Migration in literature, movies and songs

  • The meeting held in Greece was dedicated to addressing migration in A) literature, B) movies and C) songs.

    A) How migration is depicted in literature was researched by all the national teams. Specifically, prior to the meeting, each partner explored their national myths and/or poems related to migration issues. During the meeting each team presented a national myth/fairytale about migration. Each team had its unique way to do this presentation varying from presentation slides to dramatization. At the following links these presentations are available:

    Flag of Portugal.svg The Legend of the Adamastor                 Flag of Poland.svg

    Flag of Poland.svg  Hans in luck                                                  

      Migration in Greek Mythology: "The Argonauts" myth

    Civil Ensign of Croatia.svg  The legend of the Cravat,  Cravat documentary,  How to Tie A Tie       

    Flag of Lithuania Palemono mitas                      Hellenic migration in Southern Italy

    Image result for spanish flag                                                   Image result for french flag The exile pattern in Myths
     
    Here's some photos during the presentations:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    B) How migration is depicted in movies was researched by the hosting team. The Greek team researched international filmography  on migration and picked 10 movies that span into reporting several migration incidents. The collection is available at the "Migration Movies Library" page of our twinspace

     

    C) According to the agenda of our project,  instead of exploring how migration is depicted in songs we decided to be creative and produce our own migration song. A migration song was the project's outcome scheduled to be produced in the meeting held in Greece in May 2018.

    Preparation for this song started prior the meeting with partners exchanging suggestions for its melody and voting in order to select one of them. The suggestions along with the link to the voting were organized on the etwinning page "Preparing the Migration Song".

    The Greek team as a host was in charge of preparing the lyrics which were finalized during the meeting and providing means of performing. 

    Here's some photos of  the rehearsals during the meeting:

     

     

    The following video shows the performance of "the Migration song" at the goodbye ceremony of the meeting on Friday May 4th 2018.

    The lyrics were inspired by the poem "I am a refugee" by Mohamed Raouf Bachir.

    Music is based on the song "Californication" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

    Participating students: +++

    Special thanks to the teachers Helene Frances who supervised the students adapting the lyrics and our maestro Domingo Mancheño Sagrario.