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The premise is quite simple: to bring together art and nature so that children and youth can grow aware of the importance of the environment and its conservation. The Macau Cardinal Newman Center of Cultural and Performing Arts will promote in late July and early August a series of holiday activities aimed at children and teenagers.
The activities – four different art creation workshops aimed at specific age groups – are a repeat of a similar initiative that was first organized last summer. The workshops, a source from the Cardinal Newman Cultural Center told O Clarim, have two common denominators: art and nature. The Center’s aim is to encourage the younger generation to nurture a greater respect for nature. “There are two age range categories for this ‘City and Trees, Scenery and People’ nature-art project, kids and teenagers. The kids’ group will be observing and experiencing the landscape and environment, while we will lead the teens’ group to come up with terms about the importance of conservation,” the organization explains.
“During the workshop, our guest artists will accompany the participating youngsters in field trips to parks and other spaces, so that they can gather up materials for the workshops. This can be an introduction to the significance of the natural environment,” the Cardinal Newman Center of Cultural and Performing Arts adds.
Of the four artistic creation workshops, three are aimed at children aged 5 to 11 years old. The fourth – the only one that does not take place entirely at the Center’s facilities on Calçada da Vitória – is aimed at youth aged 12 to 18 and provides for the development of fieldwork, the gathering of materials and the promotion of outdoor artistic projects. The artworks being created by the children and youth who will take part in the workshops from July 14th to August 4th will be exhibited in mid-August at the Cardinal Newman Center.
“This is the second consecutive year that we are organizing this project, inspired by nature. The artworks of the participating youngsters will be exhibited at the ‘City and Trees, Scenery and People’ nature-art project exhibition later on. The tentative schedule will be in August,” the same source told O Clarim.
“As for our summer program series, there is a wide range of activities, from steady to energetic, directed both at kids and at adults. We will even have parent-child activities. Interested participants can choose from puppets, the Japanese art of temari, or thread balls, pastel nagomi art, dancing, miniatures, or paper quilling workshops,” the Cardinal Newman Cultural Center adds.
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