Polonia Global Fund

The Youth Culture House of Rybnik, Poland announces its 9th Annual international Art Competition on the theme “The Great Well-Known and Unknown.”

This year’s topic focuses on “Velázquez – The King’s painter and the Painters’ Prince”

The annual competition’s aims are:

• To present the creativity of children and teenagers;
• To popularize art history and to familiarize participants with the great artists;
• To share artistic and methodological experiences;
• To develop children’s sensitivity to art.

Our journey has lasted for 9 years. Many of you have accompanied us from the beginning. Leaving Paris of the first half of XXth century behind, we move to VIIIth century Spain with presentations on Diego Velázquez, his life and creative output.

In his works, the great painter showed the wonderful, baroque, Spanish court, a society in an age full of contrast, the mysticism of religious ecstasy, the pathos of history, and the beauty of nature. This genius of art and intellect was an unequalled master of colour and the painter’s vision of reality. Loftiness alternates invariably with simplicity in his poetical paintings.

We expect that you present the places and historical epoch in which he worked, people whom he encountered and by whom he was befriended, his models, studios, teachers, patrons – everything he lived during his 61 years, passing from his modest beginning as a painter in Sevilla painter to his becoming an outstanding nobleman of Spanish court, and king’s painter.

Please do not copy the artist’s works. Rather, let them be an inspiration for your own works.

Participants aged 5 to 21 may enter in the following groupings:

1. Up to age 7,
2. Ages 8 – 11,
3. Ages 12 – 15 and,
4. Ages 16 – 21

Works may range from a minimum of 30 x 42 cm to a maximum of 70 x 100 cm

Works may be paintings, drawings, graphics, or mixed.

The deadline for entry is March 31st, 2009.

All works should be clearly signed on the back and should contain the following information:

• Author’s full name and age
• Institution’s address, telephone and E-mail address
• Teacher’s full name
• The title of the work

Please do not frame works!

An awards ceremony and exhibition will take place on May 25th, 2009 in Rybnik, Poland.

The organisers will inform all the authors of awarded works by E-mail or telephone.

Works should be sent to:

MŁODZIEŻOWY DOM KULTURY
UL. BRONIEWSKIEGO 23
44 – 217 RYBNIK POLSKA

For more information please call: (032) 42 24 088, (032) 42 15 155 or E-mail the organizers.

The competition is organised under the honorary patronage of the mayor of Rybnik.

All the works can be sent back at the request of the institution and at its own expense within 10 months from the exhibition. After this period all the works will remain at the institution of the organizer.

MŁODZIEŻOWY DOM KULTURY W RYBNIKU
Serdecznie zaprasza do udziału w
IX EDYCJI KONKURSU „WIELCY ZNANI I NIEZNANI”

Tegorocznym tematem jest: „VELÁZQUEZ – MALARZ KRÓLÓW, KSIĄŻĘ MALARZY“

CELE:

• prezentacja możliwości twórczych dzieci i młodzieży,
• popularyzacja wiedzy z zakresu historii sztuki i przybliżenie uczestnikom sylwetek wielkich artystów,
• wymiana doświadczeń plastycznych , metodycznych, estetycznych,
• rozwijanie wrażliwości artystycznej młodego pokolenia.

TEMATYKA PRAC:

Nasza podróż po świecie trwa już od 9 lat. Część z Was towarzyszy nam od początku. Zostawiając w tyle Paryż z początku XX-wieku przenosimy się w tym roku do XVII-wiecznej Hiszpanii. Tym razem planujemy poznać i pokazać sylwetkę, życie i dorobek artystyczny Diego Velázqueza.

Wielki sewilczyk pokazał w swojej sztuce wspaniały barokowy dwór hiszpański, społeczeństwo epoki pełnej kontrastów, mistycyzm religijnych uniesień, patos historii i piękno przyrody. Ten geniusz sztuki i intelektu, Król Malarzy był niedoścignionym mistrzem koloru i malarskiego widzenia rzeczywistości. W jego poetyckich obrazach przeplatają się niezmienni wzniosłość i prostota.

Oczekujemy, że pokażecie miejsca i epokę historyczną, w której tworzył, ludzi z którymi się stykał i przyjaźnił, jego modeli, pracownie, nauczycieli, mecenasów – wszystko co przeżył na przestrzeni 61 lat przechodząc od skromnej pozycji sewilskiego malarza do wybitnego szlachcica hiszpańskiego dworu i nadwornego portrecisty króla.

NIE KOPIUJCIE OBRAZÓW ARTYSTY – niech pozostaną dla was wyłącznie inspiracją dla tworzenia własnych pięknych prac!!!

WIEK UCZESTNIKÓW: 5 – 21 LAT
Grupy wiekowe: (do 7 lat), (8-11 lat), (12-15 lat), (16-21 lat)

FORMAT PRAC: min. 30×42 cm – max 70×100 cm

TECHNIKA: malarstwo, rysunek, grafika, techniki mieszane (płaskie)

TERMIN DOSTARCZENIA PRAC: 31 marca 2009

Prace powinny być czytelnie opisane na odwrocie i zawierać następujące dane:

• imię i nazwisko autora, wiek autora,
• adres, e-mail i telefon placówki,
• imię i nazwisko instruktora lub nauczyciela,
• tytuł pracy

UROCZYSTE PODSUMOWANIE KONKURSU, ROZDANIE NAGRÓD WYRÓŻNIEŃ I DYPLOMÓW ORAZ OTWARCIE WYSTAWY POKONKURSOWEJ ODBĘDZIE SIĘ 25 MAJA 2009

WSZYSCY LAUREACI ZOSTANĄ POWIADOMIENI PRZEZ ORGANIZATORA LISTOWNIE LUB TELEFONICZNIE.

Adres:

MŁODZIEŻOWY DOM KULTURY
UL. BRONIEWSKIEGO 23,
44-217 RYBNIK, Polska

tel. 0-32 4215155, fax: 0-32 4224088,
E-mail

Konkurs pod HONOROWYM PATRONATEM PREZYDENTA MIASTA RYBNIKA

Prace nadesłane na konkurs będą mogły być odebrane na wyraźne życzenie i koszt placówki w przeciągu 10 miesięcy od zakończenia wystawy. Po tym czasie wszystkie prace przechodzą na własność organizatora.

The NYS Alliance for Arts Education (NYSAAE) is pleased offer “Arts For All: Differentiated Instruction and the Arts,” a workshop for teaching artists and educators with speaker Russel Granet. This workshop will focus on the practices and theories of arts education as it applies to working with elementary/secondary students with special needs.

This workshop is provided as required professional development for those participating in the Side by Side – NY Program BUT is also open to all those interested in attending.

Presented at three different locations, this workshop is appropriate for sequential arts and general classroom teachers interested in learning new ways of enhancing their instruction through arts integration.

TIMES:

Monday, January 5, 2009 10am – 4pm: East Greenbush Public Library, East Greenbush N.Y.
Thursday, January 8, 2009 10am – 4pm: ARC of Monroe County, Rochester N.Y.
Thursday, January 16, 2009 10am – 4pm: The Center for Arts Education, NYC

For more information, please contact Sharon Scarlata or call (518) 486-7328.

Four years ago, I first began filming Irena Sendler in Warsaw where she lives in a medical home. At 94, she still remembered how she and her friends in the Polish resistance risked torture and death to resue thousands of Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. This is their story — Mary Skinner, Producer and Director of “In the Name of Their Mothers.”

In the Name of Their Mothers is the film chronicling the work of Irena and her compatriots in Żegota. An advance screening of the film was held on Wednesday, November 12th at CREEES – Stanford University.

To learn more about the film and to view clips visit the film’s website.

More information about Irena is available at Life in a Jar:

In the fall of 1999, a rural Kansas teacher encouraged four students to work on a year long National History Day project which would among other things; extend the boundaries of the classroom to families in the community, contribute to history learning, teach respect and tolerance, and meet our classroom motto, “He who changes one person, changes the world entire”.

Students from rural Kansas, discover a Catholic woman, who saved Jewish children. Few had heard of Irena Sendlerowa in 1999, now after 250 presentations of Life in a Jar, a web site with huge usage and world-wide media attention, Irena is known to the world. How did this beautiful story develop?/blockquote>

The New York State Alliance for Arts Education, in partnership with Partners for Arts, Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County Education, Southern Tier Arts in Education Roundtable (STARR), and TST BOCES will present a day-long conference in Corning, NY: Bridging the Achievement Gap Using Art with Technology — A day-long conference for teaching artists and educators on Tuesday November 18, 2008 , 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Radisson-Corning, NY.

Addressing the achievement gap continues to be a high priority in our schools. Knowing that students are entering the classroom from varying demographic backgrounds, teachers and other school personnel are adjusting their instruction and the tools they use to try and meet the learning needs of their students. Technology is increasingly becoming part of the creative process both in and out of the classroom.

During this conference you will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of workshops discussing Media art and education. Facilitators include area professional artists, art educators and educators who have had extensive experience working in the Arts In Education field, and will provide a conceptual framework for integrating the arts using technology across the curriculum for all learners!

Discover how using media art in your classroom can be an effective and dynamic tool for teaching and learning in the classroom!

Should you wish to attend a PDF registration form is available for download.

Invite Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest into Your High School’s ELA Classrooms!

Register your school to participate in Poetry Out Loud!

Poetry Out Loud is a national program that encourages the study of great poetry by offering educational materials and a dynamic recitation competition to high schools across the country. Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid structure. Beginning at the classroom level, winners will advance to the school-wide competition, then to the state capital competition, and ultimately to the National Finals in Washington, DC. More than 100,000 students are expected to take part in Poetry Out Loud this year!

Upon registration, teachers will receive dynamic teaching tools that will invoke students’ excitement about literature and poetry recitation, including sample lesson plans, audio CDs of poets reciting their own famous works, publicity materials for school competitions, and a DVD of winning student performances from the 2007 Poetry Out Loud National Finals.

If you would like to bring Poetry Out Loud to you school, download a registration form.

Registrations must be received by October 31st!

For more information about registration, contact Sharon Scarlata.