Project by Gerd Gruneisl
 
 

ACTIVITIES
 

LET’S MEET OURSELVES

- Necessary: paper and a pen.
- Disposition: in a circle.
Everybody writes at least ten questions he thinks that could be useful to know another person. Then everybody looks for a person in the group to make him/her the questions he/she prepared. In this way they can know each other. At the end of the interview everybody introduces his/her new friend to the group.
 

THE IDENTITY CARD
- Necessary: pencils, pens, pastel colours, passport size photo.
- Disposition: free.
- Every member has to fill in an identity form (name, surname, age, occupation, hobby, favourite colour, favourite food, favourite politician, favourite actor), then he/she draws his portrait and stick his photo on the paper. (all the photos have been taken with a polaroid during the meeting); when all the “identity cards” are ready, they are stuck on a big notice board.

	A LIVING DICTIONARY - Necessary: cards, felt-tip pens. - Disposition: in a circle. - A person of the group stands in the middle of the circle.  On the different parts of his/her body other people hang the cards with the names of the part of the body they want to name in the different languages known by the people present.  You have to choose a different colour for each language.  All the people present can take part in this game.  The names written in the cards will be read aloud.

THE WORLD MAP
- Necessary: white sheets of paper, pencils, pastel colours.
- Disposition: the group sits around a big world map that lies on the floor in the middle of the room.
- At the beginning of the game the map is still covered with a cloth.
- Every member of the group draws on his sheet of paper a map of the world as he/she imagines it. Then he/she indicates on his/her drawing the place where he/she lives and the place where he/she would like to live. Then they hang all their drawings on the wall so that everybody can see them. After a while they sit again around the world map and everybody tells the others the place he/she would like to live in and explains the reason. At the end the map is discovered and the group can play asking and answering questions about geography, history, politics of the various countries of the world. Everybody can take part in the conversation and tell the others curiosities about the different countries of the world. In this game the presence of people from different countries is very important because they can give many information to the others about their countries.
 

WHERE ARE THEY FROM (2)
- Necessary: a big planisphere with pictures of people.
- Disposition: in a circle.
- The organizer shows the people present pictures of people from all over the world inviting them to guess where they come from; they have to pay a particular attention to the aspect, clothes and other details that can help them to guess the country. At the end all the pictures are hanged on the planisphere in correspondence to the right place.
(It is possible to make the same game with pictures of animals, places, objects, fruit…).
 

WHO IS SINGING?
- Necessary: a tape recorder and a cassette.
- Disposition: in a circle.
- The group listens to  songs in  foreign languages and tries to understand which country the songs belong to.

- Necessary: suitcases full of things coming from the different countries of the world.
- Disposition: in a circle.
- The organizer opens a suitcase and shows the people what there is inside. The members of the group have to guess what nationality are the people the suitcase belongs to. Of course they have to explain the reason of their answer.

THE SIGNS GAME
- Necessary: felt-tip pens, cards of different dimension.
- Disposition: in small groups.
- The first thing we notice in a different country are the signs: traffic signs, prohibitions… Every group writes on the cards the directions people can read when they visit his/her country,   towns or  public places (schools, hospitals…). At the end each direction is translated in all the languages the members of the group speak.
 
 

Activities
DRESSING UP AND MAKING UP
- Necessary: make up, mirrors, clothes, hats, and other different objects.
- The people present change their identity and dress them up and make  them up using the clothes and the other things at disposal. As soon as everybody is ready, he/she goes behind a framework and has his/her photo taken. When all the photos have been taken all the people sit in a circle and they try to guess the nationalities of the other members of the group.
 
 

	GAMES WITH THE NEW IDENTITY   - Disposition: a small group of three that represent the authorities or the policemen in charge of accepting or refusing a permit to enter Italy. - The dressed up people imagine to be foreigners and they go to the police office to ask for a permit  to enter Italy. Everybody thinks at a valid reason to give the officers to be accepted in Italy. At the end of the conversation the authorities decide to give or refuse the permit. The reasons of the refusal or the entry visa have to be written on the identity card.

MY CULTURAL IDENTITY
- Necessary: cards, pens, a notice board.
- Disposition: in a circle.
- Every person has to write on a card, in ten minutes, the main features of his/her cultural identity. Then everybody hangs his/her card on the notice board and when all of the members of the group have finished the work, the organizer invites every member in turn to choose a card (not his/hers) and read it aloud.
 

		THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF OTHER PEOPLE - Necessary: pens, little cards. - Every member of the group receives some little coloured cards in which they write at least five characteristics that, according to them, mark the people that live in other countries of the world. At the end everybody hangs his/her cards on the notice board under the name of the nation they refer to. All the cards are read aloud.

Activities

RESEARCH OF MULTICULTURAL TRACES

- Necessary: tape recorders, video cameras, cameras.
- All the members of the group are divided in small groups of 5 or 6 and write an interview to make to foreign people, then they go out, in the street, at the market, etc. bringing their tape recorders and the videocameras with them and looking for foreigners to ask them the question prepared. In the afternoon the groups tell the others their experience.
All the other people can tell their opinion.

I partecipanti al corso raccontano le proprie esperienze professionali di lavoro interculturale, sia le attività ed esperienze precedenti a questo progetto Comenius, sia le attività che alcuni hanno svolto durante il progetto Comenius; si raccontano de i problemi che hanno nel loro ambiente di lavoro.

Activities
 

MY INDIVIDUAL HISTORY
- Necessary: sheets of paper in different size, pens, pencils, felt-tip pens.
- Every person of the group draws the story of his/her family as he/she remembers it. All the drawings are hanged on a notice board and who wants, can tell the others the story of his/her life.
 

- Necessary: sheets of paper, pens, pencils, pastel colours.
- Everybody draws a postcard of his/her own nation to send to a foreign friend. All the postcards are hanged on a notice board and all the people present analyse them and talk about their contents. Everybody chooses then the postcard he/she would like to receive.

(the drawings on the postcards can be compared with the cards written during the game about cultural identity to see if they represent the same features).

TELLING A STORY

- All the people present come together again in front of the big pictures and, divided into groups, try to invent a story and tell it, even singing, acting, etc…

MANUAL ACTIVITIES

TIPYCAL OBJECTS:
- Necessary: clay, tempera colours, paintbrushes.
- A group of people creates objects, monuments, animals, tipycal of the different countries of the world using the clay and paint them. At the end they hang  all the objects on the big map of the world.

A MUSEUM OF CHARACTERS:
- Necessary: old newspapers, alluminium paper, medical gauze for plaster, tempera colours, paintbrushes.
- Mould the object you want to create with the paper of the newspapers, cover it with the alluminium paper and wrap it with the medical gauze previously moistened. When the little statue is dry, paint it with the tempera colours.

A PAINTING .
- Necessary: big white clothes, a wooden framework, tempera colours.
- The members of this group have to paint big paintings about tolerance, intolerance,with the aim to “sensitize with art”.
- Tecniques used: free compositions, photomontage…the work is projected on a big white cloth where some people draws the images and paint them.
 

- All the people present is divided in three groups (there are about 20 teachers and 10 people who work in different fields). The groups are made up of people who have differet competence.

1- “The colours of Jesi: an intercultural  festival for children, young people and families.
2- “A mondial house of cultures”.
3- “A forum for children and young people of Jesi: children have the opportunity to take a part on political and administrative questions”.

The last activity of the seminar is the creation of a newspaper about the experience the member have done during the week. There is the editing with a director and three contributors; all the other people present are divided in small groups and write articles, make interviews etc. The editing page the newspaper and publish it.

Some conclusion

		THE INTERVIEWS Contemporaneously in a small “TV studio” the organizer interviews all the people present and invites them to tell their opinion about the seminar, what they think about the activities…they can also give suggestions and ideas for another seminar. some interviews

La relazione sulle attività svolte è stata curata da Tullio Bugari dell'Associazione senza Confini e da Mirella Argentati della Scuola Elementare Conti (Primo Circolo Didattico di Jesi)

Jesi, 22 maggio 1999