To commemorate the remembrance day, I participate on the external activities that NSI and their associated organisation Military Kids Choir(MKC) had pursued on the 11th November.

The activity began early in the morning, 9:30, a visit to the cenotaph, however, when I joined the afternoon schedule which was remembrance service at the Guards’ Chapel. There was hymns, performance by MKC and reading and stories that are related to WW1. I wasn’t certain if I could take photos, therefore, unfortunately there’re no records of the event.

Afterwards, we went to the Imperial War Museum and had an opportunity to have a workshop with a presentation at the end.

We were given a brief talk on how to analysis an artwork where the presenter from IWM was giving an example and encouraging children from the choir to think of the keywords themselves.

For the practical activity we chose a question to answer at the presentation based on the artworks we encounter from having a tour in the gallery section. The whole process was done by a iPad where it led which artworks to go and see and giving information + highlighted keywords.

The presentation was divided into groups and this was the question chosen by my team. With the guidance by the staff, we went through a series of activities to analysis the artworks.

It was targeted at the children from approximately aged 8-14, they were all involved in the activity passionately.

The following works are from displays of IWM, it was intriguing to the works specifically subjected around war, and the purpose of it. Either it’s for propaganda or to state artist’s point of view. I became to think how children depict war and conflict in comparison to adult artists. Or just how children view the world.

The artworks and displays at the IWM