What is Cultural Heritage? Why is that important for us? How does it contribute to forming our Identity? What role does Cultural Heritage play for our communities?
The pupils of 6 different European countries will take a closer look at the subject “Shared Cultural Heritage” and hopefully will be confident in answering those questions.
'Our shared Cultural Heritage - Where the Past meets the Future' is the subject of the new edition of the international project “Reaching Out Through Skype”. This multidisciplinary project aims to connect children with different backgrounds, ages and from different countries in order to inspire them to learn multiple languages and to express their artistic talent.
Last Friday the new edition of the project REACHING OUT THROUGH SKYPE has started with the international teachers' meeting in Rome. The 2 day meeting was organized in order to plan further activities in 6 different countries and to discuss the implementation of the subject. The meeting took place in Museo delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari with the participation of representatives from 6 European countries: France, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Hungary, Italy and Romania and started with a ‘welcome’ by the museum director, Mr. Filippo Maria Gambari, who underlined the importance of the project and expressed his commitment in cooperating in this project, as it is "very important to make the younger generation aware of the importance of the past".
A central part of the meeting was the presentation of a Board member and Scientific Council member of Europa Nostra, architect Paolo Vitti. Inspired by the passionate presentation by Paolo Vitti, the teachers back home will invite their students to think more closely about cultural heritage in their countries, to understand the importance of cultural heritage, and perhaps even invite their pupils to follow a suggestion of Mr. Vitti, to allow the pupils to look for an example of cultural heritage in their countries that originates from a different culture.
During the meeting the project partners had the opportunity to see the outcome of the previous edition of Reaching Out Through Skype, its exhibition "In the Streets of Europe", which was introduced by the former participant of the project, Italian student Ilaria Gabrieli.
Our project partners are:
Museo delle Civilta (Italy)
Liceo Classico e Linguistico Statale Aristofane (Italy)
Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium (Hungary)
High School Craiova (Romania)
Lycée Louis Bascan (France)
Anykščių r. Traupio pagrindine mokykla (Lithuania)
RSG Slingerbos |Levant (The Netherlands)
This European Day of Languages project has been initiated and coordinated by Litouws Cultureel Centrum and is performed with the support of The European Commission and the Dutch Lithuanian Culture Centre
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ALGIMANTAS PUIPA RETROSPECTIVE
Algimantas Puipa is one of the most productive directors in Lithuania, with more than 20 feature films to his name, many of which have received international film awards. He was born on July 14, 1951 in Antalieptė, Lithuania. Between 1969-1974 he studied at Film direction at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he graduated with Kelio ženklai 1974. The films Atpildo diena / The Day of Revenge (1975), Dont't be a Gangster, Darling (1978) followed. Various films by Puipa were selected for national and international festivals. In the Netherlands the IFFR 1992 has shown his film Bilietas Iki Taj Mahal / A ticket to the Taj-Mahal (1991).
Together with the Lithuanian Film Centre Litouws Cultureel Cetrum presents to a Dutch audience a short retrospective of Algimantas Puipa's most peculiar films, that now belong to the Lithuanian film heritage, its "Golden Fund". This year Lithuania celebrates Puipa’s 70th birthday, which gives us an opportunity to get better acquainted with the Maestro’s films.
We introduce to you the Lithuanian cineast through the article of the Lithuanian film critic, Neringa Kažukauskaitė.
The allegorical reality of Algimantas Puipa's cinema.
For a short retrospective of films by eminent Lithuanian film director, Algimantas Puipa, his most original films were selected, films that have stood the test of time and avoided ideological and artistic clichés.
All three films in the retrospective of A. Puipa's films take a deeper look at the history of Lithuania, albeit at different periods of time. However, it is not the historical, social or political realities that are most important in Puipa's films. That background of the past becomes an abutment for his cinema, in order to create a peculiar reality with the features of near-allegory. His films are universal, philosophical, yet understandable even for those who do not boast much historical knowledge of Lithuania.
It is possible, of course, to evaluate these films from a cognitive point of view, namely what was the worldview of Lithuanian peasants in the first half of the 20th century (The Devil's Seed), or Lithuania Minor (East Prussian Lithuania) at the turn of the 19th century, (A Woman and Her Four Men), or what was life like in a Lithuanian village during the epoch of Stalinism (Eternal Light).
Even if the films convey the mood and atmosphere of the time, they transcend the specifics of the historic situation and reflect on to the present, on the challenges of individual. These three Lithuanian film classics show strong elements of the humanist film tradition in Europe, namely that a human character remains the most important value in life. Puipa's movies convey a universal dramatic conception of man.
The Devil's Seed (1979) marks the beginning of Puipa’s creative path Vytautas Žalakevičius, the author of the screenplay and director of the Lithuanian Film Studio at the time, had great influence on its appearance. However, Puipa's style is still strongly felt in the film, which has become one the director’s hallmarks. The viewer can enjoy...
]]>Reaching Out Through Skype is an international, multidisciplinary project that connects children with different backgrounds, ages and from different countries. The project aims to inspire children to learn multiple languages and to get in touch with their artistic talent.
Multilingualism – let’s celebrate!
Early October, annually, after a thorough preparation and with the support of teachers from different disciplines, the children exchange their presentations during a series of Skype sessions. The theme of the presentation is different each year. We have seen “My home” (2013), “Friendship” (2014) and “Theatre” (2015), My Favourite National Holiday (2016). The theme of 2017/2018 is DESIGN.
The sound of the native language is just one of the elements of the presentation. Showing interest in the cultures you meet is another element until it reaches its culmination, a "magic moment", when a song, rehearsed in the language of the partner country is performed for each other. It always comes as a surprise.
The project continues with a preparation for the photo exhibition STREETS OF EUROPE.
Following the topic of 2017/2018 - Design - children and students aged from 13 to 20 where observing their surroundings and collected a variety of images with design and graffiti in their streets.
All of those images will be included in the photo exhibition, which this year will be constructed using the parametric design techniques.
The photographs, made by the pupils of six participating countries, and the pupils' research on Italian design - under the supervision of Mr. Enrico Bassan (teacher of Liceo Cassico e Linguistico Statale Aristofane) are now collected on www.design.reachingout.eu
With GREAT APPRECIATION and THANKS FOR THE WORK AND CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE TEACHERS: Anita Klein (HUNGARY), Rosário Barros (PORTUGAL), Enrico Bassan (ITALY), Rūta Šukevičienė, Rūta Tirlikienė (LITHUANIA), Irene Keizer, Geke de Hoop (THE NETHERLANDS), Ljerka Miletić, Sandra Prpic (CROATIA).
Illustrations of the previous edditions can be seen here
From 08.02.2017 to 10.03.2017 A creative task
The pupils of initially nine Europe European schools enrolled in this creative part of the project, after the Skype sessions of "Reaching Out Through Skype. Via the medium of Skype they shared their stories about their motherlands' national holidays and celebrations. Showing appreciation to the other country they sang a song in the language of the partner school.
Afterwards, from January 2017 onwards, the images made by the students on the day of the Public Holiday of their choice, were collected from Hungary, Lithuanian, Belgium, The Netherlands, Northen and Southen Italy, United Kingdom, Greece, Croatia and Slovenia.
The 36 pictures were selected for the photo exhibition YOUR COUNTRY YOUR CELEBRATION, which travelled to all the participating countries. The exhibition was opened in Museo delle Civiltà – Museo nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni popolari in Rome.
With participation of: Berzsenyi Dániel Gimnázium (Budapest), ISTITUTO TECNICO PER IL TURISMO “C. COLOMBO”(Rome), Christ the King School (The Isle of Wight), RSG Slingerbos |Levant (Harderwijk),Osnovna šola Jarenina (Jarenina), Osnovna škola Brezovica (Brezovica), 2nd Primary school of Mytikas (Mytikas), VBS De...
]]>Feestelijke opening op 15 december 2012 om 16:30, Filmhuis LUMEN In aanwezigheid van de Ambassadeur van de Republiek Litouwen, Z.E. de heer Darius Jonas Semaška. Met o.a. de jonge, talentvolle en eigenzinnige Litouwse zangeres, MIGLOKO, opgegroeid in de Onafhankelijke Republiek Užupis (te Vilnius)
Filmhuis LUMEN (te Delft) za 15 december 16:30 uur - Tadas Blinda. The Beginning/ TADAS BLINDA. PRADŽIA 2011, 110 min, regie: Donatas Ulvydas Waar: Filmhuis Lumen, Doelenplein 5, 2611 BP Delft Entrée: € 6,50 Kassa tel.: 015-2140226
Filmtheater Hilversum (in Hilversum)
woe 19 december 19:00 uur - Back to your arms / KAI APKABINSIU TAVE
2010 , 90 min , scenario/regie: Kristijonas Vildžiūnas
Waar: Filmtheater Hilversum, Herenplein 5
1211 DR Hilversum
Entree : € 7,50 (CJP/Stud. € 6,25).
Kassa tel: 035 - 623 5466
Georganiseerd door: Litouws Cultureel Centrum in samenwerking met Filmtheater Hilversum en Filmhuis Lumen. Mede mogelijk gemaakt door de Ambassade van de Republiek Litouwen.