Autumn break... en images !

crédits: Delphine Soucail
https://www.facebook.com/delphine.soucail

Good morning from the north of Portugal! Perfect day admiring the river in front on me and the mountain behind. Enjoying every bit.

Despite my best efforts to slow down time, only in September I could go out for  real summer break! Autumn is here. We feel it: the sun, th temperature, the nature. Well, it will be a good time, better vibes.

Summer break is obviously one of the best things humankind has ever come up with, I am excited! It's my 'second' break of this summer... almost Autumn. In July, only a weekend.

crédits: Chroniques d'une déjantée

https://www.facebook.com/chroniquesdunedejantee/

In the morning, I practise some yoga indoors, before the breakfast. That's good. Completely relaxed to continue the day.

The beach? Not the same temperature. It's a shiny day, yes! But not the perfect time. So I prefer the pool at the hotel. 

crédits: Emmanuelle Teyras

https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelleteyrasillustratrice/

There is a beautiful terrasse near the river. Siting on a reclining chair, a fresh drink, swimming and reading. Thanks God! No rain.

crédits: Emmanuelle Teyras

https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelleteyrasillustratrice/

After lunch, I go for a walk to the beautiful city, revisiting some interesting places, taking a coffee on a terrace, visiting some bookstore and chatting with friends.

crédits: Chroniques d'une déjantée

https://www.facebook.com/chroniquesdunedejantee/

Back to the hotel, I go to the gym, before dinner. Feels good! 

At night, I'm staying at the hotel, there is some music at the Lobby. I'm taking a ginger tea and chatting with friends. 

I will tell you later my short break. Not so bad, right?! Relaxing time!

Wherever you are I hope that you're having a great time too.

I'll be back posting the normal roundup next weekend.

G-Souto

11.09.2018
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International Literacy Day : Literacy & Skills Development

Literacy Day

credits: Elyx Yak

@UNESCO

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”

Frederick Douglass

On 8 September, International Literacy Day will be celebrated around the world with the theme ‘Literacy and skills development’. 

International Literacy Day, celebrated annually on 8 September. The issue of literacy is a key component of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

Despite progress made, literacy challenges persist, and at the same time the demands for skills required for work, evolve rapidly. This year, ILD explores and highlights integrated approaches that simultaneously can support the development of literacy and skills, to ultimately improve people’s life and work and contribute to equitable and sustainable societies.

Elyx Yak, virtual Ambassador

credits: UNESCO

https://www.un.org/

Theme: "Literacy and skills development."

This year’s theme is ‘Literacy and skills development’. Focusing on youth and adults within the lifelong learning framework, the effective linkages between literacy and skills will be explored. 

For ILD, ‘skills’ means knowledge, skills and competencies required for employment, careers, and livelihoods, particularly technical and vocational skills, along with transferable skills and digital skills. 

In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, literacy is more vital to navigate life and work than ever. But around the world, 750 million adults still cannot read and write. The rapidly changing labor markets require that skills are developed throughout life.

credits: UNESCO

@UNESCO

Out-of-school children and young people must have access to both literacy and skills development to be able to live and work decently. Literacy is more crucial than ever to meet the demands of increasingly globalized societies and changing labour markets. By combining literacy learning with skills development, the most vulnerable populations can be supported. Integrated approaches to literacy and skills development throughout life allows people to access resources that open doors to decent work opportunities and improved lives.

@UNESCO

Literacy and skills development go hand in hand: without literacy, it is difficult to acquire new knowledge and skills for full participation in society and for the rapidly changing labour market.

credits: Elyx Yak, virtual Ambassador UN

https://www.sdg4education2030.org/

Education:

"Target 4.3 : By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university."

In addition to these literacy and skills challenges, globalisation and fast-advancing digital technology are transforming ways in which people work, live and learn, and are generating new skill demands and lifelong learning needs. 

• Use flexibility offered in the curriculum to respond to issues as technical and vocational skills, along with transferable skills and digital skills. 
• Provide space for teachers and students to discuss and reflect on literacy and skills : knowledge, skills and competencies required for employment, careers, and livelihoods, particularly technical and vocational skills. 
• Students know how important is to have the knowledge and skills to  improve their life and futur work. Let them express their feelings and hope on future jobs. 

"Preparing young people and adults for jobs, the majority of which have not yet been invented, is a challenge."

Audrey Azoulay, Director General Unesco

G-Souto

08.09.2018

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Schools : Let's talk about Art : Oskar Schlemmer

The New Vision of Life

Oskar Schlemmer
Bahaus Master

https://www.bauhaus100.de/

Oskar Shlemmer once described the themes of his work: “the human figure in space, its moving and stationary functions, sitting, lying, walking, standing” as being “as simple as they are universally valid.”

German artist, choreographer and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer thrilled the world with his groundbreaking “Triadic Ballet”.

Space Dance, Gesture Dance, Rod Dance, Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer developed his costumed, masked dancer into an “art figure” synthesizing dance, costume and music. 

Oskar Shlemmer 130th Birthday

https://www.google.com/doodles/

• Google Doodle:

The search engine Google celebrated last 4th September, Oskar Schlemmer’s 130th Birthday with a awesome animated Doodle.

Bulbous mechanical creatures wearing metallic masks are not the usual image that comes to mind when one thinks of ballet. But that’s precisely what Oskar Schlemmer used to stage his ‘Triadic Ballet,’ a groundbreaking production that premiered in Stuttgart, Germany in 1922.

The Doodle celebrating the artist, pays homage to Schlemmer’s “Triadisches (Triadic) Ballet”, the work which brought him international fame, with an animated representation of a seemingly mechanical ballerina in a metal mask.

Oskar Schlemmer

Photo: unknown, 1928.

https://www.bauhauskooperation.com/

• Some biographical notes:

Oskar Schlemmer was born in Stuttgart on September 4, 1888, the youngest of six children, and had to become completely self-sufficient around the age of 15 following the death of his parents.

After pursuing apprenticeships in inlay and marquetry, began studying at art school in his home city, under the tutelage of prominent German landscape painters.

Schlemmer turned to sculpture after the war, exhibiting at Berlin’s Gallery Der Sturm, before becoming one of the most influential figures of the Bauhaus movement, teaching stage research and production at the eponymous school in Weimar.

Oskar Schlemmer, who almost nine decades after his death remains one of the most influential 21st century aesthetes, was the original multihyphenate. 

Scouted by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius in 1921, the Stuttgart-born painter, sculptor and choreographer became one of the first masters of the “staaliche” movement in Weimar.

Costumes from Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett (1922)

https://en.wikipedia.org/

Born on 4th September 1888, Schlemmer was the youngest of six children who attended art school before traveling to Weimar, Germany, to join Walter Gropius’ avant-garde Bauhaus, where he became director of stage research and production. Schlemmer also experimented with painting, sculpture.

Group at Table, 1923

Oskar Schlemmer 

via Sothebys

However, it's his creative theater designs that are most remembered, influencing future artists like David Bowie.

Bauhaus ballet costume by Oskar Schlemmer 
based on Kansai Yamamoto / David Bowie
via Pinterest

Comparison of a Bauhaus ballet costume from the Triadisches Ballett directed by Oskar Schlemmer and one of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust costumes designed by Kansai Yamamoto.

Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie & Kansai Yamamoto
https://www.davidbowie.com/

In his ideas, Oskar Schlemmer used elaborate costumes to transform costumed and masked dancers into 'artificial figures' in which dance, costume and music are united. Space Dance, Gesture Dance, Rod Dance, Hoop Dance, Metal Dance, Form Dance, Scenery Dance, and the Triadic Ballet.

Oskar Schlemmer  was a designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture. 

His most famous work is Triadisches Ballett, in which the actors are transfigured from the normal to geometrical shapes. 

Costums by Oskar Schlemmer (Bauhaus) for Ballet Triadic

at Metropol Theater in Berlin

credits: Ernst Schneider, 1926/ Getty Images

https://www.gettyimages.com/

With three dancers, 12 movements, and 18 costumes, Schlemmer’s innovative approach to ballet broke with all convention to explore the relationship between body and space in new and exciting way. He described the performance as “‘artistic metaphysical mathematics,” and a “party in form and color.” 

Treppenszene (Stairway Scene), 1932
Oskar Schlemmer

 Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg

https://en.wikipedia.org/

Education:

My usual readers know I write very often about Art in education. Art are absolutely necessary to a complete and better education of children and young people. 

Discovering Art in school education, some students can pick their inner path on Art and later they will choose Art colleges and Higher Schools of Arts to develop their aptitude by a real learning of Art no matter the field.

credits: Amy Zschaber slisdeshare

https://www.slideshare.net/

Students attending schools in high poverty communities have less access to Art instruction than their peers in more affluent communities.

Pressure to improve test scores in other content areas is another top barrier to Art education. 

And it's a scientific idea that Arts - music, dance, theater - are a wonderful therapy for hyperactive kids that have a great difficulty to concentrate.

Art give them the concentration discipline and the pleasure to express with creativity.

It's true that a lot of schools don't have specialists in Art in full-time-equivalent, although secondary schools are much more likely than elementary schools to employ specialists. 

However teachers with a special taste to Art can motivate students including Art into school curricula. And digital resources as this Doodle can motivate students to discover their path and develop aesthetic skills for life.

It would be important to give a different meaning of Art in school curricula and to have good teachers of Art providing professional first development for kids that could, in a different level of education, continue Art studies at Higher Schools of Arts

In our days, digital culture is well-come into the school curriculum as an important tool to tackle the world's toughest problems creating bridges and establish a truly intercultural world, where diversity can be celebrated, a world where different cultures not only coexist but value each other for their contributions and potential.

The Abstract, 1920

Oskar Schlemmer

Curricula: Arts ; Literature ; Design ; Digital Art.

Level: All levels. 

• Focus on Art (Vocational Education) ; School of Arts (Higher Education).

• Secondary education: cross-curricular Literature & Art.

G-Souto

08.09.2018

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