In yesterday's newscast we told you about the SJC Creativity Awards and showed you many of the impressive pieces the high school students created. Over twenty students were given awards for their outstanding pieces. We were not able to speak to all the artists but we did get a few who gave us an in-depth analysis of their mini masterpieces.
Sahar Vasquez reporting
These SJC students were beaming with pride yesterday as they presented their many art pieces at the SJC creativity awards.
The art ranged from best meme to best debator. It was a diverse and varied exploration of various media and messages in one room.
Kirk Smith made this intricate Maya Headpiece with the design inspired by a classic movie.
Kirk Smith, 1st Form- SJC
"The frame is made of a lampshade and I used the paper machete for most of the black part you can see. I got the feathers but the feathers I had to get from Merida because they are rare. 0:32
"I based it on the movie, I don't know if you have seen it: Apocalypse. There is a point when the king was on top of one of the temples and he had on a headpiece while sitting on his throne so that is what I based it off of basically."
Belize will soon have to vote on whether or not we want to go the ICJ and Mario Pacheco realized the adults are not the only ones with an opinion on what we should do.
Mario Pacheco, 2nd Form- SJC
"One is for History class that we did. They wanted for us to express how we feel about going to the ICJ. I did a poster of what young children thought and most of them just generally believe that we shouldn't. If you explain to them you can see their speech or on the voice of them because of their."
Ismar Andrade had an assignment to write a letter to a Spanish King but he wanted it to look like it really came from a different time. He surpassed all expectations when he handed his letter in.
Ismar Andrade, 3rd Form- SJC
"We just did it as fun. We were supposed to write a letter to the Spanish King but then we wanted to take it a step further to make it look original so what we did was we took the paper and burnt a little on the sides and put coffee stains so it looked original."
Sahar Vasquez, reporter
"How did you come up with the idea to make the letter? It looks very unique. Were you trying to make it look older? Or it came from a different time?"
Ismar Andrade, 3rd Form- SJC
"Yes like it came from a different time. Maybe you were an archaeologist and you found this letter. If we had just written it normally it would have been but just to make it look original it just felt that we had to do it."
According to art teacher Yasser Musa, the Creativity Awards is really about celebrating Belize's future.
Yasser Musa, Teacher SJC
"We are very proud today. This is a special moment for us in terms of our departments: History and Art but more importantly as a school community. We are really celebrating them in this way."
The school plans to make the award ceremony a yearly event.
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