Nordic Visions - Raising Awareness on Cultural ans Social Sustainable Development through Arts
Two folk high schools : Sverigefinska folkhögskolan, SVEFI in Haparanda, Swedenand Jyväskylän kristillinen opisto, Jyväskylä Christian Institute, JKO , in Jyväskylä , Finland, are working together in workshops, learn foreign languages and communication skills and team work. 

 In this blog you can follow their journey!


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Visiting Art museum of Aine

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Student- and teacher exchange project, Thursday: Lighting, sound and art

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Jyväskylän kristillinen opisto's students are at work combining lighting, sound and art. On Thursday we made a performance about autumn. First we divided our group in half so the others were working with the lights and the others with the sound. The music group recorded sounds that they thought reflected autumn. For example they recorded people eating apples. The light group prepared the stage. We brought leaves from outside, put colorful fabrics on the floor and made a tree from cardboard. The light group also set the lights in their right positions. After couple of hours the light group and the music group united and we started to put our performance together. We listened what the music group had recorded and started to think about the lights and the story. We made one scene at a time. Sometimes we thought about the story first and after that the lights, sometimes it was the other way around. When creating the story we just improvised and tried different things. We decid...
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Art exhibit by the students of Jyväskylän kristillinen opisto and Svefi. Our last night together there was a culture-evening at the school and we presented what we had done during the week.  Putting up our exhibition. Abstract geometric- and line-art made with acryl-colours. Charcoal art. Abstract geometric- and line-art made with pencils and markers. Some portraits also! Abstract geometric shapes.
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