The Tulips Symphony

Carnival in Sulmona

By Cecilia de Challis, 1E

HAPPY WOMAN'S DAY

Carnival in Sulmona

Domiziana Ponticelli, 2E, took some photos during the Carnival celebration in our town, Sulmona. Here you can see what we ate and what happened...

An ounce of joy in the soul of every child

In the meeting with parents of my students, they proposed some common activities (children and parents).

Thus, one of these activities was to organize an exhibition and sell the little march (martisoare) and cards.

The purpose of this action has been raising funds to help children with disabilities from our town.

This activity was organized in partnership with City Hall and Cultural Center Mioveni.

The Little March

Primary school of Rionero in Vulture

CARNIVAL IN OUR SCHOOL

Carnival is a festival that brings joy in our school. For this time we prepare masks, drawings, works decorations. The day of Carnival we wear maschs, eat sweets , dance, jokes, throw confetti and silly string

Carnival in our school (Scuola Media Ovido, Sulmona)

In our school we are celebrating Carnival (It. "Carnavale") with parties, music, masks and costumes. It's the final winter festival and it's really funny for us.

CARNIVAL
In our tradition the period from January 17 until the Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday (Shrove Tuesday) is dedicated to the Carnival. The spirit of this holiday is expressed by an old proverb "a carnevale ogni scherzo vale" (a carnival every joke is good), in fact every one forget everyday problems and, protected by the mask that makes it unrecognizable, is free to laugh and eat their fill. Carnival has origins in ancient Rome where there were several celebrations in honor of the gods, along the streets of the city and that included the use of masks. Towards the end of the sixteenth century, in Italy born the "Commedia dell'arte", which used the Italian masks, ie characters that reappear in every comedy with the same name, the same costume, the makeup or masks, the same language. These characters, like Harlequin, Pantalone, Colombina, Dr Balanzone, Pulcinella became famous throughout Europe. Disappeared over time from the scene of the theater, the masks have survived only in festivals and masked carnival. Today, the typical Italian ancient masks, such as Pulcinella, Arlecchino, Balanzone, etc.. are linked to caricatures of vices and defects of the inhabitants of various regions of Italy Each year many are the emergence of new and imaginative masks along with their ancestors and all together, like a long time ago, the same goal: to ensure happiness. Today the carnival is celebrated with events everywhere, masked parades, floats. The mask performs several functions: vegetative symbol of the forces of nature, animals or the dead, is to exorcise and mock the form of satire and hierarchical authority figures. Typical are the manifestations of mere tourist attractions, like the carnival of Viareggio, where "wagons" playing in caricature form, the events during the year. Often, the carnival ends with the trial, sentencing and execution at the stake of a doll that embodies Carnival, which are assigned all the blame.

The italian maschs

Epiphany and Candlemas

All January long, here in France, we have celebrated the Epiphany in our families and even at school. We have bought frangipane cakes in our bakeries or in supermarkets and the more fortunate of us found charms, and thus became kings of the day.

Yesterday, it was the Cadlenas...it's a day when we eat a lot of pancakes !!!

ENGLAND - FESTIVAL CALENDAR

Pupil's from Year 6 (aged 10-11) have created a calendar showing festivals we celebrate in England each month. Take a look at the work from Class 6C.

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER