SOMETHING I FOUND TODAY!

This look similar to Chris Ofili work it looks like mixed media, make need feel connected to afro caribbean heritage.

Participation - "Creating a Radio Play"

Basically the play Better Off With Out Me  is about shottuers life a 17 year old boy who is face with difficult situation and is left to get through it by him self. But just as soon  as the help comes, just as soon as it goes. Tyler the 17 year old  boy who was having a hard life, he was looking after his mum who had cancer which made it very difficult for him as a young person, a year later his mum died and Tyler was forced to live in a hostel.

As a young person living with his mum all his life, living in the hostel was not suitable at all such as other teenager boys smoking, bad manners ,police always searching the hostel rooms ,trouble makers ,bad influence , this environment was not suitable for Tyler so he went to go seek help from his dad,unfortunatly  his dad choose not to help him which made the life for Tyler more harder, his friend Jasmine who helped him with his mum comes to offer more help to him , listen to him , show him that she cares and he's got someone for him.

While he was staying in the hostel, a friend Craze offers to help him by giving him work which is to sale drugs ,he takes the offer because he wants to set his own business which is the  Pluming, he needs a big amount of money to set it up . Later on that day he meet Jasmine in the park across the road from the hostel as they were smoking weed, they get caught by police, the policeman asks Jasmine for her name and address without a struggle, he then asks Tyler who decides to be difficult by not answering the questions because he refused to cooperate, the police officer then takes him down to the station and find 2.5 onces of weed on him he got a 12 months referral to the youth offending service with they them put him on a course which is the summer arts college for more information listen to the radio play an send us your comment on what you would do if you were Tyler

Hear the radio Play here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3hy22lIGxY

"Apprenticeship - Collage making"

For my apprenticeship module I created a collage presentation and shared my skills in collage making.
First I will have a meeting with my arts leader to plan a strategy on how to deliver our workshop, and what are the best  fun methods  for me to deliver.

The things I think might be challenging are talking in  front of people, making the presentation  fun so that the participants are involved.

It felt cool presenting because I was presenting my skills to arts leaders rather than the other way around. People asked about which artists inspired me and which works my art resembles so I spoke about Matisse.  I realised that my collage has become like a map - representing the whole three weeks of Sumer Arts College.

If I was to present my skills again I would spend more time planning and collect art materials so that everyone could have a go at creating their own collage.

Audience - Trip To the BBC studio

The trip to the BBC studio was really coooll!!!!!!! Can't really remember what train we took but we got of at White city station and couple of seconds away was the BBC studio I thought the trip was quiet exciting because I've never been the BBC studio b4 .The tour consisted of studios,dresser rooms,stuff cafe , and the amazing fountain that is now all glass ,coming towards the end of the tour we played a game of the weakest link .I actually enjoyed myself to the fullest but I was a bit disappointment because I felt that there could have been a bit more to it .

Participation - Capoeira

What you did...
I did a capoeira lesson today and it was really fun I also leant to moves called jinga this was step where your feet where in parallel an you step behind you and back to parallel repeating on the other foot we also did the crab and the cat the crab was a movement were you walk backwards with your feet and hands





What you learned...
I learnt that I had more strength then I thought I had.


What you thought/ Felt..
I thought it was going to be very difficult but then when I actually done it ,it was really cool  and a bit easy.

Participation

This week we have beem creating a documentary:

We practiced camera skills first and then we got used to the camera and being in front of the camera.  We practiced interviewing each other to get our confidence up and then put into practice what we had learned by going into the public and interviewing them about what they thought about youth of today.

New skills I have leared are:

Operating a professional camera, interview techniques - asking questions and listening and responding to the answers.  I have also learned how to edit the footage using Imovie on a Mac.

What I thought about this week:

This week has been really great.  I thought it was really fun and exciting.  I have never done something like this before and I found that with each interview I got more confident.  In the beginning I felt nervous about talking to people on the street but with each person I spoke to, it got easier and I was able to remember every thing I had to say.  Some people didn't want to stop and be interviewed, but that was ok.


Watch our documentary here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE1w6MGC6RE

My arts hero

My arts hero is chris ofili because i saw shown one of his pieces.  It was a picture of a pair of shoes made out of Elephant dung!  When I saw them, I thought 'Wow!'. 

Find out about chris ofili by following this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ofili

Chris Ofili is a black british visual artist who often incorporates elephant dung into his pieces.  He won the Turner Prize.  When he won it he said that he'd won it for all the black people out there, to show them that all black people are capable of success.

This is my favourite of his pieces.  I like it because it looks attractive.  It's eye catching. 

My Arts Award

For 'Heroes' I would  like to give  presentations on Chris Ofili.  His work is new to me and I'd like 2 find out more about him.

For 'Participation' I would like to blog about my experience of the Capoeira workshop because I have never done it before but I like dancing and I think I might enjoy it.

Watch some Caopeira here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8xxgFpK-NM

For 'Audience' I will go to the BBC TV Studios because I am excited about going and I've never been before.

For 'Apprenticeship' I would like to assist the arts leader in running a drama game.

about me

Hi my name is Valencia Riley, I'm 16 years old and I live in Angel lslington London town.
This summer I'm going to take part in The Summer Arts project to acheive a bronze arts award.

My interests are Art, Reading and Sports... The artist I like are Kandinsky, Van Gogh & today i just discovered Chris Offili.

The last book i read was Ugly by  Constance Briscoe.
Click here to watch an interview about her life and book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFFVEfJTp0

Yesterday was my first day, We had a workshop on respect and made a group contract based on how we will communicate and co operate together. This was good for me and made me feel involved in included in something brand new.

We were introduced to the Project and told about what we could achieve in the next three weeks.
I have the opportunity to make a Documentary, Radio Play and Lyric writing which i think is cool.