Peter Rabbit got his jacket back and luckily the onions were forgotten back stage! The performance of The Tale of Benjamin Bunny was a hopping success last week. A dozen daycare kids sat enthralled in the front row enjoying the adventures of the rabbits, mice and other characters. A special thanks to our intern Siobhan for helping us with costumes, acting techniques and backstage fiasco’s. Congratulations to all the actors, and a special shout out to our ingenious techie Alex!!!
A group of tiny visitors descended upon the Grade 9 Integrated Arts class’ rehearsal of the Academy spring play. The students have adapted Beatrix Potter’s beloved story “The Tale of Benjamin Bunny” for an audience of daycare children at the 42 Charles Street YMCA building. For this pre-show event, each student drew an outlined version of their characters and invited the children to learn about them through colouring and chatting. The students hoped that this fun activity would allow the children to recognize the characters at the performance next week. Thanks for spending time with us, daycare kids, and we hope you enjoy the play!!!
The lobby of 42 Charles Street will be transformed into a gallery today as the semi-annual exhibit of student art is installed. Works range from sketches to paintings to Photoshop art to clay sculptures. The show will run for three weeks and is open to the public. Please sign your name and comments in our guest book. Congratulations to all the artists! Check out all the pictures on our Facebook page using the links at the bottom of this post.
Students in the grade 10 art class felt what it was like to be Tim Burton today at the National Film Board of Canada. With the help of an NFB team leader, they created two very short animations with characters made out of clay and a device called a “lunch box” camera. Drawing Disney characters, scratching on 16mm film and drawing 12-frame zoetrope strips, students came equipped with a lot of information on the different types of classic animation techniques. Enjoy the short! Don’t blink or you’ll miss them.
Grade 10 art students are about to uncover the Secrets of Animation at a special workshop at the National Film Board of Canada this Thursday December 16th! Students will create claymation characters in the animation studio at the NFB and use contemporary equipment to capture motion one frame at a time. Students have been learning about all kinds of animation, from how to draw on celluloid film strips like the famous Canadian animator Norman McLaren to the wacky world of Tim Burton’s characters and storylines. One of our students gave a lesson on the history and development of early cartoon characters like Felix the Cat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Stay tuned for postings of the NFB claymation workshop!
