respond creatively to 'Stories in Isolation'. I'm a full-time art teacher and in lockdown found myself drawn to performing in my house rather than the classroom! ‘Tipton Meshes’, is a performative reflection that captures traces of isolation in the domestic space. Collaborating with artist and filmmaker, Joseph Potts, the experimental film portrays the contradictory feelings in isolation. The photomontages accompanied by text echo the three-minute films psychological journey of loneliness, emotional freedom and the desire for human connection.