ARTS IN SCHOOLS - MUSE Cyprus

Each school class is a micro-word mirroring current social circumstances and acting as a lab in which a considerable part of children’s development and directions of growth is shaped.

 

MUS-E brings qualified musicians, visual artists, actors, dancers and architects who work with a class, for a period of time, to produce works of art together with the students.

 

In the unfolding of this joyful action, students acquire a legacy of skills that will help them to be healthy, balanced, creative, inclusive, curious and conscious adults of tomorrow.

 

The activities include:

• One or two presentations/workshops for the teachers of the selected schools, held by the MUS-E artists and the MUS-E national pedagogical coordinator.
  
• Weekly schedule:  the MUS-E artists deliver sessions of 90 minutes every week with the same class for a period of minimum two months, or for the whole school year, if possible.
  
• Final performance in the schools or other community centre, when the training has lasted at least 4 months.
  
• Evaluation of the activities with children and through focus groups with teachers.
  

Music: singing, music from various cultures, percussions, choir singing, music creation.

Fine arts: painting, sculpture, drawing, photo, video

Drama: theatre, role play, mime, facial and body expression, story-telling.

Dance: traditional, contemporary, classical. (Improvisation and the corporal expression of imaginary world; choreographies inspired by nature, children’s life stories and children’s dreams.

Architecture:  drawings, modelling of different types of houses, from different cultures, for inclusive and green education purposes. Engaging with imagining the space.  

Digital art: exploring new formats of arts for self-expression and fun in teamwork

    Children:

• experience a feeling of shared pleasure in team work and collective dynamics;
  
• can enhance their own potential: the artist and the teacher support the child to make him/her aware of his/her capabilities and to acknowledge them through individual and collective creation and production;
  
• develop artistic awareness;
  
• are able to discover senses, body, space, imagination;
  
• are inspired by creativity and curiosity to learn;

• can re-establish links with one's own culture, while discovering those of the others. They can discover the differences between themselves and the others, just like the values and advantages of being muticultural;
  
• learn new forms of communication;
  
• enjoy more the school environment, learning and the relationship with their teachers
  
• develop creativity, exactly what most future jobs will require.

• create new partnerships, both with other artists and with the school environment;
  
• futher enhance their pedagigical skill;
  
• provide their crucial and exclusive service to the community;
• qualify the role of arts and artists in society;
• create art works.

• experience meaningful and pleasant moments with the class and gain new value in the classroom community;
  
• discover new abilities within their students;
  
• enrich their pedagogical skills, particularly concerning the educational effectiveness of the art;
  
• enrich their approach to the arta and their teaching strategies;
  
• acquire new artistic skills;
• are more collaborative, more creative, artistic and enthusiastic.