NIST 2008 Arts Week: Students, parents and staff experienced a wide range of performing arts through a series of workshops held September 15 – 17, 2008.
Special guests Doug Goodkin and Kofi Gbolonyo from universities in the USA led the music sessions and spoke to parents about the importance of the Arts in education today. Doug Goodkin, from the San Francisco School of Arts, is an author, music educator, jazz musician and expert in the Orff Schulwerk method of music education. Kofi Gbonlonyo is a lecturer in African Music Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a national of Ghana and an expert in African Music and Dance. Other creative and dramatic arts workshops were led by guest teachers or NIST’s own teaching staff.
Students from year levels six to nine enjoyed three days of workshops which covered the range of performing arts. Students selected these sessions from a list of 23 workshops in Music, Dance, Drama, Visual Art and IT Arts which included: pottery, painting, mega murals, sticky tape sculpture, silent moving making, video and animated movie making, digital photography, the art of improvisation, African drumming, hip hop dance and stepping.
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