Since September 20 Subject Nomade offers educational workshops aimed at school children primarila, secondary of first and second degree.
All workshops are coordinated by Valentina Acava Mmaka and Peter Kuria Asamba part of an intercultural exchange project between Italy and Kenya.
AFRICAGIOCANDO
Laboratory playful educational
The origins of the toy in Africa are far apart, to keep a record is memory. In fact, in addition to the oral tradition handed down through generations, myths, legends, fables, gives us numerous stories where the protagonists are just games and toys. In Africa, children build their own games, why build a toy co n his own hands, has the meaning of an achievement. The thrill of being able to entertain with a game played at home, more than any other desires
o. In Africa children do not have the play station , Barbie, Lego, the computer. In Africa, children play with what nature has to offer recycling or waste material. In the reuse and transform elements and objects existing in African children safeguard their natural heritage. Try to think of an object that had a particular function, when it is recycled, it assumes a new identity. What a wonderful creative baby! And what fun! And again, what message can be more positive than to combine creativity, entertainment and social engagement! A great lesson of respect for the environment. The African children, in building their games are very creative. Using materials of all kinds, not set limits to their imagination. Using punctured the tires of cars, cans, ropes, fishing nets, fiber, bottle caps, sticks, fili di ferro, sassi, boe d'acqua, conchiglie. In Africa non si butta niente, recuperare i materiali di uso comune fa parte della vita quotidiana di ogni famiglia africana. Valentina Acava Mmaka e Peter Kuria Asamba guideranno i bambini fino alle origini del giocattolo africano tramite bellissime favole e leggende in un percorso educativo che intende sensibil izzare al rispetto per l'ambiente e all'impegno sociale partendo dalla realtà quotidiana di ciascuno. Att raverso la loro consolidata esperienza, i due artisti propongono il gioco come veicolo privilegiato per un percorso di educazione alla mondialità, dove diverse realtà culturali possono incontrarsi e confrontarsi dando vita ad un "luogo" di scambio divertente that stimulates creativity and ingenuity. LABORATORY DIRECTED TO CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL
WHEN THE BOOKS WERE FABRIC
fun educational path in which the ' imagination has the pote king to unite peoples and cultures and at the same time to tell their specificity. The laboratory provides for the creation of a book of fabric recovered from the African oral tradition, the mastery of the story. Children are guided to 'listen to a tale of the oral tradition of 'East Africa, speaking kiswahilli. The narrative involves the dramatization of
ll in the same part of the 'artist Peter Kuria Asamba that in the course of the story-action will give clues to the participants that will help the participants to understand the story. At the end of the audience, is free to conduct a comparison with the children heard about the story and proceed to the transla I understand with the help of the symbols offered by Asamba in the course of the narrative and transposition of iconographic using the same materials and fabrics just as it happened in ancient African societies. This is a laboratory that stimulates the mind in effect through the great cultural resource of the story. LABORATORY Aimed at children of primary and secondary
Habari! Tragicomica JOURNEY FROM ITALY Nairobi slums self-employment.
Why Africa can not be explained, it is said ... mestizo rhythms and words to tell Africa and Italy today. Habari! Tragicomic journey from the slums of Nairobi Italy self-employed. This is a lab project with lyrics and music (perc
us African sions) Valentina A Mmaka quarry and Peter Kuria Asamba who want to focus on the contradictions of ' Italy today and reflect on common themes (racism, work, art, poverty, lifestyle, youth, school etc ...) told from a perspective internal to Africa, specifically in Kenya. The project is aimed at a diverse audience, including high school students who will benefit from this contribution as an opportunity to exchange and compare the intercultural issues paving the way for overcoming dei pregiudizi che avvolgono il continente africano e i suoi cittadini presenti in Italia. La narrazione del testo in italiano e kiswahili, modulata e ritmata dalle percussioni, affronta con "leggerezza" e ironia le contraddizioni e i drammi della società multietnica di oggi offrendo spunti di riflessione per un dialogo a più voci. LABORATORIO RIVOLTO AGLI STUDENTI DELLE SCUOLE MEDIE E SUPERIORI OLTRECHE PER ADULTI.
Dal mese di novembre sarà attivo il laboratorio IL VILLAGGIO, un percorso educativo che ha come obiettivo la ricostruzione di un villaggio africano per mettere a confronto two different worlds, the different activities taking place daily.
SCHOOL LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING THE LABORATORY MAY CONTACT THE ASSOCIATION 333 2919864 E-MAIL: vmmaka (at) yahoo (dot) com
