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Creative Pathways collaboration with ASHS students and the Vancouver Arts Centre

| Nat Rad
ASHS student recordings of the school today pared with archive images of school.

Through developing a project from begining to end, the ASHS students decided to record the sound bytes of their school lives. Setting them loose with a letter giving permission to use their phones to record, they scattered and returned to me with sounds I would never have though of!

A school clock ticking, the canteen microwave, drinking out of the water fountain and pumping up the balls in phys ed. They also recorded interviews with their peers from a set of questions developed by the students for both present and past students.

I got to edit the sound bytes into a whole and pair with the archive images.

Truely it was so much fun working with their ideas….. check it out!

“Oh My Days”

| Nat Rad

When the young students ask what slang words the past students of ASHS used, I went straight to the Alumni Facebook group and did they deliver!

The confused faces about the word “Munted”

Wondering what I have been doing……

Image | | Nat Rad

Since July I have been meeting with a bunch of Albany Senior High School students to mentor them through a creative process. What a blast!

In the recognitation that the Arts when added to STEM (science, techology, enginerring and maths) educational subjects, expands understanding through creativity, the students have directed the development of the project from conception through to the resulting exhibition.

We had our moments of quiet and moments of inspiring interaction. In the end they really pushed through and came up with very insightful responses and collaborated to elevate ideas.

Change, a simple word.

Hidden within is the excitement, fear and growth that make up a lived experience of school. The participating students of this project, a collaboration between the Vancouver Arts Centre and Albany Senior High School, through mentorship, identified coping with change as a marker for good mental health.

The students set out to know the challenges and opportunities of the students that have attended Albany Senior High School over its long history. And to talk about their generation’s experiences.

“Oh my Days” is the resulting exhibition.