InterACT Friday 24 October 2014

InterACT  Friday 24 October 2014

Edgewater 3 will also be going to the Interact Festival at Henderson on Friday 24 October. Bring your lunch, a drink and be ready to have lots of fun. 

InterACT 2014 is shaping up to be an amazing festival with Caitlin Smith performing at the Gala, TAPEART NZ joining us in the Opunuku room for some fabulous creations, dance from Touch Compass and music from The Mutes plus circus, clowns, face painting, non stop performances on stage and much more!

http://interacting.org.nz/interactfestival/interact-2014/

Founded in 2011 by festival director Paula Crimmens, InterAct Festival offers an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of disabled people in the arts and creates a pathway forward toward a thriving and vibrant future for Disability Arts in New Zealand.  Through live performances, wearable arts parades,  drumming, singing, and creative workshops, InterAct fosters the talent of people with disabilities and provides an environment in which everybody can thrive.

InterAct values:

Inclusive and participatory- to promote participation in the arts by disabled people and to highlight the contributions that disabled people can make to the fabric of the local community and the wider Auckland region.

Engaging – to engage the local community in an inclusive arts and social experience that leads to a greater understanding and acceptance of disability.

Quality – to create a well organized festival with participants and content that reflect quality, integrity and ‘shine’.

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Headway Art - Still Life

We have been working on our Headway Art.

We are learning about "Still Life".

Gabrielle is teaching us how to draw a sketch.

We are drawing chairs.

     

We drew pictures of chairs at different angles. We put water all over our picture. Then we used pastels to colour in the seats, backs and legs of the chairs. I really enjoyed doing the art because it was something different. It made me feel very excited. By Natasha.

We draw chairs that all go together. It was difficult for me but I did draw chairs and that was perfect.  

After we drew the chairs we used the art pencil and drew over the lines.We put brushed water over the pencil lines. Then we used ink to paint over the lines. 

Then we stopped and listened to Gabrelle talk about colours. I picked purple and blue. I coloured it in using our fingers. It felt weird on my fingers. It was really, really dirty. Art was cool and lots of fun. I really liked it. By Vikki

We used Indian ink and dye. 

You brush on the pencil lines.

I like chair picture I made. 

It was amazing.

By Nathan

We did some chair art on a piece of paper. We wet the paper and then used Indian ink on the line.  After that we used chalk pastels to colour the backs and the fronts. I felt really happy because I like the feeling of drawing with the pencil. By Allan

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Dot Dye Painting by Natasha

We did dye dot painting . Before I started I put on a apron so my uniform wont get dirty. I am using red and blue and I splodge the colours on to the paper. We made lots of them to put on the wall to decorate the classroom. 

We also dyed our desk covers. For the desk cover I use lots different colours and after the dye dried we cut out the pictures and put them up on the wall too it was fun.    

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Painting Together by Vikki

I was busy pressing the syringe. It was hard because I thought I was going to drop the syringe.I used  my favourite colours, blue and red. Brennan was on one side, I was on the the other side.The paper was on the wood. My favourite part was squirting the painting. That was fun!!

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Self Portrait by Aidan

My art is looking cool. I used a vivid to draw around my photo then I cut with the craft knife.
I used a spray can to go over the cuts.

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Splodge by Brennan

We did a painting it is called splodge and we used a syringe to push the colours out onto the paper. We did not  just use one colour we used lots of different colours on one paper. I enjoyed squirting the paint out of the syringe onto the paper.

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Fun with Dye by Allan

We have been creating a bit of art  to brighten our class room up. We have also have been doing Dye Dot painting for the walls in the class room. Before we started that piece of art work we put down the tarpaulin.For the Dye Dot painting we used a syringe. We also have been working on our comic picture desk cover and dying it with different colours. We have been really busy doing this for the class room. It was very hard when I had to bend down and do the dye dot painting because I have long legs. With the desk covers I just painted  up and down with the brushes.

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Stencil Art by Nathan

I am wearing  a apron to protect my uniform from the paint while I  am preparing the board for my stencil.  It looked amazing when I sprayed the stencil of my head onto it.

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We took the clay art out of the kiln.

We took the clay art out of the kiln.

Now we will clean it.

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We are going potty in art class…

We are going potty in art class…

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Clay – 3D Art Topic

Clay – 3D Art Topic 

Crusoe is teaching us about working 

with clay.

 We are going to “fire” some of the things we make. Crusoe explains how we will make a kiln and fire the clay.

We knead the clay to get it 

ready to work with.

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