AfroArts Home Education

Next AfroArts is December 12th 11am - 2pm
Christmas craft party edition
Details TBA

We finally have a logo 🥳🎉

We have a new venue for AfroArts 🎉🥳
We'll be running our group from Roots Cafe & Community the same day, same time.

Tuesday Blessings,

This month's AfroArts (Friday 27th June) we are going to be learning about Jamaican Jonkanoo (also known as Junkanoo) a Christmas tradition from the 1700's.
When enslaved Africans and their descendants celebrated holidays granted around Christmas time.
This was done through dance, musical drumming and costumes.
We will be trying our hand at mask making / decorating bring some of the main characters to life , with our own twist.

Characters include:
The King and Queen
Pitchy patchy
Belly woman
Horse head and many others.

Look forward to seeing you all

Xx

A look at the Art the kids created on Jan 31st in pictures.

Our third artist we looked at was Basil Barrington Watson, you may know from his Windrush monument in london.

The next Jamaican artist we looked at was Richard Hall.

Last month we started looking at Jamaican Artists, I wanted the kids to learn that there is so much more to Jamaica. Yes we have Music, Food and sports stars but we are so much more than what the western gaze teaches.

First we looked at Mallica Reynolds Know as Kapo.