Spirited Arts 2022
Celebrations
Celebrations: big days and big ideas
This theme enables pupils to create work about religious festivals from Divali and Eid to Wesak or Vaisakhi, Easter or Shabbat, Christmas and Remembrance. Festivals can be annual – or weekly, celebrated in places of worship of on the streets. Encourage learners to connect their vision of today’s festivities to stories and memories from long ago, and to use scripture and other holy words in their work. Pieces of work might look at one festival, but some will be up for the challenge of looking at more than one celebration and noticing what’s similar and different, how excitement, memory, love and community are drawn together by big days and big ideas.