School Programmes

WORKSHOPS - LIBRARY – CHILDREN’S LIBRARY

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The educational programmes of FOUGARO are addressed to children in primary and secondary education. Running on a daily basis, they aim to bring the children into creative contact with nature, art, theatre, literature, storytelling, handicraft as well as with FOUGARO itself as a place of Life and Art.

“The dragon’s nail”

artworks, playing, history-middle ages, dragons, knights, theatrical play, fairy tale, ecology, origami-making

A guided tour and acquaintance with artworks in the context of the “NOW WOMEN” project at FOUGARO. The children participate in games based on aesthetic and intellectual stimuli. A sculpture-toy, the “carousel” by Florentia Oikonomidou, and a painting by Clara Glauert with references to medieval manuscripts, take us on a journey into the dark times of dragons and duels and into a fairy tale about Azdar, the dragon on the centre of Earth…

In addition to the proposed origami making, the children practise their fine mobility skills and enjoy a theatrical object—the dragon’s nail!

Duration 75'

Recommended for nursery- and primary-school children.

Queen Bee!

In the context of the “NOW WOMEN” project and the solo exhibition “homeland landscapes” of Emilia Tsekoura, the participants examine the status of women through time, understand the stereotypes and express themselves through creative writing.

Duration 75'

Recommended for children of Primary School Grades 5-6 and Junior High School.

I make my own Avatars

Based on the two work on show— Jnana Mudra and Minoan Goddess

As Emilia Tsekoura describes it, “we shall analyze the works, studying the different figures-avatars I made myself as an expression of love to two pursuits that are therapeutic for me: healing yoga and apitherapy. The figures-avatars I designed are a kind of an art of returning to nature, meshing as it does the natural forms with myths of the earth and heaven (primordial dream); in another way, it is a return to yper-nature (surrealism), the one we keep building with our desires, the one we impose on everyday reality.”

The time has come to design our own avatars — figures inspired by a special love for nature, a cartoon figure or an animal, real or fictional, always with the aim of getting to know our self and the way we evolve.

Duration 90'

Recommended for children of Primary School Grades 5-6 and Junior High School