ПРОГРАМА БГ08 “КУЛТУРНО НАСЛЕДСТВО И СЪВРЕМЕННИ ИЗКУСТВА” » Integration

“Day of letters” at the “Hristo Botev” First Primary School in Sevlievo

gdimitrov — Fri, 20 May 2016 11:21:25 +0000

The implementation of Activity #11 of the “Contemporary approaches to research, presentation and access to the literary heritage of Gabrovo Province” project was completed. On 03/16/2016, “Day of letters” was carried out in the old building of “Hristo Botev” Primary school in Sevlievo, featuring students from first to fourth grade. The team leader presented the project and focused on the activities for inclusion of the Roma population into the national culture and their integration into the local community. Puppet actors Valya Kusheva-Savcheva and Dimitar Shanov gave puppet show themed “Bulgarian folk tales and Bulgarian letters”, then they show how to make a puppet theatre – demonstration and training of Roma children from puppet actors. Roma children received “Beauty of Bulgarian book” themed colouring books and set of pens. The team leader presented the “The beauty of the Bulgarian Book” exhibition which was seen by the students. Participants were given as a gift project bags, notebooks and pens. Delicious snacks were provided for the small participants in the “Day of letters” at the end. The event attracted great interest by the participating students. They were delighted with the puppet show, what they saw for the first time, the exhibition and the gifts and expressed a great desire to participate in future similar events and activities.

“Day of letters” in the “Dryanovska probuda – 2008″ Community Centre in Draynovo

gdimitrov — Fri, 20 May 2016 11:11:55 +0000

Within implementation of Activity #11 of the “Contemporary approaches to research, presentation and access to the literary heritage of Gabrovo Province” project was carried out “Day of Letters” in the “Dryanovska probuda – 2008″ Community Centre in Draynovo, as it involved students from “Maxim Raykovich” General Secondary School. The team leader presented the project and focused on the activities for inclusion of the Roma population into the national culture and their integration into the local community. “Beauty of Bulgarian book” themed colouring books and set of pens were given to Roma children. Puppet actors Valya Kusheva-Savcheva and Dimitar Shanov gave puppet show themed “Bulgarian folk tales and Bulgarian letters”, then they show how to make a puppet theatre – demonstration and training of Roma children from puppet actors. The team leader presented the “The beauty of the Bulgarian Book” exhibition which was seen by the child audience. Participants were given as a gift project bags, notebooks and pens. Delicious snacks were provided for the small participants in the “Day of letters” at the end. The event attracted great interest from attending students who were delighted with the puppet show, exhibition and the gifts.

Art workshops for Roma children

gdimitrov — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:04:53 +0000

Within implementation of Activity #11 of the “Contemporary approaches to research, presentation and access to the literary heritage of Gabrovo Province” project, financed by the European Economic Area 2009-2014, Programme BG08 “Cultural heritage and contemporary arts”, Measure 2 with Contract grant No. 24-10 M2-4 from 22/05/2015 with beneficiary Regional Historical Museum of Gabrovo and partner “Aprilov-Palauzov” Regional Library in February 2016 were organized and carried out art workshops for working with Roma children in Gabrovo.

Within this activity, we worked for 10 days with 30 Roma children from second to fourth grade, with materials provided by Regional Historical Museum of Gabrovo. Consistently were carried out the following workshops: coloring books with theme “The beauty of Bulgarian Book”, copying capitals and making appliques, making paper bookmarks, “Write your name”, drawing letters on stone, making pencil holders, making paper model with the theme “Owl will fly to us and will give us wisdom”, aging paper, coloring illustrations on topics “Bulgarian alphabet” and “St. Cyril and St. Methodius”, handmade booklet.

On the last day of the workshops, the children received certificates and prizes like e-book readers and their works were displayed in a small exhibition.

As a result of the project activities implementation, the Roma children achieved their better integration into the local and national community.