Edward the Photographer
We were lucky enough to go see Edward Burtynsky's photographs of the Gulf Oil Spill last Thursday. Everybody was exceptionally well-behaved. We all signed and left a note in the guest book, on what we thought about the photographs and about the oil spill.
ps. There's a
great article about this series of photographs in the current issue of Canadian Art magazine.
TTC Poem
Angel's friend Claire came along because she wanted to check out the exhibit as well. We learned that Claire is a student of Creative Writing and is a poet! So, we got her to help us together write a poem while riding the Queen street car, from Dufferin to Spadina.
on the streetcar
streetcars are grey white and red
they are brown and red inside with pictures on the side
and the seats are silver with red cushions
we see a lot of buildings out the window
and the trees you see are yellow gold and red
when we drive through the fall leaves, you see different colour trees
the seats are red and fuzzy
a firetruck out the window
people are reading the newspaper on the streetcar
i can smell tim hortans and pizza pizza too
She taught us that in poems you can include not only what you see, but also what you smell, what you hear, what you touch and even what you taste! We all agreed that "Spadina" is a nice-sounding word, too bad it didn't make it into our poem.
Thanks, Claire!
Artsy Wednesdays
We started working on our secret project – The Musical: Name TBD ; we tried out hands at set design, starting with the backdrop. Look!
