Global on holiday
on June 18, 2010
in away
mother’s holiday
newly-wed’s holiday
Roman holiday
desert holiday
training holiday
יְרוּשָׁלַיִם holiday
destination-unknown holiday
Every little helps
on March 19, 2010
in gv
In todays’s information-packed world we often don’t know when we really learn and we can hardly predict which present lesson will turn out to be important later in life and what we will end up remembering from our schools, courses, trips, readings etc. To large extent it’s all about the moments that get our attention and then make our memory store the surrounding world in this massive library called knowledge. Learning and teaching is nothing more than directing and focusing attention (and then memory) on essential content with the use of good resources and clever tools. Traditional classes and books still carry these processes relatively well, but with the Internet fast becoming a major repository of knowledge, new ways of learning and teaching open up and we can no longer ignore them.
From the humble Global Village website you can now instantly enter into diverse teritories of knowledge without even having to decide where to go. Look to the links on right side of the page: ‘Word of the Day’, ‘Article of the Day’ and ‘This Day in History’ randomly select from the web’s Free Dictionary and the content is replaced daily, giving us always something new to look at – whether we’re interested in history, general knowledge or just the language itself. It’s all genuinly interesting, even exciting, varied, and most of all – unpredictable. So go ahead, give it a try, stimulate your mind.
2009 Rewind
on January 3, 2010
in gv
Thinking of the 2009 that is now gone, I think I could paraphrase a poem which I heard with some of the gv groups at the beginning of this year’s courses.
There was a hole. I noticed it. I fell into it. I got out. I walked on.
I came across it once more. I noticed it. I fell into it again. I got out again. I walked on.
I came across the hole…
I am becoming a different person even though I fall into the same hole again and again. It seems that noticing is more important than avoiding.
It is all quite optimistic I would say. Or is it not?
(michał_t)
Nativity
on December 23, 2009
in gv
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child;
Pity my simplicity,
Suffer me to come to thee.
‘Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild’, Charles Wesley, 1742
Action!
on September 21, 2009
in gv
Two months after our Global with puppets and masks photo session, Nassim took to the streets with his camera to document his own work in the urban environment. See also the first outcome of the original session in the post below.
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Us 2009/10
on September 2, 2009
in gv
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Climbing Vysoka
on July 26, 2009
in away
“The contradictions the mind comes up against – these are the only realities: they are the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.
Contradiction experienced to the very depths of the being tears us heart and soul: it is the cross.
When the attention has revealed the contradiction in something on which it has been fixed. a kind of loosening takes place. By persevering in this course we attain detachment.
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.
All true good carries with it conditions which are contradictory and as a consequence is impossible. He who keeps his attention really fixed on this impossibility and acts will do what is good.
In the same way all truth contains a contradiction.
Contradiction is the point of the pyramid.
The word good has not the same meaning when it is a term of be correlation good-evil as when it describes the very being of God.
The existence of opposite virtues in the souls of the saints: the metaphor of climbing corresponds to this. If I am walking on the side of a mountain I can see first a lake, then, after a few steps, a forest. I have to choose either the lake or the forest. If I want to see both lake and forest at once, I have to climb higher.
Only the mountain does not exist. It is: made of air. One cannot go up: it is necessary to be drawn.”
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Electric Masada
on July 10, 2009
in music
End-of-school-year show
on June 10, 2009
in gv
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is on Monday, 15 June, 7.30pm, in the yard of Arsenal Gallery.
The cast:
Mateusz Acewicz
Michał Andruszkiewicz
Marta Baczewska
Andżelika Chodnicka
Wiktoria Franczak
Zuzanna Gil
Gabriela Karczewska
Paulina Kordiukiewicz
Jan Kowalski
Michał Lewandowski
Rafał Onoszko
Marta Orzełek
Daniel Taranta
Mateusz Wasielica
Wrong face up, or Czech absurdity
We were sitting in one of many parks in Prague, sipping delicious Pilsners, chatting and waging a crazy war against an inexplicable army of flying insects (which I believe anticipated further events) when we realized that the evening is like an empty glass and we are very thirsty. Flicking through a dozen of free leaflets recommending plenty of venues to fill up the glass with, Cornelia noticed, to our delight, the ad informing about Petr Zelenka Quartet at Balbinova Poeticka Hospudka. There was no hesitation, and no time – we buried the hatchet with insects and left the park.
We reached our destination after a twenty-minute walk and realized that the farther from the centre of the city, the less people you could communicate with in English. The owner of the place was only able to sell the tickets and confirm that Petr Zelenka was playing that day. Excited and elated, the three of us sat by the table, as close to the scene as possible just to find out in a matter of seconds that the only Petr Zelenka we knew was a famous film director. Now, the Petr Zelenka in front of us was a talented jazz musician. Despite being a bit thrown off the balance, we realized that we were there for the music no matter which Petr Zelenka was to perform and our benevolence was rewarded with a great deal of tasty tunes that evening.
