All students who took part in our event were from the Roma minority. The students not only performed sea-themed dances and participated in a body-art contest, but also drew incredible sea pictures and created a "sea theatre in a box".

 

The materials sent by the European Commission were given to the students as a reward for their participation.

You will find some pictures here, but there are hundreds more on our Facebook page: here.

 

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Our project was called "The Sea is Alive".

The event was organizad in cooperation with our partners from "Pencho Slaveykov" Secondary School in Plovdiv. It was an art performance and a workshop:

- Body art contest - drawing the sea on human bodies by schoolchildren;

- Contest for 3D images and digital drawings of the sea by students.

The two contests are "Education and artistic activities for school children". They combine the new digital methods of learning and raising awareness with the children's imagination and creativity. We work very successfully with "Pencho Slaveykov" Secondary School which is situated in the largest European ethnic neighbourhood - Stolipinovo in Plovdiv, and all students are from the ethnic minorities. This event is a new way of drawing the attention of these children on the sea and its riches.

The objectives are:

- to teach children to value the sea and its riches;

- to involve children from the minorities in education and artistic activities with the sea as a central theme;

- to engage school children in environmental activities such as environmental protection and sea preservation by engaging their creativity and imagination.

 

We are happy to announce that our EMD2018 event took place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, on April 27-th. 

 

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Our event consists of two sub-events: an exhibition and a theatre performance as "Education and artistic activities for school children". We work very successfully with a Secondary school "Pencho Slaveykov" where all students are from the ethnic minorities. We will provide sea materials for the children from the 4th and the 5th grade to create sea panes and paintings, and at the opening of the exhibition the school theatre class will play a sea-themed performance.

The event aims to teach children to value the sea and its goods. It will involve children from the minorities in education and artistic activities with the sea as a central theme. They will create panes from sea materials and will talk about all sea goods we use in our lives. They will present a short story about how sea is important to us - a theatre performance that will be enlightning for all other children from the school to watch.

The objectives are:

- to teach children to value the sea and its good;

- to involve children from the minorities in education and artistic activities with the sea as a central theme;

- to engage school children in environmental activities such as environmental protection and sea preservation.

The event's target group is 150 children from the minorities who study at "Pencho Slaveykov" Secondary school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The age range is 3rd to 8th grade. Their teachers will be involved in the project as supervisors. All children involved will receive a reward for their participation - an EMD notepad and a Bulgarian flag.