Khac Chi Bamboo Music
Our exploration of Asian cultures lead us to explore Vietnam. What a great introduction: Our whole school was invited to experience a performance by Khac Chi Bamboo Music.
These international performers were in our region for one week only, and were booked through Prologue to the Performing Arts (www.prologue.org).
Not only did they demonstrate a variety of instruments new and unfamiliar to most of us, they also allowed our students a chance to participate in performances using the percussion pieces.
We followed up with activities in my classroom, including geography lessons, drawing cartoon blocks which explained different things about Vietnam, and our favourite thing, doing projects about animals unique to Vietnam. Did you know there’s an actual unicorn species living in Vietnam? (The saola.) Using techniques that we refined in our Chinese drama experience (addressing your audience, voice, proper stance) they did wonderful presentations on 20 animals I had never before heard of! This was a perfect example of using art to inspire curiosity, and then other learning.
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