Photo Contest : Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads 2019 #UNESCOSkillsRoads

UNESCO

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UNESCO invites young people living or travelling along the Silk Roads to join 2019 edition of the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest, promoting dialogue, diversity, and development.

The contest is organized in the context of the UNESCO Silk Roads Programme, the UNESCO Youth Programme, and the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2013-2022).

©Aeron Macintosh Sayno/UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads 2018

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This photo contest is an annual visual studies and educational initiative designed to promote the common heritage of the Silk Roads. 

It officially launched on 19 September 2019 and is open to participants aged 14-25 living in or travelling along the Silk Roads. 

The deadline for contributions has been extended to 31 January 2020 23:59:59 (GMT+1).

Participants are invited to express their unique creativity and individuality through the medium of photography, sharing images that highlight the significant cultural interactions inherited from the Silk Roads.

The Silk Roads are an expansive region composed of a network of maritime and land routes. Please see the map here 

©Xiaoyi Yan - China / UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads

https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/

Themes:

This year photographs must highlight Silk Roads common heritage through the three themes of:

• gastronomy and food production,

• music and dance, 

• traditional sports and games.

Contributions will be examined by an international Selection Committee composed of renowned experts.  

©Eamon Brockenbrough/UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads 2018

https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/

Who can participate?

Participants aged 14-25

Categories:

There will be two distinct categories for winners: 

• 14-17 years old, 

• 18-25 years old. 

Three winners, each to receive prizes, will be selected from each of these categories, and their names will be announced online on 21 March 2020.

Rules:

Before officially entering the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest, participants must read Rules here

In order to participate, participants should first create an account by completing the mandatory fields with the requested information. 

Then they will be able to upload their photos to the contest’s website via their account. 

Note: All submitted information should be in English.

©Hamood Ahmed Alnaamani - Oman/

UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads 2018

https://unescosilkroadphotocontest.org/

Prizes:

The winners will receive:

• 1st place: A professional digital single-lens reflex camera;

• 2nd place:  a semi-professional camera

• 3rd place: a standard-model digital camera. 

In addition, winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to an awards ceremony. 

Additionally, a travelling exhibition of around fifty photos that best represent the spirit of the contest and its themes will be exhibited in various countries around the world. 

©Saha Deepanjana - India/UNESCO Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads 2018

https://unescosilkroadphotocontest.org/

These selected photographs will also appear in a professionally bound collection of printed images.  

The visual arts, and in particular photography, are increasingly being used by today’s youth as a powerful tool for communication and self-expression. As such, they have the potential to play a significant role in raising awareness of the key issues facing our contemporary globalizing world. 

The annual Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads International Photo Contest offers an exciting opportunity for young people from all over the world to capture their understanding of the common heritage of the Silk Roads through the lens of their camera. 

Sharing images that capture elements of cultural interaction stimulates dialogue, fosters mutual understanding, and promotes peace among diverse populations.

UNESCO encourages everyone eligible to participate in the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest!

• More information on the contest

• Contact: silkroadsphotocontest@unesco.org
  (link sends e-mail)

The 2019 edition of the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest is an unmissable opportunity to get creative and get involved! UNESCO encourages everyone eligible to participate in the Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads Photo Contest! 

G-Souto

08.01.2020

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Schools : And now, World Poetry Day !

World Poetry Day 

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We have not wings, 

we cannot soar; 

But we have feet to scale and climb 

By slow degrees, by more and more, 

The cloudy summits of our time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Poetry is a window onto the breath-taking diversity of humanity."

Irina Bokova, Former Director General, message on World Poetry Day 2017

At a time when the challenges we face – from climate change, inequality and poverty to violent extremism – seem so steep, the words of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow give us hope.

Those are the first words from Irina Bokova's message for World Poetry Day 2017.

Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. 

Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

@aoyagi_unesco

UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.

In celebrating World Poetry Day, March 21, UNESCO recognizes the unique ability of poetry to capture the creative spirit of the human mind.

One of the main objectives of the Day is to support linguistic diversity through poetic expression and to offer endangered languages the opportunity to be heard within their communities.

World Poetry Day

credits: UN

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World Poetry Day is the occasion to honor poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.  As poetry continues to bring people together across continents, all are invited to join in.

credits: UN

https://www.un.org/

 

The Nobel prize poet Pablo Neruda wrote, “poetry is an act of peace.” Poetry is unique in its ability to speak across time, space and culture, to reach directly the hearts of people everywhere. This is a wellspring for dialogue and understanding – this has always been a force to challenge injustice and advance freedom. 

As UNESCO’s new Goodwill Ambassador for Artistic Freedom and Creativity, Deeyah Khan has said, all art, including poetry, “has the extraordinary capacity to express resistance and rebellion, protest and hope.” 

Google Doodle:

Nowruz 2017

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"Nowruz is a field where reconciliation and dialogue can take their roots."

Irina Bokova, Former Director General,
Message on International Day of Nowruz 2017

March 21, is also International Day of Nowruz. For more than 3,000 years, people of Persian ancestry have been celebrating Nowruz, the return of Spring and the start of a new year. 

Google celebrates as well the 21 March Nowruz Day with springtime flowers, like the hyacinths and tulips in today’s Doodle.

A combination of the Persian words “now” for new and “ruz” for day, it is often celebrated at the exact moment of the vernal (spring) equinox, when the days start getting longer, and the celebrations can continue for up to two weeks.

Nowruz is a time of joyous renewal. Visits with friends and family, a clean house and new clothes, and special spring foods are traditional ways to celebrate the holiday. 

Perhaps the most enduring image of Nowruz is gathering together with friends and family around a bonfire. People also like to decorate with springtime flowers, like the hyacinths and tulips in today’s Doodle.

Nowruz traditions

https://www.bbc.com/

Inscribed in 2009, and extended in 2016 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as a cultural tradition observed by numerous peoples, Nowruz is an ancestral festivity marking the first day of spring and the renewal of nature.

It promotes values of peace and solidarity between generations and within families as well as reconciliation and neighborliness, thus contributing to cultural diversity and friendship among peoples and different community.

Persian Poetry: Omar Khayyam. Rubáiyát

Translated by Edward FitzGerald with illustrations by Arthur Szyk 

New York: Heritage Press, ca. 1946

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/

The rich Persian poetry is an ancestral art. The modern Persian speaker comprehends the literature of the earliest Persian poets including founder of the Persian poetry and literature Rudaki (approximately 1150 years ago) all the way down to the works of modern Persian poets. 

I saw a bird near the city of Sarakhs It had raised its song to the clouds I saw a colorful chador on it So many colors on its chador

Abū ‘Abdallāh Rūdakī (858–ca. 941)

Often referred to as the father of modern Persian poetry, the ninth-century Persian poet Abū ‘Abdallāh Rūdakī (858–ca. 941) 

World Poetry Day
credits: Elyx
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So, on World Poetry Day, teachers promote teaching poetry, restore a dialogue between poetry and the other arts such as theatre, dance, music, painting and other arts to  create an attractive image of poetry in the school so that the art of poetry will no longer be considered an outdated form of art but one.

Activities:

For different activities, you will find some interesting proposals on my Poetry Day post (2016) here

Poetry Day, UK

https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/

Education:

World Poetry Day is an opportunity for children to be introduced to poetry in at school (all levels). It is a time when classrooms are busy with lessons related to poetry, in which students examine poets and learn about different types of poetry. 

Students love poetry! Poetry is a good part or Languages and Literature. So here are some ideas that teachers can include into curriculum.

I love poetry. I read often poetry books. Here the reason why I'm always write 

about World Poetry Day and the importance of Poetry in our life. Poetry must be a part of children's education for the next citizen generation, women and men.

In adult life, they will be women and men of dialogue. Only dialogue can be established in difference and respect for difference. And who knows some among our students will be writers and poets.

All the Activities must be adapted to the levels you teach, of course. You will do wonderful I know. Include attractive poems into your lessons, so that the art of poetry will no longer be considered an outdated from of art but one. Poetry is a fundamental expression of peace.

World Poetry Day is symbolic. We can celebrate poetry every day.

"Poetry is not a luxury. It lies at the heart of who we are as women and men, living together today, drawing on the heritage of past generations, custodians of the world for our children and grandchildren. 

By celebrating poetry today, we celebrate our ability to join together, in a spirit of solidarity, to scale and climb “the cloudy summits of our time.” 

We need this to take forward the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, to ensure no woman or man is left behind."

Irina Bokova, Former Director-General of UNESCO

G-Souto

20.03.2017
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Education : It's World Poetry Day !

World Poetry Day 2016

credits: UNESCO

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"Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago, wrote in A Midsummer Night's Dream that: “The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name”.

Irina Bokova, Former Director General UNESCO

Message on World Poetry Day 2016

Every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity. Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

UNESCO first adopted 21 March as World Poetry Day during its 30th General Conference in Paris in 1999, with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.

"World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.  As poetry continues to bring people together across continents, all are invited to join in."

Poetry Day

credits: Cosei Kawa, illustrator

Education:

"Every poem is unique but each reflects the universal in human experience, the aspiration for creativity that crosses all boundaries and borders, of time as well as space, in the constant affirmation of humanity as a single family."

Irina Bokova, Former Director-General of Unesco

World Poetry Day is an opportunity for children to be introduced to poetry in at school (all levels). It is a time when classrooms are busy with lessons related to poetry, in which students examine poets and learn about different types of poetry. 

Students love poetry! Poetry is a good part or Languages and Literature. So here are some ideas that teachers can include into curriculum.

Activities:

"Poetry is the mainstay of oral tradition and, over centuries, can communicate the innermost values of diverse cultures."

• Encourage your students to read, write their own poetry in the classroom. For some ideas, please read my post: It's About Twiter and Poetry (World Poetry Day 2011);

• Award your students for best and creative poems! Students love 'awards'!

• Invite to learn from the proverbs of your country, and discover the poetic teachings of others;
• Organise readings of poems from different cultures, including from pupils' own cultures. 
• Investigate different forms of poem, such as the Japanese Haiku which Haiku Poetry Day will be celebrated next 17th April. 

• Read up about riddles, limericks and sonnets with students to liven up your school libraries;

• Promote a contest of poetry between different classes at you school or other schools;

• Invite a young poet to talk about his poetry with your students at school;

• Go at book stores, metro stations, gardens, and inspire your students to read some poetry. 

• Promote some exhibitions and poetic events at your school to be held to showcase the work of various 'young poets' (school  students) on or around March 21 to coincide more or less with "World Poetry Day";

• Support Poetry by inviting your students and their parents buying books of young poets (sometimes, parents ask teachers for some advices to buy books for their chidren);

• Support poetry in school radio club (if there is one), publish students poems in the school journals, display videos about poets! Bright Star, lovely movie hounoring the poet John Keats by Jane Campion is a captivate digital resource to display in the classroom or at the school library promoting a dialogue on Poetry. Invite some parents  and grandparents to participate and read some poems.
• Awaken the poet inside of you and impress your students with your creativity, inventiveness and imagination.

Reading

credits: Cosei Kawa, illustrator

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I write every year about World Poetry Day and the importance of Poetry in our life. Poetry must be a part of children's education for the next citizen generation, women and men.

In adult life, they will be women and men of dialogue. Only dialogue can be established in difference and respect for difference. And some among them will be writers and poets.

All the activities must be adapted to the levels you teach, of course. You will do wonderful I know. Create an attractive image of poetry in your lessons, so that the art of poetry will no longer be considered an outdated form of art but one. Poetry is a fundamental expression of peace.

In European countries, it's Spring holiday. But we have the time to celebrate poetry after Easter season. The day is symbolic. You can celebrate poetry every day.

"By paying tribute to the men and women whose only instrument is free speech, who imagine and act, UNESCO recognizes in poetry its value as a symbol of the human spirit’s creativity. By giving form and words to that which has none – such as the unfathomable beauty that surrounds us, the immense suffering and misery of the world – poetry contributes to the expansion of our common humanity, helping to increase its strength, solidarity and self-awareness."

Irina Bokova, Former Director-General of UNESCO

G-Souto

20.03.2016
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