Art week (0)

Art week
Art week is a big event for students and teachers of Tallinn 21. School. It is a tradition that has been held for the last 30 years. Art Week is always organized by 11c class students who study Humanities and Social Sciences. Organizing class has to introduce the culture of the country they have picked to other students in school.
The Art Week was originally initiated by Tiina Meeri, who is still working in our school and still organizes the week. At the beginning there were no countries, just certain time periods of history. The Art Week has some traditional events , such as the play “Moving Pictures” which tells the story of the theme country. At the opening ceremony, people from embassy come to congratulate and thank the students for their efforts of making such a big event happen. There´s also Art Week´s café where traditional food is served. Traditionally Art Week ends with costume party where organizing class performs with their own play. Also they pass on the torch to next organizing class by giving them the Art Weeks flag.
This year´s theme country was Japan . The school was decorated with symbolic things from Japan. There was a handmade Torii in the lobby. Art Weeks café was in atrium where 11c did very good job. My favourite food was sushi which I believe was made by themselves. There were many activities in which students could participate. I took part in language lesson, origami lesson, animation workshop where I made my own little cartoon. I also went to a lecture in TTU about robots from Japan. At the end of the lecture we built our own robots and made them compete with each other. There were also a lot people who came to talk about life in Japan. This week gave me very good view into Japans life and culture.
I think Art Week is a tradition which everyone inside or outside of Tallinn 21. School should value because such events do not take place in any other schools . I am very sad about the fact that this Art Week event has not found much publicity in media. I have had thoughts on writing an article about our schools Art Week.