Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Música Inclusiva nas escolas : Music Day




Orquestra Geração | Teatro S. Luís

"Music should be a very solid part of the education of young children."

Sir George Martin

Hoje, 1 de Outubro, celebra-se o Dia Mundial da Música. Para além das muitas actividades que estão a decorrer em todo o país, nada melhor do que apoiar a divulgação da Orquestra Geração Portugal, um projecto de inclusão social através da Música, de jovens portugueses que vivem em condições sociais degradadas, tirando-os da rua e dos riscos inerentes à sua condição, pelo ensino da Música (clássica e jazz).

Em 2007, foi tomada a decisão de acrescentar ao projecto Geração já aplicado num bairro da Amadora, uma pequena orquestra que aplicasse em Portugal o modelo do El Sistema.

Todos conhecemos o El Sistema de orquestras infantis e juvenis da Venezuela idealizado pelo maestro e economista José Antonio Abreu, há 40 anos, para tirar crianças da pobreza com o auxílio de Mahler ou Beethoven. E que tem como grande dinamizador o maestro venezuelano, Gustavo DudamelLA Phil director.


Orquestra Geração | Portugal

Sete anos passados, Portugal tem a Orquestra Geração (OG) reconhecida pelo Ministério da Educação como projecto especial e gratuito. Com a segunda fase do projecto concluído - a constituição de orquestras municipais Geração -, falta agora a maior expansão do projecto a nível nacional, constituindo orquestras regionais incorporadas em várias escolas do paísE, por último, a criação de uma orquestra nacional de cariz profissional, seguindo o modelo da Orquestra Sinfónica Simon Bolívar, Venezuela.



Orquestra Geração 

Actualmente, mais de 800 alunos de escolas situadas em zonas com menor oportunidade de acesso ao ensino das artes, que estão envolvidos, no âmbito de protocolos estabelecidos com os concelhos da Amadora, Lisboa, Oeiras, Loures, Sesimbra, Sintra, Vila Franca de Xira e Coimbra. Universo que se amplia cada dia, tal como a música que toca.

"Começamos a ter mais notoriedade, com a OG a apresentar concertos na Casa da Música (4 de Março, Porto), e no Centro Cultural de Belém (3 de Maio, Lisboa). Por isso, e com apoios privados, em 2015 vamos expandir para Norte", explica ao DN António Wagner Diniz, da direcção da Escola de Música do Conservatório Nacional responsável pela Orquestra Geração.




créditos video : Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Em Portugal, a OG - que pertence ao Sistema Europeu - é na Europa, o projecto mais antigo e o que segue mais de perto o El Sistema, já adoptado em 42 países.

"Os miúdos trabalham cerca de 35 minutos por semana, em França. Nós trabalhamos sete horas", sublinha Wagner Diniz. 

O empenho foi premiado por José Antonio Abreu, presente na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian no passado dia 31 de Maio, durante a apresentação da Orquestra Teresa Carreño, uma das formações de topo da grande pirâmide musical que é o El Sistema



Orquestra Geração | Entrevistas alunos

Educação : 

"O projecto Orquestra Geração tem revestido em Portugal um papel igualmente importante na aproximação e motivação das famílias dos alunos, no sentido de se integrarem progressivamente nas actividades da orquestra, contribuindo para o alargamento do espectro de acção do mesmo, motivando e responsabilizando todo o agregado familiar na obtenção dos resultados por nós idealizados. "

Objectivos:
  • Promover a inclusão social das crianças e jovens de bairros social e economicamente mais desfavorecidos e problemáticos;
  • Combater o abandono e o insucesso escolar;
  • Promover o trabalho de grupo, a disciplina e a responsabilidade para uma melhor cidadania;
  • Promover a auto-estima das crianças e das suas famílias;
  • Aproximar os pais do processo educativo dos filhos;
  • Contribuir para a construção de projectos de vida dos aadolescentes;
  • Promover o acesso a uma formação musical que seria impossível para a maioria das crianças e jovens que vivem em contextos de exclusão social e urbana.
São já muitas as escolas nacionais incluidas neste projecto. Confesso que fiquei feliz ao tomar conhecimento que esta ideia de El Sistema já tinha criado raízes em Portugal. Se quiser saber quais, é só ver aqui

Sou grande admiradora deste projecto desde que passou a ser divulgado pelo maestro Dudamel na Venezuela, pais de onde é natural.

Tem ainda outra vertente que me alegra muito - a música de jazz. Teve lugar o 
2º Estágio GeraJazz em Junho 2014, em colaboração com o Hot Clube Portugal.


Orquestra Geração | Portugal

The Orquestra Geração programme offers children from underprivileged suburbs of Portugal (Lisbon and other cities), the opportunity to keep on practice music: instruments and music courses are available to them free of charge. It's a musical project for inclusion of the young Portuguese who live innderprivileged suburbs.

I remember the project from Lisbon suburbs that took part at the international tour of Roger Waters (concert in Lisbon) in 2011. Sixteen ethnic kids from "Associação Moinho da Juventude da Cova da Moura"  (near Lisbon) had a special participation on stage with Roger Waters and his fourteen musicians. 

The Orquestra Geração has two different projects:

Gerajazz project | Portugal
  • The Gerajazz project, which offers 25 children with a classical background intensive courses in jazz:
  • The Orquestra Municipal project, intended for 30 to 40 children who have already completed their schooling and want to continue their music training outside of school.

Gerajazz project | Portugal

What has happened until now ?
The first Gerajazz two-day workshop took place on the 16th and 17th December with 3 groups of 12 children and 2 teachers in each group. There will be 3 other workshops in the year in order to create a jazz band (25 children minimum, 4 public concerts).
The rehearsals of the Orquestra Municipal have been started since the 5th January and are held every two weeks in the Amadora Theatre in the suburb of Lisbon. The first public concert took place on the 25th April 2013.

Now, the Orquestra Geração is in different Portuguese schools. More than 800 kids and young adolescents from the suburbs are playing music in differents schools.

Education:

The holistic immersive approach of Music (classical, rock, pop, jazzc) and the engagement of important and experencied musicians is central to achieving significant transformation, particularly to the life of the most vulnerable children.


Children and young people from all backgrounds should have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, to make music with others, to learn to sing or to dance,  to have the opportunity to progress to the next level of excellence.

As I wrote already on this blog: "Music has the potential to achieve social and psychological transformation of children and young people. Their sensibility will be accurate. We must never waste such an opportunity as teachers! Captivating the major interests of our students about Music."

Music, as you can read on several posts on this blog, is fundamental in Education of young people.
Today, we are celebrating the World Music Day in Portugal. Nothing better to present you the Orquestra Geração that follows the El Sistema project.
Happy Music Day !


G-Souto
01.10.2014
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Students! Your idea on space!




Homepage Image of © YouTube Space Lab

The European Space Agency has a responsibility to educate the youth of Europe in matters concerning space exploration and it is constantly looking for new ways to engage educators and their students. 

As the power of social media grows, ESA and YouTube Lab Space have decided to make the most of it: promoting scientific experimentation in space. 

It is not the first time that YouTube is engaging young students in different school curriculum. 

Remember YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011Last year, millions of video views, and 101 musicians from 33 countries who uploaded videos to YouTube of themselves auditioning for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 and  saw their dreams come true.



Now, YouTube Space Lab. YouTube believes that space is more exciting and accessible than ever. And it is!

YouTube Space Lab is an innovative venture that will see Google working with the ESA, Lenovo, NASA, JAXA and Space Adventures to promote scientific experimentation on space. 

On this channel, you can discover space by watching the amazing videos we find from across YouTube. 




Education:

Students interested in science - Biology and Physics - between 14-18 years were challenged to come up with a science experiment which will be streamed live on YouTube from the International Space Station, along with other great prizes. 

Young people suggested an experiment that could be done on space, The application needed to be made in the form of an explanatory video posted to YouTube before 7th December 2011. 

The shortlist of 60 candidates (between 5.500 candidates) was published the first week of January 2012. 

Overall, the US led with 10 finalists, followed by India with nine. Rounding out the top five countries in terms of total submissions are Poland, Canada and Spain. 

European countries contributed with 21 finalists.

Candidates was selected by a panel of international judges including astronauts from JAXA, NASA, CSA and the ESA, Bertrand Piccard and Stephen Hawking. 





The YouTube community was called until yesterday, January 24th, to help judges make their choices.

This will then be whittled down through a combination of public votes and the decisions of the panel. Two overall winners will be selected in March.

Prizes:

The winning experiment will be conducted on the International Space Station and streamed via YouTube across the world. Wow! Such an adventure! And emotion, of course!





As if this were not impressive enough, the project is offering additional incentives including computers, trips to Japan or Russia and the opportunity to experience a zero-gravity flight.

This is a wonderful chance to inspire interest in Science and space exploration of young students as competitors and the audience around the world.

"The YouTube Space Lab campaign is an excellent, creative way of reaching out to future generations of scientists, on the ground and in orbit. Today, numerous fundamental and applied research experiments in life and physical sciences, Earth and space monitoring as well as technology and education are performed on our Columbus laboratory on the ISS, closely coupled to terrestrial research programmes and issues."

Thomas Reiter of the ESA


Between the 60 candidates, two Portuguese teams were selected. Now, on the semi-final, there is one Portuguese team:

"O ex-aluno da ESTP Guilherme Aresta, atualmente a frequentar o 1º ano do Mestrado Integrado em Bioengenharia na FEUP - Universidade do Porto, juntamente com mais dois colegas de curso, foi aprovado recentemente para a fase final do YouTube Space Lab."

Segundo Guilherme Aresta, o objetivo da experiência proposta é "aumentar o rendimento da produção de biocombustíveis", isto é, utilizar a mesma levedura da cerveja para produzir esse tipo de energia.

Poderá ver a equipa portuguesa neste link




YouTube users and the judging panel will determine six regional winners:

Two teams from each of the Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia-Pacific).

Finalists will travel to Washington, DC, for special events, including the opportunity to take a zero-G flight.

European finalists will also win a visit to the training facilities of ESA's European Astronaut Centre, Cologne, Germany.


Education: some conclusions

  • As we could see - 5500 young candidates, is an impressive number! - students are very creative and do wonderful things, in this case, Science and IT, when they are challenged to show their creativity and critical thinking;
  • Educators could also get on board with the competition. YouTube  suggested lesson plans and other dedicated resources for teachers who want to incorporate YouTube Space Lab into their classroom; 
  • The jury will be looking at how creatively students explain and communicate their idea.
  • The two global winners will see their experiments sent into orbit and performed on the Space Station in summer 2012 – live-streamed on YouTube from space.
  • Classrooms around the world will be able to watch a live stream on YouTube as the experiments are performed in space.

“If our competition can just play a small part in getting kids interested in science, then we’ll be very, very happy,” (...) “My vision is the final live stream will be the world’s largest science classroom.”

Zahaan Bharmal* 

G-Souto

25.01.2012

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* Note: Zahaan Bharmal went on to study physics at Oxford University before joining Google and has been a vocal proponent of teaching young people about space. Now he is Google’s head of marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

References:

Youtbe Space Lab
http://yt-gadget003.appspot.com/page/en_GB/home

European finalists selected in Space Lab students competion
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMPE4NXDXG_index_0.html

Youtube Space Lab - Guilherme Aresta no espaço | ESTP

Para o espaço e mais além

Youtube Space Lab | Equipa portuguesa finalista

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Isabelle Caro : l'anorexie au lycée?




Photo: Isabelle Caro

Paris-Match rend hommage à Isabelle Caro. Victime d’anorexie dès l’âge de 12 ans après une enfance que Isabelle Caro qualifiait elle-même de troublée, la jeune femme était devenue depuis 2007 une icône des troubles alimentaires depuis qu’elle avait posé nue devant l’objectif du célèbre photographe italien Oliviero Toscani, dans le cadre d’une campagne italienne de la marque "No-l-ita" contre l’anorexie.






Deux mois après son témoignage sur cette vidéo, Isabelle est morte. Seule, comme une inconnue.

Sur son blog personnel (toujours en ligne) Isabelle Caro, victime des folies de notre temps se présentait comme «un petit flocon de neige invisible, invisible en pleine canicule, qui se bat, se bat pour vivre enfin, malgré des années de souffrances, et crier au monde entier que l'anorexie est un enfer et qu'il faut s'en réchapper pendant qu'il en est encore temps!».




Elle avait déjà écrit en 2008 un livre "La petite fille qui ne voulait pas grossir" chez Flammarion.

Éducation:

Passer le témoignage d'Isabelle Caro au collège ou lycée, pendant les cours, ce sera la meilleure leçon de vie. Bien souvent, les filles, nos élèves, souffrent d'anorexie.

Je crois que Isabelle serait heureuse de savoir que son témoignage pourrait bien aider ces jeunes filles qui veulent à tout prix suivre la mode, à ne pas se soumettre à la loi de cette nouvelle société - jeune, belle et mince - voici le trio gagnant aujourd’hui. Et ces mannequins ne sont plus seulement des mannequins mais des… "models".

"L’anorexie traduit souvent un problème d’image de soi. Difficile de se sentir bien dans son corps face à ces images véhiculées par les médias. Comment refuser la dictature de la minceur ?"




Isabelle Caro
crédits : Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images


Outils | Ressources:

  • Livre autobiographique Isabelle Caro;
  • Blog personnel (toujours en ligne) ici; *
  • Vidéos de la mannequin;
  • Photos de Isabelle Caro (avant et après);
  • Vidéos d'autres jeunes anorétiques;
  • Venue d'un professionnel de santé;
  • Témoignages de jeunes ados;
  • Débat.

Sur la terrible photo qui a choqué le monde, Isabelle Caro avait dit:

"J'ai accepté de participer à cette campagne pour alerter les jeunes filles en leur montrant les dangers des régimes, des diktats de la mode et des ravages de l'anorexie. Le but c'est de choquer pour sensibiliser."

Je ne peux pas laisser passer cette mort dans le silence. Et je rends hommage à Isabelle Caro, jeune femme, 28 ans, décedée le 17 novembre dans un immense oubli.

G-Souto

30.12.2010
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Crédits:

Video: JT | France 2
* Blog personnel n'est plus en ligne (July 2015)