July in review : the most read posts of the month

Rio2016

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Rio Olympic Games 2016 start tomorrow, the 5 August. One day before the opening ceremony. More than 11,000 athletes and support team members are already staying in huge complex. Party atmosphere sweeps Olympic Village.

With one day before the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, a party atmosphere is sweeping through the Olympic Village.

The majority of the 208 nations are now represented at the village, a complex of 31 buildings that contain 3,604 apartments. At peak time it will be home to more than 17,000 guests.

Mascots Jobim & Tom

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Get ready for the intense excitement of 42 Olympic sport disciplines, 306 events over the course of 19 days of competition will yield 136 medals for women, 161 for men and nine mixed medals.

We are all excited waiting for tomorrow. Don't you? Jobim and Tom, the mascots Rio2016 are very happy, see?

Ok. So it's time to end the introduction of the rundown of the most read posts in July.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Educação & Línguas : Vamos ler Harry Potter and The Cursed Child?

Education: The 4th July & Eyes on June : resources & apps 

Éducation : Difficulté de parler #Nice aux enfants? 

Education . Go to the theater : Harry Potter and The Cursed Child 

Science Education: Exploring the Big Dipper 

Education & disability : Francesca Jones, the power of a dream

Summer break is on top. Schools are closed in the most part of European countries. Soon starts in the United States of America, Australia and some other countries.

Well, I will be back to posting some ideas and educational resources. My summer break? Very soon!

G-Souto 

04.08.2016

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Education : Go to the theater : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

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Tomorrow! Get ready for the new play and book: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child. 

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child in print and digital tomorrow 30 July 2016 at world bookshops. Only two days and one night. Oh ! So good, another big event to 'potterheads'! 

Saturday 30 July will see the official opening night of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two. The public preview of the play took place last 26 July. Fans react to first performances!

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, 
play at Palace Theater, London

University fans

credits:   Tim Jamieson/ NYTimes

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"It is out of this world. It's Magic and it's a Hit."

Times

Last Tuesday, the 26 July, Harry Potter lucky fans have seen the play and they are in love. Fans went out very touched and excited. The reviews are amazing. And media reviews are amazing as well. 

"It's a proper theatrical blockbuster. Not just at the box office, but onstage as well: a captivating story given a spectacular staging and — Rowling’s specialty — a big, big heart. Twenty years ago, Harry Potter turned a generation onto reading. “The Cursed Child” could do the same for theater."

Matt Trueman, Variety

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, play

credits: Manuel Harnan

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The eighth installment of the Harry Potter series was presented on Tuesday evening at the Palace Theater. It was the play, not the book. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” The Potter saga continues with unabated interest: fans dressed in Hogwarts costumes, curiosity about the fate of long-beloved characters and the allure of magic.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one play presented in two parts, which are intended to be seen in order on the same day (matinee and evening) or on two consecutive evenings.

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, play

Jamie Parker/ Harry Potter

credits: : Manuel Harlan

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The critcs are very good.  Dramatist Jack Thorne has written a pair of instalments, each two and a half hours long, based on several major characters in JK Rowling’s seven novels, which became eight movies. While still about the superstar wizard, the plays introduce multiple new figures and plot lines wrote Michael Billington.

Words can’t describe how delighted I was to see Albus’ and Scorpius’ relationship gently developing from friendship to something more, without the narrative making a plot point or a problem about their sexualities, making it incidental rather than focusing on it. The stage came to life when the two characters were on it together. Finally, finally I could see kids like me at Hogwarts. By the end of the first part I was in tears.

Anna, London, harrypotterhead

And tomorrow, 30 July, at midnight following those first, opening night performances, the Special Rehearsal Edition script will be available to buy around the world, in print at the bookshops and digitally on Pottermore.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J.K. Rowling

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But let's talk about the book. The Special Rehearsal Edition of the script will be available for a limited time, and will give readers the earliest opportunity to read the eighth story – just after the play has opened at London’s Palace Theatre. 

In this edition, readers will have access to the script used by the cast and creative team during rehearsals and previews.

During the preview period, in front of a live audience, the script will be fine-tuned by the creative team. It’s a chance to make tweaks outside the rehearsal room and based on the reactions of a real audience.

A later, Definitive Edition of the script is set for release in early 2017. This final and complete edition will replace the Special Rehearsal Edition in bookshops, both in print and digitally.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play

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The Definitive Edition will contain the perfected, definitive script with final stage directions and annotations, as seen on opening night and beyond. This edition will also include extra content, such as writing from the play’s creative team.

The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later. Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. 

The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End tomorrow 30th July 2016. 

"It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places."

Education: Books & Theater

This is the big buzz of the summer break at schools. Potterheads of the world will not miss this event, the book at bookshops or Pottermore and those who are lucky enough the play at Palace Theater in London.

Going at bookshop, it promotes the love of printed books and enhance reading skills of the youngest potterheaders' don't you think? And if they aren't native English language, they will empower the foreign language.

J.K. Rowling and the 'Harry Potter mania' brought enormous number of new readers into Languages curriculum. Teachers understood the importance of reading Harry Potter books into the curricula.

Rowling managed to get a large swath of young people reading books at a time when it looked as though they weren't going to be reading anything.

Kids and adults (the first generation of potterheads) don't loose this opportunity to read another Harry Potter book.

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

The four houses of the Hogwarts wizarding school mass on stage

credits: Manuel Harnen

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But J.K. Rowling promotes now the love of theater.  Twenty years ago, (1977) Harry Potter turned a generation onto reading. “The Cursed Child” could do the same for theater.

Theatre in education will encourage effective learning at school. It calls for careful consideration of the audience's age and requirements in order to engage them and get the message across.

It complements school curriculum and illustrate the dynamic relationship between the performing arts and literature, history, science and world cultures. 

So potterheads are all so excited. They go to the theater and will be at a bookshop near on 30 July by midnight. Every bookshop will open to receive the new book and Harry Potter fans.

Some extra activities are prepared to captivate the new potterheads. It will be a special night this summer break.

G-Souto

21.07.2016

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References:

video credits: The Guardian | Pottermore

Cultura em férias escolares

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Lembram o 4º Festival das Artes e férias culturais? Pois não poderia deixar escapar esta actividade que pode preencher um fim-de-semana prolongado de jovens em idade escolar que estão de férias.

Tem lugar na Quinta das Lágrimas, Coimbra (Portugal) e está a decorrer de 16 a 23 Julho 2013. Conta com  vários eventos, concertos, exposições, cinema e muitos outras propostas de arte.

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O Festival divide-se por vários espaços destacando-se o anfiteatro da Colina de Camões que medeia a traça contemporânea do edifício "Os Quatro Elementos", de Gonçalo Byrne, e a mata centenária da Quinta das Lágrimas, "entretecendo um diálogo entre a quinhentista Fonte das Lágrimas, a Fonte dos Amores (século XIV), o Jardim Romântico de oitocentos e o Jardim Medieval."

Anfiteatro da Colina de Camões

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Este ano o tema é "Natureza". Depois dos temas Noite, Água, Paixões e Viagens, este ano, o 5º Festival das Artes abre-se ao tema da Natureza e a escolha parece óbvia, já que tem o centro na linda "Quinta das Lágrimas".

As actividades estão distribuídas por sete ciclos: Música, Cinema, Artes Plásticas, Conferências, Artes de Palco, Gastronomia e Serviço Educativo.

O programa poderá ser consultado aqui

Educação:

Todos sabemos como a educação das crianças e adolescentes deve ter uma forte componente artística e cultural. E já que as escolas por vezes não podem preencher os currículos com actividades culturais, cabe aos pais e educadores proporcionarem  em tempo de férias escolares momentos de cultura. Então nada melhor do que aproveitar momentos como este e associar a cultura à Natureza.

Festival de Artes 2013 é um desses momentos em que se pode aliar o saber aos espaços abertos e ao acompanhamentos de pais e educadores numa série de actividades que procuram desenvolver capacidades cognitivas associadas à livre expressão, sentido crítico, e gosto pelas artes.

Através deste projecto intergeracional, é possível identificar e promover gostos e experiências que  levam ao público juvenil várias expressões estéticas e lúdicas.

Diferentes propostas de actividades capazes de mobilizar os jovens, suas famílias ou associações educativas, numa iniciativa onde acontecem momentos de formação, convívio, arte, e lazer. 

Actividades dinâmicas de valoração pessoal e cultural que proporcionam aos jovens a oportunidade para experienciar ou desenvolver valores. 

Nada melhor do que rumar até Coimbra e inscrever as crianças e adolescentes nas várias actividades que o Serviço Educativo propõe.

Jardineiro do Sol | Teatro

foto: Daniel Palos

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Propostas diversificadas que vão da música ao teatro, literatura, escrita criativa, ciência viva, exposições, e roteiros de sabores da natureza.

Destaco Jardineiro do Sol, para os mais novos. Um pequeno espectáculo de animação teatral pela Camaleão - Associação Cultural, dias 17 e 23 Julho pelas 11:00 horas com o custo de 1€.

Nível etário: infantil e pré-juvenil (jardins infância; pré-primáro; primário.

Objectivo: Fornecer aos espectadores uma actividade de adequada fruição artística, mas também informação sobre o que é o Sol e como influencia a vida no nosso planeta, com especial incidência na Botânica.

De realçar ainda Descobre a Natureza Animal, dia 20 Julho pelas 11:00 horas. E os workshop Paisagens da Escrita com o escritor Mário Cláudio e Sabores da Natureza.

Nível etário: Intergeracional

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão

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Música:

Mas o ciclo que quero destacar é o Ciclo da Música. Uma proposta de educação musical variada e que não deve, de modo nenhum, ser desperdiçada. 

Todas as escolas públicas e privadas deveriam incluir o ensino de música. Jovens estudantes de música ou não, o programa é variado e abrange vários géneros.

Objectivo: Desenvolver a criatividade, a sensibilidade. A música contribui para a formação integral dos jovens, reverencia os valores culturais, desenvolve o sentido estético, promove a sociabilidade e a expressividade, introduz o sentido de colaboração, e auxilia o desenvolvimento motor, pois trabalha com a sincronia de movimentos. A música fez bem para a autoestima das crianças e dos jovens, já que alimenta a criação..

Nível etário: Todos.

Sagração da Primavera, Concerto da Juventude, Basófias, Sonho de uma Noite de Verão, Os Pássaros, As Flores e Pastoral são alguns do concertos a que os jovens devem assistir e comentar. A consultar o programa completo aqui

App para iPhone e Android

http://www.festivaldasartes.com/

Suponho que a aplicação mobile do Festival das Artes 2012 está actualizada para 2013, mas não pude confirmar.

5th Festival das Artes is taken place in Coimbra, Portugal,  16-23 July 2013.

Summer nights in Coimbra are filled with the sounds of classical music. And, during the days, art exhibitions, cooking classes, historical lectures and interesting conferences can be found around the city.Festival das Artes is a celebration of culture for people of all ages. This year’s event runs from 16 to 23 July.

For 2013, the theme of this year’s festival is "Nature".With most of the events being held in and around the gardens of Quinta das Lágrimas, the chosen theme seems very appropriate. Other garden locations and cultural institutions will play host to events of the festival.

Quinta das Lágrimas Amphitheater

photo: Daniel Palos

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Music, Cinema, Ballet, Theater, Gastronomy, Art, Conferences, Education. A schedule of festival events can be watched here.

Education cycle offers several activities and workshops for different generations: music, science, theater, gastronomy, exhibitions. 

If  you are living in Portugal or visiting the country near Coimbra, don't miss this wonderful festival. You and your kids will enjoy cultural events in a beautiful garden. The project aims to bring together different generations.

And of course, follow the 5th Arts Festival on Facebook.

G-Souto

18.07.2013

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