Annual Report 2011 ARTS AND CULTURE The students had several opportunities to respond to the school’s stimuli to inter-cultural exchanges and to experience art and culture. Exchange Program With Students from Portugal The students from the Colégio Rio Branco and from the Colégio Diocesano de Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, located in Calvão, Diocese of Aveiro, in Portugal, began to exchange ideas on sustainability of natural resources. Exchanges occurred through different works by students from both schools, in the form of research, awareness campaigns, poems of praise to nature, etc., which revealed concerns common to students from both countries. Carnival Ball and Parade After researching different popular manifestations of Carnival in Brazil, 1st grade classes took their interpretation of the maximum expression of Rio de Janeiro Carnival to the school’s “avenue”. Acting as if they were in Sapucaí, the place where the samba schools parade in Rio de Janeiro, the students recreated the greatest popular party in Brazil to the sound of the music of Beija-Flor samba school, representing the different roles that exist: comissão de frente (commission of front), mestre-sala and porta-bandeira (flag bearer and partner), and bateria (percussion). In addition to the research done by the students, this celebration also encouraged them to create several percussion instruments which contributed to the success of the bateria. The party continued, with the recreation of the ambiance from the Carnival balls of old times, with their typical songs (marchinhas), confetti and serpentine. The students were entertained by the Carnival Ball Modern Art Museum Fifth graders had a session dedicated to the experience of creating, with support from educators from the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo – MAM (São Paulo Modern Art Museum), having built installations with different materials and produced drawings of places of cohabitation, inspired by nature. Educational Theater - History and Philosophy As a way to exercise dramatic arts, using the study of classic Medieval themes, students created plays 5 to 10 minutes long, in which they showed their story-telling and acting skills, as well as their ability to create sets and costumes. Students showed historical issues through the Theater 54
Anual Report 2011
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