Paul Robeson High School

Recently we divided in two groups and had a walk around the block of Paul Robeson High School to observe and take pictures of things and/or people we’d find interesting and related to our life at school. Here there are some of those images.

Thursday we went to 8th floor gallery on 17th street in Manhattan to see a show called Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuba. Some of Roberto’s friends were in the show.

This is what the gallery said about the show:

“The thirteen artists featured in Queloides—Pedro Álvarez, Manuel Arenas, Belkis Ayón, María Magdelena Campos-Pons, Roberto Diago, Alexis Esquivel, Armando Mariño, René Peña, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Doulgas Pérez, Elio Rodriguez, Meira Marrero and José Toirac—offer a revisionist, critical reading of the history of Cuba that highlights the contributions of the Africans and their descendants to the formation of the Americas in general, and the Cuban nation in particular”.

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Last Monday, Nozaire, Chelomy, Yasir and Rubens went into the BCAL recording studio to record their song about AIDS. The song, sung in Creole and English, deals with the discrimination people face with AIDS. The recording is a 4 part vocal set to the song “Where d’ya go?” by Fort Minor.

Today Nozaire, Ansie, Cholemy, Joannie, Yassir and Reuben wrote the song for their video about treating people with AIDS with compassion.
Sung in both Creole and English, we’ll be recording this at BCAL’s studio after the spring break.

Not all taste buds are the same. Students try a buffet of Swedish candies. The strangest ones: Chocolate bars filled with licorice ooze and SALT covered licorice chews.

Inspired by Hollis Frampton’s film Zorn’s Lemma, students walked through the neighborhood photographing signs for each letter of the alphabet. Just within two blocks we were able to find a word on a sign that started with every letter of the alphabet. We are still missing X and Z.

You can watch Hollis Frampton’s film on UBU web, the “you-tube” for experimental art videos, texts and sounds.
www.ubuweb.com