Maori Language WEEK

HERE IS AN ART QUIZ

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/2fad53b1-59b3-4be9-9688-419d083f4353

Carmen NZ Opera design workshop

CARMEN

25 students took part in a set and costume design workshop run by NZ Opera. They were also offered the opportunity to see Bizet's Carmen at the Isaac Theatre Royal. See the article below for details.

https://hail.to/heaton-normal-intermediate-school/publication/heFT2Gr/article/76SwIcA

The sets and costumes are currently on show in our Performing Arts Centre

Talk at the art Gallery, Kushana Bush

https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/events/artist-floor-talk-kiushana-bush

Artist Floor Talk: Kushana Bush

Talk

• Saturday, 10 June 2017 / 10.30am

• Meet at the front desk Christchurch Art Gallery

• FREE

Giant Hands Emerge From a Venice Canal to Raise Climate Change Awareness

https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/giant-hands-venice-canal-climate-change-awareness?utm_source=vicefbus

Master class by Wildlife Artist Guy Coombes

Leopard Painting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXM3Nab-4rA

A TRIBUTE TO REFUGEES AT LIGHT CITY BALTIMORE: INTERVIEW WITH VISUAL ARTIST ALAA MINAWI

http://passportsfromtheheart.com/2017/03/a-tribute-to-refugees-at-light-city-baltimore-interview-with-visual-artist-alaa-minawi.html

"When people are forced to leave their country they don't only lose their schools, toys and cars," he says. "They drop their skin, organs and memories. They transform into outlines of human beings."

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"When I talked to these refugees, I felt they had an aura," says Minawi. "I believe everyone has an aura, has light. And I noticed that they glow with this strong light. I thought this was happening because their stories were trying to come out from their skin."

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"I believed that the Syrians I spoke to wanted to tell their stories so badly it was shining through their skin. I thought, this installation shouldn't have the skin, it shouldn't have the body shape, I should only have an outline that shines which is the story that they have gone through."

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"Minawi hopes that his installation will eventually end up in Germany, where thousands of refugees have been welcomed since last summer. He says: "Now I have a plan for this installation. At the end of the tour I'm going to make an auction. I'm hoping in Germany. I contacted Angela Merkel. I sent her an e-mail, but she hasn't answered yet."

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"My message to Europe is, if you have refugees in your country, treat them like human beings-- don't be scared of them. Anyone, anyone in the world could have been through what they have been through. Europe went through this in World War Two- and that wasn't even long ago. So let's be kind to these people and help them."

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Palestinian Alaa Minawi has been working as a light artist in Beirut for over ten years. Working with Syrian refugees as a translator prompted him to create "my light is your light", an installation about the plight of the people he spoke to.

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"The installation represents a family of six," says Minawi. "A father, mother, a grandfather, an aunt and two children. They are walking, leaving their home."

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Minawi's installation has toured several cities, including Amsterdam. He says: "I think people want to see the humanitarian side of this conflict. They want to understand that they are real people who are forced to leave their country. Festivals have been very interested in spreading this message."

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"In Amsterdam, their perception of the art is based more on a humanitarian level. When people were looking at it, they just stood, had a moment of silence and then kept on moving. In Beirut it was a different reaction. Beirut has millions of refugees and we have a cultural connection with the Syrians, so we feel that we are also a part of this conflict, like we're getting affected by it. When we see it, we have the baggage of, we are also going through this and we react in a different way."

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"Minawi's grandfather left Palestine in 1948 and sought asylum in Beirut. He says: "When the Syrians were telling me their stories, there were times I thought, maybe my grandfather went through this. Maybe he has gone through one of these stories. I cannot imagine how hard it must be."

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"When I talked to these refugees, I felt they had an aura," says Minawi. "I believe everyone has an aura, has light. And I noticed that they glow with this strong light. I thought this was happening because their stories were trying to come out from their skin."

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"I believed that the Syrians I spoke to wanted to tell their stories so badly it was shining through their skin. I thought, this installation shouldn't have the skin, it shouldn't have the body shape, I should only have an outline that shines which is the story that they have gone through."

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"Minawi hopes that his installation will eventually end up in Germany, where thousands of refugees have been welcomed since last summer. He says: "Now I have a plan for this installation. At the end of the tour I'm going to make an auction. I'm hoping in Germany. I contacted Angela Merkel. I sent her an e-mail, but she hasn't answered yet."

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"My message to Europe is, if you have refugees in your country, treat them like human beings-- don't be scared of them. Anyone, anyone in the world could have been through what they have been through. Europe went through this in World War Two- and that wasn't even long ago. So let's be kind to these people and help them."

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Palestinian Alaa Minawi has been working as a light artist in Beirut for over ten years. Working with Syrian refugees as a translator prompted him to create "my light is your light", an installation about the plight of the people he spoke to.

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Photos:

"The installation represents a family of six," says Minawi. "A father, mother, a grandfather, an aunt and two children. They are walking, leaving their home."

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Minawi's installation has toured several cities, including Amsterdam. He says: "I think people want to see the humanitarian side of this conflict. They want to understand that they are real people who are forced to leave their country. Festivals have been very interested in spreading this message."

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"In Amsterdam, their perception of the art is based more on a humanitarian level. When people were looking at it, they just stood, had a moment of silence and then kept on moving. In Beirut it was a different reaction. Beirut has millions of refugees and we have a cultural connection with the Syrians, so we feel that we are also a part of this conflict, like we're getting affected by it. When we see it, we have the baggage of, we are also going through this and we react in a different way."

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"Minawi's grandfather left Palestine in 1948 and sought asylum in Beirut. He says: "When the Syrians were telling me their stories, there were times I thought, maybe my grandfather went through this. Maybe he has gone through one of these stories. I cannot imagine how hard it must be."

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(CNN)For Palestinian artist Alaa Minawi, six neon tubes are all it takes to deliver a powerful reminder
 of Europe's refugee crisis.

"When people are forced to leave their country they don't only lose their schools, toys and cars," 
he says. "They drop their skin, organs and memories. They transform into outlines of human beings."

Minawi, who lives in Lebanon, spent three years working as a translator for Syrian refugees who were 
applying for asylum in the United States.

"I heard almost 1,000 stories," he says. "Most of them were traumatizing. For them, this interview 
is life-changing. It's like the last rope you throw to a drowned person. My own perception of life changed 
after these interviews. You appreciate life differently, you see how these people want a future, 
how they are craving it. I felt I had to create something related to what I heard."

RELATED: Artist William Kentridge's incredible refugee premonition
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/14/arts/william-kentridge-refugee-crisis/

The resulting sculpture, called "My light is your light", is a set of custom-made white neon lights that
"look like extremely fragile human bones". For Minawi, the entire piece is a stripped down version of
 one particular family in Lebanon whose story affected him deeply.

"They're crossing the border," Minawi says. "The father is in front watching out for the family. 
The grandfather trails behind him, bent over and exhausted. The mother is walking forward but looking down. 
The teenager has been left behind. He's just as traumatized as everyone else, but they don't notice. 
There's also an aunt and a little child."

A message of hope for refugees

According to Minawi, the installation has a message not only for Europeans, but also for refugees themselves.

"I want to tell them that you shine light and you can move on," he says. 
"There are five statues whose heads are all down. Except for the little kid."

Unlike the older figures, the smallest child in the sculpture looks straight ahead, 
and was intended as a symbol of hope and resilience.