November 2015 Activities at Svitac

The November 2015 Activities at Svitac included:

  1. Music workshops (samba, guitar, choir, music workshops for children)
  2. Adults’ Choir – For the past month they have been working on a song from the musical Sweeney Todd. In the last week of November they finished the final section of the piece “Have a Little Priest”, complete with harmonies.
  3. Children’s choir was set up in November. This project aims to produce a performance for the New Years Party on December the 11th. The chosen piece in been Hakuna Matata, from the Lion King, sung in the Local Language.
    • Local Language is the politically neutral term used to describe the language shared by the different ethno-religious communities cohabitating in Brčko.
  4. Culture and Art Diversity around the World (including English, German, Art&Crafts, Music and Sports workshops from Monday to Friday)
    • The participants learned fun facts about Cubism, facts about Autumn through fingerprinting, geometrical shapes, animals and their habitat, English, emotions and Antifascism Day… they learned how to express themselves creatively and develop their imagination. Every Friday the participants learnt the English songs “Frozen” and “When you’re happy and you know it”, and then they watched cartoons. The games that were played included the “extended arm” of workshops repeating what the children were taught during the workshops (emotions, shapes…etc).
  5. Kreativne Radionice (Art & Crafts for young people) –
    • The group worked with different materials and techniques (drawing, doodle-art, sculpting, working with photography, projects referring to architecture, making mobiles, working with paper, cardboard, wire or recycling different materials like plastic bags or bottles). At the end of the project, they will have the technical abilities and the motivation to continue with the artistic processes. The participants will gain insight into the different fields of Arts & Crafts and if they are interested, the coordinator Johanna Weng will introduce some artists or art movements that came after the 1960s like Banksy, Pippilotti Rist, Jackson Pollock or Ewin Wurm. This might be interesting for young people because they are doing things like Street Art, video art, films, graffiti and action painting. After 1960, new forms of art  developed, such as minimal art, and including new media techniques and performance. So the children can create and design around an art movement/ artist and work on a little or big project adapting to that style. The target group for this project are teenagers and young people 12 to 17 years old.
  6. Language workshops (English, German)
  7. I still love English
    • English language workshop for adults. The objective is to use texts from significant works of English language literature, increasing an awareness of the genre, the subjects and the use of language in this form. However, activities planned included event commentary (football matches, tennis games), where students act as though they were commentating on the radio, and fake news reports.
  8. Drama
    • The main goal of the workshop is to become more awareness of how we use our body language and voice, and to consciously experience different emotions through use of voice and body in order to be more confident in our daily life and in cooperation with other people. The main target group will be young people from 15 to 30 years old that are currently going through important changes in their lives and find themselves in a stage of growing up and learning about themselves and their environment. The drama group shall accompany this process of change and learning to build open, responsible and self-reflective personalities.
  9. Sports workshops (“Freeletics”, Karate and one Rugby workshop)

There were 125 participants attended regular Svitac workshops in November. Participants attending all these regular workshops were between 4 and 40 years old. The youngest and the oldest participants attended Culture and Art Diversity around the World workshops, and the English/German workshops for adults.

We also held our annual Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism for 67 participants taught by 13 international and local volunteers, and staff. Read about it here.

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