Tales where the sun rises and sets>Title of programme: „Tales where the sun rises and sets” Age, number, gender of participants: 6 youngsters (possible 3 girls, 3 boys) aged between 17-19 plus a leader Participating countries: Poland, Finland, France,Slovakia and Hungary Place of programme: North of Hungary (a village up in the mountains) a perfect place for having falk tales, village people can tell old-old tales, and the area is full of ancient castles and castle ruins which is also a land of legends. Time of programme: 20th August – 28th August (arrival on 19th August, departure on 29th August) 10 nights altogether Theme of the programme: 1. Through a research on national falk tales, we would like to point out common things in the falk culture of the participating countries. Questions are in focus like: whether cleverness beats pure power, the youngest is the cleverest, just wins in the end. We would also like to have discussion about the fight of good and evel, see in what forms good and evel emerge in the story, what are the magic numbers used in the story. By analyzing these points, we will draw the conclusion regarding the common heritage, common roots of European culture. 2. When presenting the tales to the other groups, we would also have some contest on which tale and which performace do the majority of the groups like the most. Through the contest we choose two tales that we develop to a slide show (drawing pictures, paraphasing subtitles) The advantages of a slide show: - It is easy to give a copy of it to the local schools, organizations that they can learn from (multiplicative effect) - No language problem, because we can have the subtitles in different languages - If needed it is easy to put on Internet - We would develop all those falk tale to a slide show which HAVE NEVER BEEN ANY FILMED OR ANY ADAPTED BEFORE – that is the main idea, we create something unique that has never been before. Objectives: 1. Finding common points in the falk culture of the nations 2. Developing a slide show 3. Making youngsters aware of similarities and differences of falk culture 4. Developing their own creativity (editing, drawing, text writing skills) 5. Developing their presentation skills 6. Making them take initiatives Daily programme: 19th August - Friday: Arrival to the place of programme (YOU HAVE TO SEND ME AN OFFICIAL PRICE QUOTATION FROM YOUR TOWN TO BUDAPEST) 20th August – Saturday: Morning: ice breaking activities, learning names, learnig about each other. Afternoon: presenting things (aims, programmes, members, contacts) about ourselves, introducing our own organization. 21st August – Sunday: Morning: Every group has to bring 3 falk tales to Hungary ready for presentation: We are going to spend 3 mornings with presenting the tales to each other. (one morning 4 tales, 1 tale from each organization) you have to concentrate on the quality and creativity of each presentation. So in the morning we listen to 4 falk tales, one from each participating country. Afternoon: Evaluation of the tales. method of evaluation: „Keywords”. We group the youngsters into international groups, they all receive big sheets of paper, and they have to write down the tales (heard in the morning) only with keywords. We are interested in how many words match in the stories of the countries. Contest: all groups have to choose the best tale of the morning (taking the story, the text and also the technique of presentation into consideration). 22nd August – Monday: Morning: Presentation of 4 falk tales (each country one), we are thinking of the methods of puppet show, shadow theatre, play on stage, picture and music illustrated presentation Afternoon: Evaluation of the tales. Method of evaluation: „colours of emotions”. We also group the youngsters into international groups. They receive 5 differnt colours of paint (important that te colours have to be either warm or cold colours). Youngsters have to paint a picure of each tale, and we are interested what colours they use for illustration, by using the colours they express emotions. After drawing, we analyze what the different methods are in the story to express emotions. DO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES USE SIMILAR THINGS FOR EXPRESSING HAPPINESS OR SADNESS??? Contest: all groups have to choose the best tale of the morning (taking the story, the text and also the technique of presentation into consideration). 23rd August – Tuesday: Morning: Presentation of 4 falk tales (each country one), we are thinking of the methods of puppet show, shadow theatre, play on stage, picture and music illustrated presentation Afternoon: Evaluation of the tales. Method of evaluation: „elements of tales” 1. We analyze whether the falk tales use the same magic numbers in diffrent nations 2. We analyze the supernatural powers: what are the different objects and who are the different people of supernatural power 3. We analyze the features of the hero and antihero in the stories Contest: all groups have to choose the best tale of the morning (taking the story, the text and also the technique of presentation into consideration). We have presented all tales: so we can choose the best ones, that we develop to a slide show. 24th August – Wednesday: Morning, Afternoon: Outing: We rent a bus and I would like to take you to SÁROSPATAK. This is a beautiful town in the very East of Hungary, it has an old fortress. We could have games there (I know some good activities), and also the Hungarian group will show you the History of the fortress thus a piece of history of Hungary. We have lunch there, and we return late in the afternoon. Evening: Intercultural evening, presentation of national food, music, free talking, evening is free for the village people, we could involve them in some activities. 25th August – Thursday: Morning: Starting to develop the slide show by getting ideas together. What main scenes of the stories to choose, sorting the work out, organizing different steps of the work. ORGAINIZING WORKSHOPS: drawing workshop, computer editing workshop, text, subtitles writing workshop. We also see examples – existing slide shows, to get ideas from. (I would like to point out that the slide show does not have to be professional – we are not professionals, but we have to do our bests to make them enjoyable for the others. Afternoon: working in workshops 26th August – Friday: Morning: Continuing the development of the slide shows, we scan the ready made pictures, paraphasing subtitles, drawing backgrounds, drawing the main characters. Afternoon: Workshops again 27th August – Saturday: Morning: Outing: We would like to show you the ancient old town of DIÓSGYOR, there is also a castle. A walk in the old town, lunch is in the town. Activities there, history telling. Afternoon: There is a little historic steam train in the mountains near Diósgyor (Lillafüred), we buy the tickets and you can have a look at the beauty of the Hungarian mountains (that place is pretty good). 28th August – Sunday: Morning: Workshops again, we finish the development of the slide shows. Late in the afternonn: „SHOWTIME”, we present the slide show, village people are welcome to whach the show. 29th August – Monday: Departure: it is time to go back home through Budapest, last year we had time to go and visit the Parliamentary Building in Budapest, and see the Hungarian Royal Jewels. It is worth watching, so if we have time for that we could do the same, I, and the team members in the Hungarian group can guide you through Budapest.
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