Art flourishes at school

Wearable arts fashions modelled by Shelley Ellis (14, left) and Megan Carter (16) won the two big...
Wearable arts fashions modelled by Shelley Ellis (14, left) and Megan Carter (16) won the two big prizes at a fashion show yesterday, part of Waitaki Girls' High School's arts week. Photo by David Bruce.
Waitaki Girls' High School launched its first arts week yesterday with wearable arts fashions and in the coming days all pupils will be involved, promoting art, drama, music and dance.

Yesterday, the school houses, individual pupils and teachers created "wearable arts" outfits from recyclable materials, which they paraded in a fashion show in the hall at lunchtime, after the opening of a visual arts exhibition in the hall foyer at morning interval.

Pupil and staff art and craft work will be on display all this week.

Today a variety concert will be given by talented pupils, with a popular music concert by the Oamaru Youth Orchestra and the Waitaki Girls'-Waitaki Boys' concert band performance at North School at 2.20pm.

At interval on Thursday there will be a silent disco - dancing to individual music players - and Courtyard Chaos in the lunch break, which includes Living Statues, a sausage sizzle, pavement artists and buskers.

Street artist Jesse Geary will create a mural.

A mass school Hip Hop lesson will be held on Friday in the hall. It will be led by pupil Suzy Lind and the school's Dance Club.

 

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