I will never forget the day when Nick Maley (of Star
Wars fame) visited the children I was working with.
I had organized a Star Wars themed drawing session
before our guests arrived.
After being introduced to Yoda, who Nick brought with
him in a suitcase, and chatting to the other characters from the Star Wars’ fan
club, Nick sat down for a serious chat with the children.
I remember being very impressed by what he said. He is
a natural at motivational speaking although in a very informal way. I hope that
I was able to communicate Nick’s enthusiasm through my translation into
German. By the look on the children’s
faces I think I succeeded. They were all listening to him with their full
attention.
Having magic-ed Yoda out of his suitcase as soon as he
arrived and set him on the table beside him he had all eyes on him and the
children were all ears.
I have a budding artist and Star Wars fan amongst my
young clients who was especially interested in all Nick Maley was saying
especially when he asked us to try to be creative at least once a day.
I try to do this myself but do not always manage
it. More important to me is that I
encourage the children and adult clients to be creative and to provide them
with as many opportunities as possible to do so.
Art at the Congress
Art at the Congress
The WCCE9 ended,
as it also did in 2013 in Munich, with the presentation of prizes for the
5th International Drawing and Painting Competition. The children were so proud as they collected
their prizes in front of us all and in front of the screen that showed all the entries.
I hope that for the next conference that I manage to organize
our activities to include creating paintings with the children to enter in the next competition. I missed it this year.
References
5th International Drawing and Painting
Competition 2016 –
No comments:
Post a Comment