Comments for Cultural Animation

Comment on PoWiśle i po Pradze by Ania

Ania — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:30:52 +0000

Fortunately I will be there and will have fun

Comment on Where Two Rivers Join by beata

beata — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:14:38 +0000

both, image and sound are wonders of kaunas. Nemunas (Niemen), obviously, but this melody you can hear is played all the time(or it was during our stay) at the Kauno rotuse square (city hall square),probably to make passerbys day I just couldn’t throw it away from my head for ages

Comment on What is Cultural Animation? by atte

atte — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:45:53 +0000

Hello my culturals friends. I write from Spain, Im studing cultural animation and I have discovered this blog because my class partners an me, we’ve a similar blog to share experiences and opinions about cultural animation and it’s necessity in actually.

Comment on What is Cultural Animation? by Charo

Charo — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:08:38 +0000

A message from Spain.
I have read your post about what it is the cultural animation and I am in agreement with you in understanding it like a personal and social strategy of development.
We are working in the training of cultural animators and we have built a blog on this subject. It is called ANDANZAS (http://andanzasengrupo.blogspot.com/)
We invite you to visit it and to give us your opinion about our blog.

Comment on Project PODCHOD by Pamela Wells

Pamela Wells — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:32:51 +0000

and if you want to see a discussion Tereza took part in, about this project and other issues about animating public space - then please check out:

http://www.culturalanimation.com/discuss/comments.php?DiscussionID=20&page=1

Comment on More Wonders of Kaunas by Martynas

Martynas — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:39:04 +0000

Some nice pictures =]

Comment on Refresh - the Cultural Animation Discussion Forum by xztheericzx

xztheericzx — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:48:42 +0000

i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!

eric

Comment on DISHINIT by dorota pi

dorota pi — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:06:39 +0000

And, what about exhibition?

Pam, do U have any photos? I hope it was another great succes:)

Comment on Warsaw Breakfast - Praga by Slawek

Slawek — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:58:52 +0000

the poster is cool:)

Comment on Impressions from Gozdowo by Pamela Wells

Pamela Wells — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:39:57 +0000

Lina

Thanks for your comments. I agree with much of what you said. I’ll respond briefly to what I think are key points, and hopefully this can stimulate more discussion and questioning.

Smooth integration vs. chaos – There were over 30 people, arriving and leaving at different times. We were in a new place and it was a condensed time period. It was exciting. It was unsettling. Yes, I think there could have been better induction for people as they arrived. Everything wasn’t completely organised beforehand. But how could it be and is that really a bad thing? This whole experience was never intended to be like a neatly packaged classroom lesson, where you are given instructions and follow the rules. We were experimenting with co-responsibility, with non-hierarchical learning.

Classrooms with no teachers - Instead of being told what to do and what was expected, each person had to find their own place. This was an opportunity and each person responded in their own way to this situation. When organising these kinds of opportunities, sometimes we err on the side of too much structure and sometimes we err on the side of too little. The trick is to get a balance, where people feel secure enough to take risks and to try new and scary things. We set up a system where each project had a mentor and a supporter. I think it would have been helpful to have had some contact with one another beforehand, even a small introduction by email.

Sincere socialising - This is always an issue, when lots of practitioners get together for an intensive project. It is always tempting to try and do too much, with each student wanting to run their own mini-project. Sometimes we are so focused on doing the work that we do not allow enough time to talk with one another about what we are doing, let alone time to talk about completely unrelated things. Perhaps if we’d had more preparation time all together, we could have made links between projects so that groups of students could collaborate together, creating socialising work units.