SITE THREE- PROTEST SIDE SHOWS

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS

Students of room 203 and 204

Ms. Kolb and Tracy Otwell

Students have had the opportunity to behave as directors, designers, performers, poets and musicians in their Social Studies classroom.  The students took their studies on constitutional and civil rights and developed the theme, protest.   In collaborative groups, students reseached current events and issues in the world and turned them into poems.  The poems then became songs and the songs have turned into a mini protest inside a toy theater designed around the content of each song. 

This installation is all about unheard voices: of students, of communites, and of the earth.

For our installations we-

• wrote, sang and recorded our own protest raps.
• constructed and painted toy theaters.
• collaged and cut scenes inside the toy theater.
• created protest signs to use in performance.

QUESTIONS TO READ BEFORE VISITING EARTH ARCADE AND ANSWER AFTER YOU EXPERIENCE THE EVENT-

What did you experience at this site (see, hear, smell, taste, touch)?

What did you see inside the toy theaters?  What did it make you think of?

What message did you hear in the music?

What is the message of this installation?  What is it trying to tell us?