More Art’s afterschool art program has begun again! This school year we’re working with middle schoolers from the NYC Lab School, a group of 15 students excited to learn about film. Don Gibson has been leading classes that split our course into two parts. The first focuses on learning and discussing film theory and concepts,
The collaboration, promoted by More Art, between Chelsea Opera, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production of high quality, affordable operas accessible to all members of the community, and students of the Clinton Middle School has ended on a high note with the students attending the dress rehearsal for Chelsea Opera’s latest production, Madama Butterfly,
Clinton Middle School started a project in collaboration with Chelsea Opera. For the first session the kids took a look at the events leading to the creation of the opera (John Long’s story, David Belasco’s play); learned the characters – who’s who in the opera, relationships, character profile and synopsis of the opera.
Clinton Middle School students realized a short films with two experts from the field. Saturday March 17th and March 24th, in a beautiful space located in Chelsea, The Pure Space, kindly offered by Rida Chin, seventeen kids focused and enthusiastically learned the basic rules of stop-motion animation. The title of the film was “Another Day
Clinton Middle School students tried to imagine scenes suggested by movie soundtracks. The kids spent the entire afternoon listening to famous soundtracks of great movies like Forrest Gump, The Piano, The Blues Brothers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Titanic, and others! In the end they watched short movie clips that corresponded to the scenes. The paintings
Clinton Middle School students painted their impressions in a special atmosphere. Two talented musicians – Phil Faconti and Dino Vasilakos – one a guitar player and the other a piano one, played a variety of genres from jazz to blues to bossa nova, struck the kids. The students were asked to “paint their soul” (a
