Before we start ACE’s cultural journey, you are going to make a cultural passport for yourself. In your ACE passports you will display the cultural journey that you have already made. Your ACE passport also marks the starting point for this cultural trip.

How you make the passport, is up to you. You can choose to make it digitally or in another creative way. As long as you make sure that you make it personal and insightful to all the cultural activities you have already experienced. Check out the 2D/3D poster on the TTO V4 homepage for digital tips!

What does the ACE passport have to include?

• Introduction to yourself (add a picture of yourself)

• Explanations of the cultural activities you have already experienced. Also mention what you thought of the activity. Make sure that this explanation is more in-depth than one word; “fun/beautiful”etc. Justify why you feel that something is beautiful. Culture is more than just travelling, so make sure to add a variety of activities.

• Make sure to add visual support. Show us the building you visited/show us your favourite artist and their work/ show us what a certain cultural activity looked like etc. You have a lot of freedom, don’t be afraid to use it!! (minimum of 5 visual elements; photo’s/drawings/video’s etc.)

• Conclusion. Look back on the cultural experiences you have already experienced. How did you come into contact with these cultural experiences? School? Parents? Family? Friends etc.?

• Wishlist. Write down what you hope to do/learn during ACE and which cultural disciplines you have not yet discovered yourself but are curious about.

• You have thought about an original and personal way to execute this assignment. Elaborate why you made the ACE passport in this way and how that relates to you as a person.

You can earn 5 points per criteria (max. 30 points= mark 10).

Here are some categories that might help you remember all the things you have experienced.

• Primary school: Think about play, creative lessons, places you visited, musicals you did, musical instruments you played, etc.

• Secondary school: Think about play, creative lessons, places you visited, musicals you did, student groups you were in, musical instruments you played, etc.

• Active participation: Which areas of art and culture are you actively involved in? Think about perform with a musical instrument, sing or dance. Or do you make paintings, drawings, your own clothes, your own websites or take photographs?

• Passing participation: Do you go to concerts, the theatre, the cinema, exhibitions or any other form of art or culture as a ‘passive user’? What kind of music do you listen to?

• Parents and family influences: Maybe your parents or grandparents have taken you on a cultural experience? Museum, musical, exhibition? Were your parents the sort of parents who drag you along to all sorts of things and pack your holidays abroad with cultural baggage, or have you grown up without any cultural outing?

• Changes: What changes have you gone through in the last year in term of your personal cultural taste? You probably don’t listen to the same music or watch the same movies as 5 years ago?

Finished? Upload your ACE portfolio in Som.

In the next lesson you are going to make a 2 minute pitch about an art discipline you are good at, have experience with, you know nothing about or that you are interested in. For this assignment you will also take on the role of artist. Meaning that you will have to make something in the chosen art discipline.

For instance: I love to draw so I would choose the visual arts as the art discipline. I would make a portrait drawing as that is something I love to draw. For the pitch I would talk about my drawing, how I made it, the materials I like to use, artists that inspire me and other things I like to draw. In the end, the audience will understand my interest and how it came about.

On the other hand, let’s say you do not have any connections to these art disciplines, then you pick one you are most curious about. I might for example choose graphic design as I do not know much about it. You will find out what it is graphic designers do, what tools they use, an example of a graphic designer and do not forget to make your own graphic design to display during your pitch.

You are allowed to film your pitch in advance and show it during class or to pitch live. During your pitch you can show photo’s of short video’s. Please discuss alternate ideas with your teacher.

The art disciplines you can choose from:

• Theatre

• Dancing

• Music

• Fashion

• Design

• Visual arts

• Photography

• Film and animation

• Graphic design

• Media art

• Literature

• Cultural heritage

• Architecture

For a good mark:

• You have made a pitch of 2 minutes about your chosen discipline and shown your product. You have shared your passion or interest with us in an original and energetic manner that clearly shows us your connection with the discipline.

A sufficient mark:

• You have made a pitch of 2 minutes about your chosen discipline and shown your product. You have shared your passion or interest with us, giving us an idea about your connection with the discipline.

An insufficient mark:

• Your pitch was less than 2 minutes and/or you were missing certain manditory elements.