Premiere in Baru Mare, Romania

Here are pictures from our premiere production of Drops of Life! Our younger students performed the play in Romanian and our older students performed it in English. Our American volunteer Mr. Ted Baird provided guitar accompaniment and helped with our interpretation of the songs. Ms. Ana Tecau provided stage direction and organization of the play. The play will be performed as well on Friday, June 1st, for International Children's Day. Congratulations to all participating schools!

Sincerely,

Ana Tecau

Premiere in Uzbekistan

Hi, all ENO schools! I am from Uzbekistan. Our prem was a great success. We have performed "Drops of Life" three times! I am sending you some pictures. The decoration of the play was wonderful as you can see, so were the costumes. We performed the play in English as I am an English teacher. We learned all the 4 songs. My pupils liked them all. Our play was shown not only to our pupils but to all the English teachers of our town. My pupils enjoyed playing their roles! Mike, thank you for the play and the songs! We all together made an important contribution to our common cause - environment's protection.

Premiere in Galati, Romania

The premiere day was like a holiday for both the students and teachers from our school and many more.
The Drops of Life has finally come to the old Danube city, Galati. The play was a real hit, a real "drop" with the purpose to save the environment. On everyone's faces you could read the joy and happiness of being together with all the other children from around the world.
A special day when all the children 's voices said only one message: "Save the environment! Save the future!"
We wish to thank Mika for supporting us in all that we have done.
Soon I will send you by mail the recording (on a CD) from the premiere on the 29th of May 2007.

Madalina

Premiere in Brno, Czech Republic

Hello again,

though I understand you as well as your mail is very busy, I can´t help sending some of our fresh photos from the performance. Thank you for this exciting experience. The performance was a lively break in our school life and I hope it brought some "green" thoughts into our students minds.
Wishing all the best

Lenka Tálská
Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno Czech Republic

Premiere in Suceava, Romania

We are very happy that the play Drops of Life has been excellently performed by our pupils.We played it in English and we had a huge success.Thank you very much for this great possibility of doing something unique together.We send you some photos and some video(taken by a photo camera-we didn't have a video one- SORRY!!!!)


Best regards,
Doina Hrihorov
Scoala Ion Creanga Suceava
Romania

Premiere "The Drops of Life" in Plunge

It was a really exciting day - the 29 of May, 2007!
The participants of the ENO project, the 5b and 6a formers, together with their class teachers Rasa and Violeta, and music teacher Dalia showed an unforgettable play "THE DROPS OF LIFE" for all the school community. We had a guest from the Environment agency Nerijus Ablingis who evaluated the play and our pupils' effort to do their best as to protect and save our nature. The words of the last song "There are no Walls" inspired everybody to have in mind how important it is to live, love and care of every living being in whatever corner it may be.
There were reporters from the newspapers and Television, some parents, too.
Photos can be seen at: http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aldakazl/album?.dir=cbc0re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

Aldute Kazlauskiene,
Plunge academic Adolfas Jucys Basic School, LT 06

Premiere in Lithuania

We Are Part of the World

On the 29th of May 2007 Lithuania was among those 65 countries which took part in the world premiere of the play „The Drops of Life". The students of Class 8c in Vilnius „Juventos" gymnasium did their best to get ready for the performance. We invited teachers, students and parents to enjoy the event. The audience was rather excited and liked the performance very much. There was loud applause for the actors and singers. The performance was a great success. All those present understood that environmental protection is a really urgent problem and something must be done to solve it.

Thank you for joining us that enourmous group of participants and making us feel part of the world. It was an interesting and useful experience.

With love and best wishes,

Galina Bogdanova, teacher of English

Premiere in Zimbabwe

Photos from premiere at High Glen WorldLinks -Harare Zimbabwe.

Premiere in Slovakia

We played Drops of life on 29th May 2007 and both teachers and children enjoyed performing the play! It was absolutely fantastic, kids were singing and performing with such a great enthusiasm! They are very young, kids from 7 - 10 years, so our performance was in Slovak language. It was raining all day, so our performance was taking place in a classroom.

Thank you for letting us know about drops of life, performing your play was an incredible experience for us!

Best wishes,
Veronika Bonkova and Daniela Benickova from Basic School Opatova from Slovakia

Premiere in Slovenia

Our common premiere went on smoothly in our school. Kids did the play with a lot of enthusiasm and Mrs. Irena Senica was very glad about everything. We had two teams of children performing in both languages (Slovenian and English) and it was really nice. I could tell that the kids enjoyed the play just as well if not even more than the rest of us. We invited a representative from our National Environmental Coordination Office and there was also a few members from the local community present. Our school also used this opportunity to sign up the document which grants us the Eco-flag.

As soon as I sort the photos out, I'll send you some.

Greetings J.Kopar

Premiere at GS LETEA Bacau, Romania

Premiere in Poland

here is a photo of our performance in Poland :) See a video clipse also here:

http://efestival.profusehost.net/photo/thumbnails.php?album=18

School: Poland - Dolnoslaski Zaklad Doskonalenia Zawodowego, Wrocław
and teacher: Barbara Nowak

Thank you!
Halina Bednarz

Premiere in Moscow, Russia

We send you several foto about our performance and Russian text “Drops of Life” . The cultural counselor Kerstin Kronvall was in our school, Our children were happy, because she said that performance was perfect.

Liudmila Sukhanova, school 1129,Moscow, Russia

Premiere at "Sava Popovici Barcianu"Rasinari, Romania

WE HAd THE PREMIERE AT 12 O'CLOCK IT WAS A BIG SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!

A video will be sent to you as soon as possible.For the moment I can tell you we had as public
representatives of local authorities and also head teachers from 12 schools from Romania, parents, students. It was an very interesting experience and , by the way we are now invited to perform in all of this schools.Lot of work, no? The little actors was wonderful. Thank you to give us this wonderful opportunity to show our talents. Next week this show will be performed at a local tv channel. And I want to say our best regards to all actors all over the world who did their best today for a very important cause. we look now forward you news

Carmen
School "Sava Popovici Barcianu"Rasinari
Romania

Premiere at Kyykeri School, Outokumpu, Finland

Mr Esko-Pekka Tiitinen, the author of The Drops Of Life come from Outokumpu, Finland. Outokumpi is situated about 40 km from Joensuu.

The premiere was performed by kids at Kyykeri School. Their teacher Annukka Tiitinen (Mika's sister) coordinated the play at Kyykeri.

A wonderful performance. I was invited to see this premiere!

Mika

Follow our premiere live here!

Follow our premiere at Pataluoto School here!
At 3:40 PM UTC (local time here in Finland 6:40 PM)

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See today's play online from Pataluoto School!

Hi!

Happy to share this video with you: our last rehearsal today at Pataluoto School.
You need RealPlayer to be able to see it:
http://video.joensuu.fi:8080/ramgen/eno/drops.rm

The Drops Of Life was a success in Taiwan today!

Dear Mika and All,

Fenghsin senior high school is so proud to present our drama today. It was a great success. Many students and teachers are so touched by our show. Thank you, Mika, for your wonderful coordination and songs. Thank all other participants. It is so good to work together.
You can see the pictures here:
http://elite.fcsh.khc.edu.tw/1000110129/The%20Drops%20of%20Life/index.html ( site is for MS Internet Explorer)
We would try to upload our video later.
Wish every participating school a successful premiere.

Faye
National Fenghsin Senior High
Taiwan TW02

A Phenomenal Event Today in 65 countries!

A Phenomenal Global Children's Play Today in 65 countries!

29th of May 2007
Joensuu, Finland

A new children's play called The Drops Of Life will have its world premiere today. This play is about the importance of environmental protection and co-operation. The original idea for this play came from the ENO Programme that organises a tree planting day on the international day for peace in September. There was a need for a play that could be performed at schools to celebrate the day.

The Drops Of Life has been created purely on a voluntary basis. The original manuscript is made by a Finnish writer and artist, Mr Esko-Pekka Tiitinen. The music and the English translation are by Mr Mika Vanhanen, the co-founder and co-ordinator of the ENO Programme.

The premiere on the 29th of May will be very special because it will take place simultaneously at ENO schools in about 65 countries, on every continent. The manuscript is available will cover over 40 languages. The Drops Of Life is a highlight for the World Environment Day 2007. It is also a part of ENO 2007 Tree Planting Campaign and linked to UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign. The Finnish premier will be streamed online from Finland today at 3:30 UTC.

We are ready in Baru, Romania

The countdown ... we are all very excited about tomorrow... I'm sendiny you some pictures from today. We decided to have the play both in Romanian (younger students) and English (older ones).

The pictures: our younger students rehearsing and the final comments about tomorrow (you can see from their faces how happy they are!)

Thanks for giving us this opportunity to share...

Ana Tecau
Scoala Generala cls. I-VIII Petros - Baru, Romania

School 205 is ready today!

School 205, Bucharest, Romania is ready for the "Drops of Life" premiere.
Two different groups of students from the 4th grade will perform the play in English and Romanian.

Here are some pics from our last rehearsals on May 28th and the poster created by our 4th grade students.

Photos from Iran

Photos from Shahid Mahdavi Educational Complex, Iran.

A live broadcast from Joensuu, Finland tomorrow!

A LIVE BROADCAST 29th OF MAY 2007:

FOLLOW THE DROPS OF LIFE in Finland 29th of May AT 3:30 PM UTC, CLICK HERE (you need a RealPlayer).

What is your local time on Tuesday at 3:30 PM UTC? See here:

Photos from Germany