World Premiere at least in 64 countries!

This in unbelievable... the success of this play seems to be phenomenal. The Drops Of Life will be performed 29th of May, simultaneously in at least 64 countries, including every continent (not North Pole or Antarctica yet... :-)).

See the current list of performing schools here.

Manuscript in other languages

Download The Drops Of Life in different languages (pdf). If the link in your language is missing please volunteer to translate it and send to mika@enoprogramme.org

• Albanian
• Arabic translated by Shirin Al-Khassa, Kuwait
  
• Azerbaijani (HƏYAT DAMCILARI) translated by Irada Aliyeva
  
• Bulgarian (Капките на живота) translated by the actors
• Croatian (Kapi Života) translated by Darko Herbai and Marica Cik–Adaković
  
• Czech
• Dutch (Levensdruppels) by Marleen Spierings
  
• English, translated by Mika Vanhanen and Minna Kettunen
• Estonian ( Elu Piisad) by Aiki Jõgeva
• Finnish ( Elämän Pisarat, an original version)
• French (Les Gottes D'Eau) by Mrs Elena Marasescu
• German (Die Tropfen Des Lebens) , translated by Petra Niehardt
  
• Greek (Σταγόνες ζωής) translated by Katerina Apostolopoulou
• Hebrew
  
• Icelandic (Dropar lífsins), translated by Eva Káradóttir
• Indonesian
• Isizulu (Amathonsi Empilo) by students at the univ. of Witwatersrand, South Africa
  
• Italian (Gocce Di Vita) translated by Marinella Olivieri
• Japanese
• Kiswahili (Matone Ya Maisha) translated by Ann Nganga
  
• Latvian (Dzivinosie Pilien)i by Silvia, Dobele Primary School
  
• Lithuanian (Gyvybės Lašai) translated by Aldute Kazlauskiene
• Macedonian (Kapki Prevod) by Natalija Aceska
  
• Malay
• Mandarin
• Maori
• Ndebele
  
• Nepali by Nawaraj Baskota & Nobel Academy, Kathmandu
  
• Persian, translated by Helia Hosseini
• Polish
• Portuguese (As Gotas de Vida) translated by Dulce P. Casarin
  
• Romanian (Picaturi de viata), translated by Georgiana Munteanu
• Russian («Капли жизни» translated by students (16 yrs) and their English teacher Ludmila Kurdu, Slonim Gymnasia, Belarus
  
• Serbian (Kapi Života) translated by Jasna Mirić, a student
  A Cyrilic version here
• Sepedi (Marothodi A Bophelo) translated by students at The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Sesotho (Marathodi A Bophelo) translated by students at the university of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  
• Shona (and English, "Madonwe Ehupenyu") translated by Fadzai Nyajina
• Sinhalese
• Siswati (Ematfonsi Emphilo) translated by students at the university of the Witwaterstand, South Africa
  
• Slovak (Kvapky života) translated by Gabriela Blaskova
• Slovenian (Kaplje Življenja) translated by Milena Ristič
  another version in Slovenian by Maja Bozicnik
  
• Spanish (Gotas De Vida), translated by Jone Retolaza
• Another Spanish version by Luis Pinto, Chile
  
• Taiwanese
• Tamil
• Tswana
• Turkish (Hayatın Damlaları ) by Rabia Yýldýran
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Uzbek (Hayot Tomchilari) translated by Sophia/ENO Teacher
  
• Zulu
• Xitsonga and Tshivhenda, translated by
  students at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  

Manuscripts in other languages/ logo for the play?

Dear participants,

we need to get the message spread around the world.

if you have translated the play into your language please send it to mika@enoprogramme.org
I will collect them and put them available here.

We also would like to get drawings by students concerning the play and actually would like to get suggestions for the logo? You can send them to same email mika@enoprogramme.org

And please also send photos/ video clipses!

Instructions

If your school or children/youth group would like to perform this play you are allowed to do it. But please note that you have to follow these instructions:

THE DROPS OF LIFE

REGISTRATION AND ACCEPTANCE

1. Send email to mika@enoprogramme.org and include
   
   a) your full name
   b) school name
   b) your location(city, town)
   c) your country
   d) the estimated date for your premier
   
   
2. You can proceed after an acceptance by the coordinator (email)

START THE PROCESS

1. Download the manuscript in the blog (if you don’t have it yet)
2. Start to read it through with your students
3. Practise the play and the songs
4. Perform your premiere.

MUSIC

To make it easy for schools we have made background music available in the blog. You can download the songs and play them on the background while children are singing. You can also use your school orchestra or band instead. It is also recommendable to get your school choir involved!

AFTER THE PLAY

Please send photos and videos by email to videos@enoprogramme.org

IMPORTANT: YOU HAVE TO REGISTER YOUR EVENT HERE

LANGUAGE

1. The orginal manuscript is in Finnish. It is also translated into English. Teachers are free to translate the play into their language. If you do, please inform us about it. The songs are not easy to translate but you are welcome to do it. We have to get the message through.

HINTS

1. Invite local decision makers and people to your world premiere.
2. Inform local media about this extraordinary event.
3. Prepare the info and posters about animals, trees and environmental issues and put them available for public who will come to see your play
4. Take your premiere on video.

LIMITATIONS

1. The performers are children and youth. Every performance is free for public. It is also possible to ask small fees (or voluntarily) from audience if:

A) All the money is spent on buying seedlings and plant them OR

B) All the money is donated to Green Belt Movement: http://www.greenbeltmovement.org

If you have questions and comments please send them to Mika Vanhanen , mika@enoprogramme.org

World Water Day 2007/ Manuscript now available!

'Coping with Water Scarcity' is the theme for World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on 22 March. The theme highlights the significance of cooperation and importance of an integrated approach to water resource management of water at both international and local levels.

Equity and rights, cultural and ethical issues are essential to be addressed when dealing with limited water resources. Imbalances between availability and demand, the degradation of groundwater and surface water quality, intersectoral competition, interregional and international disputes, all center around the question of how to cope with scarce water resources.

As themes for World Water Day are similar to The Drops Of Life we want to celebrate the day and send our contribution: The English manuscript of The Drops Of Life is now available here! If your school is interested in performing the global premiere with us on 29th of May just send your contact information here.

Download the English manuscript (and sheet music) here.

World Water Day 2007:
http://www.worldwaterday.org/page/107

Preparations in Botswana

This message comes from John Nswazwi Junior Secondary, Botswana:

We had decided to have our own perspective about the play and stage it our way. There are four (4) government schools that have shown interest and have started working on the play.the schools are John Nswazwi Junior Secondary, Sua Junior Secondary, Nxakato Junior Secondary,and Dukwi Junior Secondary. Teachers of Enlish language also play a major role in assisting us to achieve our objectives.These schools have worked as partners in so many activities, that is why we are sure that this activity shall not fail.

The drama competitions are scheduled for next monday (26/03/07) in the afternoon here at our school. We have invited the public to attend as well as elders of the village. the reason why monday was agreed on is because we shall be going on vacation soon (04/04/2007) until early May, so we wanted to finish this term's activities then start on a clean slate in the coming one.

Jerry

BW02

The Drops Of Life in Cape Town

See some photos here from our school in Cape Town, South Africa. These students at Siyazingisa Primary school will perform The Drops Of Life there.

Related Links

SUMMARIES OF SOME ACTIVITIES IN THE ENO PROGRAMME 2000-2007

2001

Forests
http://www.edu.joensuu.fi/eno/summaries/summary02.htm

2003:
Water: Share it!
http://www.edu.joensuu.fi/eno/newspapers.htm

2004:
Climate Change
http://www.edu.joensuu.fi/eno/summarynature04.htm

2006:
Food From Forests
http://eno.joensuu.fi/themes/theme2summary.htm

2007:
Climate Change Campaign
http://enocc.blogspot.com


TREE PLANTING ACTIVITIES

2004: ENO Tree Planting Day
http://www.edu.joensuu.fi/eno/trees2004/treedatabase.htm

2005: ENO Tree Planting Day
Photos and information:
http://eno.joensuu.fi/treephotos2005.htm

2006: ENO Tree Planting Day
http://enotreeplanting2006.blogspot.com

2007: ENO Tree Planting Campaign
100 000 trees:
http://eno.joensuu.fi/campaign2007

Climate change and desertification

Desertification and climate change are hot topics today. More than 100 countries are suffering the consequences of desertification, or land degradation in dryland areas. The links between climate change and desertification are recognised by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,

BASIC FACTS

Climate change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change

Desertification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification


WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAYS 2006, 2007

WED 2006: Don't Desert Drylands

WED 2007: Melting Ice - A Hot Topic?


ENVIRONMENTAL CARTOONS:
http://www.inklinepress.com/beast/head-in-sand.html

Background info about the animals and trees

Please find here some links to information about the animals and trees that are in the play.

ANIMALS

KOALA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala
An endangered specie by IUCN

PUMA/COUGAR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar
An endangered specie by IUCN

OWL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl
Endangered Owls by IUCN (201 species)

GORILLA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla
Endagered gorillas by IUCN


PANDA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda
An endangered specie by IUCN


TREES

ACACIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia

FIR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fir

EUCALYPTUS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus

The Drops Of Life in Icelandic - other languages?

The Drops Of Life have been translated in many languages, the latest languages are Icelandic and Slovakian. Please let us know if you have translated the play in your language? Send email to mika@enoprogramme.org

The Drops Of Life in Sri Lanka

Hi everybody,

Our children are very interested about the drama. Now they are practising it. I'll send the video clipse later.

Thanks!

D.Ambalampitiya,

Children's Art Circle, LK 01

Colombo,

Sri Lanka.

Costumes out of recycled materials!

This excellent idea for costumes in the play comes from Cape Town, South Africa!

Siyazingisa Primary school will start their first rehearsal on Friday... the school waste club will be making the costumes out of waste recycled materials. Their teacher Xoliswa Fuyani will take some clipses on video.

New Audio Versions!

Hi!

We have now two sets of audio versions for you:

1) An instrumental pack
2) Songs with vocals (English)

They are in mp3 format. Feel free to download them
to your PC and make a cd of the songs. It is good for the
practising.

Find the AUDIO STUFF HERE.

Briefly about the songs

Song I: A Tickling Song : A funny song where animals feel itchy and scratch each other.

Song II : A Tree Planting Song: The animals plant their seeds and seedlings.

Song III: Water Blues : This song is about the importance of water. As animals are digging the ground searching for water this is a work song, a blues. Water Blues.

Song IV: There Are No Walls Between Us :The last song in the play, about the importance of environmental protection and co-operation.

To make this as easy as possible, we have made audio background music for participating schools. They can play the music on the background and sing. There is also sheet music available here in the blog.

Song IV: There Are No Walls Between Us

Here is the Song IV. In this version the author of this play (Mr Esko-Pekka Tiitinen) plays flute in intro and other parts.

An instrumental version:

Song IV: There Are No Wall Between Us ( FINAL), mp3

Updated sheet music for The Drops Of Life

Hi!

I made some corrections and added sheet music (chorus part). Please use this sheet music in your play. It is available in English and in Finnish.




Download sheet music here in English

Lataa Elämän Pisarat -nuotit täältä suomeksi

School from Germany and 54 countries

Wilhelm-Kaisen-Schule from Bremen (Germany) joined the drops of life. There are now 54 countries involved.

See the current list of participating schools (to be updated during March) here.

School from Jordan and 53 countries so far

Amman Baccalaureate school from Jordan joined our group and will perform The Drops Of Life 29th of May 2007. We have now schools already from 53 countries who will take part. And as the process will start at some new schools during 2-3 weeks we will get more schools and countries. I wonder if this kind of world premiere have ever been arranged?

Song III: Water Blues

Here is the audio file for the background. It was nice to make this recording. It was my first time to practise how to play slide guitar. I found a small bottle (an empty one :-) ) of cough medicine, put it in to my finger and slided it. It was fun though my children thought it was annoying because I practised half an hour.... not medicine for their ears....

AUDIO

Water Blues ( FINAL, mp3)


UPDATED SHEET MUSIC

Water Blues(pdf)

Tree Planting Day in Iran and 1100 trees!

A national tree planting day was celebrated today in Iran. One of the Iranese ENO schools Sepehr Primary School went to Pardisan park in Iran Environment Organization and planted about 1 100 trees and sang the tree planting song. ENO students formed a separate group . Each group searched about one tree species then made a wallpaper and paper about it. ENO students told their information to other students. Some of the news channel and newspaper came and made reports. We miss you because we had a very special day but I send these picture for you.

Thanks
Helia Hosseini
SEPEHR PRIMARY SCHOOL(IR07)

A Tree Planting Song ready for you

Hi!

It is Sunday evening here in Finland. We just started our week-off from school because it is our sports week.

To celebrate the holiday I made tree planting song ready for the play. It is instrumental version, you can listen to vocal version here in the blog. This version is final and meant to be played on the background when this is sung.

Download the music here:
A Tree Planting Song, final version (instrumental)/mp3

First rehearsals at Pataluoto School, Finland

Today we had a workshop about The Drops Of Life at Pataluoto School, Finland. We introduced the play for students and our school choir got to hear the music for the play.

We will have two performances at Pataluoto School: the first (and global premiere) 29th of May 2007. The second one will be 31st of May 2007. As so many students were interested we made two castings and two performances.