SCAC- Science, Art, and Culture Week at IFB

The Science, Art, and Culture conference week takes up the last week of the fall semester at IFB. Students from all disciplines at our university (Letras Ingles, Geography, and Gastronomy) participate in leading workshops.

I went to the university to watch my 7th semester students perform their Shakespeare Midsummer’s Night Dream skits, which they had presented as a final project in class and then brought to the stage for the conference as well. The premise was to condense each act into a scene of 3 minutes. They all had it memorized, with the old English and all. I was impressed. 

I then participated in some of my students’ presentation where they did a battle of the kingdoms poetry recital. We were divided into 4 "kingdoms" and we only had ten minutes to create a presentation of our assigned Langston Hughes poem. I was with a group of one professor and 4 guy students, and we did our best to add movements , individual lines, and group chanting. 

Finally, I went up to my room to prepare for my presentation on Art Inclusion in Teaching English. I had about 5 letras students and 2 geography students come. We didn’t get through all of the material, but they seemed to get some use of the new vocabulary with art materials and verbs, and shapes. We did a rendition of drawing Simon Says and Pictionary. They really enjoyed the pictionary game.

Lastly, some of the students used a workshop time to jam with their band! It was awesome watching some of my students come out of their shell to rock and play.