Activities for children

Thursday 5th February 2015

10 a.m. at Folklife Museum of Sochos 
Educational Program and Workshop for children: 
“Transformations: Creating the mask of Sohos”. 
The Program is designed for children from 9 to 13 years old.

 

Saturday, 22 February 2014, at 10.00 a.m.
Central Building of Folklife & Ethnological Museum of Macedonia – Thrace,
68, Vasilissis Olgas Str.
Educational Program and Workshop for children: “Transformations: Creating the mask of Sohos”.
The Program is designed for children from 9 to 13 years old.
Duration: 90’.
Maximum number of participants: 50 children (2 classes).

 

The program aims to:

  • help children understand the role and importance of Carnival and disguise in traditional society. 
  • bring children in contact with one of the most important carnival rituals of Northern Greece. 
  • familiarize children with the elements of tangible and intangible heritage (masks, traditional music, dances). 
  • detect local customs and reinforce local identity. 
  • contribute to the development of children’s critical thinking and artistic creativity, the activation of their imagination, socialization and initiative through experiential activities.

 

Structure of the Program:
In the beginning, there is a small introduction to the concepts of traditional carnival and transformations, followed by a short conversation on the fundamental characteristics of Carnival. Children have the opportunity to come in contact with the Traditional Carnival of Sohos through a short tour in the unit “Disguises” of the museum’s permanent exhibition entitled “Traditional Costumes of Macedonia and Thrace, 1860-1960”. Immediately after that, children can watch a 20 minutes’ video by the director Gianna Evaggelidou on the Sohos Traditional Carnival, so that they can experience the traditional custom in a more vivid and direct way. Thus, children get prepared to take part in the last activity, namely a workshop, where they have the chance to make the traditional mask of Sohos using different materials. This mask will be their souvenir from the museum experience.

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Activities for children - Bell Roads - 2014