Babel School in Taiwan

I haven't taken kids to an interesting exhibition for a while now. I don't check the museums and galleries for new exhibits very often so it does happen that we miss some interesting things. Fortunately this time I found out about the DreamWorks Animation exhibition in the National Taiwan Science Education Center 國立台灣科學教育館 before it closed. The exhibition was larger and more interesting than I expected. It took us through the whole process of creating an animation film. From the idea, through the free drawings of each scene, to the final film with music.  Only after visiting this exhibition I realised how few films I have seen. And Ania hasn't seen a single one! Now all three of us want to watch more animations!

Do niedawna nie miałam pojęcia o tym kim jest pan Zbigniew Stanisławski. Nie ma go w polskiej Wikipedii, na stronie Filmweb tyle co nic o nim. Trochę więcej jest po angielsku na IMDb . Na pewno dalej bym nie wiedziała kto to taki, gdyby nie dziewczyny (i chłopak) z Klubu Polki na Obczyźnie. Tak się jakoś złożyło, że któraś z dziewczyn wpadła na pomysł przesyłania sobie laleczki pomiędzy wszystkimi chętnymi zrzeszonymi w Klubie. Z kolei inna z dziewczyn, w mniej więcej tym samym czasie, natknęła się na felieton o panu Zbigniewie Stanisławskim, polskim animatorze, reżyserze, scenografie filmów animowanych. Oto link do tego krótkiego i przejmującego felietonu (proszę przygotować sobie chusteczki na otarcie łez): I tak się zaczęło.  Dalej wydarzenia potoczyły się niezmiernie szybko. Magda Fou - założycielka Klubu Polek, szybciutko wydziergała na szydełku dwóch wspaniałych chłopaków - Bolka i Lolka. Bolek i Lolek by MFouDesign Dziewczyny i chłopak równie szybciutko ...

Two people in our family celebrate birthdays in March. In the beginning of the month was my birthday (you can read about it here ) and yesterday my husband's. Few days earlier Jaś started looking through all the cookbooks trying to decide which birthday cake to make. He couldn't find anything that I would agree for him to make (he was thinking of some fancy cakes, which we did not have ingredients for nor the time to make). At the end he made a sponge cake with a chocolate cream-cheese filling and chocolate butter cream frosting. It turned out really yummy! Zosia specialises in film-making, so the only thing she can think of is ... another film. Here is her present for the dad: And Ania made a card. :-)

Zosia sharing her experience at the camp. During summer Zosia participated in a few summer camps organized by Fubong Culture and Education Foundation 富邦文教基金會. For one of the camps she went to Orchid Island 蘭嶼 off the south eastern coast of Taiwan to learn about the aboriginal way of life. At the end of the camp kids had to make a short film presentation about what they have learned. Another camp was in Tainan, where she explored the newly opened National Museum of Taiwan History 國立台灣歷史博物館 . During this camp she not only learned history of Taiwan, but also made a short feature film about one event from the history using the photos taken inside the museum. Images from "The Kite" animation For the last camp Zosia gathered a group of eight homeschoolers interested in film making and together they signed up for the film making camp. After a few days of learning about acting, working as a group and preparing a script for their movie only half of the groups w...