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.