The musical Project you are about to watch is the final result of the European Educative Comenius Project under the name European Cultural Crisol -Melting Pot. The Project was created for our Secondary pupils by the teachers from our school Ildefonso Martos Carretero and José Manuel Gil Sánchez, with the collusion of our headmaster and the enthusiastic support of our firm’s head. We were chosen among other applicants by the Permanent Learning Program offered by the Autonomous Organization of Educational European Programs through our Government, the Conselleria de Educación de la Generalitat Valenciana, and we were granted with it for two school years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012.
Our Project is being carried out together with two associated European high schools. We have been working with them for these two years and now they are visiting us this week. Thus, we are all together today performing our musical play. Very soon we’ll go to Finland (in January 2012) and to Poland (in March the same year) in order to perform Melting Pot in the other participating countries.
The Project objectives were different. First of all we looked for an improvement in the students’ and teachers’ linguistic competences in English. Next we wanted our students to write a musical play which reflected the common values enhanced by the Permanent Learning Programmes: to make our cultures come closer and to reinforce the feeling of European Citizenship, our common but different reference. And all the work should be done in cooperation with the other countries, to get to know about each other and establish some links through the universal languages of music, dance and theatre.
We have created a play which deals with six fundamental issues: peace, democracy, tolerance, and fight against racism, sex and age discrimination. Moreover we have added a little show of our cultures and traditions and the places where we live, to finish with the performance of a song which shows our union in this wonderful experience we’re going through. All these matters will be mixed inside our Melting Pot, a metal container which was formerly used to mix different metals to create a newer stronger mixture. We’ll metaphorically mix our cultures to create a cresol from them, a newer and stronger Europe, more fraternal and multicultural.
We hope you enjoy the show. Curtain up.
Comenius Group
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