World Doll Day may be over, but it's never too late to share the joys and moments of your special doll or puppet. Volunteer Manuela Kelly Calzini invites you to share stories - real or imagined - of your travelling dolls!
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We are all facing a pandemic, each one in our own country. Everybody is at home, it is not possible to travel or visit a new place, and it is pretty hard to make new friends. Is it? Not for us!
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In today’s blog, Palestinian teachers Haneen Jadallah, Rana Musallam, Amal Mukhairez and Samir Salama talk about their experiences presenting on a variety of topics at the 54th IATEFL conference.
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Weathering the storm. Dwelling in positivity. These names refer to different phases of the University of Stirling’s Separated in Scotland research project on supporting separated migrant children in times of crisis. The Hands Up Project were invited to become one of the project partners.
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We’ve restarted our weekly drop in sessions for Remote Theatre. These take place every Wednesday at 3pm Palestine time and they’re open and free to any teacher with some experience to come along with some of their students to rehearse a remote play. Please let us know if you’d like to take part.
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This week we have a special post written by Nguyễn Duy Khang, Senior Lecturer at Can Tho University in Vietnam, and one of the participants on the recent Remote Theatre course that Nick ran for Vietnamese teachers.
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Mark looks back at our Hands Up Project World Environment Day event, organised by Nick, Sara and Raja’a.
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This weeks blog post is by Rida Thabet, UNRWA Education Specialist in Gaza and Hands Up Project Trustee
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Remote theatre (and its later variant Lockdown theatre) was born and bred in Gaza. So we invited some remote theatre specialists from there (Amal Mukhairez, Haneen Jadalla, Rinan Jamal and Soha Isleem) to come along and watch the final performances and provide some feedback.
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“Three-quarters of the world’s major conflicts have a cultural dimension. Bridging the gap between cultures is urgent and necessary for peace, stability and development.”
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The last year has not been an easy one. We have all had to adapt, to question our habits, change our routines, in short to look at almost every aspect of our lives and wonder if they can somehow be done differently.
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Rereading some of the “oldie but goodie blogs”, I came across this one and thought how well it could work in some of the Zoom sessions that I’m doing with students connecting from home. Most of the activities suggested here would work in online groups, using a combination of breakout rooms and simple adaptations. In fact, I think I’ll try some this week..
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Today is the 9th, April, and to you it could be just another normal day, but to me, it is a very special one. And here’s why!
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On the 19th February, I gave a talk with this title at the British Council BBELT conference in Mexico. I’m publishing the abstract and the video of the talk here…
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Would you like to meet other families somewhere in the world and share with them what ‘home’ means to you?
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At the Hands up Project, we love doing intercultural link ups between young people in different places in the world. You can read in a book about what it's like to live in a particular place but it all becomes so much more engaging, and the learning is much richer when you actually hear about it from young people of your age who live there themselves.
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Organizing for change! Volunteer Sue Piper tells us about an evening of togetherness across the internet.
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'Hey everybody! I've got this really useful tool! It's made of purple and clear plastic, and it's got bristles on the end (that's the bit that you put in your mouth). I use it for brushing my teeth every day. It's called a toothbrush!'
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A blog from Hands Up Project volunteer and storyteller, Cassandra Wye, full of brilliant ideas for storytelling with young learners. Thanks, Cassandra!
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This week's blog comes from volunteer Becca Young whose tireless efforts have led to our first contact in the U.S.A.
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