Thank you

This blog has been running for approx. two years. We hope the site has given you an impression of our bilateral Comenius project during this time.

Our Comenius project ended on August 31th 2015. We will not update this blog, but the blog will be open for at least two more years. In this way, we hope that you, dear reader, will find inspiration to start similar or other cross-cultural projects. Moreover, please use the detailed information about how to build snow sculptures and kites. In addition, of course, please learn some English, Catalan and Norwegian language expressions.

Magne Heide, project coordinator, Stangnes videregående skole

Cristina de la Cruz, project coordinator, Escola Massana

NSEAC Exhibition, Barcelona June 2015

COMENIUS EXHIBITION

  ( Part 1)

  Escola Massana June 2015

  All Massana second year students working in pairs have planned the Comenius exhibition as part of the Design second year compulsory subject. Fifteen projects were selected to take part in a contest; a Jury of three Massana school teachers has decided which one was the best to be carried out. 

The Escola Massana exhibition opened in Barcelona

Escola Massana officially opened the exhibition “North South Ephemeral Art Communication” on Thursday June 11^th.

Exhibition opening

North South Ephemeral Art Communication, NSEAC, Escola Massana Exhibition

Invitation to Escola Massana Exhibition, Barcelona June 11th - 25th 2015

Technical glossary

As part of this project, we have made a technical glossary about making snow sculptures and kites. The glossary is in three (four) languages: Català, English, Norsk ("bokmål" & "nynorsk"). The glossary project is a result of cooperation between teachers and students at Escola Massana and Stangnes videregående skole.

You may watch the glossary at this link:

Technical glossary 

The exhibition "Art, Culture, and Communication"

We will take you on a short visit to the Stangnes exhibition held from April 10th until April 17th.

The Stangnes exhibition was at Harstad Kunstforening near the centre of Harstad town.

Opnening of Stangnes exhibition

Friday April 10th Stangnes videregående skole opened the exhibition called Kunst, kultur og kommunikasjon (Art, Culture and Communication).

Magne Heide, project coordinator, told about the whole Comenius project. "This started as a fairy tale, but through hard work from teachers, participants, and students this ephemeral art project has given everlasting results."

Sylvi Berg, headmaster at Stangnes, opened the exhibition with a short speech about the results of this Comenius project at the school.

Some 80 people was present at the opening. 

Art Exhibition in Harstad, April 10 – 17

Stangnes videregående skole (Stangnes upper secondary school), Harstad, Norway, and Escola Massana, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain) have been partners in this two years cooperation titled "North South Ephemeral Art Communication". The Catalan students have been on exchange visit to Harstad building snow sculptures, and the Norwegian students have been on exchange to Barcelona building kites. This cultural cooperation between north and south is thoroughly documented.  Now Stangnes videregående skole invites to an art exhibition:

KUNST, KULTUR & KOMMUNIKASJON
ART, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

Place: Harstad Kunstforening, Tore Hunds gate 5, Harstad

Massana reports in local newspaper

The local newspaper of Harstad "Haalogaland" had this reportage from the Massana photo reports.

Massana Photo Reports

To see and read the Massana Comenius Group photographic reports in an article magazine format about their life experiences in the NORTH, click in the following links:

• The Viking's Land
• MATRIX: Immersed in the Immensity
• Inside the Norwegian Houses
• Moods of the Norwegian Sky

The winner is ...

Drammen upper secondary school was awarded "Ildsjelprisen" ('The Enthusiast Award') 2015. Our congratulations.

The two other nominees were Stangnes and Vågen upper secondary schools.

Nominated for national award

Stangnes Upper Secondary School, and its two teaching departments, the Programme Area for Arts, Crafts and Design Studies, and the vocational education programme in Design and Crafts, is nominated for the national Norwegian award "Ildsjelprisen" ('The Enthusiast Award'). The two other nominees are upper secondary schools in Southern Norway.

The reasons given by the jury for the nomination of Stangnes is that the actual department of the school is small but active. The jury also says: "The school has an international cooperation with the school of art, Escola Massana in Barcelona with exchange of students and teachers." Stangnes also has cooperated with the neighbouring school, Heggen, in a great production and performance called "Peer". In addition, the Stangnes school has been exposed well in local medias.

"Ildsjelprisen" is awarded on Monday February 9^th in Oslo at the national Conference for Arts, Crafts and Design Studies.

Read more in the local newspaper, Harstad Tidende.