Guy Fawkes Night

Today at school Roo will be celebrating Guy Fawkes Night. Also known as bonfire, cracker, sparkle or fireworks night, this celebration is apparently wildly popular in England, but not anywhere else in the world. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. The customs have morphed a bit and in modern day England the celebration somewhat mirrors American halloween mixed with fourth of July. Hence the little girl in a princess dress and a little boy in a top gun flight suit complete with blow up motorcycle at school today. Roo’s comment: “it isn’t Halloween”. In celebration, at school today in Roo’s class, the tech teacher will lead a media experiment using contemporary conceptual art projecting fireworks onto paper while the children throw paint at the moving image. Sounds fun to me!