We Are the Planet! - Videos from our Project

We are the planet! is aimed at experimenting an innovative process for the global education and the citizenship in relation to the 7th Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations, based on the prominence of children and on the synergic integration between public art and training activities in Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Cyprus. Project partners are in fact in Italy the Province of Teramo, the NGO ProgettoMondo Mlal and Solstizio Association; in Slovenia the Municipality of Nova Gorica, in Spain, the Province of Avila and in Cyprus, the Municipality of Strovolos. Associated partners are the Regional Development Agency of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), Actions et Développement and Keoogo operating in Burkina Faso and Benin.

The project is based on an integrated communication process consisting in different didactic interventions that involve students (from 6 to 18 years old) and citizens of European and African countries, on the application of different artistic languages (music, visual arts and video performance) as well as on the use of digital platform of social network and three-dimensional worlds.

Main activities are: the creation of four Didactic Centres in each partner country, where training courses and artistic laboratories on sustainable development themes addressed to children of primary and secondary schools, to the teachers and to the citizens will be implemented and the establishment of Sustainable Development Museums where materials realized by students during laboratories are with temporary artistic installations. See below for more information on these.

Furthermore the project foreseen an intense exchange activity with African schools of Burkina Faso and Benin, specifically with the school of Sepounga, Boromo "E" and Tanghin.

Below some videos showing interventions implemented so far in Italy,in Slovenia and in Spain.

Artistic Laboratories

Earthbeats

Earthbeats is the union of the words beat and earth. Earth as consistence, going through, place of narrations. Beat as what exists, soften by bones, muscles and skin, from birth to death.

The project originates from an idea of Emidio Sciannella, thanks to the experience in Solstizio and the participation of Julia Kent, who shares its developments and consequences. The project is founded on the creation and collection of spontaneous sounds by pupils taking part in the project on environmental issues. These sounds are later re-elaborated by musicians and transformed into original assemblages which will be introduced into the pop or underground distribution chains; any revenue will be assigned to support the social projects in the world.

Ecoslogong

Ecoslogong has been conceived by Maria Crispal as a creative space available to children and teenagers in which to socialize and to confront culture complexity, different languages and worldwide issues. Through the study of the body and the elaboration of the self-image the participants will deepen aspects linked to their personalities and to their unique way to see and face the world. The Lab wants to give the pupils the possibility to convey the project's subject through their own body symbolically transformed into an advertising flag. They are responsible for creating and representing graphically their logo-slogans, in which they interpret the UN purposes connected to the 7th millennium goal. The logo- slogans will be later showed during a photographic performance in which the body becomes the triumphal pole hoisting the flag of thoughts, and the expressive face standing out in the foreground becomes the icon of the power of ideas originating from the individual.

Didactic Laboratories by ProgettoMondo Mlal

The experimentation of didactic workshops on the themes of the 7th Millennium Goal and environmental sustainability in the territory of the Province of Teramo have begun. For two weeks the pupils of preschools, primary and secondary schools will be the protagonists of interventions aiming at an education to global citizenship, dealing with subjects such as water, biodiversity, sustainable energy, solidarity economy, and the phenomenon of extreme poverty and shantytowns. The workshops will be conducted by two young experts, Giulia Lonardi and Roberta Morosillo, of the NGO ProgettoMondo Mlal from Verona.

For more information on the project please visit:

• Our website: www.wearetheplanet.net
• Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/wearetheplanetproject
• Our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/wearetheplanetchanel
• Our Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/wearetheplanet