Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

FROHES FEST UND GUTEN RUTSCH!

PRETTIGE KERSTDAGEN EN EEN GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR!

ZALIGE KERTFEEST!

JOYEUX NöEL ET BONNE ANNÉE!

FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PRÓSPERO AÑO NUEVO A TODOS

NUESTROS AMIGOS EUROPEOS!

5.SOME IDEAS OF THINGS WE WILL DO IN MARCH.

Internet room at the library.

Some set options.

A view of the theatre room, where we will made our set.

Arts department.

Firsts snows.

Some views of our nice playground.

A view of LAS LADERAS ( Slopes ), Tres Cantos, December 2008.

In March we will be working building up a TV set. At the same time some of us will be taking photographs, videos and writing news about what is going on ROTA’S week : workshops, trips, meetings…or about news of the world during the week.
All this could be shown in the final presentation and hung up in the Net.

Students who are going to take part in the Rotanews workshop could start to work since January doing suggestions, drawing sketches and outlines about how they would like the TV set to be. They could prepare a brain storm. Therefore, I could show you how our classrooms are .

The stage we are going to work is in a large room in black and white at the back. We can use it to project digital images.

We also have in our Arts department two computers, one laptop, two digital photo cameras, a printer and two videocameras (one with a mini DVD record system and the other with DVD).
pictures the classrooms in will you be playing.( aprendiendo, jugando,
investigando..)
We have in the “ MULTIUSOS” classroom a stage with a black and a white backgrounds, this last is used to proyect digital images.

We have too in Arts department two computers, one laptop, two digital photographs cameras and two videocameras: one redord MINIDVD sistem and the other on DVD, and one printer.

4. GRAFFITI.

Van, Salamanca 2008

Méndez Álvaro, Madrid 2008.

Colonia Cathedral tower, march 2006.

Surrealist photographer Brassaï ( Hungary, 1899-1984) showed in his varied Works genuine fascination with "wall language" as he himself called it. He also comments in the amusing article of Aida M. Pereda published in teh newspaper El Público ( http://www.publico.es/) last Friday November 21, some biographical facts and remarks of the autor himself which confirm this genuine oddity: "rare are the instants when we sense the flow of life palpitating with such an intense emotion that they need to be inscribed on a stone, a wall or a tree bark." I share that emotion and think that many of our students share it too or they will. To Brassaï the wall were:"shelter of all which is forbidden" which moreover " gives a voice to all who otherwise would be condemned to silence".

The article illustrates the importance of the exposition which can be visited in the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid till January, 25, and which I also recommend. To me it is just an excuse to talk again about the Urba Art in the Plastic Education lessons and put forward some practice activities on the topic.

3.Spanish advertising / Publicidad española.

Picasso is so near from this medieval Lincoln sculpture.

A common past.

Spanish advertising copying Lichstestein style.





One of the few things I learnt during the last teachers’ meeting at Lincoln Christ´s Hospital School was the great interest the art teachers showed in approaching their students to the different techniques and styles of some great contemporaneous artists. In particular the students of grade 7th (11 years old) were researching in the same activity the styles of Modigliani, Picasso and Lichtenstein.




We also work with our students in the same direction in our school and it is exciting to find how much of our methodologies and activities we share in our classes in the different countries.
When I came back from Lincoln I read at a Sunday magazine a particular advertisement about Spanish wines clearly inspired in Linchtenstein´s style.




At that very moment I felt taken back to the warm art classrooms of Lincoln´s School.
More things in common: I was born in Salamanca, an important old Roman city called Helmantica. I am sure that in many of your cities, Hättingen, Lincoln... it is probably easy to find remains of the same ancestros who settle down and dominated our land.

2. JUST A QUICK LOOK AT Hättingen 2006 VIBES.

Dancing and performance workshop.

An Italian student at Arts workshop.

The Gymnasium Waldstrasse.

European menu.

My good friend, Gorbi.

Hellen Malik walking through the hills near Hättingen. March 2006.





Photography is, from my point of view, one of the great resources to talk about truth, or at least what we think it is our truth. Plato in his play Fedro , reproduces through Socrates´ the following words: “ When somebody senses the beauty of this world and evokes truly beauty (I mean, that of the world of ideas), his spirit adquires wings and longs for flying....Among all kinds of excitement, this fourth kind of delirium is the most magnificient in its causes and effects”. Photography approaches us to truth as well as beauty.

1 INTRODUCTION / PRESENTACIÓN.

My name is Ricardo Cordero, I'm an arts teacher at the I.E.S. Pintor Antonio Lopez in Tres Cantos, a town near Madrid. It's possible that next March 2009 I'll be the leader of the workshop "Rotanews" on the project of Rota.The first thing before explaining what we are going to do in the workshop "Rotanews", I consider important to explain you what Rota means for me as personal and professional experience.Rota is an important event for meeting new people from different European countries.

And I think that it will be great to invite to this Web-site the students, teachers, parents, etc who have taken part in Rota other years, to show their experience in different media (audio, video, texts, photographs...).I started with this project in 2006, when Ricardo Rodero, a music teacher at our school, gave me the opportunity to participate in a previous edition of this program in Hättingen, Germany.

Of course, the most important thing, is to invite all the pupils that have chosen this workshop to send images, texts and videos to our email address:epviespal@hotmail.com, to get to know each other and to favour our pupils to partly know who we are and what things we want to learn.

I would like to thank all the people who are helping me in this project: teachers like Marga López, Ricardo Rodero, Carlos Bravo, Marisa Hortelano... and students like Aurora Torres, Laura Marcos, David Espinel...I suppose this list will be growing till March 2009.