THEME OF WEEK 3:08: End of Year Celebrations
3rd, 4th and 8th December 2014
Art Club with Fundación Junto Con Los Niños - JUCONI
and the Charlotte Miller Art Project in Guayaquil, Ecuador
IDEA AND AIMS: For the children and facilitators to celebrate the end of the project and Christmas as a group through face painting, filming interviews with the children and their rag dolls, sharing special snack food and receiving cards and sweets. Also, for the children to have the opportunity to express their opinions, hopes and festive messages through their rag dolls on video, and in so doing, to generate enough footage from the four groups to edit into a festive film to use on the cmap and JUCONI media platforms.
PROCESS:
1. Facilitators pre-prepare: cards for each child with a photo of them on the front. Bag up sweets and biscuits into festive goody bags for each child.
2. Facilitators face paint all of the children one-by-one, with the older chidren helping if they want to (and in the case of Sergio Toral, with the younger kids taking turns to paint the facilitators too!)
3. The children are filmed individually or in groups with their rag dolls. The rag dolls are interviewed, being asked what was best for them about 2014 and what they wish for 2015.
4. Whilst waiting to be filmed, the children draw Christmas cards (in Sergio Toral and Nueva Prosperina) or play sports (in Socio Vivienda).
5. At the end of the session the whole group receives special snack food and festive cards and sweet bags are handed out to the children.
MATERIALS FOR ‘END OF YEAR CELEBRATIONS’
2 x cameras, 1 x tripod.
face paint, paintbrushes, wetwipes and glitter
all of the children’s previously made rag dolls
individual cards for the children with a photo each on the front
a festive sweet bag for each child
A Merry Christmas from the Sergio Toral children and their imaginary friends:
And a Happy New Year from the Nueva Prosperina children and their imaginary friends:
The Socio Vivienda 2 morning and afternoon groups wish you a fun festive season:
NOTE: The tradition in Guayaquil and Ecuador as a whole is for families and communities to burn their 'monigotes' (rag dolls) on New Year's Eve, to symbolise letting go of the previous year and inviting in the new year. As facilitators we were consious of needing to be aware of safety issues, and so in this final session we explained to the children that they could only burn their rag dolls with the supervision of a responsible adult, and as we handed out the rag dolls to be taken home we pinned a note with the same advise to each doll.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM ALL OF OUR ART CLUB KIDS AND FACILITATORS HERE IN GUAYAQUIL!
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