Yesterday and Today, Elisapee Ishulutaq, oil stick on paper
The art festival trip was a complete success! We managed to fit in not only the festival but a number of other activities in the city on a limited budget. Hopefully this becomes an annual event.
Tommy and his pencil drawings.
Chelsea with her pine marten prints.
Zoey and her Oji-Cree counting book.
Madison and her bird painting.
We brought a lot of artwork with us to Winnipeg. Our school is very fortunate to have so many creative and supportive teachers who value the arts. Everyone seemed really impressed with the talent of our students.
Fox Lake presenting "What the 7 Teachings Mean to Me."
Poplar River School presentation
Nelson House anti-bullying skit.
Each school was responsible for giving a presentation in the morning. Because we chose to bring students to present their visual art, we did not plan on performing any of the songs we did at our festival. Instead I talked a bit about our school's festival, the art we made, and showed pictures. Other schools spoke about their community, performed Red River Jigs, and one school performed two poems. We were really impressed with the hard work that went into these presentations.
Lunch break!
KES table one.
KES table two with chaperons Nick and Lorna.
Planetarium
Portrait drawing workshop.
Learning about traditional games.
Traditional games.
Students having their caricatures drawn.
After lunch there were a variety of activities for the kids. There were stations for portrait drawing, traditional games, caricatures and Wilfred Buck brought his portable planetarium.
Celebratory dinner at Montana's.
Table doodles.
Happy Birthday!
That night we went out to dinner at Montana's to celebrate. We even got to sing one student happy birthday!
These Rodney Graham prints are too perfect.
We finished the trip off with breakfast at Stella's and a visit to the WAG. We made sure to bring our sketchbooks so that we could draw some of the artwork on display.
Taking time to copy some Elisapee Ishulutaq prints.
Our students had such a wonderful time in Winnipeg. Opportunities like these are few and far between for Garden Hill. Hopefully this becomes an annual event for MFNERC. If you would like to read more about the festival you can check out their website.
