About HISTORICAL , CULTURAL HERITAGE VIA ART

Maybe it sounds strange but we live in one town, in one country in one world. Some things are the
same and some are different. We do the same things, activities, improvements and mistakes of
course. We may ask. Are we able to understand our ancestors, historical events and may we change
now our attitude to these historical cases? Our idea is: starting with themselves and with our students
and beeing the tutor in our history and our present.
History of Europe has been changing and we want to notice the differences. And that is the reason
why we set up our project. Art, drawings in the past and photography now - children find old drawings
from own country in local or national galleries and try to find places where these pictures were taken,
who and what is in the drawings and after that they try to find changes of countryside via nature
drawings, towns, clothes via family portrait and secondly they compare old times to nowadays. We
want to encourage a better understanding changing which are among us. Our aim is to promote the
complete inclusion of students with special needs and gifted students in the micro-society that school
represents. The second main part is about finding the oldest relatives. Students give them same
questions from their childhood and compare their result with all participating schools. All the time of
project we communicate together - students, teachers and improve our language knowledge. The
final product is the art- history book with drawings, photos and relatives photos and their answers
and dialogues. During programme we would like to prepare drawing lectures, photo courses as well,
visiting exhibitions in own and other towns. And what is more? Can we have an influence on these
changes? Were these ones positives or negatives? Why is it important not to cut off the family roots?
What can we learn from the previous generations? Three different countries will come together via
not only art but even and with the topic of international dialogue of European. The third part of the
main aim is finding more information about the historical events which joined raising drawings. Our
students will be pushed into the curriculum among different subjects. The programme involves the
whole school curriculum - pupils transfer their knowledge from different subjects, they will learn how
to link their experiences to one another, they will present their works to their school community, they
will raise other students awareness for the importance of a being part of the European community. All
schools in this project are keen on it and very eager to cooperate together. We believe that our
students will make a new friendship at the end.
This project about culture connected with history points, drawings and photos is for nowadays and
future too. We have to remind our history nowadays, talk about our future among themselves,
generations and think what I may do for better life.