Creative Juices Running High!

Arty Smarty

So if you've been checking out my blog these last past few days, you will have noticed that I have started to upload some artwork of my own under the Be Skreative page. This was entirely unplanned but now that I have a lot more free time on my hands, it gave me the opportunity to have a bit of a play around with digital art. Hence giving me time to rekindle my relationship with art!

I had always enjoyed art at school. I was always quite a creative person. I remember even back in primary school, I would not only complete my homework in all the colours of the rainbow without even being asked, but I would also design it in the most fun way I could think of. I'd draw things to illustrate my points, add in some interactive flaps for my answers and just stick in all sorts of bits and bobs left, right and center! Come to think of it, my little sister does exactly that - creative genes must run in the family! 

So my inner artist has been released and left to roam for a while. Who knows what storm she might draw up next!

 Keep an eye out (*shudders* please not literally!) for any future pieces if you're interested.

Chasing Cotards Blog Post is UP!

In case the subheading wasn't explicit enough, my Chasing Cotards blog post is up under the Couch Potato page which you can go directly to and read by clicking here. For those who are not aware of what Chasing Cotards is, it's a short film shot in Vista Vision that premiered at the British Film Institute (BFI) IMAX Cinema in London in 2010. It stars both Andrew Scott and Olivia Grant and is directed by Edward L. Dark. I can't recommend it enough! So go grab yourself a copy and watch! Don't forget to come back and read my blog post on it too!

I am so excited for my post to have finally gone up though! If you've been following my tweets since the beginning of this year, I had tweeted the official Chasing Cotards twitter about my plans to write a blog post about it just over two months ago.

I was just so unexpectedly consumed by university work as it was my final semester, I just really didn't have time to put into it and I didn't want to post anything for the sake of just posting something. So after much anticipation I put my all into it and I am so happy with how it came out! I hope I did it justice!

Celebrating Culture & Restoring My Faith for the Future

At my university, they recruit Student Ambassador's to help out at any events or schemes that the university run. For the last two years, I have been lucky enough to be a Student Ambassador and have worked on many different types of events. All of which I can strongly say I have thoroughly enjoyed.

This week I worked at an event where supplementary school pupils got involved and gave a performance to celebrate their culture as well as their parents and teachers bringing in yummy traditional food too! There were generations from Chinese background, Malaysian, Arabic, Bangladeshi and Bosnian. As I was lucky enough to be helping out at this event with other Student Ambassadors, I had the utmost pleasure in watching each of the school children's performances. They were each dressed traditionally in their colourful clothes where some schools performed a role play, a song or a dance routine based on their culture. Might I add, they looked so incredibly cute that we were all just aw-ing throughout!

It was so much fun to witness all these young kids so involved in their cultures. With all the hate and negativity we see in the news concerning cultural conflict, it was simply re-enlightening my faith in humanity as I saw such young generations open minded and enjoying each other's cultures. I feel really strongly about celebrating culture especially cultures that you may not be a part of. I strongly believe that the only way we can work towards a better, peaceful future is to understand and embrace each others' cultures and its' traditional norms and values.

It was definitely an uplifting day for sure!

Right, that's me done for the week!

My creative juices were definitely in full flow this week with my inner artist, film director and cultural appreciator on the loose! Definitely enjoyed this week a lot and hope I have more weeks to come like this!

Hope you had a creative week!

Keep Smiling and take care creative jellies,

Skeena xxx