September in Review & International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls ! #NoExcuse !

 

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Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, an estimated 736 million women - almost one in three - have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.

This scourge has intensified in different settings, including the workplace and online spaces, and has been exacerbated by post-pandemic effects, conflicts, and climate change.

credits: UNESCO

https://www.unesco.org/

"Generative AI is revolutionizing the way people access information, produce, receive and interact with content. While these innovations offer previously unimaginable positive gains, they also raise concerns for the overall protection and promotion of all human rights, with a particular concern for the safety of woman and girls."

Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Times of Generative AI

in UNESCO report

The solution lies in robust responses, including investment in prevention. However, alarmingly, data on how much nations are committing to counteract violence against women and girls remains glaringly sparse.

Note: The report can be proposed for Higher Education students to read discuss and  make heir own conclusions.

via VSS/ Victims Support Services

• Education: 

How much does the world care about ending violence against women and girls? We don’t know.

What we do know, is that the human cost of violence against women and girls is incalculable.

The adverse psychological, sexual and reproductive health consequences of VAWG affect women at all stages of their life. For example, early-set educational disadvantages not only represent the primary obstacle to universal schooling and the right to education for girls; down the line they are also to blame for restricting access to higher education and even translate into limited opportunities for women in the labour market.

While gender-based violence can happen to anyone, anywhere, some women and girls are particularly vulnerable - for instance, young girls and older women, migrants and refugees, indigenous women and ethnic minorities, or women and girls living with HIV and disabilities, and those living through humanitarian crises.

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

https://www.unwomen.org/

• Activities for schools:

Of course your school can join 16 Days of Activism as transcurricular school project. UNiTE campaign (Nov 25- Dec 10) — an initiative of 16 days of activism concluding on the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day (10 December).

Join the global movement with the #NoExcuse slogan calling for urgent investments to prevent violence against women and girls

via Google Images Archive

Activities for students:

• Are you using your creativity to promote a message #NoExcuse to violence? 

• Do you use your free time to engage with grassroots organizations working for a world where women and men have equal rights? 

• Are you perhaps questioning gender stereotypes that contribute to a culture of violence against women in online and offline conversations?

Join with your students the global movement with the #NoExcuse campaign calling for urgent investments to prevent violence against women and girls.

And now, here are the most read posts of September: 

Education for Peace ! International Day of Peace : #ActionsForPeace Global Goals

Oh ! La ! Rentrée 2023-2024 ? Pas comme les autres ?! Quelques lignes !

The season holiday is almost there. Some of you are already out-of-school, others are at school giving their lessons for three, four weeks until Christmas holiday.

The streets are beautiful! Christmas and music. No, No! Not Have Yourself a Merry Christmas ;-) 

Be brave and and happy ! Your students love calm and happy teachers. And don't forget! #NoExcuse !

See you soon for another subject and activities.

G-Souto 

25.11.2023

update 25.11.2025

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references: UNESCO/ Unites Nations/ UN Women/ UNITE

May rundown of the most read posts

Put Your Head into Gallery | Gagosian Gallery

http://tezigabunia.com/

Are you mad about Art ? I am! I write often about Art, as you know if you are a regular reader. Of course you are. My last post was about the artist Lotte Reiniger.

You have a dream of one day seeing a piece of your own displayed and admired in a famous art gallery? Well, I'm not enough mad about it. Ok! But your students will love! Remember my post Schools: Take a Selfie with a Painting.(2014). A huge success among students.

Now a new project Tezi Gabunia, interactive installation allows you/ them to experiment this thrill. 

Put Your Head into Gallery | Tate Modern

http://tezigabunia.com/

Through four different models of world famous galleries, his installation Put Your Head into Gallery, literally allows one to become a feature of the exhibit.

The project includes four miniature recreations of Saatchi Gallery (Tezi Gabunia), The Louvre (Rubens), Tate Modern (Hirst), and Gagosian Gallery (Liechtenstein).

Transportable feature of the models makes these galleries accessible for everyone. Moreover, anyone can look into gallery, take a photo and become an exhibition.

"The installation aims make the art scene accessible to everyone by bringing the prominent buildings to the audiences, as opposed to the other way around.

Nothing better that let your students discover the wonders of new technology by sharing this project.

Oh! By the way tomorrow we will celebrate the 2016 edition of the United Nations World Oceans Day, held each year on 8 June. People all over the globe are celebrating in multiple events to mobilize society and protect the ocean, its biodiversity and its resources. Ask your students to join this event.

Education:

If you are lucky and you're teaching near this gallery, don't loose the opportunity to let your students enjoying this awesome experience.

Include the events into your curriculum at school and let your students participate with some nice activities.

I couldn't miss to share with teachers  two importantant events as introduction of the rundown of the most read posts in May.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Schools : UNESCO Intl Photo Contest #WordsOfTolerance 

Schools : Intl Day for Biological Diversity 2016

Schools : Art & Pop Music at Musée du Louvre 

Education : Mars in "Our Sky Night" in sciences curriculum 

Schools : Let's talk about Europe Day 2016 

Schools : Let's go at a Museum! It's Intl Museum Day #NDM16 

Science education : Don't miss Eta Aquarid meteor shower 

Escolas : Vista de Estudo : A saltar do livro. Livros Pop-Up 

Higher Education : Intl Contest Contest DPic : Architecture, Art & Image - Utopia500 

Hope you enjoyed the different themes and resources published on May on my blog It was a fantastic month full of good pedagogical themes - museums, ICT, arts, environment, science, exhibitions, citizenship - different pedagogical resources to motivate some of your lessons.

I'm back to posting the normal roundup every week. 

G-Souto 

07.05.2016

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Arts Education : Lotte Reiniger, the pioneer of animation : resources

Lotte Reiniger

credits: Keystone Press

via Alamy

Lotte Reiniger working on her 1953 animated film, “The Magic Horse,” with hand-cut silhouette figures.

Before Pixar, even Disney, Lotte Reiniger told fanciful stories in animated films with her hand-cut paper silhouettes.

Credit...Credit..Keystone Press, via Alamy

The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Lotte Reiniger’s film, 1926

Photograph: YouTube/ Doodle 
via The Guardian

"A decade before Walt Disney Productions came into existence, making its name synonymous with animated films, there was another pioneer of the art form— Lotte Reiniger."

Devi Lockwood, NYT

In the 2010 film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, animator Ben Hibon used Reiniger's style of animation in the short film titled "The Tale of the Three Brothers".

Google Doodle:

What a lovely interactive Doodle! The Google's team Olivia Huynh (animation) and Silas Hite (original music) honor Lotte Reiniger with a creative Doodle.

Nearly a century before Pixar was founded, and more than a decade before Walt Disney would start there was Lotte Reiniger — the subject of today's Doodle.

Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger was born 117 years ago, on 2 June 1899 in the Charlottenburg, district of Berlin. As a child, she was fascinated with the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry. She built her own puppet theatre, so that she could put on shows for her family and friends.

"The silhouettes were very much praised, and I cut out silhouettes for all the birthdays in the family. Did anyone warn me as to where this path would lead? Not in the least; I was encouraged to continue."

Lotte Reiniger

Hans Christian Andersen had the same passion: Chinese art of silhouette puppetry and he have wonderful works.

The Art of Lott Reiniger

https://www.iamag.co/

Reiniger is known to have worked on—or contributed silhouette sequences to—at least another seven films in the silent era, and a further nine in the sound era. Additionally, there is evidence of her involvement in a number of film projects that remained at conceptual or pre-production stages.

She created visually stunning and fantastical films using black cardboard, scissors, and boundless imagination. 

Reiniger pioneered a style of animation that relied on thousands of photos of paper cut-out silhouettes arranged to tell a story. It was a painstaking process that involved moving paper characters ever so slightly and snapping a photo of each movement. 

She made one of the world’s first animated features, a whirlwind of a fantasy film called The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). 

Reiniger’s filmmaking career spanned 60 years, during which she created more than 70 silhouette animation films, including versions of Cinderella, (1922), Puss in Boots (1936) and “Hansel and Gretel (1955).

She’s perhaps best known for her 1926 silent film The Adventures of Prince Achmed, a fantastical adaptation of “The Arabian Nights” that was among the first full-length animated features ever made.

Reiniger made more than 40 films over her career, all using her invention.

Lotte Reiniger

https://www.bfi.org.uk/

Some information:

Films were Reiniger’s passion: as a child she was delighted by the trick films of Georges Méliès, and later the dreamy horrors of Paul Wegener. 

George Méliès, was considered the best film director in the world. The point to be named for Charlie Chaplin's "The Light Alchemist".

In addition to be considered the "Father of Special Effects", Mélièrs made more than 400 films and built the first film studio in Europe.

It was also the first filmmaker to use drawings of production and storyboards to design your scenes.

Lotte Reiniger

http://i2.wp.com/blog.bcdb.com/

As a young woman and keen to work with Wegener, Lotte found a job designing silhouettes for the intertitles in his films. 

Her first step into animation proper was on his film The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918). Wegener found he could not control live rats (or even guinea pigs) on set, so Reiniger was tasked with animating wooden rodents, stop-motion style.

Lotte Reiniger's animation

https://www.iamag.co/

“The projection was a triumph,” Reiniger remembered. “Those rats really moved as erratically as you would expected panicky rats would and they followed the Piper all right.”

In the 1960s, Reiniger stopped working and lived in London. But by the 70s her work was being revived and she toured the world talking about her career. In 1979 she made the gorgeous The Rose and the Ring, from a Thackeray story, before dying in 1981, back home in Germany.

British newspaper article about Lotte Reiniger

https://milestonefilms.com/

"One of the most touching things was a British newspaper article talking about how Lotte created puppets from discarded laundry soap boxes. She scavenged cardboard and paper where she could — anything to continue her art."

Susan Stone

Reiniger was awarded the Filmband in Gold of the Deutscher Filmpreis in 1972; in 1979 she received the Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. 

She died in Dettenhausen, Germany, on 19 June 1981, at the age of 82.

Education:

Animated movies offer teachers and students a awesome motivating push to learn differently. Let your students have an incredible adventure exploring animation films to learn about novels and the Narrative text.

Displaying movies in a lesson is an important method to help students learn about animation and the Narrative text.

  

Students will create better storytelling, including good plots, characters and narrative points of view, the crucial elements of the Narrative text.

Lotte Reininger will be a reference and an inspiration to the students who will study Animation and Cinema on Higher Education.

We Owe a Lot to Lotte Reiniger from Fandor on Vimeo.

Resources:

"I believe in the truth od fairy tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper."

Lotte Reiniger

Videos:

• Behind the Doodle: Lotte Reiniger (video above) - students of Arts

• George Méliès, was considered the best film director in the world. He was named by Charlie Chaplin's "The Light Alchemist". In addition to being considered the "Father of Special Effects", made more than 500 films and built the first film studio in Europe.

Lotte Reininger: The Fairy Tales Films:

A collection of the Reininger's short tales complete with wonderful soundtracks and charming narration. The films screened in this programme are: The Frog Prince, The Gallant Little Tailor, The Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and Rose Red, Cinderella, Puss in Boots.

Today’s Google Doodle commemorating Reiniger’s work shows the artist inside one of her films, moving from her desk through a succession of fairytale scenarios surrounded by the fruit of her imagination.

G-Souto

02.06.2016

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