Wearable Art Cultural Festival

Wearable Art Cultural Festival

31st August to 4th September 2015

Last Friday, three of our West Melton school students participated with other Canterbury schools at the Cultural Festival. They had entered in the Wearable Art performance. The girls had two shows, Wednesday and Friday.

There were two categories: 'Wild and Wacky' and 'Iconic Christchurch'Alessandra and Bella chose 'Wild and Wacky' with their outfit "Girls take on farming career".  Brooke chose 'Iconic Christchurch' with her outfit "Rebuild".

The process started in Term 2, with the girls coming up with ideas, drawing and finally tweeking their outfits. On the nights, you had to be patient as there was a lot of waiting around in the dressing room,  before they were able to go on stage. They had to learn a little bit of choreography, doing one circuit of the stage slowly, plus moving in a small circle before exiting.

Both Bella & Alessandra (she's a pro, as she entered it last year) felt it was surreal, moving in slow motion.  There were some fantastic outfits on the other children and it was interesting to see the other competitors interpretations of the brief. 

 

They highly recommend entering the competition,it was a lot of fun but also a lot of hard work.