Activities in Poland Comenius Meeting

“Human Rights on camera” 

“Around Polish culture”

“Art workshops”

Covers of Picasso's Gernika in Poland

In the 4th Comenius Meeting in Poraj, the Polish delegation asked us to prepare a lesson for Polish students. Mrs. Katarzyna Kazmierczak welcomed the Spanish delegation in her history class and we prepared an art class for 3rd year students on Picasso’s Gernika.

The goal of the lesson was to observe and interpret a work of art  through our emotions, feelings, and reactions to the painting, without mentioning the artist, the title and the context of the painting

This is exactly the opposite of what we usually do when we visit an art exhibition. There we tend to read the name of the artist first, then we read the title of the work of art, and finally we look at the work of art. Then, we move quickly onto the next work of art.

We projected Picasso’s Gernika on the wall and allowed students to contemplate the painting in silence for 2 minutes. Then we began a group discussion through these questions.

1. What can you see?
2. What does this painting suggest to you?
3. How do you feel when you look at the painting? (emotions, feelings…)
4. What are the colours in the painting? Why these colours?
5. When you first look at this painting, where exactly do your eyes go first, and second…?
6. What’s the visual composition of the painting? How is space organised? (forefront, background…)
7. What characters can you see? Can you describe them? Do you think these drawings are realistic?
8. Which character in the painting seems more outstanding to you? Why?
9. Say a single word which summarises your feelings towards this painting? (a noun, an adjective…)
10. What title would you choose for this painting?
11. Could this painting represent a current affair somewhere in the world?

Then we talked about Pablo Picasso and the historic context of the painting. We also showed them this video on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Gernika.

The final task for students was to colour their own Gernika so that it could convey positive emotions such as optimism, glee and hope. Here you are the Gernika covers of Polish and Comenius students in Mrs. Kazmierczak’s class.

These are the fantastic cover versions of Picasso’s Gernika which students created.

Illustrated poems by the French Team

Illustrated poems by the Fren...

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More illustrations from France

The French Team intends to create and publish a leaflet with illustrated poems soon, but now have a look to the following first illustrations:

by Célia:

Célia illustrated the poem titled "FREE LOVE"

Célia illustrated the poem "IMAGINE"

Célia illustrated the poem "Peace doesn't abuse war " of Spain

More illustrations for poems

A German poem illustrated by the Greek Team

.... by the Cypriot Team

From Cyprus

From the Team of Cyprus

French poem illustrated by the Greek Team

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The illustration painted by the French Team for Zoe Qesko's poem (Greek Team)

The poem from Cyprus illustrated by Lucie Charrel (French Team)

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Illustrated poems by the Greek Team

Hello friends!
Everything is ready for the meeting in Chieti. We wish everybody, going to Chieti/Italy, a nice and pleasant trip, convenient weather, a wonderful time there, many-many photos, endless experiences and fruitful co-operations.

Below, you can find 21 poems, which you sent for illustrating and they did not took part in the Poetry contest. The Greek Team illustrated them. The results of this activity will be presented during the meeting in Poland, next autumn 2012. We'll deliver a leaflet with the illustrated poems to the polish delegation in Chieti.

Open publication - Free publishing - More comenius
Please click EXPAND to browse the leaflet.

You are listening to the song "Let's hold hands"

Composer: Romanos Lioutas, B' class

CU soon!

French Logos

The Spanish Logos

The Spanish comenius team has sent for the Logo Contest in Cyprus the following designs:

Logo contest - The winners

The 1st Prize has been awarded to Cyprus (design #6 created by LYDIA DIMOSTHENOUS)

The 2nd Prize has been awarded to Spain (design #16 created by MARIONA COSTA)

The 3rd Prize has been awarded to Czech Republic (design #2 created by KATERINA ZERTOVA)

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS!!!

Some details more....

The logo competition had started after the 1st Project Meeting in Čelákovice. It was held in two phases:
a. The pupils of the participating schools are invited to participate in a competition in their school.
b. Each school chose the 3 best designs and sent them in Cyprus for the second phase of the contest.

During the 2nd Meeting in Limassol, on Thursday, March 8th, 2012, the jury consisted of 9 teachers and 9 students voted for the best logo.
Besides the contest, a Great Exhibition with all logos was held in the school yard. Many beautiful colors and ideas about Human Rights and their Violations.  The pupils did their best!!!
 

HUMAN RIGHTS LOGO CONTEST RESULTS in CYPRUS

Each school had two representatives, a student and a teacher.  Each representative had two votes, but could not vote for logos from their own school.  The votes were:

Country	Student		Teacher		Could not vote for
Cyprus	4	16	2	16	(6, 12,21)
Czech Republic	23	17	6	17	(2,4,15)
France	5	19	6	22	(8,9,14)
Germany	16	15	16	21	(11,17,18)
Greece	12	6	12	6	(6,13,22)
Italy (C)	2	6	2	12	(5,10,19)
Italy (N)	12	6	16	2
Poland	23	17	6	17	(2,4,15)
Spain

Rank.	Logo Number	# of votes
1.	#6 (Cyprus)	8
2.	#16(Spain)	7
3.	#2(Czech R.)	4
3.	#12(Cyprus)	4
5.	#5 (Italy –C)	2
5.	#17(Germany)	2
5.	#21(Cyprus)	2
5.	#22(Greece)	2
5.	#23(Poland)	2

A re-vote was taken to determine the 3^rd place winner after numbers 2 and 12 tied with 4 votes each during the first vote.  Each representative had one vote, except the representatives of Cyprus and Czech Republic who had no vote.  The votes were:

Country	Student	Teacher
France	2	2
Germany	2	2
Greece	2	12
Italy (C)	2	2
Italy (N)	12	2
Poland	12	12
Spain	12	12

Thus #2 of the Czech Republic was 3^rd place winner with 8 votes compared to Cyprus’s #12 which only got 6 votes.

FINAL RESULTS

1ST PLACE	2ND PLACE	3RD PLACE
#6 (CYPRUS)	#16 (SPAIN)	#2(CZECH REPUBLIC)

Logo Contest Winners

Logo contest in Limassol

Greek Participation to the Logo contest in Cyprus

These are the Greek logos for the 2nd Comenius Meeting in Cyprus:

For the Competition

 

designed by Christina Michou, B2

designed by Ariadni Papadimitriou, B2 

 designed by Zoe Quesko, B2

For the Exhibition

designed by Christina Eleni, B1

 designed by Rafaela Louka, A2

designed by Rafaela Louka, A2

  designed by P.S., A2

 

designed by Vasso Tsichrigi, A3

designed by Anonymus

designed by Anonymus

Painting our Rights

Pupils from the Greek school 3rd Lyceum "Miltos Kountouras" at Nea Filadelfeia / Athens are painting the articles of the Declaration of Human Rights with Music. 

The images are located at http://paintersforhumanrights.org
The picture on the cover is on a wall at the centre of Nea Filadelfeia.

Music: I dare you to move by SWITCHFOOT. 

November 2011.

I dare you to move
by Switchfoot

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next?
What happens next?

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself, to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

Let's design a logo

People need a symbol for something...

And it's wonderful to have a logo which is traveling around the world and it means the same thing for everybody...

Let's try to draw a logo. A logo by the pupils for the pupils and not only...

First Logos in Celakovice Meeting