Greensburg Teachers are gearing up as well

Hi Everyone: It's Amy Baldonieri - I am the Assistant Director for Advancement here at The Westmoreland and this is my first post to the blog. I have been meeting and e-mailing with Greensburg Salem High School teachers to get the project rolling this year. Returning to the project are Mrs. Audia and Mrs. Redinger and new to the project is Mrs. Grace, our French teacher, who will be traveling with me and curator Barbara Jones to Germany in November. On Wednesday, October 6, Mrs. Audia and I will make a presentation to the Greensburg Salem High School Faculty in order to recruit more teachers to participate in the project with their students. The centerpiece of this fall's activities will be a student-planned exhibition that will open here at The Westmoreland on November 19, when Stephanie Buchholz from the LVR Industriemuseum, along with teachers Mr. Bugdoll, Ms. Wiethaup and Ms. Zini will be visiting from Germany. The exhibition will then go to Oberhausen in January. We are all very excited about the coming activities for Building a Transatlantic Bridge. Although we are sad that Katie Barnard has left the Museum to become a teacher, I am glad that her departure allows me to travel to Germany in her place and experience this project first-hand. I have been behind the scenes since the beginning and meeting and interacting with the teachers and students will be a real treat for me! I look forward to meeting everyone.

Débat d’idées

Samstag, 2. Oktober 2010, 18:00 - 21:00 Uhr

Französischer Abend im LVR-Industriemuseum als Begleitveranstaltung zur Ausstellung „Feuerländer – Regions of Vulcan“.

Neben der Ausstellung ist der Umgang mit dem industriellen Erbe in Frankreich und Deutschland Thema eines Podiumsgesprächs: einer débat d’idées.

Welche Rolle spielt auf französischer Seite das Écomusée und welche das LVR-Industriemuseum in Deutschland? Schließlich gelten beide Häuser seit ihrer Gründung in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren als Pionierunternehmen in Sachen Industriekultur.

Was ist aus der damaligen Aufbruchstimmung geworden? Welche neuen Herausforderungen gilt es zu bestehen? Lässt sich voneinander lernen?

Darüber diskutieren Verantwortliche der entsprechenden Museen.

Eingeladen sind Prof. Dominique Ferriot (1988-2000 Direktorin des Musée des Art et Métiers, Paris), Dr. Walter Hauser (Direktor des LVR-Industriemuseums), Bernard Clément (Direktor des Écomusée Creusot-Montceau) und Dr. Jochem Putsch (Leiter Schauplatz Solingen des LVR-Industriemuseums).

Führung durch die Ausstellung und Moderation: PD Dr. Thomas Schleper (Kurator der Ausstellung „Feuerländer“). In Zusammenarbeit mit dem deutsch-fanzösischen Kulturzentrum Essen und mit Unterstützung von Immeo-Wohnen sowie der Kulturabteilung der Französischen Botschaft.

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LVR-Industriemuseum Schauplatz Oberhausen

Kesselhaus der Zinkfabrik Altenberg

Hansastraße 20

46049 Oberhausen

Meeting our teachers

Yesterday we met our teachers. We talked about the current school projects and about the projects in the near future. Our big closing ceremony "Thanksgiving is coming" in November, 12 was also part of our conversation. The schools will think about ways to participate.

One more topic was planning the travel to Greensburg and the visit of our American friends to "Thanksgiving is coming". We also talked about the exhibit "Transatlantic Bridge", that will come next year to Germany.

The photo shows the hall of the LVR-Industriemuseum, that will present the exhibit "Transatlantic Bridge".

NRZ, 24.08.2010

New project about paintings

Students from the Gymnasium im Gustav-Heinemann-Schulzentrum soon start a conversation with American students about:

- paid work (after school and during term break) and after schoolwork
- holidays - keeping traditions alive
- sport
- take your child to work day (do you still do this?)
- migration and immigration (minortities and ethnic groups)
- eating habits

The German students use the catalouges "Born of fire" and "Feuerländer" to find examples of paintings, that show seasons. The class will search for similar motifs in the Ruhr Valley and
photograph them. Later the students will analyze them in the school lessons and create a video.

New project with French classes starting soon

A new project is going to start in this new year of school.
The idea is, that American and German students use a "second" language as a way to communicate. The students from Oberhausen and Greensburg will start a communication
via email. They'll talk about their hobbies, about school and family.
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