News Shakespeare Found in Translation
Shakespeare Found in Translation is Globe Education’s season of special events running from 5 February to 29 May 2012 which will explore Shakespeare as a global playwright. The season supports Shakespeare’s Globe festival, Globe to Globe, which will see 37 international companies present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays on the Globe stage in a different language over six weeks starting on 21 April 2012. Booking for public events is open online at
www.shakespearesglobe.com or by telephone on 020 7401 9919.
The Shakespeare Found in Translation season will celebrate the rich artistic connections that the works of William Shakespeare have fostered around the world. A series of public lectures in April and May will examine the work of translators and intercultural theatre practitioners tackling the Shakespeare canon and follow the process of translating the language of Shakespeare into different tongues. The series begins on 18 April with a lecture entitled Shakespeare Found in Translation by acclaimed Danish author and translator Niels Brunse. The annual Sam Wanamaker Festival takes
place on 1 April, and will see students from each of the UK’s accredited drama schools gather for a weekend of workshops, before presenting scenes by Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the Globe stage. The Festival is supported by the Leverhulme Trust and is presented in association with the Conference of Drama Schools. Globe Education’s flagship schools programme, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, returns with a specially-commissioned production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. More than 14,000 students from London schools will receive free tickets to a performance at the Globe between 27 February and 8 March, with many also taking part in bespoke workshops in school before their visit. In addition, the performances on 2 and 3 March are free to members of the public thanks to the generous support of Deutsche Bank. On Thursday 15 March, 500 students from Southwark schools will make the Globe stage their own as they present an ensemble performance of Romeo and Juliet as the culmination of the Our Theatre project. Our Theatre has been Globe Education’s flagship community project since 1997, and is supported by PwC.
For further details about events in the Shakespeare Found in Translation season, please visit the Globe Education website at
www.shakespearesglobe.com/education
Pioneering film project told through the eyes of African children
Accompanying the videos is accessible and straightforward background information on subjects such as the economics of each country, poverty and healthcare, welfare of children, history and politics, food… all of the things that pupils and teachers can use in the classroom, but also anyone wanting to visit or find out more about a country would want to know. Lee Hunter, Deputy Head Teacher at The Tiffin Girls’ School in London says: “The beauty of ‘Our Africa’ is that it shows children in the UK the similarities between their own lives and children living in Africa. As well as showing the obstacles that many young people face living in Africa, it essentially shows young people with similar mindsets, ambitions, hopes and interests. It is a great learning tool.”
SOS Children, the world’s largest orphan charity, has created a ground- breaking, visually compelling and comprehensive learning resource that gives a unique perspective on Africa for children in the UK. The project, ‘Our Africa’, is an evolving collection of hundreds of video clips from countries spread across the African continent – filmed through the eyes of children living there.
Andrew Cates, Chief Executive at SOS Children, says: “Our Africa’ gives you the opportunity to experience something much deeper and closer to the reality of actually being there. For anyone who has visited Africa vivid memories will come flooding back. The child generated content gives authentic uncomplicated perspectives which even a visitor to the countries might miss. It does give a reference, it does educate and inform but somehow it captures something quite remarkable about what Africa is all about.”
The website houses dozens of short videos from each country across the continent in which children of different ages report about their own country, from main national topics to their everyday lives.
A learning resource for teachers that can be readily used in the classroom in support of the national curriculum accompanies the site to make it an innovative learning tool that students and teachers will enjoy. Adeline Gouenon (18) from Ivory Coast took part in ‘Our Africa’. She said: “I was the chief reporter for the film of my country. I was really choked to know that people thousands of miles away are thinking about us and want to know what our country is really like. For me it was my first time using a camera and being a reporter and I really got into the role. I love my country and I want other people around the world to know about it.”
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SOS Children embarked on the ‘Our Africa’ project to mark their 40th year anniversary working in Africa. Everyone can see ‘Our Africa’ for free at:
www.our-africa.org and view the teacher’s resource at:
www.sos-schools.org/our-africa-teaching-resources Dame Mary Richardson, president of SOS Children and a governor of the National College of School Leadership, says: “I am thrilled to support such a venture that educates, diminishes stereotypes and gives people a view of Africa, an incredible place that has never before been portrayed through the very children who live it.”
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