Freagra
Garbo Prod. & Rua Red Gallery Engagement
Partnership
In partnership with Rua Red and their outreach Education dept. Margaret brought 5th primary school students to the gallery to engage with the exhibition. Margaret delivered this programme using cross disciplines of ‘Drama’ and ‘Visual Art’ as vehicles to explore the exhibition and its themes in an exciting and meaningful and valuable way.
The Exhibition ‘Order’ by Democracia was in the gallery at this time. Protest and inequality were two of the themes central to this exhibition. ‘Freagra’ looked at children’s rights as a way to feed into the themes of the exhibition and explore a cause that the children could identify with on a personal level.
Our theme was specifically focussed on the critically important issue of ‘Girls rights to an education Worldwide’
The project consisted of:
Pre visit teachers support document which gave links to the UNCRC children’s rights which were part of our theme.
Material for Teacher for VTS prep exploration appropriate to this exhibition and programme.
Presentation by Lorna Education Officer from Rua Red and exploration of the themes of the exhibit.
Drama workshop with Margaret from Garbo around UNCRC Children’s rights and protest to tie in with the theme of protest and Rua Reds protest poster workshop. Including practice for a protest march.
Visit to to gallery space and guided tour of the exhibition
Q and A on skype* with one of the artists: Pablo España and Iván López with questions the children came up with, facilitated by Margaret. *Due to unavailability of the artist at the scheduled time due to his personal circumstance, this happened in retrospectively see below for more details
Lorna then facilitated the students in making protest placards around our theme of ‘Educating girls worldwide,’.
Margaret then lead the students in a staged protest march through Rua Red Attracting the attention and engaging the people in the cafe and building in the cause they were highlighting
In addition Rua Red provided ‘Screen Printing’ for the students
