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Museum of the National Bank of Belgium: Guided visit
The museum welcomes students with a tour adapted to their education. A museum guide, in Dutch, French or English, makes the tour as interactive as possible. When booking, the teacher chooses the main theme of the tour (economy, history, a …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Street art: Workshop
Street art is prohibited by law in many countries, but thanks to this workshop the children can enjoy themselves completely legally on the school walls.
As a warm-up, we first briefly touch on the origins of street art and learn the difference …
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What is so special about the Lamb of God?
The Ghent Altarpiece is considered one of the most important Belgian paintings ever, but what can you actually see? Religious historian Danny Praet (UGent) was fascinated by this polyptych as a child and shows us that there is much more to see …
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Themed tour Hatsjoe… health: About health, hygiene and pandemics in Roman times
There is no denying that Covid-19 is having an unprecedented impact on our society. The Romans too were repeatedly plagued by ruthless epidemics. Based on the attributes of the Roman physician Galenus and the Goddess Hygieia, we take young and old …
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Prehistoric clothing workshop
Hunter-gatherers were already able to make well-fitting clothing from animal skins. The archaeological find that can tell us more about this is Ötzi, the oldest mummy ever excavated in Europe and extremely interesting because of the outfit in …
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Heldenflix: Workshop
Why are Netflix series so addictive? The answer lies in the earliest adventure novels and how well they have been preserved or not. In an interactive workshop we teach young people from the fourth to sixth year of secondary education to make …
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Well, that's a relief!: Theater about youth problems
Young people often have questions that they have nowhere to turn to, not with their parents, not with their friends, not with their teachers. It's about questions that make them feel really uncomfortable, about bullying, physical changes, their …
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Photo impressions of the Indies: Slideshow by Koen Van de moortel
On this performance I take you to Delhi, the Himalayas and sacred sites at the headwaters of the Ganges. I hope to amaze you with my photos as I was also amazed in this special country, both by the people and by the nature. You are also welcome to …
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Workshop Illustration
During an Illustrating Workshop, we choose 1 or more passages from a book that we convert into a striking illustration.
We start with a brainstorm and choose the passage from the book. Which characters, landscapes, environments, feelings, …
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From hunter-gatherer to the birth of cities: Photobooks with text guidance
An overview of the transition from hunter-gatherer to the emergence of cities and empires in three parts based on photo, film and text.
An extensive bibliography of photo albums from the most important European and Turkish archaeological museums. The …
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