Posts Tagged ‘visual arts’

Hola, February – I’ve managed to get myself here to write another post! Methinks this is actually going to be a bit long (because of the many events in the past week) – but eh, let’s see how I fare.

I guess the main highlight of this month has gotta be Jerry turning 15. Seems like only yesterday he was my lil’ kid brother (there’s a 2-years-and-7-months gap) asking for a tickle-fest – he was only a toddler then.
Now, he takes every opportunity to remind me of how much shorter I am compared to him (even though he’s my younger brother, pah!) It’s pretty obvious that I love the guy to bits; so have a good birthday on the 28th, Jerry! It’s a shame I’m 6800+ miles away when that happens, but you know what my present for you is already

In other news, I’ve been “signed on” to choreograph (along with my friend Gem) some numbers for the Lower School Play (11 to 14-year-olds) this summer. It’s awesome because:

• They’re doing “Bugsy Malone”.
• I get to work with a bunch of juniors I already know – and personal experience has reminded me that I can work with/handle juniors better than those doing the Senior plays.
• It’s dancing – so it’s a breather from the technical/backstage stuff I usually do (generally, as a behind-the-scenes production member, I light + provide sound + keep basic admin stuffo in check.)

Rehearsals have started *already*; owing to the extensive amount of choreography that goes into Bugsy (as opposed to something like Macbeth.) In about 4 weeks, Gemma and I have successfully completed the routine for 1 song (Fat Sam’s Grand Slam), are partway through another (Bad Guys/You Give A Little Love) with the help of the boys’ improvisations, and will be collaborating with some of the girls on another (Tomorrow.) Pretty impressive, I must say! We’re also going to let the boys devise their own dances for So You Wanna Be A Boxer…well, as much as they can do. The play’s a ton of fun; especially when you have a bunch of Year Sevens attempting to look flirtatious with a Year Nine boy (our Bugsy, that is) – and failing.

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EDIT// Changed the layout because I was getting fed up with the cross-compatibility biz. Additionally, coding seems to like screwing with my head – I can design, yes; but coding (for WP) is a pain. -_- I’ll relearn, of course; but I’ve got other fish to fry. //END EDIT

First off, I’ll start by saying this – I would never agree to meet someone online unless I’ve been great friends with them for aeons. More so if that someone’s posing as a stranger and begging for a meeting, when he/she is in fact just a dorm mate mucking about. “Infatuation” just won’t cut it either.

That aside, let’s move on. The annual Queen’s Visual Arts (Quartz) festival has just ended for the year 2008. It’s my 2nd one since I’ve been at this school, and I must say that while the last one was a bit “bleh” (nothing THAT stand-out-ish), this year’s Quartz festival was well interesting – needless to say, I went to a lot more of the shows on display!

I’ll summarize it so you know – the Quartz festival is a 2-week (somewhat) long period where an art-related show is given at my school every evening – it could be a comedian today, a dance troupe tomorrow, an orchestra the day after, yada yada. Last year, I only went to 1) a poetry recital by Matt Harvey and 2) a 5-man act taking on Thomas Hardy’s “Far From The Madding Crowd”. And that’s only because they were tutor/class trips; the other events didn’t catch my eye.

This year? I was at – uh, let’s see…
1) Dyin 2 B Drunk (an urban-dance theatre piece about the effects on alcohol on teens),
2) Orchestra West (need I say more?),
3) Rock Night (self-explanatory too),
4) Tom Poster (a piano recital – the guy is AMAZING!),
and finally, 5) Potted Potter (seven potter books in seventy minutes with a bunch of humour!)

I won’t bore you to death, so I’ll just give you a quick review of what happened.

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