Music in the air!

April 03, 2022

Above: Our students created the most beautiful musical instruments in the first term.

Awakening the senses, stimulating curiosity, inspiring courage, and learning technical skills through tactile experience. These are all intrinsic aspects of the projects Lalela learners worked on during our first term of 2023. They got to learn mastery (and have a blast) through our music-inspired curriculum.

Music has always played an important role in our workshops as a way to stimulate creativity and encourage whole brain thinking. But we brought it to the fore in our first term curriculum. We started off guiding learners to develop a connection between visual art and sound, with the sounds, rhythms and mood of the music informing every line, pattern and use of colour in their drawings.

Then we moved on to creating actual musical instruments!

Above: You can almost hear the music! Learners across all of our programmes created these amazing artworks.

Here, learners explored how to work with shapes and proportions to produce some rather impressive and sometimes quite zany instruments.

We can literally hear the sound of this rather joyful orchestra at play!

In the process, these talented young artists have also discovered the satisfying feeling of mastering something they’ve put their minds to.

One of our curriculum goals for the year is developing mastery in our young artists.

Mastery helps learners to feel that they have achieved something, that they are successful, thus building their confidence in their creativity and in their competence.

It helps young people to feel motivated and to understand the need for persistence in achieving a goal.

We love seeing our students experience this sense of achievement and pride in the amazing work they create during our workshops!

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