From Section: Culture and Development , Ecotourism Cienaga - Bahoruco
Spontaneity, wonder and fun experience: Creative Skills Workshop and Environmental Protection with children 's Swamp
April 11, 2009
Renowned artist Miguel Ramirez workshop facilitated a Creative eDestrezas Environmental Protection and Beautification Urban Ornato Swamp 3 to April 6, 2009. This was part of the community ecotourism project and also to sensitize the community on environmental issues aimed at developing creative Bug Childrens beautify @ sy: here's the count who writes Michael .... : All creative expression is a unique experience, revelatory and transcendent of the ordinary, unique adventure, unique wonder .... Each group of Niñ 's express íntegramentesu know, imaginary spontaneity and surprise, the fun experience of manipulating materials and communicate ideas, almost always exceed expectations and proposals made at each workshop.
Creative Skills Workshop Environmental Protection and Beautification Urban Ornato - Report-Evaluation
By Miguel Ramirez, La Cienaga Barahona, Dominican Republic from 3 to 6 - April 2009
All creative expression is a unique experience, revelatory and transcendent of the ordinary, unique adventure, unparalleled wonder.
Each group of Niñ 's fully express their knowledge and imagination with spontaneity and surprise, the fun experience of manipulating materials and communicate ideas, almost always exceed expectations and purposes tuples silver workshop.
The enthusiasm, commitment and the results obtained by the Niñ @ s in each workshop tell us with certainty and amazement particular, their capacity of expression, and psychomotor skills perceptual creative potential.
Enter at early ages and develop in Niñ 's gaming experiences with stimuli of artistic expression, self-recognition helps them in their manner of expression, enhances self-esteem, their world wide are perceptive, inventive potential to generate ideas and develop in them skills
fluid creative communication and interaction.
3-4 - April 2009
Module I
Creative Skills Workshop
We began the workshop with a personal presentation and dynamic expression of our expectations of the creative experience that we would develop for four days.
Introduced a way to play fable, which remain present throughout the workshop, learning as a strategy memorial, where we consider the three purposes that collectively lead our creative adventure, these were: exchange, explore and experiment, purposes that were enriched and recreated with different stimuli, dynamics and activities.
During four sessions, morning and evening, sixteen hours in total, we developed a variety of manual and perceptual dynamics (games, stories, riddles, commentary, interactive dialogues), where children explored their psychomotor skills and their imagination with different plastic materials, components and experienced basic techniques of drawing, painting, collage, knowing and applying the knowledge of colors, shapes and composition.
Each activity was conducted with the introduction of a topic, led always aware of the environmental protection and beautification of the environment, through stories and games, so the group kept in constant encouragement and enthusiasm, always remembering three objectives agreed at the beginning of the workshop.
Practices and exercises were all placed on the walls at the time of completion of each activity, seen as a form of personal recognition and reinforce self-esteem, developing appreciation and evaluation comments of the work and purposes fulfilled.
During the first two days, successfully developed the first module of the workshop, in compliance with the thematic and planned activities, we only have time for the practice of recycled items. The amount and quality of work performed by children, exceeded expectations, revealing with great amazement the certezay the potential to create and develop these areas of stimuli sensitive and creative experiences and rural area.
5-6, April 2009 Module II: Mural Painting
A new adventure waiting for us to develop in the next two days, face the challenge of painting a mural of 6 meters in the front wall of the school ...? The mission was to dump all that imagery explored in the workshop and
put on the mural.
Organize materials and equipment in a collective dynamic small groups were organized to distribute the work, so that the mural was done in arias evolutionary stages, as if we were describing a story.
Dynamics was performed to observe, describe and list the elements that shape the landscape of the area and the surrounding environment, valuing the importance of protecting nature and how to beautify the immediate environment of coexistence.
The groups were working to shape and color to progressively mural, always guided by a facilitator ensuring that all sorted and creatively intervene in the story they wanted to tell. The first day was held with great dedication and enthusiasm, with just two sessions, I could appreciate the beauty and quality of work.
The next day we continue to work and giving termination.
We made a collective dynamics to create a sentence that summarizes the content of the mural and a message to place alongside the signatures of all participants.
Building a clean and healthy environment we live in harmony!
Each Niñ @ participated painting a letter of the sentence and the final message. Arranged in a row all placed the imprint of his hand and his name ending the paint job.
In a collective dynamic and ordered all the materials collected. Finally we come together to discuss and reflect on the shared experience of these four days of discharge current and creative. Tod @ s expressed their joy and gratitude, recognizing and appreciating the wonderful experience of having made this journey of adventure and exchanged, explored and experimented with all their abilities, skills and creativity, so cheerful, fun and enriching.
In particular
Emphasize and appreciate the excellent organization and logistical support Taigüey Foundation, providing resources efficiently and successfully favorable conditions for the workshop, including lunch for l @ s @ s. Niñ
Equally grateful for the care and conditions for facilitators. I think it was a successful and profitable activity, which could be projected and continuity.
Very Personal
Every time I have the joy and the opportunity to accompany and lead creative non untaller @ s, I reaffirm the necessity and power exerted by the stimulation revealing and artistic training in Niñ @ s, sensitive to their overall development and intellect.
I am amazed and spiritually enriching exchange and share the creative experience with children 's rural and marginal areas in need of entertainment and sense experiences stimuli. These experiences are always surprises me back full of love, enthusiasm and creativity unheard of, say me, principles and aesthetic conceptions determinants expressed in my artwork professionally.
Miguel Ramirez, 11 -4-2009
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