EVERYONE CAN BE AN ARTIST

PHOTO ALBUMS

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Name of Album:

1. Urszula [Poland]
2. Derya [Turkey]
3. Tomas [Lithuania]
4. Dance workshop
5. Excursion
6. Marta's workshop
7. Photography workshop
8. Theatre workshop
9. Sally [UK]
10. Veneta [Bulgaria]
11. Ahmet [Turkey]

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS OF GRUNDTVIG WORKSHOP EVERYONE CAN BE AN ARTIST

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...and contributors of this blog:

AHMET BELER [TURKEY]
BÜLENT BACI [TURKEY]
DERYA AKSAKAL [TURKEY]
SEDAT AKTAS [TURKEY]
HASAN HUSEYIN BEKTAS [TURKEY]
TOMAS BYLA [LITHUANIA]
MICHELE YOUATT [UNITED KINGDOM]
SALLY LIDDLE [UNITED KINGDOM]
LASMA MANCENDORFA [LATVIA]
RANDA MEDNE [LATVIA]
JOLANTA JONIKANE [LATVIA]
VENETA GARDOS [HUNGARY]
ERIC LEFEBVRE [FRANCE]
JEAN BOJKO [FRANCE]
DESISLAVA STOICHKOVA [ITALY]

logotypes

2010-04-18T08:07:00.000-07:00

logos

Wroclaw day

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City Opole

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Music workshop

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Social cake

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Sunday

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Last day .Dear Michael who had the difficult job of teaching us today with our minds quite in another place, was very patient with us all. Well what can we say ,how to sum up this week. When we arrived on Saturday at the first workshop we heard the news about the Polish President, his wife and staff who died in a plane crash. After hearing this news our hosts carried on and insured all of us were occupied ,fed ,happy and comfortable.Then who could have predicted the volcano.Thank you from our hearts to you Joanna ,Beata and everyone who has arranged tickets and alternative travel back to our home countries.One of the most oustanding factors of this week has been the laughter love and caring attitude to each other after only knowing each other for a few days. We became a strong unit like family and will miss each other greatly. Long may we stay friends.........

Creative thinking workshop

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Saturday

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A road trip to Wroclaw on a beautiful sunny day through the country side. Everyone relaxed and looking forward to seeing the city. There are many churches and interesting sites to investigate. A curious one being a bridge with many padlocks attatched to it. This is a local custom for lovers to pledge their commitment to each other by writing their names on the padlock and locking it shut onto the balastrade of the bridge ,lovers for evermore!!
Lunch in the open air,sun shining on us and fine dining after all the hard work of the week.A brilliant sing song on the way back to Opole(don't know why the coach driver kept groaning) everyone sang a song from their home country.Back in Opole for a very big ice cream!!!!

Friday

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Baking day!! A coach trip to Otmice to the primary school to make a traditional cake.Weighed and measured carefully by the folk artist who was dressed in traditional clothes . This folk artist then by telling and demonstating different skills passes on bygone Polish traditions that then will not be lost.
Some the girls from the school entertained us by dancing a Polish folk dance.The school museum was very informative and intersting all equiped from local people , former pupils family friends, very important for future generations to learn of their roots.
Travelling on to Kamien Slaski for lunch and a visit to the chateau.
After an eventful journey to Renata's house some Polish dumplings were made.

Dance workshop

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Wednesday and Thursday

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An hilarious time was had by all at the dancing class, and a difficult job to teach us by our instructor Asia.A good warm up to start then on to the serious stuff.Cracovian dance was the first and mastered quite well.Then a medievil English dance , very sedate and dignified. American Polka was fast and furiuos nearly ending in a heap and finally our favourite Polonez ,with sound track from the Polish film Pan Tadeusz.Returning on Thursday morning with aching limbs the team enthusiastically started the next dance lesson. First today we revised,and were surprised to remember very well the dances from the day before.Many of our collegues taught us dances from their countries.Sometimes with us singing the music!
By this time the legs needed a rest and we needed to exercise our brains with creative thinking.Anita master of the Funky Monkey.A few tricky tasks this time including being blindfolded and ordering ourselves in correct numerical order.From just chosen materials we had to build a tower that held a cup of water and the next day a bridge that would hold a heavy amount of weight. Interestly we should have listened more carefully than we did as there were certain instructions that need not have been carried out. To conclude all of our skills used on the previous workshops were able to create a play that showed a very unusual dressed man, a dream, an animal, a dance , a song . What a wide range of ideas came forth. Balloon man who found he could fly and a beautiful Turkish song.

Tuesday

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Music today! Everyone in good spirits. Marcin our man of music. Explaining first to us about bars and how many beats to each bar ,timing and accent on the beat. Much concentration was needed when in partners we clapped a pattern and our partner had to copy it.As the morning progressed we learnt how to use percussion intruments correctly and then watched a very entertaining film called 'One apartment and six drummers' usual household objects and utensils where used as percussion instruments.Now it was our turn to improvise. In groups we decided which room we wanted to be eg; bathroom,kitchen and cellar and composed are master pieces to then perform to the others.
Our last task for today was watching a short cartoon with the sound turned off,then we provided the sound track , illustrating emotions ,movement and atmosphere.

Monday

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Camera obsucra day. Today we went to the University Art Department. Our tutor today was called Grzegorz. We were amazed that it was possible to take a photo in a very simple way using a coffee can with a very small pinhole in it. At first we learned how it worked and then we prepared our own cameras. With some rather large pinhole for some of us!!Nevermind.
It was time to take the photo according to the rule of three photo.One is disaster,second better and the third the BEST.All of in turn developed our photograghs in the dark room with mixed results.Off to take our portraits next with the camera very close to our faces.Many flashes later they were done.Another very enjoyable day.

Theatre workshop

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sunday

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Theatre Workshop. We started with warming up, walking around looking at our hands to find our space. We then paired up and had to notice how our partner had changed their appearance, easy when it was one or two things more difficult when it got to five we were not so observant!!! Christopher inspired us with his thought that we must push ourselves in life .....to always cross the line . It was more difficult to portray emmotions ,the advice was to actually feel this then visually your audience would see.A very thought provoking experience many of us had to overcome our inhibitions to be part of this. There are many ways of using every day objects in place of the conventional puppets.eg. Flying shoes.Chistopher demonstrated many types of theatre that he is involved in such as shadow theatre,object theatre and the conventinal puppet theatre. A very enjoyable workshop.

Photography workshop

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Camera obscura workshop

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Creative thinking workshop

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