Email The International School of Moscow, Russia

Rather modest response from melissa.danby@internationalschool.ru, however she is fine with handing the kids sheets to do as homework/ own time studies :P

Hi Will,

So you would like me to give the activity sheet to my class? The problem
is that I can't really fit any of this extra work into the timetable as we
have tests and curriculum work to cover each lesson.

I do however think that its a great idea, especially for children based in
the UK who you would have easy access to. Another problem that I can
foresee would be how to get any work which they had done back to you
before the deadline?



On 14/11/2011 15:25, "WILLIAM DANBY" wrote:

>Dear Miss Danby
>
>
>I am writing to you from a specialist art collage located in Plymouth,
>United Kingdom.
>
>I have been given a project where we have had to congregate into a groups
>of 4, then working with the Plymouth City Museum & Art Galley curate an
>exhibition. As curators, we will completely independently manage the
>exhibition, selecting artists works, writing about it, deciding how it
>will be presented, where it will be presented, financing it, promoting,
>criticising it etc. However we will never actually follow it through,
>this exercise is purely planning, but approaching it in a very serious
>way. Our final deadline for presentation is the 15th December, we must
>have explored every angle for pursuing this task, even down to obtaining
>a 'health and safety' document from the museum.
>
>
>Our group have decided on curating an exhibition based on the Mexican
>yearly Aztec festival "Day of the Dead" where families who have lost
>loved ones will celebrate there memories by creating vast shrines and
>altars, decorating them with colourful creations, significantly edible
>sculls with the names of their losses inscribed. A day well practiced by
>Catholics, dating back to pre-Hispanic times, although still popular in
>Mexican culture.
>
>
>Due to the interest and history of this festival, we feel it is a great
>starting point for our exhibition, as there will be a mixed variety of
>responses. We plan to contact a range of different organisations,
>culturally spread out for different responses to the event, be that
>verbally, or physically. This will help us explore critically the many
>different aspects to curating, it will be included in our research and
>may be exhibited.
>
>
>These are early stages in our investigation and planning stage, however
>we were thinking of ways to accumulate responses to the 'Day of the
>Dead'. One route we have began to question is a how a child would think
>of this ritual, we therefore have planned to produce some basic
>questionnaires helping us understand what people think of death. Also one
>idea was to produce some activity sheets for a young group to participate
>with. Most likely guiding them on how to make some of the attractive
>memoirs and beautiful displays that the Mexicans produce, this will
>hopefully educate them about this amazing culture and hopefully they
>would get some enjoyment out of learning.
>
>
>We were wondering, if there would be a possibility of you both being able
>to in some way combine this into one of your younger classes, we can
>appreciate that this is a large request, and im sure you have specific
>schedules for your students. We would ultimately like a class to produce
>a credited piece of work that will relate to our topic, providing you
>have the time and approve of our request. We are still in our planning
>stage and i appreciate that this may come across rather motley, however i
>thought i would await your response before 'jumping the gun'. Please find
>attached our early prototype worksheet as a sample, that we will further
>develop.
>
>
>Many Thanks
>
>
>William Danby
>
>Ba (Hons) Fine Art Practices
>Plymouth College of Art and Design
>