Rehearsals in Kranj Slovenia

OS Jakoba Aljaza from Kranj, Slovenia have started their rehearsals. Their teacher Milena Ristic translated the play into Slovenian. You can find the manuscript in different languages here.

Rehearsals in Plunge, Lithuania

Here are some photos from Plunge Academic Adolfas Jucys Basic School Lithuania.

Photos from Baru, Romania

Here are some picture of our rehearsal of Drops of Life in English with our 7th grade students from Scoala Generala cu cls. I-VIII Petros-Baru, Romania.

Sincerely,

Ana Tecau

Rehearsals in Brno, Czech Republic

Hello from Brno, Czech republic.

I´m enclosing some photos from our rehearsals of the play. Our school is going to plant some trees in our school´s area during the event on the 29th of May and there are going to be presented projects on the five animals appearing in the play.

Many greetings

Lenka Tálská
Klasické a španělské gymnázium Brno-Bystrc, Czech Republic

Children's Art Circle, Sri Lanka

Hi,

To day we had some rehearsals and forward some attached photos for you.

D.Ambalampitiya.

Children's Art Circle LK01.

Grupul Scolar Industrial "LETEA" Bacau, Romania

The group of students who prepares the play "Drops of Life" is rehearsing one hour daily.It is formed of the following pupils: CATRINTAS MARIUS, LAZAR IONUT, VASILACHE GEORGE, BULIGA ALEXANDRA, ENACHE ANDREEA, CORPACEAN VIORELA, TARANU MARIA. They are led by their teachers:Clara Sdrobis, Diana Mitrut, Lenus Larion, Tania Radu

The pupils of the 9th C grade from Letea Highschool together with their teacher, Ciprian Zamfir have planted 15 chestnuts in the courtyard on the 3rd of May, 2007.They intend to continue these types of activities untill the 5th of June 2007, The international Day of the Environment.

Participants from New Zealand, Oceania

Three schools in Australia and one school in New Zealand will perform our play. This photo comes from Riverlands School in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand.

"Here is a group of children from our class auditioning for their parts in the drops of life play. We are year 6's from Riverlands School in New Zealand."

Teacher Gaylene

Rehearsals from Tehran, Iran

Hello!

We are practising The Drops Of Life play everyday for 45 minutes because I want to have a children orchestra. It is a bit hard but I think it will be so interested .We ordered this animal cloths for our students,too.
Thanks
Helia Hosseini
SEPEHR PRIMARY SCHOOL(IR07)

Rehearsals from Galati, Romania

The teachers Diana Giurea (responsabile for the music), Elena Marasescu and Madalina Popescu (both responsabile for the acting part) are coordinating the students' activity from the National College "Mihail Kogalniceanu",Galati, Romania, who are participating at the play.

In the clip and the photos there are some scenes from a musical rehearsal.

We have 7 students in the choir and 4 singers, and also the past week we have established who the actors will be. We have decided to have acting rehearsals on Thursday and Friday and musical ones on Thursday and Saturday. We have also decided that it is best to have the premiere in June, either on the 4th or the 5th.

We will send you as soon as possible a list of the students, more photos and clips.

Here is the link for the clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsIiFbWLw9M

Best wishes,

Madalina Popescu

Video and audio from rehearsals

VIDEOS

PREMIERE 29th of MAY

Pataluoto School, Finland:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4437869565014133472

Fengshin Senior High School, Taiwan:
mms://vod.fcsh.khc.edu.tw//Activities/produce.wmv

Jakoba Aljaza Primary School, Kranj, Slovenia:
their video

REHEARSALS

• Kaunas Vydunas Secondary School, Lithuania
  
  Tree Planting Song:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=nneKZ0oB1w4
  
  Hoo, Asia, can you hear us?
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=pXqvi_5SiKM

• National College "Mihail Kogalniceanu",Galati, Romania (in YouTube):
  "There Are No Walls Between Us"
  "A Tree Planting Song"
  Act in Romanian
  

• "Sava Popovici Barcianu", Rasinari, Sibiu, Romania (.avi files):
  Scratching
  Tree Planting song
  

• Serbia: High School of Economics, Belgrade( .wmv)
  

AUDIO STUFF

Tree Planting Song by Hristo Botev Secondry School, Vratza, Bulgaria (mp3)

Rehearsals and posters from Ankara, Turkey

These posters and photos come from Yuce Primary School, Ankara, Turkey.
Students are 2nd graders. Teacher Elif Berk coordinates this event at school.

Photos and videos from Rasinari, Romania

See two video clipses and photos from school "Sava popovici Barcianu" from Rasinari (Sibiu) in Romania.










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A child appears

Translations into 8 languages in South Africa

There are 11 official languages in South Africa. Students (school of education) have been translated The Drops Of Life into at lest 8 languages. They come from The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Thanks also to their energetic teacher, Barbara Thorne!

Performers in Kaunas, Lithuania

They will perform The Drops Of Life at Kaunas Vydunas Secondary School,
their teacher is Rasma Stuokiene

A video clipse from Serbia

Students at High School of Economics (Belgrade Zemun) had their first rehearsals.
See their video below:

kapi.wmv

Performers in Bacau, Romania

These students at Grup Scolar Industrial "LETEA" will perform
The Drops Of Life in Bacau, Romania. Their teacher is Tania Radu.

New versions in Bulgarian, Portuguese and Xitsonga

You can find new versions about The Drops Of Life in Bulgarian, Portuguese and Xitsonga/Tshivhenda. All manuscripts in different languages (to be updated) can be found here.

Bilingual performances

As the language can be a barrier, many teachers around the world have translated the play into their native languages. For instance, in South Africa this play will be translated into 8 languages out of their 11 official ones! You can find the manuscripts in different languages under "MANUSCRIPT&MUSIC".

It is not easy to translate the songs. Many schools will perform the play in their own language but sing the songs in English. Some schools do the play also in English even though it is not an official language in their country.

For instance SchoolNetMali-Mokoya Juru from Bamako (Mali) will perform this play in French but the kids will sing the songs in English. They will also be intereviewed and their comments will be heard later in ENO Radio. Deborah Soumaoro is the coordinator of this play in Mali.

More participants from Trinidad Tobago

Two more schools and clubs will join The Drops Of Life in Trinidad Tobago. Involved will be ASPNet and UNESCO clubs, two new schools: Curepe Anglican Primary, and Patna Village Primary. They will have assistance from the Creative Arts Section of the University, and they hope to use local steelband music from the schools.

The co-ordinator of these events is Gia Gaspard-Taylor.

Tree planting in Azerbaijan

We traditionally celebrate Novruz holiday on the 21 March taking care of our environment. For now above 1 million trees (fir-trees and pines) have been planted in various parts-regions of Azerbaijan. Over 100 000 trees have been planted in the Capital of Azerbaijan- Baku.

The process is going on as it's the best time for planting trees and bushes here. There are 65 administrative regions in my country and each region has recieved 60 thousand trees to plant.So it's a huge number and we hope that all the trees will grow well.

Now, on the whole Republic of Azerbaijan over half a million trees have been planted up today. The event is carried out by the foundation of President Heydar Aliyev. The foundation sends seedlings , trees and bushes to every corner of the Republic. A group of our school children went to the remote Guba region and planted trees in the area of summer camp for children. These students are to come back after finishing school and visit it . Each graduate of the Modern Educational Complex is to continue planting trees tradition each year.


Kindest regards
Az01
Irada Aliyeva