Day 3 – BRAMAS

Today was our 3rd day at BRAMAS and overall it went pretty well.

Good news: we've got 2 new rooms on the same building (2nd floor). They are bigger than the bigger room upstairs and are going to be used for the performance.

The day started with a little warm up. Then Adriana finished what she had planned for yesterday. The kids looked at the pictures they took from each other and discussed about different interpretations/meaning/styles.

After that we went to the space downstairs where Antonio and me led a free writing exercise.
The kids wrote a few lines (poems, songs, narratives) related to the text. Than, we divided them into 2 groups.

Antonio worked with those who wrote lyrics and poems and I worked with those who wrote narratives for a possible theatrical performances.
We all read what they wrote together.

Once the group was back together Antonio transformed them into an orchestra. It was really beautiful to see. They all worked on the same musical piece from yesterday but played it with instruments they made out of recyclable materials. The kids even chose a name for their orchestra: “Os reciclados”. It was really nice.

That was pretty much the closing, as always we ran out of time.

I left the kids writings with Arlete for Emily to use/expand them. Some kids want to act and sing, some want to do sound effects and others want to work on building costumes (Rosana will be there tomorrow and work on that).

It’s hard to get the kids engaged all the time on all the activities. They also respond differently depending on what we ask them to do. Caio for example is hard to keep engaged most of the time but he made a very creative instrument (a flute with plastic bottles and water) and was very engaged in the orchestra part.

Like yesterday we had only 20 kids and they were not hard to work with.

I think that’s all for today.
Good luck tomorrow Emily!

Maria Tereza