ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:
TALK BY AN EXPERT
November 2018
ID: P13
This activity is for TEACHERS, PARENTS and the COMMUNITY. It has been scheduled for November, but the date is flexible depending on each school’s needs. We suggest planning it early so that parents start getting involved in the project.
This is an after-school event for teachers, parents, and the community. Each school organizes a talk, workshop or performance by an academic, expert, or artist on cultural heritage. The topic of each local event will be determined by the speaker’s expertise and the school’s individual needs. If possible, a person associated with local events for the European Year of Cultural Heritage is invited. If the speaker gives permission, the event is recorded and disseminated on the web. Each country’s coordinator composes and shares a reports with the key points of each talk and reflections on what elements can be used in teaching and/or future project activities. Although not scheduled on our timetable, partners are encouraged to use participants’ feedback on the questionnaires distributed at the end of this first talk to organize more such events for teachers and parents.
CYPRUS: TALK BY AN EXPERT
The Cyprus event took place on Wednesday, 21 November 2018. Linguist Dr Georgios B. Georgiou gave a thought-provoking talk on the merits of using the Cyprus dialect in schools, arguing that the question is not if the dialect shoudl be used, but where and when it should be used. A fascinating Q&A discussion followed. Based on comments from the teachers and parents who attended the event, as well as feedback on formal evaluation forms, the talk was enthusiastically received.
SPAIN: TALK BY AN EXPERT
NOVEMBER 2018
LINK TO POWER POINT: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1h8_zCv6ONWveT_9LosdfK88A7qTczv6f
On 26 Novemver 2018, a school for Integration Students with special needs C.E.EPECIAL RUIZ JIMÉNEZ ( Valencia) and their teachers Óscar Hilario Jiménez and Carmen Beamonte Córdoba came to visit our school CEIP Ramón Laporta and taught us how to construct a Fallas Fifure/sculpture called " NINOT".
https://goo.gl/Fd53vE
https://www.levante-emv.com/fallas/2018/11/17/artistas-falleros-campeones/1796414.html
Formerly, much time would be spent by the casal faller preparing the ninots (Valencian for puppets or dolls). During the four days leading up to 19 March, each group takes its ninot out for a grand parade, and then mounts it, each on its own elaborate firecracker-filled cardboard and paper-mâché artistic monument in a street of the given neighbourhood. This whole assembly is a falla.
The ninots and their falles are constructed according to an agreed-upon theme that has traditionally been a satirical jab at whatever draws the attention of the fallers (the registered participants of the casals).[6] In modern times, the two-week-long festival has spawned a substantial local industry, to the point that an entire suburban area has been designated the Ciutat fallera (Falles City). Here, crews of artists and artisans, sculptors, painters, and other craftsmen, all spend months producing elaborate constructions of paper and wax, wood and polystyrene foam tableaux towering up to five stories, composed of fanciful figures, often caricatures, in provocative poses arranged in a gravity-defying manner. Each of them is produced under the direction of one of the many individual neighbourhood casals fallers who vie with each other to attract the best artists, and then to create the most outrageous allegorical monument to their target. There are about 750 of these neighbourhood associations in Valencia, with over 200,000 members, or a quarter of the city's population.
Our students were gathered in gropus of 6 or 8 according to their date of month of birth.
Then the workshops started: there were 4 different workshops in order to construct the NINOT . The teacher explained the procedure, the four main fhrases to create it:
1. In the first workshop, children, follow the instructions of the workshop teacher with the help of the integration students. Our students started to cut the wood, for the basement, the main structure. Then, they cut the outline of the " Ninot" in foam and started giving it the final shape wanted.
2. second workshop: the students cut papers (newspapers, plain papers, etc...) into pieces in order to put some glue and stick it to the foam figure ( paper maché) until a thick layer was form. Then, they let it dry properly and prepared for the next step.
3. paint workshop: The students chose brighlit colour paint so after the sculpture was well dried, they´d paint it and put a barnish on it to look brighter and shiny. And the NINOT was finished! Perfect!
Finally, the sculpture was done, dried and beautiful ready for the fallas feast. The teacher Showed a statue made specially for our school, called " Micalet" referringto a beatiful high tower located at the Cathedral of Valencia.
we really enjoyed the activity and the students felt happy with their work. We must thank the teacher and the integration students for Special needs who helped us and taught us how to make a " Ninot".
We had a great time!
We really enjoyed!!
POLAND: TALK BY AN EXPERT
The Polish event took place on Wednesday, 28 November 2018. The Art. teacher Marzena Rzepniewska gave a talk on the role of Art in kids educational process and the future career. After the speech parents and teachers were able to ask questions, as a result a fascinating discussion followed. Based on comments from the parents and teachers who attended the event, as well as feedback on formal evaluation forms, the talk was interesting and useful.
Workshops in the museum in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland
Under a supervision of experts working at the museum in Bielsk Podlaski the workshops titled 'Wall Hangings and Other Cloth' took place from October to December 2019. More in the article beneath: