Exciting, though! Labels: education, Nelson Mandela Park Public School, portraits, Regent Park
Today was portrait day at Nelson Mandela Park Public School. This was my third visit to the school. The first two were to present the guitar to different grades and to talk about how we'd like to involve the school and the surrounding Regent Park neighbourhood in the project in various ways as part of this year's Luminato Festival. One of those was in song: Katherine Wheatley joined me on my first visit to introduce herself and launch her in-class songwriting workshop that she's now been running with different classes for the past few weeks.
Next week, she'll start working with the kids to record the songs they've written together and the CD will come out before the end of the school year. The portraits we took of ALL the students today will become part of the covers for those CDs.