Fine Arts Visual and Performing Arts

“Art is what you do about something that interests, worries or pleases you…(it is) the way we search for forms to express our wonder, our delight in vision, our love and concern about man’s destiny. Art is concerned with inquiry, with the posing of questions needed to be asked, and the search for answers.”

- E. B. Feldman

Visual Art

Visual arts courses are developed so students can enjoy lifelong engagement with the arts; become informed, reflective, and critical creators of art; explore and value the diversity of the arts across time, place, and culture; express ideas with confidence and competence and develop perceptual and analytical skills while making artwork that is influenced by personal, historical, and cultural contexts.

Drama

Theatre is a dynamic, collaborative, and live art form. It is a practical subject that encourages discovery through experimentation, techniques, training and developing polished final performance for public performance. It results in developing both theatre and life skills: building confidence, creativity and working collaboratively.

Musical Theatre

The musical theatre program allows students to work as part of a creative ensemble as they gain confidence in production and performance, including developing specialized skills in singing, dancing and acting. Emphasis is placed on creating a full-scale theatrical production in December of each year.

Instrumental Music

The Senior School Instrumental Music Program is focused on ensemble performance with students in all three levels (10/20/30) working together as the Strathcona-Tweedsmuir Senior Band. Students earn 5 credits through individual assessments in repertoire performance, technical development, theory, research, and critique while working together towards campus performances, local festivals, and a yearly trip.

IB MYP Visual Arts 10, Y5

This course is designed for students to develop and grow their technical skills, creativity and explore self-expression. Students will learn and develop their skills in two- and three-dimensional media, including utilizing various drawing mediums, different painting techniques, ceramics, printmaking, mixed media, fibre, and alternative sculpture. All creative endeavours in Art 10 will examine the overarching theme of Identity. While learning and developing their skills, students will create art reflecting on how they see, interpret, and make sense of the world around them, developing their ability to communicate through self-expression, critical thinking and self-reflection.

IB MYP Music 10, Y5

IB MYP Music courses provide the opportunity for musicians of all experience levels to engage with diverse genres of music as performers, creators, and researchers. Students work towards solo and group performances, create compositions using traditional and new digital methods, and develop the theory and analysis background needed to reach their musical goals. This course aims to inspire meaningful musicianship through performing, creating, and analyzing music of all genres. Open to vocalists and instrumentalists of any background/experience, it is designed to foster a lifelong love of music for all and effectively prepare students who continue on to the IB DP Music Programme. IB MYP Music 10 is about building creative thinking ability, confidence in performance, and a substantial knowledge base to inform artistic identity. Students will be guided through performance, composition, and analysis projects that develop a deeper understanding of the technical and artistic elements of music through four units of study: (1) Performance, (2) Musical Lines, (3) Music Together, and (4) Composition.

IB MYP Drama 10, Y5

Drama is both an art form and a medium for learning. It develops the whole personemotionally, physically, intellectually, imaginatively, aesthetically, and socially. Students develop skills in an atmosphere that is non-competitive, cooperative, supportive, and challenging. Students are encouraged to explore life by the assumption of roles and by the acquisition of dramatic skills. As students progress, emphasis is placed upon the development of the individual as a creator, performer, critic, and patron. The general goals of drama are for students to: (1) acquire knowledge of self and others through participation in and reflection on dramatic experience, (2) explore various dramatic disciplines, and (3) develop an appreciation of drama and theatre as a process and art form. These goals are achieved through three units of study: (1) Drama Elements and Structure through Devising Original Work (2) Movement and Character Creation, and (3) Introduction to Scene Work.

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