The Arts Unit @home – Art Bites
The Arts Unit @home – Lunch Bites
Highlights collection 1
Two weeks of Lunch Bites and so many highlights. Here's just a few to whet your appetite for next week's selection.
Disclaimer
Art Bites on demand
Art Bites invite students to join a choir rehearsal, dance ensemble, music practice, art club or a debating team meeting.
Each week The Arts Unit will schedule short video lessons in a range of areas to offer students a chance to engage in the co-curricular activities they are missing while learning remotely. Visit the Arts Bites page for more.
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Characterisation – 3. Melodrama – Characters and performance
Stock characters are an integral part of melodrama. In the third video of the characterisation series, Jane Simmons introduces you to stock characters and delivers you a script to work with at home.
Contemporary dance training – Creative composition for the home
Using the space in your home, create a simple story, then choreograph dance movements to convey the essence or feeling of a story.
Hip Hop choreography – Litefeet with Neale Whittaker
Join the Schools Spectacular Hip Hop Dance Crew experience. Dive deep into the songs of the 90’s and learn an upbeat routine that will put a big smile on your face.
Playing the recorder – 1. Hot Cross Buns
Learn to play the recorder with the first 3 notes: B, A and G.
Operation Art – 1. Junkyard robots
Join Heidi Windeisen as she guides you through the process of making your very own junkyard robot!
Primary school debating – 2. Defining a topic
This week Indigo Crosweller defines the primary topic: 'That teachers should have to participate in all school sport and exercise classes just like students' (Hint: try writing your own definition for that topic before watching and then see how you compare to a great coach!)
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Upcoming Bites
In this episode, we introduce the note C.
In this episode we will learn about observation skills as actors. We then explore status and how to use movement to play high and low status characters.
Do you love to sing? This is the first in a series of choral workshops for secondary students who love to sing!
This week Maja Vasic defines the high school topic “That we should never allow people under 18 to use social media sites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.” (Hint: try writing your own definition for that topic before watching and then see how you compare to a great coach!)
Lunch Bites this week
Join us at lunchtime each Monday, Wednesday and Friday to experience outstanding student performances and presentations from The Arts Unit’s catalogue of festivals and events. If you can’t join us at lunch, drop by anytime. All of the Lunch Bites will be available on demand.
Tell us what you think about The Arts Unit @home resources.
Music collection 1
Musical highlights from Schools Spectacular 2018 and In Concert 2019 featuring talented young singers and instrumentalists from NSW public schools.
Public Speaking collection 1
The final of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition is a highly anticipated event. Join us for Part 1 of the 2017 State Final for Years 3 and 4 students.
Dance collection 1
The 2018 State Dance Festival showcased many wonderful performances by public school ensembles from throughout NSW. Here's a small selection.
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Upcoming Lunch Bites
Join Gabrielle Tozer at the Sydney Writers' Festival as she talks about her experiences as an author, let Mick Elliott teach you how to draw the character that he created for the 2020 Premier's Reading Challenge poster and gain an insight into the creation of an ARTEXPRESS work.
We can learn so much from our young people. These four performances by infants/primary school groups from the 2018 State Drama Festival give plenty of food for thought.
Two weeks of Lunch Bites and so many highlights. Here's just a few to whet your appetite for next week's selection.
