Arts Fest: SISHK is celebrating arts to inspire young minds
Our performing and visual arts teachers responded creatively to the current pandemic by moving our annual Arts Fest online while practising physical distancing. This unique digital festival offers an excellent opportunity for our students to discover and create with an array of local performing and visual artists. To spark motivation and enthusiasm in students, the talks were delivered in an interactive manner online that went beyond traditional classroom settings. Artists talked to the audience directly out of their studios via zoom. Students were able to experience the creation of tasteful graffiti and appreciate art pieces projected on the screen. Getting together at home to learn dance moves could still be fun and inspirational.
We are also very excited to announce the launch of our new visual art website which offers an entire pallet of games, workshop and resources. Our performing and visual arts teachers are leading efforts to ensure learning continues and students never miss out on enjoying art during the pandemic.
Watch this video to know more about this exciting event.
Artists invited to deliver talks came from a wide range of backgrounds. We received positive and encouraging feedback from students.
Janette Slack
Janette is a sound enthusiast and audio editor. She is also known as a specific producer who happens to DJ as well. Her demonstration on making a track quickly was impressive and her talk about time management during the pandemic gave our students ideas of how to use their time efficiently.
https://www.slacktraxstudio.com
Feedback from students:
Yi Xin Nina Chia 谢义欣
Janette is a creative and talented DJ. I love how she can make music so easily. Her skill and passion makes me smile 🙂
Ella Leia Wee 黄蕾
Janette Slack has the gift of music and I’m glad she can share it with the rest of the world. Her creativity is an inspiration to all those who watch her performances.
Yau Tat Nathan Lin 林佑达
Janette Slack helps us broaden our knowledge of music and inspires us to create the music pieces.
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HK Walls: Artist organization
Jason Dembski and Maria Wong from HKwalls introduced their organisation to our students which is a non-profit arts organisation and creates opportunities for artists to showcase their talent in Hong Kong and internationally through the mediums of street art and street culture. Students learned to appreciate creativity, originality and freedom of expression through high-quality public arts.
Jason Dembski
Jason is an American designer, maker and curator based in Hong Kong. He has a strong background in architecture and a fascination with street art and graffiti.
Maria Wong
Maria is a curator and arts producer. Her career trajectory has taken her from the Hong Kong film industry to Head of Performing Arts at the non-profit, charitable arts organisation.
Website: HKwalls.org
IG: @hkwalls
FB: @hongkongwalls
Feedback from our student:
Ashley Chew P5
From the talk, I have learnt numerous things about art. Art can express how you feel, how you think and even how you act. Art creates a sense of beauty. That sense can move people, change people’s mindset or their perspective about things. Not only can art help express what you feel, but it can motivate people. I learnt, overall, from the presentation that art is joyful and motivating. It can move people to tears. It can inspire people. It can even tell a story. Art is unique, special, and nobody will ever change it. I felt like the talk was meaningful, enlightening and influential. It will always encourage me to try my best to do good for the world and help people to bring out the best of them. 🙂
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Christopher Price
Christopher has taught drama and improvisation for the BBC and in top UK drama schools including the Royal Academy of Music and the Oxford School of Drama.
Through interactive games, Christopher showed our students the importance of theatre and acting in our lives and how actors warm themselves up and be ready to perform. He also talked about how he had to adapt to being an actor in times of the pandemic.
Feedback from students
Phoenix Deleon P2
The actor Christopher Price was so much fun. He was very funny and had a cool greenscreen behind him so it looked like he was in different places. He was very talented and entertaining.
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Jennifer Chiang
Jennifer is a Choreographer and Artistic Director of BPM Dance Productions. She creates performances for live events, concerts and TV ranging from Adidas to Jaguar, the AFC Awards 2019 and music videos and concerts for HK pop artists like Sandy Lam and G.E.M.
She talked to our students about choreography and how it had evolved and could be integrated across different art forms, a day in the life of being a Choreographer and then teaching them a short body percussion routine that everyone could do at their desks.
Feedback from students:
Nicole Chu P5
The dance thing with Ms. Jennifer was very good. Because there is very cool technology and lots of cool water stuffs. But most of all, I also like doing dance tapping table things with Ms. Jennifer.
Tyrrell Kai Edwin P4
It was good and she inspired me to dance more.
I like how she choreography with many different things and different objects and people.
