SENI BUDAYA

". . . Seni Budaya is an annual festival celebrating the arts and culture across the Middle School at East Campus . . .  

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In 2021 a new element was a collaboration between Art and English to bring Grade 8 poetry into the mix and early in the school year the curriculum was adapted to have students exploring connections. This work was particularly inspired by the work of ceramicist Todd Barricklow in art and by Singaporean poet Neil Daswani and photographer Anita Thomas.

And then came COVID …  initially creating limitations on live performances and then, after reversion to home-based learning in mid-May, ensuring there was no possibility of anything live at all. By this time, however, Anita Thomas had joined us as a visiting artist to run a 10 week Activity preparing for Seni Budaya.

The original brief was for Anita to use her skills as a filmmaker to work with a group of Middle School students creating a film to open the Seni Budaya event. Somewhere during this activity, it became clear that we needed more than an introductory film and the Middle School Seni Budaya website is the result . . . "