Spotlight Schedule
9:00am – 3:00pm
ALL DAY EVENTS
Art making for students and teachers
Join artist and consultant Frank Caracciolo for a day of collective art-making. Participants will collaborate on a group piece, and learn about the richness of co-creation and gaining inspiration from each other. High School students will be invited through their school board Arts consultant.
Open Creative Space
Come explore, make, tinker and meet like-minded people at the Open Creative Space co-hosted by LEARN. A Makerspace that embraces the A in STEAM!
9:00 – 10:15 Art in all Subjects with EDUCART
Thibault Zimmer, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal
EDUCART can motivate teachers to create and publish their own multi/interdisciplinary LES. The model is based on 3 axes : Subject, theme, and a work of art, and comes with lesson plans and projects in different subject areas. Each work is created with the QEP as a guideline and special consideration is aimed toward the application of knowledge competencies, cross-curricular competencies and broad area of learning – educart.ca/en/
10:30 – 11:45 The 30 Days of Art Challenge
MAD2 Members – ATELIER BILINGUE
Participating in the Arts is a means to experience the world, to think deeply and to be fully human. Research shows that it also improves school performance (Hattie 2009)! The 30 Days of Art challenge is an easy and fun programme for elementary schools, designed to get kids engaged in the arts every day. During the challenge, students do an art activity per day for 30 days and record their participation on the log sheet provided. Participants will come away with a full colour classroom poster and a student log sheet master. More materials are also available online at www.learnquebec.ca/30daysart
12:15 – 1:30 Integrating Character Masks (Commedia Dell’Arte) in Drama Class
Nicolas Doyon
Why do student actors generally find it inhibiting to create, interpret and sustain believable characters? Is it because we put all the emphasis on making sure they recite their lines “properly”? Character masks – found in the world of Commedia Dell’Arte – allow students to explore the physical dimensions of character building before they are introduced to the actual text. In addition, they offer physical models on how to interpret each specific character effectively while considering motive and social status.
