World Children’s Day at the Reykjavík Festival of Children’s Culture 2010
Welcome to World Children’s Day!
Saturday, 24 April, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at the Gerðuberg Cultural Centre and the Miðberg Social Centre.
Workshops dedicated to the colourful cultures from various parts of the world will be open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., and afterwards, between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., there will be an entertainment programme displaying a little concert from the musical workshop, The Explosives Team will show us some explosions, everybody gather in a Hip-hop and Break Dance and at the end we go out on the square in a parachute games.
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Workshops
Miðberg Social Centre:
Red Indian Workshop
Geronimo! Let’s play Red Indians, and make feather headdresses and tasselled belts!
With: Guðmunda Óskarsdóttir
Philippine Dance Workshop
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Philippines have a rich dance tradition, and people dance at every opportunity. Aimee will teach us some of the steps so we can dance modern Philippine dances to the varied accompaniment of Philippine music.
With: Aimee Sambajon
Hip-hop and Break Dance Workshop
2.30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Learn how to dance hip-hop and break dancing, which flourished in the streets of New in the 1970s and 1980s.
With: Uldarico Rafael De Luna
Experiments for All
Jón Víðis magician guides us through some simple experiments you can do yourself using cheap and everyday things around the house. Can a boat be powered with soap? How do you find your blind spot?
With: Jón Víðis Jakobsson
Kites
Flying kites was a popular children’s pastime in the old days. Here is a chance to revive it and make your own kite.
With: Björn Finnsson
Short Film
A short film made by children at the Bakkasel Hobby Centre will be shown upstairs in Miðberg.
Gerðuberg, Upstairs:
Theatre Workshop
Let’s go to places far and wide and dress up in the local costumes. We might have to fight with enemies and wild animals, rescue princesses from danger; in fact, anything could happen.
With: Pétur Eggerz and Alda Arnardóttir - Möguleikhúsið
Science Workshop
The Explosives Team (Sprengjugengið) and the Science Question Website (Vísindavefurinn) open up for us the wonders of science. Children will have a chance to help with various chemical experiments where test-tubes and mysterious coloured liquids play a part. Perhaps it will all end with a Big Bang? And there will be the chance to ask the editor of the Science Question Website all about science, and hopefully to get the answers immediately. Can he explain why volcanos erupt, and whether it is possible to make a spaceship that could fly at the speed of light?
With: Vísindavefurinn and Sprengjugengið / www.visindavefur.is
Bird Workshop
Children of all ages can make their own bird masks. There will also be quizzes about birds and where they live, with attractive prizes for young bird-watchers. All under the guidance of knowledgeable bird-lovers, who will explain this and that about the birds of Iceland.
With: Jakob Sigurdsson - Fuglavernd
Gerðuberg, downstairs:
Cut-and-Paste Workshop
Princesses with plumes, flying pussy-cats, pink dinosaurs and all sorts of fantastic creatures from round the world will take shape in this cut-and-paste workshop (collages, not computers!).
With: Kristín Arngrímsdóttir
Musical Instrument-Making
Let’s make our own band! The music group Spilmenn Ríkínís play on home-made traditional Icelandic instruments, and after their performance, participants will have a chance to make instruments of their own.
Directing the workshop: Pamela De Sensi. Performers: Spilmenn Ríkínis
Music from Exotic Places
An introduction to the music of the Australian aborigines (played on the didgeridoo), Arabian and African drumming and various other wind instruments and singing.
Participants make up their own musical works, which will be recorded and put on the internet at the end of the day.
With: Guðni Franzson, Áskell Másson and Buzby Birchall.
In the Library:
Origami for World Peace
Help us to promote world peace!
According to an old Japanese folk tradition, if you made 1,000 cranes (sembazuru - birds, not contractor’s equipment!) out of paper, it would cure the world’s ills. A Japanese girl, Sadako, who was diagnosed with leukaemia, decided to wish for world peace rather than her own recovery. In Miðberg, children will have the opportunity to fold origami cranes and put them on a tree, aiming to reach the target of 1,000 as a contribution to world peace. Children in day-care centres will add their cranes to the tree every day of the Festival of Children’s Culture.
With: Tómas Lee Róbertsson