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jueves, diciembre 20, 2007
Tertulia Bajo las Estrellas - Tutorial Under the Stars
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miércoles, diciembre 05, 2007
Estampando con Semillas Creativas / Silk Screening with Semillas Creativas
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Even though the school year is coming to an end, the Bees still take every opportunity to converse with diverse groups of students and youth. This week we returned to the barrio Juan Pablo II to continue our exchange of skills and imagination with the Semillas Creativas. We picked some of the most detailed drawings that were influenced by the graphics and after some hours in photoshop we were able to use the images to prepare the silk screens for a silk screening session with about 100 Semillas Creativas; students, teachers and Ants that came along to help. Since there was over 100 t-shirts, jackets and other clothes to silk screen we were only able to silk screen two designs. This past Monday the kids silk screened a spider web like the one from the FTAA graphic and the oral traditional ants from the Plan Colombia graphic. On Wednesday of this week the kids used these same shirts at their graduation ceremony. Since there were so many Semillas that were happy, jumping, running and getting into every lil space they could the ants and bees came up with games and activities to keep them active while the other ants were busy away silk screening. First we took over the street and started to practice some steping. It was something new for almost everyone there and all the Semillas, ants and bees were cracking up with laughter. After the stepping we went to the plaza and had a game of micro fútbol until finally after 6 hours of sun, fútbol, silk screening and stepping we called it quits for the day. Everyone was really happy but equally if not more exhausted. This Friday will continue the silk screening with the same and many more designs including some Beehive graphics as well as a film showing in the plaza. The idea that the ants and bees have is to continue working with the Semillas Creativas when they return next year and continue with the proposals and projects of how to create a more interesting, inclusive and most importantly fun pedagogy.