"I heard a noise and turned around..."

We spent the morning at the Art Gallery of Hamilton taking in their permanent exhibition on the Classics, Staging Abstraction, and Kim Adams' Bruegel-Bosch Bus. From these we had to pick a painting/fixture that left an impression on us and create a story beginning with "I heard a noise and turned around..." Here are some excerpts from our stories. 

 "I ran fast to the door I knew the letter wasn't for me, but I didn't care...I thought he had the most beautiful smile I've never seen...I never answer the letters because I didn't know how to write..." -Lola V.

"I didn't know what to do. I didn't see anything, but I decided to go back home. I was walking in the forest as the night surrounded me. It was too late and my mum was probably starting to get worried. I started to hear different sounds of animals. I was scared and suddenly I looked around me and I didn't know where I was. It was very dark..." -Nuria B.

"There were an amazing and long beach on the coast of the south of Spain.

I met new people on the beach...One of my friends died..." -Victor P.

"I recognised those weird totems, those big wooden sculptures belonged to the ancient native American culture. I started running to my teacher's house to ask some important questions about the aboriginal culture...Ten years later, our town is a big city and the totems are a touristic attraction." -Mario L.

"Suddenly, an intense light appeared. That light came from the darkness and finally I could see the train.I was in the forest trying to make fire when I saw a horse running very fast. It seemed that the horse was escaping from someone...I tried to guess why the horse was running towards the way of the train.When I tried to see what had happened, I couldn't see anything.

Both had disappeared." -Emilio M.

"...I was afraid, so I started to put my own colours.."

"...It represents peace to me, so with it I could calm myself..."

"...I included the grey colour because I was angry with myself but then I realized that it made no sense, so I added light blue and light pink..."

"... I realized that my heart didn't beat in all this time, so I included the colour red..." -Laura L.

I found myself in the middle of the no-where. Someone was tempting me to keep going forward as fast as I could. My fright made me feel paralized. I just decided to sit down, inhaling and exhaling, trying to become aware of where I was and what was happening. The mix of hundreds of feelings and doubts coming to my mind at the same time made me let go. -Azucena S.

"I started to run because I was at the top... All of the cars, trucks, machines etc. started to fall down.

I took my bicycle to move quickly..." -Jose P.

A morning at AGH

 

 

 

"The Art Gallery of Hamilton is the oldest and largest art museum in southwestern Ontario with a permanent collection that is recognized as one of the finest in Canada. Embracing Canadian historical, European and contemporary art, the collection consists of more than 10,000 works."

Exploring Hamilton

 Last Friday, on our Cultural Day, we went to downtown Hamilton.

First of all, we visited one Art Gallery, it had a lot of different types of art; for me, the most impressive was one "bus" with stories in it, it had little figurines and toys. It was like a big city, with mountains, houses, roads, animals... in and outside the bus. It was amazing. 

Then, we went to do roller-skating in the Harbour Front, near lake Ontario. 

And to end the day we went to Art Crawl on James North Street, where we went into an art gallery and drew soccer balls for a Pan Am Games competition. 

After that, we were very tired because it had been a very hot day, so we decided to go home. When I arrived home I went into the pool and I didn't want to come out! Hahaha! It was a really nice day. Ana B.

 

 In the beginning of our day in Hamilton we went to the Art Gallery but it was closed so we went to the mall, it was good because I bought an Oreo iced cappuccino at Tim Hortons! Then we came back to the Art Gallery and there were some amazing pictures and sculptures like one big bus which was decorated with action figures and it had like a small city around it. After the Art Gallery we saw paintings and fake fishes at "the bay", it was in the Harbourfront where we had our meals to get the energy for roller skating. It was so funny because we had to wear four-wheel skates and I didn't know how to use them.

At the end of our day we went to James North street where it was supposed to be an Art Crawl but it was too soon to see anything, luckily there was the opening of a new chocolate store and we had some snacks! I loved this shop, everything tasted delicious!! 

At the weekend I went to downtown Hamilton again because the Pan Am games were being held there and there was the first soccer game, Canada vs Brazil, and I watched it in the first row, it was awesome and fun. Ainhoa J.

 

 The first art gallery we visited in Hamilton was...interesting. There were some modern artworks like cleaning products on a shelf , that I couldn't understand. There were others that were very surprising and funny. But all these modern artworks were together with beautiful classic pictures of different views or faces, and old sculptures like wood masks, people with no arms...
We went to Lake Ontario where we had lunch near the lake and we went roller-skating. We had a lot of fun there. Carlos G.

 Last Friday we went by different Hamilton neighbourhoods. One of them was called Harbourfront and there we spent all our morning roller skating. At the beginning it was kind of difficult to control them, but then it got quite easier. It was such a funny morning. We also went to the Art Gallery in the centre of Hamilton. The works were very interesting and colourful. Some of them were a bit creepy though, but they were cool. There was a big car full of animated movie characters like Spiderman, Superman, Bart Simpson, Casper... and miniatures of a city's parts such as a park, a Hospital, flats, railways... That car was an excellent artistic work. Marina V.

 

 Last Friday we visired Hamilton. We went to the Art Gallery where we took a lot pictures with different sculptures. We were impressed with one of them; a bus with a lot of little toys around and inside it. After the Art Gallery we went to Lake Ontario where we rented roller skates and had a good time talking and roller skating. At the beginning we were a bit scared because we thought that we were going to use in line rollerblades but we were wrong and we used the other type. It was funny and we had a good time there.
At the end of the day we went to James North street and we visited the Art Crawl where we drew a soccer ball that represents the PanAm games and if one of them wins, it will be published in a newspaper.
Everything has been awesome. Violeta L.