Hello and welcome back to the last blog post of the year. To end the year for BCFP and Humanities, we had an exhibition project combining the two subjects. The driving question for the project was: How can multi-modal communication enhance our ability to humanize and understand complex issues?
Although the teachers added a lot of changes to the final product pretty close to the exhibition, I think we all did a really good job. The project was to be done in pairs so my friend Declan and I worked together. The upstanders we chose for our project were Paul Rusesabagina and Peter Bryce. We chose to make our station hotel themed because during the Rwandan genocide, Paul Rusesabagina housed over 1,200 victims who would have been killed in the streets, in his hotel. We chose to have our hotel site in File Hils, Ontario, becuase that is where Peter Bryce saved many Indigenous children through giving honest health checks at residential schools and demanding government action.
In my opinion, our station looked great. We had a cardboard hotel, a water jug, a candy bowl, Indigenous artifacts, and nice hotel lobby music playing from a speaker. On top of this, Declan and I were dressed nicely with formal pants, white shirts, blue ties, and Jordan’s for shoes. I think the appearance of ourselves and our station was fantastic, and we received many compliments for it. Once again, considering that we didn’t have as much time as usual to prepare for the exhibition, everyone in our PLP 11 class did a fantastic job presenting their projects to the public.
In conclusion, learning about our chosen upstanders and their roles in history was inspiring and fascinating. Knowing that one person can save so many lives is incredible. Next exhibition, I hope to do a little more research and gathering of information becuase there were times leading up to this exhibition where we were scrambling and needing to do a lot of work in a little bit of time. Hopefully next time we get earlier notice, but after this exhibiton, my class and I have proved that we are well capable of producing good quality work for the eye’s of the public with not much notice at all. Even the following day with the non PLP BCFP class, Declan and I made improvements and enjoyed presenting our project to people even more. Although two back to back exhibiton days can be stressful, I was completely fine with it, and enjoyed presenting to my peers and teachers. Next year I aim to better when it comes to presenting information at an exhibition, however this year I think my partner and I did pretty well all around.