Korea Centre Exposes Abuja Pupils To Games, Creativity At Workshop

At the Korea Culture Centre Nigeria (KCCN), 40 FCT pupils witnessed caller ways of seeing and creating done ‘play’ activities, specified arsenic drafting and movement.

Facilitated by Korean artistes and partners, Jung-won Ye (visual artist) and Jin-ju Kang (dancer), with the enactment of KCCN and the Korea Arts & Culture Education Service, the ‘Encountering Art: Ways of Seeing’ store saw the children aged 6 – 14 years, from LEA Primary School, Suka, AMAC, and Greater Seed Richmaris Academy, embark connected a bid of playful, creator activities implicit a four-hour play that enhanced their consciousness of cognition and process of creating.

In the archetypal 2 hours with Ye, the children played fashionable Korean games – the superhero crippled – wherever they bespeak unsocial abilities they possess; the ‘Don-gas’ crippled – an representation hopscotch game, wherever the main thought is to artifact different player’s movement, who tries arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable to wriggle escaped without touching their playmates, oregon are ousted from the game.

Lastly, the eraser skipping crippled – wherever they instrumentality turns (as a team) to make images connected a plain paper, by placing and flicking erasers from 1 constituent to another, past drafting a enactment from the constituent of root to wherever the eraser landed. The pupil past identifies and paints implicit caller images (shapes oregon objects) observed wrong the wide picture.

Kang’s league began with a short, modern creation performance, introducing the children to her enactment arsenic an artist. She past dismantled her enactment process and aesthetics, utilizing the Hangeul alphabet. She had the children recreate the letters with their bodies and past constitute them down connected paper.

She translated the words to English and had the children rewrite them successful beauteous calligraphy earlier rearranging the words into aesthetic images superglued connected paper. She besides had the children measure images of radical to place their emotions and yet observe and notate pictorially the question successful plants.

Of what value are these bid of activities? How did these activities interaction the children?

It begins with ‘play’. Play is not conscionable an activity; it is an acquisition that is pleasurable. While the process of play whitethorn disagree for adults and children; the former, due to the fact that it is self-chosen, and for the children, peculiarly successful a radical mounting arsenic the workshop, arsenic it is guided by the facilitators – the wide regularisation of play indicates that determination is simply a set-boundary, with much worth placed successful the process than the outcome. It is besides imaginative, engaging and involves an alert but non-stressed framework of mind.

Why is ‘play’ important for children, teenagers oregon adults?

“Everyone plays,” said Ye. “Whether it is washing plates, dancing oregon scribbling thing random connected paper. Everyone has the capableness to play. In Korea, we person a saying, “if you play well, you unrecorded well”. So, the much you infuse arts and fun, the amended for anyone.”

Beyond imbuing the pupils with a pleasant acquisition they’ll callback successful the future, it unlocks successful them caller ways of perception.

“Today, we had the children flicking erasers. While we whitethorn not spot it, thing has registered successful their minds, and that thought volition recur astatine immoderate point. They would say, “I retrieve flicking erasers with the teacher, I truly loved that moment”. That is due to the fact that eraser is meant for erasing things, but they utilized it to play and draw, and that is antithetic than what they are utilized to,” Ye said.

For Kang, dance/movement is simply a signifier of play that anyone tin subordinate to. It is astir connection and uncovering transportation done movement, careless of the bound oregon obstruction of language.

A nonrecreational dancer, she had mislaid the archetypal ‘feeling’ creation gave her successful the pursuit of accomplishment and perfection. Post-reflection, she realised it was that archetypal ‘feeling’ that had kept her dancing, she began looking for ways to infuse that ‘feeling (pleasurable experience)’ successful her enactment of teaching radical the creation of playing done dance.

“When I look astir today, I spot creation successful however radical locomotion on the streets, however plants move, and I expanded that skyline due to the fact that I felt that was thing everyone tin subordinate to. I consciousness that we pass done creation – whether it is with children, the older procreation oregon similar today, wherever we are moving with children with whom we person a connection barrier, we person communicated done movement.

“I consciousness everything successful the satellite is connected – thoughts, movements etc. It each starts from the imagination. You ideate it, enactment it connected insubstantial and past explicit it done your body.

“Although determination are differences successful perception, though they whitethorn spot maine arsenic a foreigner, we were each inactive capable to link a...