Help me give my students Claymation sculpting kits so they can visually tell the story of their journey to America for the whole world to see!
$738 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Brave Newcomers, hailing from central America Maya communities and refugee camps in central Africa, attending their first year in US school as part of MNPS' innovative Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) program. Many as schooling pioneers in their families!
My Project
Our students come to us with many spoken languages; their national languages (Spanish and Swahili), and many traditional living languages (Q'eqchi, Mam, Chuj, Achi, Q'anjob'al, Kibembe, Acholi, Kituba ). But their cultures and migrations provide experiences and knowledge that extend beyond just words. They live visual and physical stories of hardship, bravery, fear, opportunity, and local and global change. We want each child to create their own claymation movie of their immigration experience.
With this project, we will give voice to the hundreds of thousands of families seeking refuge and opportunity in America through the creative and personal expression of our students real life stories.
We are inspired by the work of Edgar Humberto Álvarez, a Columbian stop-motion artist posting migration stories on Twitter @altereddie. We aim to couple this with the educational philosophies of "100 languages of Children" (Reggio Emilia) which focuses on Arts and Culturally relevant curriculum models, and "Funds of Knowledge" (Gonzalez, Moll, Amanti), which focuses on whole-child development through family experiences.
Each student will be provided the clay, sculpting materials and set design/backdrop materials needed through this fundraiser. In additional, each student will be instructed by a local Emmy-winning Special Effects Artist on basic sculpting techniques (Ben Rittenhouse, donating time). All students already have computers provided through MNPS. We will weave in English literacy, literature, physical and social sciences, and mathematics with an art therapy, social-emotional, inter-disciplinary approach. We hope you are as inspired by the potential of this idea as we are! We believe it will benefit not only our students, but hopefully reach the hearts of minds of those with similar backgrounds, and the those open to learning from this generation of change-makers.
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