Rivers of the World Newsletter

Welcome to the first Rivers of the World newsletter for 2009! This year Rivers of the World will involve schools from UK (London), India (Kolkata), China (Shanghai), Brazil (Recife & Sao Paulo), Mexico (State of Veracruz), France (Paris) and Hungary (Szentendre). We hope that through these newsletters you can keep you up to date with the project around the world.

Cape Town Exhibition

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Cape Town had their Rivers of the World exhibition this month. The exhibition showcased the artwork created by all the schools in 2008. To see more images of their wonderful display click here

Art Workshops

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The art workshops have now started in London and Paris and will shortly be taking place around the world. You can see photographs of the workshops taking place on the interactive website.

Interactive website

Well done to all the schools that have started to upload images and information on their pages – they are looking great! You will notice that the pages have been re-designed to make them easier to use. If you have any problems using the website just let us know. Remember the school with the best website page will win a prize in September!

Note: The workshop pages from last year's participating schools are not yet available in the new version of the website. We still have all your pages, we just need some more time to re-insert them in the new design.

Top tip: Video Clip

Add a video file to your school workshop page on the interactive website. Simply click here for detailed information on how to do this.

The brief is to produce a 60 – 180 second unedited single shot clip. The clip should be:

  • Set against the river (either your river or your partner river)

  • Include an introduction: Your name, your school and who you are partnered with

  • Include the name of the river and something interesting or unusual about the river (i.e. a fact or observation)

  • Finally you should pan around the river to give a good impression of where you are.

Rivers of the World Questionnaire

Remember get your pupils to fill in the online river questionnaire!