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How can we use the arts to effect change in the world and bring about a more just world? 

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How can we use the arts to effect change in the world and bring about a more just world? 

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Art always plays a big role in religions. As we all know, European Middle Ages have many nude statues and very scantily clad oil paintings. We usually treat this as 🤬. But since adding the concept of catholic teaching. Our body is given by God, that's stuff we should be proud of. So under the blessing of Catholicism, the meanings of these statues and paintings have become different and more positive. The invention of art initially was to record life, religious ceremonies, or some belief. Giving more fun in our life. Art is associated with our life tightly. Art itself is something that makes life better.

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The ninth grade is coming to an end, yeah, I learned a lot. But the biggest growth must be my english.

At the beginning of this year, I hardly talk, and every time I talk I will record what I say or what the teacher says, to protect from losing some important information. So this means that the number of times I speak is so small that I can record them all.

Whatever, that’s a good habit, cause now, after almost a year, I can know whatever my growth or regress in English.

The beginning of Grade 9, can’t imagine how slow I talk to others, that’s so embarrassing, everytime I talk is word by word. Oh I wanna thank those people that are patient talking to me, they don’t like: ohhh I don’t wanna talk to you, you are so slow. No they dot. They were so patient, They didn't interrupt my speech. So express my gratitude here.

And now, even though I can’t speak as native student, I still grow a lot, at least I don't talk word by word anymore,  be more fluent and pay more attention to feelings and intonation.

I still have to study harder and harder. I just wanna use this blog to encourage myself, maybe after one year, when I read this blog again, I will feel: Oh, How could my grammar at that time be so bad, how could my vocabulary at that time be so small. Maybe who knows.

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I am a big fan of Chinese culture, not just that I come from China, so I want to publicly Chinese culture. Just because I am really surprised that we can still read or watch the same poetry or picture and eat the same food as ancient people. That’s exciting right? We are doing the same thing as people five thousand years ago!!! OMGGGGGG!!!

So first, we all know Chinese characters are different from others, but only Chinese or some people that familier China’s words will know, there are some differences between ancient Chinese and modern Chinese. What students need to do, not just learn modern Chinese, also we should learn ancient Chinese, which is a language that ancient people use. We learn what the word means, what emotion this word wants to express. That’s kind of hard, but I still have a lot of fun. And also, you can through their article to know what their life was like, the policy that time, and a lot of major historical events, ect. So that's interesting stuff.

Next culture that I will be talking about is Chinese food. Ohhhhhh Noooooo, I miss them. China has countless delicacies, these delicacies. These delicacies are the crystallization of ancient people's research for five thousand years, exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses. Which I can not use words to describe, that’s so delicious. Some of them have also spread abroad, like “hot pot”, “Baozi”, “Dumplings ecr. If you like them, that means you have a Chinese appetite, then there will be a very treasure place for you, China, you can find more and more delicacies that are suitable for you there.

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In China, I am not a professional art student, if you aren’t a professional art student, your focus will be on learning. Like Chinese, Math, Science, ect. Every week we only have one art class, 40 minutes. Sometimes if we have a lot of homework, we usually write them in art class. Why do we do this, all reason just because art is not important for us, not professional art students. All the teachers just care about your grade in Chinese, Math, and science, ect. Even though some students that are cultural students, still love arts, under heavy pressure, they had to give up art.

I have an experience of that, I learned piano when I was 4 years old,  but I gave it up when I went to grade 7, cause I have no time to play it or practice it. In this way, I stay away from art for two years. I still deeply regret this matter now.

But fortunately, I picked them up now, I think after I come to Canada, I have more free time to do the things that I wanna do, whatever learning or playing. I have energy to devote to all kinds of things. If you are interested and take the initiative to do something, it will be more efficient than being forced to do something.

I saw a sentence in our school’s stairwell on the second floor: If there is no “art” on the “Earth”, there will only be “Eh”. So all in all, I am really enjoying the work time with art.

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Talk about music theater, to be honest, I didn’t watch much before, and did not touch many. Just after that class, I learned a little bit about music theater more.

For Canada music theater, I just searched, it seems like there are is a very famous one that called "Come From Away", the summary of the theater is about after the 911, The U.S. announced the closure of its airspace for the first time in its history, 7,000 people landed in a small Canadian town with less than 10,000 people, After spending ten days together, it turned into a wonderful experience.

I think that the way let the story of Canada merge with the world.

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“The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” this is the definition from google that you can get. Before I came to Canada, what I understood of art was drawing, which is very stupid. I took visual art this year, then after joining the iRAP, school gave me a new course called integrated arts. I was so confused, why I should draw two classes. Gradually, I found art is not just a single draw, art includes so many stuff, and every stuff has a lot of different elements and principles. Wow, does that mean I have to learn more proper nouns again? The answer is Yes! OHHH NOOO

Art includes many different forms of expression, It is roughly divided into the following: music, visual art, dance, drama. Those are very common in our life which we can relate to usually.

Music simply put, use the sound to pass the emotion and the theme, we use the listening to feel the emotion.

Visual art simply put, expresses emotion with color, and gives people a visual impact.

Dance uses the coordination of limbs and body to show what you want to show.

Drama translated to an easy word is acting, acting a story achieves the result that you wanna get.

They are different disciplines of art, use different ways, different parts of your body, but they also have the same character, first is they wanna infect everyone with emotions, then everything has their own rhythm and rules. So if the rhythm matches, they can all be combined into an integrated art.

Integrated art lets whatever visual or listening impact, which gets most people like. That’s not dull and boring. But this is not to say the single art is not good, just if you like one of them very much, that’s totally fine, that’s dependent on yourself, right !

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Ohhhh, time goes so fast, half the time has passed. During this half period, I was really exposed to many things I didn't know before. I’ve done a lot of work through this half period, among the works that I am very proud of are:

Vision Board, that’s turelly let me know what I want to get and let me think deeply about the future. Also I think I’ve done a beautiful Board.

Next is the soundscape assignment, I really enjoy working in my group, like collecting every sound, and adding them together. At the time, I made a lot of friends.

Last but not least one is the puppets parody project, I love it!!! That’s the real integrated art, combining many aspects of art, and that’s truly hard work, but after you’ve done that, the sense of accomplishment will be very huge.

In the next 4 weeks, I also want to learn more and more, and I have three goals that I would love to accomplish:

Learn more skills of apps in apple. During this course, I have gradually become an Apple fan. The apps in Apple are so easy to learn and use. I’d love to use more and more in this aspect.

Write 3 more blogs than others. One of the reasons is I want to record something interesting in these 4 weeks, another reason of course is I wanna practice writing more and more. Hahaha…

Know the proper nouns in art. Last one is just accumulated, which will be a long journey. For me, it's not easy to collect and remember these bunch of proper nouns in English. (That’s sad)

I love art, that’s why I chose iRAP, but I am not going to engage in a job that’s specifically related to art. But, I said, life is related to art, I need life, so art will always associate with whatever me or my job.

Hope I have an unforgettable in next 4 weeks!!!

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The  puppets parody this project, it truly really tortured me, but the result makes me satisfied so I think the tortured I did is worth it.

At the beginning, I was so confused about everything: what scenes should I choose, what character should I make, how can the background be reallful, ect.. Ohhh My brain! Then I went to search the youtube, to see if I can get any ideas from the already done video. I watched a bunch of videos, but most of them are singing, dancing, but I wanna do something new.

By chance, I accidentally saw a Harry Potter segment when I was watching Youtube. My inspiration came in an instant, then I began to explore how I can make my video creatively:

In my opinion, the character design is the most important part, if your character does not look real, others can not see who is represented by these puppets. Then that's not a good puppet.

I found a video about how to make a Harry potter finger puppet, use this video as a model, change a little bit then I made the Harry potter socks puppets. Of course the process of making puppets is difficult, so I won’t go into details.

Next problem is the background, I want to make a moving scene, so the background must move too, but the edit will be very complex. So I came up with another way. I can cut one scene from the movie rpensent the background. At the same time, it also enriches the emotion of the characters.

After that is acting, I don’t think acting the puppets is a big problem for me, cause my family helps me a lot, just need to correct their stiff movements from time to time.

The end, just dubbing the sounds and adding some background music, that's it. For the background music, I used the theme song of Harry Potter background music, I think that can evoke people's more memories.

All in all, I think this production is relatively successful, also I try my best to do that. But that’s the first time I use iMovie to edit a movie, still not familiar with editing. So I hope next time I can use more tools to enrich the movie’s elements, act the puppets more exaggerated, and show more detail.

Through this process, I learn a lot from each aspect, whatever the acting, makeking, or editing. And I think using integrated art is better than using a single one, cause integrated art can give the audience both visual and auditory or other aspects of shocks.

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That’s my first  time coming into contact with “design thinking”. In general, design thinking is a very good process to plan your thoughts for tasks. You can easily know what you should do, what the person being served wants, so the next step will be very clear.
I have said in my last blog, I think art is that anything you’ve heard, saw, smalled, everything, and what your thought about art also is art. For “design thinking”,  in the process of practice, we may include technology of art, like drama, song, instrument, video or picture ect.. That's “design thinking” with art skill; for other aspects, your empathy, your response, and your solution will be very different from others, that depends on the art in your mind. Everyone is different.                        Design thinking” can help you unblock your thoughts, clearly each step. So whether it is your school work or beyond school work (like community service, building your room or eliminating your anxiety), that will be a very helpful procese.                     For example, when a teacher gives you an assignment, first, you need to think about what point the teacher wants to get, pay attention to the underline word. Then you can begin on your ideas, find some resources to prove that your idea is realistic. In the end, do some tests or you can find some already done tasks by others from the internet. That's it!!! A very wonderful assignment is done.

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Talk about art, everyone will think I can appreciate art, but it seems like there is no direct relation between me and art, those who are professional artists have been classified by their interests, major celebrities also occupy the main sections of art. So what is the exact meaning of art???

In ancient Greece, people believed that art was a “technology”, people pay attention to the skill and try to understand God and respect for people created by God, so most of the sculptures facial expressions from ancient Greek are very solemn and no black eyeball. In ancient China, art is a way to catharsis their emotions, express their happiness, sadness, sorrow etc. In western, people through art show their own belief in religion, express your piety to religion through art.
Aristotle thought determines whether a thing is beautiful, it must be based on the principle of quantity and the principle of order. Other people thought that the shape of beauty is like a shadow, no one can prescribe beauty.

After talking about art so much, the definition of what is art in your heart may have an answer. The definition of art depends what you think of art. Art is everything around you that you saw, heard, thought… What you think about art, that's also an art. Oh gash, my brain!!!
You may disdain this Blog now, I read so many words, you still don’t tell me why students must learn art. Haha! The answer also hides in this altical. The beauty of everyone is different, all things that are around you are art, no one has the same definition of art, because everything you touched, everything you saw, everything you heard won’t be the same. The art education, the school, the teacher, their job is to discover your art and let us know what impact our experience has on our art in our hearts. At the same time,  they teach us how to express art and the art skill.
Last but not least, never question your own art. Decades ago, no one was optimistic about the art of the Dutch painter Van Gogh, but who would have thought that his work would be sold for 71.5 million US dollars after decades; No one recognized Bach’s songs before, but who would have thought that Bach’s works would become a must for every piano learner. So Don't shake your faith, never question yourself.