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Response from Lady Lumleys: I don't think they completely grasp the fact that we have activity sheets, i know that they will definitely give them it as homework, so i will send a reply :D X

Will,

Really pleased to hear that you are enjoying the course, it sounds varied and interesting. The project you mentioned sounds good but the deadline is a bit tight to prepare anything substantial unless you have any specific exersizes or tasks that could be easily delivered before the required date. If this is not possible, perhaps it could be arranged for a later date when we could do it properly?

Hope you continue to enjoy your course and the best of luck with your future studies. Keep in touch. ( work can be collected before the Christmas holidays)

Mrs Chaddock and Mr McGrath.

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
>