THEME OF WEEK 1:05: Welcome to our new Art Club members
18th and 23rd February 2015
Art Club with Fundación Junto Con Los Niños - JUCONI
facilitated by the Charlotte Miller Art Project in Guayaquil, Ecuador
IDEA AND AIMS: To welcome the children from the new registers to Art Club through the simple and fun task of decorating a bunting triangle with their name, age and something they like, with the aim of introducing all the children to one another and the facilitators. By joining all the triangles into a length of bunting at the end, to symbolise the formation of the unifies group with a piece that can be included in the carnival cart.
PROCESS:
1. Facilitators pre-cut large triangles from card and make their own examples.
2. Children use felt and colourful and patterned papers to create first a base colour or pattern on both sides of their bunting flag. Draw their name and age out in large sized letters on felt and cut the letters and numbres out one-by-one. Think of a way to represent something that they like, and edge the flag in colourful tape if desired.
3. Facilitators string all of the triangles together into one length of bunting using colourful wool.
MATERIALS: Card pre-cut to triangles, felt in various bright colours, scissors, glue, a mixture of colourful and patterned papers, colourful tapes, pens, wool and an awl (to poke holes).
MEET THE THREE NEW GROUPS OF 7 - 11 YEAR OLDS:
(there is also one new group of 11-17 year olds due to start in Socio Vivienda,
keep an eye out for the next Art Club post)
Things that the kids said they liked: football, flowers, friends, food, their doll, the world, and cakes!
SERGIO TORAL
We've now moved the afternoon to the morning, with a 10 am - 12 noon session every Wednesday.
SOCIO VIVIENDA 2
We've moved to the new space of CNH on Mondays, for one morning session 10 am - 12 noon...
…. and an afternoon session 2 pm - 4 pm:
This change over of groups from the old ones to the new was a change that was sprung on Emily and I all of a sudden when we came back to JUCONI after the Christmas break. Expecting to open up with our old groups and continue until the end of the project in the summer, we were disappointed at first to be asked to shut down with those children. The reason given was because, due to oil prices falling, Ecuador is experiencing severe cuts across government and public services and so MIES funding to JUCONI is being restricted. These funds usually cover the food and drink we give our kids at the end of the sessions, so we were asked to restrict our groups to only those children attended individually by the team of JUCONI orientadors.
Although we were at first upset about how abrupt the change was for our old children, we do see the value in aiming our workshops specifically at the JUCONI children, as these are the children who have been identified as most in need of attention. Although there were some negative behaviours amongst the old children as a result of the sudden end, we tried to focus on the positive of them being graduates, and reminded them that they will be included in the carnival cart exhibition in April.
The carnival cart itself is starting to come together. Emily and I did some mounting of the children's work back in the JUCONI office courtyard one (very sunny) day this week:
For more details about this change over of groups, and for an overview of the project from January until now, take a look at the latest post on our official cmap blog.
Even the baby chicks in Sergio Toral are in colourful carnival mode…
…apparently they are dyed these bright colours before being sold,
for $0.25 cents so the children tell us.
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