ARTS AWARD
ATTENTION YOUNG PEOPLE, TEACHERS AND YOUTH GROUP LEADERS!!!
SAA-uk Arts Award Centre
SAA-uk
is a registered Arts Award Centre! If you are aged 11-25 years and
would like to get a national qualification and award for exploring an
art form you love then don't delay......get in touch with us today!
The Arts Award supports Young People to develop as artists and art leaders, as well as providing national QCA qualifications at levels 1, 2 and 3.
The Arts Award is a personal learning programme which develops and assesses arts related knowledge and understanding as well as creativity, communication, planning and review. Leadership skills are also acquired.
During the Gallery 37 Plus programme this summer 12 talented young people achieved the Bronze Award!
Calling all Teachers and Youth Leaders
Do you know any students who would be interested in or benefit from using South Asian art forms to do the Arts Award?
Perhaps
you have an After School Club, Holiday Programme or Artist Residency
that you would like to use South Asian Art activities to gain an Arts
Award?
Would you like to link up with SAA-uk who can provide mentorship and support in gaining the qualifications?
For an informal chat please contact the Education and Outreach Coordinator on 0113 244 5523 or e-mail education@saa-uk.org.uk.
RECENT WORK
Here are two recent reviews by two young people who have recently completed the Bronze Arts Award with SAA-uk's Find Your Talent funded 'Kal Ka Akar' Programme.
Review of Vaisakh- a celebration if spring through dance
On Friday 30th April 2010 I went to see an Indian dance show. It had several different parts to it, the first part of the programme was called Bharatanatyam. It was a group of girls expressing both aspects of Bharatanatyam; lyrical expression and aesthetic movement. It was good and looked very professional, the girls stayed in roll and performed very well.
The second part of the programme was called Yakshagana, it was done by a man and a women. They both performed very well but I think that it went on for too long. It was telling a story about Ganesha and how the moon laughed at lord Ganesha, so he put a curse on the moon. After it happened the moon prayed to Ganesha and asked for his forgiveness.
There were many other parts of the programme that were good, everyone who took part in the show were very professional.
By Ashira Mellor
A review of Leeds Art Gallery
For part B of my arts award I visited Leeds art gallery. The gallery visit was fairly inspiring and had a wonderful collection of drawings and paintings, but the vast majority was not as appealing to me as there were no manga style sketches, which are more of what kind of drawings I am interested in. However I was impressed with the quality of oil paintings, as the paintings were very detailed, colourful and intriguing. The first exhibition we saw was ‘kismet and karma’. I did not find it as interesting as the oil paintings, and in comparison, the images of the women, and the style in which they were presented was not to my taste as I prefer more Japanese style art like manga.
In future, I think that the gallery should put in a separate section for more modern pieces of art like a manga collection. A series of cartoon, or graphic novel type art would appeal more, not only to me, but to a younger audience. It would also be an idea to have more artwork from around the world. For example the ‘kismet and karma’ collection represents South Asian women, so work from other areas like Japan, Italy or contemporary pieces, from other peoples points of view, young generation and old would also be an idea to make the gallery more appealing to all audiences.
By Rajan Mellor
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