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Show Lindon PTA Holds Cultural Week By LINDA HARRIS I Lindon Elemntary School was the j gatghering place for ) artisans from many I different fields of art as l that school hosted the I PTA-sponsored Cultural Arts Week April 19-23. i As part of the yearly " event the children were , exposed to one different ! aspect of the cultural arts each day of the week. This year the event was planned and organized under the . creative hand of Valerie Gibson, PTA ' Cornel Corn-el missioner over Cultural fj Arts. Mrs. Gibson, in ij planning the event, said 'I she . hoped that the 7 children would be ex-i ex-i posed to many types of art and to the contrast within each of the different dif-ferent types themselves. them-selves. Monday's activities seemed to achieve both of these goals. The emphasis that day was on Arts and Crafts. Six different local artisans came to the school and sedt up booths displaying their particular par-ticular craft and in some instances doing demonstrations of the mechanics of their art. The walk-through display was fascinating to the children. In one booth, Janell Anderson, Lindon, showed her vast assortment of handicrafts, han-dicrafts, crocheting, quilting, embroidering, etc. Moving on, Diane Lewis, Lindon, demonstrated machine embroidering. She has taught numerous classes at. her home on the art arid has won ribbons at fairs, also. Next, Debbie Brown, Pleasant Grove, demonstrated flower arranging. She does professional arrangements arrange-ments of silk and dried flowers for weddings, etc. In the next booth Keith Anderson, . Pleasant Grove, had a display on antique guns that he collects. On display were a 1776 American Revolutionary Revolutiona-ry War gun and a Civil War gun. But the children's favorite was the 5-foot bayonet. Then Debbie Cook, Lindon, demonstrated to the children how she does tole painting. She does this mostly for herself and is very good at it. Finally, the children got to watch Gail Shultz of American Fork show them how she makes antique dolls and their many different dif-ferent costumes. She forms the dolls herself from porcelain, makes the body from cloth, stuffs it, and installs a voice box. The second day of the activities the theme was drama. Yetta Halladay and Teresa Clark of the BYU Drama Department Depart-ment were the guests. Yetta has toured the elementary schools in Utah with a group called "Sir Gallahad and the Green Dragon" for the past school year. During the Cultural Arts Fair, she involved the school children in some improvisations. im-provisations. She had them imagine themselves in a particular par-ticular situation such as lying on a desert. She told them, "Close your eyes. Feel the hot wind on your face. Feel the sand beneath you." Yetta had one group pretend they were building a car and another group make a human machine. Each child making up the machine had to make a noise representing the part they were.' At first many of the children were inhibited about acting out but as they got into it they really enjoyed it and the audience really laughed, too. Yetta, also told them about theater props, costuming, lighting, etc., but she said the most important thing in drama is how you are able to feel and imagine. Teresa then did some fun things with puppets. She told the children how to make their own puppets out of socks, sacks, boxes, etc. She told them they had to talk to their puppets and get to know them. All participants in the Cultural Arts Week did so on a volunteer basis. It was commented by someone that this was the first time the event , had been done in such a unique way. |