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ABC – MEDITATION COURSE 17/03/2024

Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.
For children and adolescents from 8 to 18 years of age

This course teaches the technique of Anapana meditation, a preparatory step for Vipassana meditation.
Anapana means the observation of natural, normal breathing, as it comes in, as it goes out.

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FAMILY DAY ABC-HOUSE SUNDAY 21 APRIL 2024

HERITAGE DAY HOME
A space becomes a home, by the things you put in it, by the memories that are made there. The growth marks on the kitchen door, the handkerchief with your aunt’s initials embroidered on it, a recipe for your neighbor across the street’s cookies, a jar of soil from your grandmother and grandfather’s country, …. in all homes, stories are created that, like your stories, live on as long as they are told or passed on.
Does your home offer protection, are there palm branches, bells or a lion’s head as a doorknob that keep evil spirits out? Is it the custom to take off your shoes immediately or ring the bell 3 times to let them know it’s you?
We will work with these questions and many more during Heritage Day. We’ll explore what houses here and around the world tell us about their inhabitants, make a memory box or sing lullabies passed down from generation to generation.
Welcome to the ABC home!

PRACTICAL
ABC House
Sunday 21/04/2024 // 10am- 4pm
All ages
Free in and out, reservations not required

ABC-HOUSE – BARBOTINE  / WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN 2023-2024

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‘Barbotine’ is the French word for the liquid mixture of clay and water that ceramists use to attach (or glue) different particles of clay together.
During the Barbotine workshop, we will work with hands, feet and small tools to explore and experience the material in all its forms.

For parents and children between 2 and 4 years old.The workshop is given in Dutch and French.
One session takes place each month, please register for only one date so that everyone can get their turn.
Easy clothes that can get dirty and a set of clean clothes for after the workshop are recommended.

PRACTICAL
ABC House
Saturday from 9:30 am to 11:30 am
17/02, 16/03, 18/05,  15/06/2024
Registrations zoe@abc-web.be

ABC-HOUSE WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP FOR YOUNGSTERS

Do you like to leave the beaten path? Do you like to read between the lines? Together for a whole afternoon of ‘tentacular’ thinking, exploring, connecting, deepening, getting lost, imagining, philosophizing, playing, gaining special insights and discovering and developing your own interests in the process.
We work in thematic series of five Wednesdays. You register for each series or for the whole year (3 series, 15 workshops).

PRACTICAL
On Wednesdays from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For young people aged 12 to 15 years
Cost, including materials: 60 euros per series of 5 workshops or 150 euros for 3 series (15 workshops)
Registration via mail@abc-web.be

Theme 1, 08/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11 and 06/12/2023
Theme 2, 10/01, 17/01, 24/01, 31/01 and 07/02/2024
Theme 3, 28/02, 06/03, 13/03, 20/03 and 27/03/2024

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CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY

ABC RESEARCH CENTER
FREE RESEARCH – CONSULTATION DAYS ABC LIBRARY
Several days a month the house is open for free research and consultation in our library. Teachers, educators, students, parents, scientists, artists and other interested parties can spend an entire afternoon or evening finding inspiration, researching, preparing lessons, working on internship projects and meeting each other. Upon request, we are happy to give a tour of our collection or introduction to our way of working. An ABC staff member can support you in your research. Give us a call if you want to come, fresh coffee will be waiting for you!

PRACTICAL
Monday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
19/02, 04/03, 18/03, 15/04, 29/04, 13/05, 27/05, 10/06 and 24/06/2024
Tuesday from 5.30 p.m. tot 9.30 p.m.
16/01, 30/01, 13/02, 27/02, 12/03, 26/03, 09/04, 23/04, 07/05, 21/05, 04/06 and 18/06/2024
Other consultation times are available by appointment.

 

POSTA SILENZIOSA 03/2024

Every first day of the month ABC sends a mail: “Posta silenziosa.” A powerful image, a provocative quote, a poetic thought, etc., coming from the ABC collection or the web, and sometimes linked to one of our current projects, but mainly just because we like to surprise you. An eye- or heartcatcher, or call it ‘a healthy form of emotional irritation.’

Sign up here if you want to receive Posta Silenziosa.

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ARTS & EDUCATION

What can education learn from the arts about the practice of education? Elliot W. Eisner argues that the distinctive forms of thinking needed to create artistically crafted work are relevant not only to what students do, they are relevant to virtually all aspects of what we do, from the design of curricula, to the practice of teaching, to the features of the environment in which students and teachers live. Originally given as the John Dewey Lecture for 2002, Stanford University. Read more … WikiPedia …


Wat kan het onderwijs van de kunsten leren ? Elliot W. Eisner stelt dat de specifieke denkvormen die vereist zijn voor het creëren van kunstwerken niet alleen van belang zijn voor wat leerlingen doen, maar voor nagenoeg alles wat we doen, van het vormgeven van curricula, het onderwijzen zelf, tot het ontwerpen van de omgevingen waarin leerlingen en leraars leven. Origineel uitgesproken in 2002 als John Dewey Lecture aan de universiteit van Stanford. Lees meer … WikiPedia …

CREATIVITY & EDUCATION

RESPONDING TO CHILDREN’S ART

Lindy Anne Solomon, Creative Beginnings
A hands-on innovative approach to art making for adults and children. © STE Publishers, Johannesburg, 2005