January 12, 2023 Subverted Selfie Project Post
From January 12, 2023: this week I’ve been reflecting on some the #jobs I’ve had as part of the @rachelastorauthor #prompts I’m doing from her @dailyom course, WRITING TO UNCOVER THE AUTHENTIC SELF. Today, I’m continuing exploring some of the #jobs I had as a #teen.
One particular job I ended up doing at @semiahmoosecondary was helping one of the librarians during my grade ten year in organizing displays in half a dozen cases located all over the campus. And when she left to teach at another school, it was a project I continued doing during grades 11 & 12, & even for a year or two after I graduated. In grade 12, I was able to do the displays for credit in my art class, the only caveats being I had to document the displays & reflect on them.
There were also several unused display cases which I brought back to life & at the height of this, I was rotating somewhere between eight to a dozen cases with new displays every 2-3 weeks.
Topics involved things I found interesting: current events; holidays and their histories; as well as arts & entertainment in terms of popular culture, music, television, and movies including the histories of those areas. If I could, I’d try to make them interactive, placing a small combo television-vcr in the cases or having a CD player inside to add clips or sounds. I remember with an academy awards display I did annually, it was in conjunction with a contest held through the library where students would guess who might win that year’s awards.
I remember the creative writing teacher would take his classes down to discuss some of the displays, in particular I remember them gathered around a display about filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. I’d usually do these displays in the evenings, after school, from 3pm until the facilities staff closed up around 10-11pm. Sometimes, I’d be up later, typing up info onto pages that I’d print at home. I used props and I had a small budget approved by the principal and when I came back after graduating, I got a small honorarium.
It was fun, it was something I could do on my own, providing me with an escape from having been bullied so much during grades 7, 8, & 9. I loved that job.
12/365.
This photo was originally posted on Instagram.
January 12, 2023 Subverted Selfie Project Post
From January 12, 2023: this week I’ve been reflecting on some the #jobs I’ve had as part of the @rachelastorauthor #prompts I’m doing from her @dailyom course, WRITING TO UNCOVER THE AUTHENTIC SELF. Today, I’m continuing exploring some of the #jobs I had as a #teen.
One particular job I ended up doing at @semiahmoosecondary was helping one of the librarians during my grade ten year in organizing displays in half a dozen cases located all over the campus. And when she left to teach at another school, it was a project I continued doing during grades 11 & 12, & even for a year or two after I graduated. In grade 12, I was able to do the displays for credit in my art class, the only caveats being I had to document the displays & reflect on them.
There were also several unused display cases which I brought back to life & at the height of this, I was rotating somewhere between eight to a dozen cases with new displays every 2-3 weeks.
Topics involved things I found interesting: current events; holidays and their histories; as well as arts & entertainment in terms of popular culture, music, television, and movies including the histories of those areas. If I could, I’d try to make them interactive, placing a small combo television-vcr in the cases or having a CD player inside to add clips or sounds. I remember with an academy awards display I did annually, it was in conjunction with a contest held through the library where students would guess who might win that year’s awards.
I remember the creative writing teacher would take his classes down to discuss some of the displays, in particular I remember them gathered around a display about filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. I’d usually do these displays in the evenings, after school, from 3pm until the facilities staff closed up around 10-11pm. Sometimes, I’d be up later, typing up info onto pages that I’d print at home. I used props and I had a small budget approved by the principal and when I came back after graduating, I got a small honorarium.
It was fun, it was something I could do on my own, providing me with an escape from having been bullied so much during grades 7, 8, & 9. I loved that job.
12/365.
This photo was originally posted on Instagram.