Katie at Art Splash

This year's Artsplash celebration took place during Wellington's Festival of Carnivale - one of many celebrations taking place during the Rugby World Cup currently being hosted by New Zealand for the first time in 24 years. Artsplash is an annual production involving all the schools in the wider Wellington region coming together to celebrate the arts. Katie took part in the music evening and Dugald, Meggie and I went to watch her perform with her school one night last week.

This year, in honor of the World Cup, the children sang songs from around the world. Each song was meant to represent one of the countries participating in the tournament. Of course the evening began with this:

But it was followed by a song from the USA that I had never heard of in my life. Very disappointing. I should say the song choice was disappointing, the performance of it was quite nice. We heard "Danny Boy" from Ireland, "My Boomerang Won't Come Back" from Australia, "Wales Forever" from Wales (obviously), "Eres Tu" from Argentina, "Consider Yourself" from England, "Pacific Unity" to represent Tonga, Fiji and Samoa, "Take Me to Your Heart Again (La Vie en Rose)" from France and then several more from New Zealand.

This one is my favorite though, Poi E -