As part of a project named “Gathering Youths through Arts” a Summer Art Course with Mr John Paul Muscat (Art Teacher) taking place in the local band club (Għaqda Mużikali Marija Bambina Banda Vittorja Naxxar). This course will be opened for Primary school students that will be in Year 5 & Year 6 (8 to 10 years old) as from the next scholastic year 2018 – 2019. These lessons will primarily help the students to unfold their creativity by looking at Art from a diverse perspective.

The Art Lessons will also be hands-on and structured in such a way that the final artworks conducted by the pupils attending these lessons will then be exhibited on the day of the Final Concert. This is due to the fact that some of the lessons will be devoted to the theme the Final Concert will be based on. The exhibition will take place in the Oratory Hall entrance. The exhibited work will be consisting of 2-D (two-dimensional) and 3-D (three-dimensional) work.

With regard to this, through these lessons, children will also learn and familiarize themselves with different techniques (such as wax-crayons and watercolours resist, drawing and shading in pencil colours. and watercolours, cut-art and glueing (inspired by French artist Henri Matisse), collages (inspired by Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso), etc… Children will experiment with mixed-media drawings such as utilising watercolours, pencil colours, wax crayons, collages with bits and pieces of kite paper and magazine cut-outs. They will also familiarize themselves with Art History and artists in relation to the particular theme we would be currently dealing with (ex. Theme of Love – Romero Britto).

The 8 week-8 sessions course will be taking place during the months of July and August.

Interested persons can fill out the below online application or send an email to banda@bandavittorjanaxxar.net.

For further information please contact John Paul Muscat directly on: 79906652

Applications will be opened for parents/guardians whose children will be in Year 5 & Year 6 as from the next scholastic year 2018 – 2019 and interested applicants will be selected on a first come first served basis since. Places are limited!

Due to the fact that the Art Lessons will commence during the first week of June, the deadline for the applications will be on Saturday 30^th June, 2018.

“Gathering Youths through Arts” is a project funded by the national fund Creative Communities within the Arts Council, June 2018.

The 1-hour sessions will be taking place on the following dates (from 4 – 5:10 pm):