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WAAE calls arts educators and artists to share with their peers their professional experiences in arts education for the WAAE Virtual Space (including a visual gallery and performance halls), please send us information about your projects; performances and collaborative works with learning communities. We will present your arts education projects and actions here.
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Artistic intervention ‘Democracy is...!’
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Artistic intervention ‘Democracy is...!’ ‘Democracy is...!’ is an artistic intervention consisting of 39 figures: the basic shape of the wooden figure is reminiscent of a flat stop man and measures approx. 1.50 x 0.60 metres. The 39 figures become the carriers of artistically processed ideas/statements about democracy. Each class at Verbundschule will be analysing the concept of democracy: What are its characteristics?
How does democracy affect my everyday life/school life? The word democracy should be broken down into its components! For example: being allowed to vote, being allowed to vote freely, being allowed to vote by secret ballot, having the same number of votes, being allowed to assemble, being allowed to express yourself freely, being allowed to choose your own faith, being allowed to choose your own profession, being allowed to listen to the music you like, being allowed to decide who you love, being allowed to decide how you live, etc.... By breaking down the word democracy into its concrete components, it can be made more tangible again: It is brought back from the abstract idea to the tangible interpersonal level and thus made visible. This is done by means of artistic exploration, in which the pupils express their chosen ‘component of democracy / their characteristic’ with the figure: spatial sculptural and/or two-dimensional design options can be used. This will result in 39 variations of ‘Democracy is...!’, which will be exhibited together in front of the town hall of the city of Lahr as an artistic intervention. The town hall is a place where democracy is practised across generations and, which is why the figures are to be placed there for a limited period of time and freely accessible to the public. In the end, 32 out of 39 school classes realised the project. The 2 preparatory classes (where children first learn German because they have recently arrived in Germany) at the Verbundschule made several figures, as the topic of democracy education is an integral part of the curriculum anyway. In the end, we were able to exhibit 36 figures made by pupils from Year 5 to 10. The 36 figures thus show the ideas of democracy of almost 1000 pupils. The whole process of creating the individual figures was a democratic process, as the respective class had to decide together which idea of democracy they wanted to show with their figure. Art teachers, politics teachers and class teachers worked together on the project across all subjects! The format of the figures: 27 figures are 1.50 x 0.60 cm and 9 figures are 1.20 x 0.60 metres in size. The video and photos show the resulting exhibition: the artistic intervention "Democracy is...!" on the town hall square of the city of Lahr in Baden-Württemberg on 20 May 2025! |
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Video of the Art Education Exhibition ' Love and Care'. Early Childhood Education Students. May 2025. University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
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From Tonu Talve, InSEA member.
This video was send by Estonian art educator Tonu Talve to be presented during the 2024 WAAE Summit in arts education |
Proyecto El Escuchadero , Medellín en Colombia y San Salvador de Jujuy en Argentina ( https://crearvalelapena.org.ar/)
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This project highlights and substantiates with empirical research the great education work happening in Australian orchestral concert halls and the difference they are making to people’s listening experience. By investigating and working alongside professional and community orchestras in both metropolitan and regional settings, this research project investigated the ways that Australian Arts organisations embed education within regular concert programming. By listening to the lifeworld accounts of audience members and Arts professionals, the project has sought to understand how people listen at orchestral concerts, what makes a difference in their meaning making of music, and how they learn and deepen their relationship with the Arts. The findings of the project distil four qualities that contribute to audience education and pedagogies of listening – relationality, balancing tensions, differentiated pedagogy and listening practices, and the ways the concert going experience can enhance learning through listening. The practices of the orchestras included in the project suggest new ways of considering learning within Arts spaces and how orchestral concert experiences can be ‘curated’ to enhance the listener’s learning. From Claire D Nicholls |
Great Work Happening in Australian Orchestral Concert Halls through Pedagogies of Listening
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From Olusegun Adeniyi
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From Kathryn Coleman
This 1 minute video explores the 'Arts Education Imperatives Research' at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Our research is focused on exploring how the arts provide education possibilities to transform personal, social and cultural dimensions. We believe that it is essential we interrogate the positive outcomes of arts rich experiences as we strive to create a more sustainable way of living amidst a growing recognition of systemic inequities and the need for change.
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From Savina Tarsitano
Kids Guernica and Third Paradise |
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From Penny Hay
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From Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen Australia's National Reconciliation Week at Macquarie University to be held on 31 May, 2022. The preparation for this event started with a workshop conducted by Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen and Dr Kath Mclachlan from Macquarie University. The workshop started with an Acknowledgement of Country and then Indigenous and international students from Department of Natural Sciences and teachers enjoyed explorations of plaster, water, and ash to create individual fresco artworks representing being brave, making change! These art frescoes created for this occasion, will be displayed at the National Reconciliation Day, 31 May where Dr Bronwen Wade-Leeuwen and Dr Kath McLachlan will conduct their Creativity and Reflection Workshop on being brave, making change! They will invite students and teachers to collectively create a mural artwork for international arts education week. Attached is a video showing the Fresco making workshop connected to 2022 Celebrations of the international arts education week. This arts event continues from the Earth Day event 2021 organised by Dr Wade-Leeuwen and Dr Kath McLachlan. For 2021 Earth Day event, we collaborated with Adobe, Macquarie University and the Incubator to create the longest digital mural in the world: |
From Linda Rosink
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𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆
Stories about creative learning from diverse European projects in schools and beyond. Stories about what happens when artists work with young people. We talk to teachers, artists, scientists, policy makers and children about the importance of creative education. Listen to the show if you're looking for inspiration for your own practice. You can find it here: https://apple.co/3liPvb8 𝘁𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 is part of I-TAP-PD. International Teacher-Artist Partnership (I-TAP-PD) is an exciting collaboration between four European arts and education organisations. The program focuses on enabling teachers and artists to jointly develop their understanding, expertise and creativity in ‘arts in education’ work with children and young people in education, community and arts settings. To find out more about this project go to: https://i-tap-pd.net/ Comments or questions are more than welcome, you can reach us through [email protected] or through our socials. https://www.linkedin.com/company/i-tap-pd https://www.facebook.com/InternationalTeacherArtistPartnership |
From Dan Baron
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The Brazil Nut Trees Remember (the Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás)
The artistic-pedagogic narrative about the collective creation of the community monument built to remember the Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará, Amazônia.
The artistic-pedagogic narrative about the collective creation of the community monument built to remember the Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará, Amazônia.
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Wicked Arts Assignments
Wicked Arts Assignments is a project of the Research Group Arts Education of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. The project reflects the oeuvre of contemporary arts educators around the world. Wicked Arts Assignments are bold, unusual, contrary, funny, poetical, inspiring, socially committed, or otherwise challenging. . The book Wicked Arts Assignments (Valiz publishers) and this website are both a tribute to and a source of inspiration for arts educators. The website collects artistic results and new assignments can be submitted. Go to the website of the Project |
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Musicking with Sanjeevani is an initiative (based out of India) where the power of music is experienced and leveraged for personal growth through crafted learning modules and workshops.
It is based on the premise that music is integral to human existence. It has biological, cognitive, spiritual, and cultural implications that hold the potential to transform an individual. For children and youth, ‘musicking’ helps in character building and personality development, while for adults ‘musicking’ serves to fulfil unfulfilled potentials and empower emotionally. For everyone, musicking has a tangible impact on overall health- physical, mental, and emotional.
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It is based on the premise that music is integral to human existence. It has biological, cognitive, spiritual, and cultural implications that hold the potential to transform an individual. For children and youth, ‘musicking’ helps in character building and personality development, while for adults ‘musicking’ serves to fulfil unfulfilled potentials and empower emotionally. For everyone, musicking has a tangible impact on overall health- physical, mental, and emotional.
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As a tragic person in ancient Greece, a resurgent by the archaeologists and a little ambassador of United Nations, Myrtis connects the current Coronavirus Pandemic to the Great Athenian Plague, and encourages the young children all over the world to fight against diseases and hunger. After the translation of the video “Myrtis” which is an initiative by Prof. Manolis J. Papagrigorakis and United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe, we decided to introduce Myrtis to Chinese children through drama classes in the primary schools. Though Myrtis was not familiar to Chinese children, the story attracted the children immediately, and caused their thinking to the current pandemic which they are living in. It would be helpful for the children to see the influences of the pandemic to their lives, to see the changes on their future, to understand the world. link to the project: https://www.miaobin.net/blog/from-ancient-athens-of-plague-to-modern-china-of-coronavirus |
HUMAN SIGNSHUMAN SIGNS is a global dance and voice artwork born during the COVID-19 seclusion. Interpreting the viral aesthetic of this unique historical moment, it has gathered till now more than 200 performers from 50 countries, each proposing a deep individual art-testimony which converges into a powerful expressive multimedia fresco. HUMAN SIGNS desires to expand its creative potential, turning the human inviting exceptional dancers and movement artists, contemporary and experimental singers as carriers of unique traditions. Read More about the network Download the Brochure 
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‘ We are working online, using an education platform, and for this specific project we used a digital tool to create the sand paintings, in an abstract style. The project is a success because even the students who wouldnt't usually engage during lessons were fascinated by the process of creating the artwork, choosing the colors, thinking about the composition, and so on’.
Delia Andrea Groller
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Virtual Reality, KERIS, Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea
The content was developed by following researcher and elementary school teachers : Eun-young Lee, Yu-shin Park, Jeong-yu Park, Sung-hwan Lim, Hoe-jin Chung, Do-haeng Chung, Eun-ji Ko. The purpose of this application development is to focus on elementary school students seeing and exploring art works in a contemporary(time and space and sense)space. Students experience a virtual reality space with their V.R device or smart device. In this space, students develop the ability to appreciate factors surrounding the work in three dimensions, contextually and comprehensively, such as the artist's emotions, stories, and connections between works. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keris.KerisArt, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keris.kerisAudio |
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Elisabeth Kahn Elisabeth Kahn bring German-Jewish history to life with an authenticity that resonates with audiences and connects with the young people who stage them. She was a 2021 Obermayer Award recipient.
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