With direction of our young German artist Felix Pape our children did a traditional Latin American tale using plasticine. Felix has been volunteering in our project since February this year doing an extraordinary work with our children and core group. http://vimeo.com/29345065
No matter how poor their homes are we have happy children who say the School of Comedy and Mime fulfill their expectations. Their academic qualifications show how the core group has stimulated them by helping with their school homework every afternoon before the daily artistic activities....http://vimeo.com/23646611
Our children worked hard for a nice show for Mother's Day
Presentacion de las Niñas y Niños para el Dia de las Madres from Felix Pape on Vimeo.
Many things have happened during 10 years....Now we have a school house and a beautiful palapa-theatre for performances and training of the school children and core group...Our next project is the construction of our library and hand-craft saloon....
Betterplace site truly works...It's the second time someone writes us to our email address after reading about our project in Betterplace
Thanks to Bettterplace we have 3 excellent volunteers working in our project for 6 months
Thanks to donors we've been able to have ready the indoor spaces of the school for the rainy season and carry-on with the children workshops and training
As a way of thanking donors and Betterplace support for our building and school project our touring kids visited Betterplace Headquarters on their way to Vienna. Unfortunately show in Berlin was not possible to organize.
We invite you to see our site with new photos of our construction improvements!!!!
Our kids started the German tour today in Schwabach. Saturday Sept. 12 will be Gütersloh, 14 and 15 Großburgwedel, 19 Saarbrücken, 20 and 21 Kassel. Then in Vienna 25 and Salzburg 26. Back in Germany will be Tübingen 28, Balingen 29 and Freiburg 30..
If you want to see a good perfomance don't miss it.....
With support we have received form your donations and from other sources we are nearly to finish our School House and Volunteer Rooms.
Also 2 of our brightest core-group students will perform in several cities in Germany starting September 10th in Schwabach..
The Children School has 26 motivated children enjoying juggling, acrobats, puppets and masks making. Core group keeps on working hard with the school-house and volunteer rooms construction. Rafa finished workshops at Dimitri school Friday and Wednesday will fly to Barcelona for clown and circus workshops for 1 month.
Kids are also training in Granada and have an important show next Wednesday...
As you see Good Work is being done....
The stain glass bottle windows making are everyday more inspiring!!!
Thank you for supporting and trusting our project... This is most encouraging for the children and youngsters who participate in the School of Comedy and Mime
Thanks to anonymous supporters our core-group kids can carry on studying to become trainers and managers of their project
Rafael Largaespada, our most talented mime, clown, juggler and acrobat student will be performing in Germany between September 6 to October 4. All his shows will be for fund-raising for our project
We are urgently needed volunteer training in theatre lightning and sound
Our project is becoming a space for children and young hip-hop dancers of Granada's streets. For some groups is a way of living. It would be great to have a contemporary, jazz and hip-hop volunteer dancer interested in teaching for 6 months.
Recieved a transference note from Betterplace from donations sent from friends. Thanks to our Betterplace supporters and to a Spanish organization were are coming along with our school projects
The children school started april 13th. 30 infants from the sorrounding communities had puppets, theatre, juggling and acrobats workshops. Soon they'll start with reading and languajes as well as academic support for their elementary school education.
For many years we waited this moment for start training the second generation. Now we can offer a stable program for the years to come!!
Together with the opening of the Children School of Comedy and Mime, April 13th, German volunteers will start constructing a solar stove as biogas digester construction is nearly finished. They also want to build a mud oven for making bread, cakes, pizzas and lasagna. Excellent tools for the School future restaurant where the core group kids will be chefs, waiters and entertainers at the same time.
We started building volunteer rooms hoping to have them ready for the German volunteers but ran out of funds....Maybe you could help us by donating to our School House project...It would be a great and needed support as the Children Comedy and Mime School starts April 13 and we are having volunteers from abroad arriving soon to work with the litle ones together with the core group..
Since 2 weeks ago we've been hosting 12 volunteer students from Germany who are building together with our core group a biogas digester. This is a great support to our school project as they fund raised the money in Germany to make it possible and also covered their travelling cost. As bigas digester is nearly finished they will start building an oven for making bread and a solar stove before they return back to their country..
Begining of February started the volunteers arrival. Some of them just came for a month and are soon to live. Jeanine Morack is a carpenter from Germany who help us in the house construction. Mayra Gallardo (USA) and Steffi Boguth (Germany) did theatre workshops with the core group.
Lenin Luis Canchari from Peru, arrived 3 days ago and will stay for 6 months. He will work puppets, masks and theatre with the 30 new children that will inaugurate the Children School of Comedy and Mime in mid March.
Soon we will have Sabine Falk from Germany for one month doing an "Events Production" workshop for the core-group.
March 24th to April 18th we will have a group of 17 students from Germany who will construct a biogas digestor and latrines for the project.
Also visitors from Nicaragua and other countries who have come to see our plastic bottle house and artistic project...and have left very impressed...
Through our betterplace site we have been receiving very interesting volunteering proposals from France and Germany for 2009. Also through our website (www.escueladecomedia.org ). This pushes us to try and finish the school house as soon as possible and start building rooms with plastic bottles for volunteers and groups.
This will be a very interesting proposal for the people of the surrounding communities. Very different to our house construction where we used steel for foundations and frame, this time we will build very low-budget plastic bottles houses as they do in San Marcos de la Laguna in Guatemala (http://www.puravidaatitlan.org/ ). This project was our inspiration.
Your support to our projects is most important to carry on....
We moved to our new home Nov. 28. We are living in tents while bedrooms are ready. As we have a nice and big property camping sensation is a great experience.
The core-group kids are spending their school holidays working daily in the house construction but also training and performing.
They are also recycling materials donated by friends for finishing the bathrooms and showers. Soon we'll start with the kitchen and some floors. Our purpose is to start soon the school restaurant for volunteer groups to whom the kids perform every tourist high season. They'll be the chefs, waiters and performers..
The dream is happening in "The Bottles House" and you are welcome to visit us....
An interesting alternative construction for the benefit of our city and big lake
Circus demostration in Osnabrück, German tour 2005
We hope to be moved by the end of November to our new space thanks to the support of friends of the core group kids and the school... We will carry-on finishing the house living in it..
It'll be stimulant for the core group and all who are part of this dream to have the right space for better productions. Also the 40 children we expect to start formally the Children School of Comedy and Mime in February 2009 for a 3 years period. We actually have 20 children in an experimental workshop as an introduction of the school to the neighbourhood. By mid December children will perform what they have learned since September.
Last week we received 31 boxes containing circus materials donated from Germany by Henry’s circus equipments, friends and good-willing people. Balls, diabolos, unicycles, clubs, make-up and others will be for the 110 children we will have by February 2011. By that time we also expect to be working with young people and the community.
Being the school surrounded by the poorest communities of Granada there is much work to do keeping children out of the streets and involve in creative activities. In addition to our art project, we want to show other stimulants proposals for the good of the communities that surround us and visitors. Also for Granada and our big Cocibolca lake. With low-cost materials we intend to build:
We are also searching information and need professional advice for building low budget electric solar-wind power systems. In Nicaragua electricity is very expensive. Three times the cost of European countries.
