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PAU ROIG: THE FOREST PROJECT

When I discovered Fukuoka's book Seeds in the desert I understood that I had to unlearn everything I knew to date about the land and its management. I come from a family of peasants and I started in traditional agriculture, then I worked as a gardener in houses of great pretensions where the most important thing was to have flowers and green grass in summer even if it was 40 degrees and it had not rained for two months. The life that exists in the subsoil and how it manifests itself on the surface is what occupies my interest now. Man tends to simplify things. When we see a forest we only see the trees, but a forest is much more than that. Under the layer of earth there is a whole world: viruses, bacteria, fungi ... A world that maintains a symbiotic relationship with the forest and thanks to which it survives. The fungi that inhabit the surface of the earth communicate all the trees with each other, allowing the roots to access water and nutrients, even in times of drought, as in a kind of network invisible to our eyes but vital for the subsistence of the forest. Traditional agriculture attacks this entire ecosystem invisible to the eyes. The land where Sa Llavor has projected the Forest is little more than a barren land, overgrazed by sheep and in which the plows have destroyed all this microbiological wealth. I was interested in being part of this project to be able to apply all the years of reading and training in regenerative agriculture and try to make life return to this almost desert piece of land. The field today is an industry, the plants survive because they are artificially fed with manures and fertilizers. Fukuoka had several apprentices under him. He fed them a bowl of rice and told them to go out and find the herbs to complete the dish. Actually everything is out there, what we have to do is train our eyesight and change the perspective with which we interpret nature.

2021-05-28T08:29:23+00:00May 28th, 2021|

JOANA CASTELL: THE FOREST PROJECT

I remember that when I was in Barcelona university, when I returned home for the summer holidays, year after year, my father always asked me the same question: but what exactly were you studying? I kept the poor man very confused: I started Philology but I realized that what interested me was the historical framework of books, so I decided to start History, but there I discovered that the most important thing for me was to understand the social and cultural organization of every era for which I finished Anthropology. When I had to work I had a crisis, of course, then I remembered that as a child I wanted to direct films so I escaped to Cuba for two years to study cinema (I still don't understand how I convinced my father of it) and then, when I returned, I still wanted get into a documentary master's degree. At that time at my house they had already thrown in the towel, I was already working writing scripts for IB3 tv so they stopped asking because with the little I earned I was already supporting myself. Most of what I have worked has been in the Theater where I have gone through many roles: I have produced, I have been an assistant director, I have written, I have directed, I have acted, I have even made a wardrobe without really knowing how to sew!… For teamwork like drama, it is very useful to have “lived” the work of your colleagues. When Gloria asked me to write a review about me for the newsletter, I felt an attack of modesty: “talk about what motivates you,” she told me. So, thinking about everything that has been done, I realized why after so much traveling, what motivates me is to learn. For example, it has always been difficult for me to give my opinion in public so I decided to participate in debates on the radio, and for my eternal balance problems, I am learning to control them through dance. Sometimes I laugh alone when I find myself dancing surrounded by women in their twenties and think: what am I doing here at forty-eight, spinning and tripping over my own feet? But then I look at one of my teachers, who at sixty moves in an incredibly fluid and confident way, and then it all makes sense. The thing that attracts me most is what is difficult for me and everything I don't know how to do it, paradoxically that limit gives me a lot of freedom and mental breadth. This year I have started to collaborate with Pau in the Forest Project and I am enjoying accompanying the children of the school in the transformation of this rather barren space into a future forest. This will take time, dedication, patience and faith, but it is a path that will be full of learning in company, so I can't imagine a better plan. After this, the next thing I plan to do is

2021-05-27T13:54:18+00:00May 27th, 2021|

SILVER WORK

The children of the second cycle have begun the period of arts and crafts. This week they have received Nina Schinneck, an artisan jewellery maker, who has shown them how to work silver to make a ring. First, measurements have been taken of the finger where they will want the ring, then with a hammer, on a hard surface, they have worked the silver to flatten it. Once the strip is made, with a special tool, they have given it a rounded shape. Next they have welded the ring with fire, melting an alignment of copper and silver. To make the joint smooth, the rings have been filed both inside and out. Then they have placed them on the string and, with a plastic hammer, so that it does not break, they have worked the piece until they get perfect circles. The last phase is polishing with a polishing machine, to give it the shimmering and brilliant finish of a real jewel.

2021-05-27T13:45:33+00:00May 27th, 2021|

AGILE HANDS, AGILE THINKING

Children in their last year of Nursery Education begin an artistic process that accompanies them until the end of the journey: the making of a bag through weaving a loom. With the loom process, benefits are provided to the healthy development of children by developing: -Creativity, the ability to create and find solutions to the challenges that life presents us. -Patience and perseverance. -Attention and concentration, necessary to carry out any action in life. -Strengthens self-esteem: improves the ability to face a challenge and achieve a goal. -They learn to make decisions: they choose the colors to use and make their creation unique. -Improve fine motor skills through specific and coordinated movements.

2021-05-28T10:34:14+00:00May 27th, 2021|

THE BEAUTIFUL AND NATURAL PROCESS OF READING AND WRITING

It took humanity millennia to develop writing. From being a simple figurative annotation, it became syllabic, until it reached the extreme abstraction of being purely phonetic. Egyptian hieroglyphs illustrate this slow evolution. To make the passage from the figurative imagination of children to the intellectual abstraction of modern writing, the teacher walks a similar path. The introduction of the consonants will begin by telling a story, having as a central figure a character or an element, whose name has this consonant as the first letter. As always, the children will want to draw the story. The teacher will draw it first, on the board, giving a prominent place to the character or element in question, with a shape that recalls the consonant. For example, a serrated line for the mountain "M", or a profile of a king for the letter "R" (in capital letters). The next day, the story is re-told, as well as the drawing, but this time, the shape of the line will be closer to the shape of the consonant. This is repeated several times until the "M" or "R", respectively, are known to the students as the letters of the mountain or the king. At the same time their phonemes "mmmmmmm" and "rrrrrrr" are pronounced. In this way, the transition from the image to the symbol is made, eliminating the collision with the abstract sign. Something similar is done with vowels. Students learn gestures related to feelings. "Ah!" It expresses, for example, the feeling of admiration, of veneration and corresponds to it a gesture of opening the arms. In this case, an object from the outside world is not imitated, but rather the human figure itself transfigured into the image of a "being of the A" that slowly leads to the shape of the capital "A". Little by little, very simple words are formed and written: mountain, king, and finally, short sentences and little stories, embellish the notebooks with coloured crayons. In this way, by the end of the first school year children already know how to write with capital letters. What about reading? What happens naturally, without trauma of any kind, is that the student, after a certain time, knows what he/she wrote and, immediately, in a happy and lively environment, guesses words or texts that the teacher writes on the board. Children’s own interest aroused; autonomously, they will try to decipher words that they find around them. The process may take longer, but the result is the same, living an infinite number of beautiful stories and making an equally large number of drawings and paintings in which all the imagination of the children could be expressed.

2021-04-30T15:52:04+00:00April 28th, 2021|

SILVIA MANZANO: AWAKENING THE MAGIC OF BOOKS

My name is Silvia Manzano Vivar, I am the mother of Roberto and Martín. We arrived in Mallorca four years ago looking for a school for our children and finding Sa Llavor rooted us on the island. Nursery Teacher, by the Complutense University of Madrid, as a listen of one of my earliest internal seeds, the love of childhood, the accompaniment and importance of the presence in this wonderful stage. All my training has always been born of an impulse to discover myself, know me, listen to me and, from this place, be present in the world. Listening to my motherhood, after the birth of Roberto, I formed as a Doula and I accompany mothers, fathers and families in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Trained in Foot Reflexology, of which I teach workshops for families, in Cranio-Sacral for pregnant women and babies, and in Gestalt therapy. They are my tools and treasures that I always carry with me and that have shaped and made my purpose of life. I worked for almost two years in a public library in the Community of Madrid, in the children's and youth room, hence my experience and knowledge basic library science, which I am now fortunate to share in the school. Waking up life and using the school library is being a job wonderful in which, in reality, the real protagonists are being girls and boys. We do a part of the internal work of cataloging, documentation, ordering and updating of the bibliographic collection necessary for the activation of this service. But it is with the passage of all the cycles through the room that the magic and beauty that beats in each book, in each story, in each story and image that wait to be discovered, chosen, looked at and listened to, is really generated. I accompany the girls and boys weekly, as a reference of the library, as a reading and loan room. To get acquainted with this space, its use and use, I will present you how it is organized, how and where to find your favorite readings or to consult your concerns and curiosities to feel the space as yours and enjoy it to the fullest. The elders of the school participate by giving a service to the community and They are occupying the adult room. They and they are lending a true “librarian and librarian apprentices” service; catalog, they make weavings, select and order the bibliographic collection of this room. I feel privileged to be able to feel and see how books, in this age of screens, they still retain their magic when they are held in their hands and They connect with what happens to each one. I am grateful to be able to enjoy the enthusiasm with which they are receiving and shaping this new initiative that has already become a habit and family space within their life at school.

2021-04-27T12:57:28+00:00April 27th, 2021|

HAGAR TALMOR: HERBORIST’S SOUL

I am Hagar Talmor, it has been a year and a half since we arrived on the island and in this wonderful community. I immediately felt at home. I am an herbalist at heart, since I can remember, I have been looking at the ground, noticing the plants that I have around me, and in recent years I have dedicated myself to heal and teach how to heal using what we all have in our garden. Yoga is my other passion, and it is the teacher that helps me improve my life and grow. In my day to day I help people to reprogram their lifestyle habits to feel better about themselves. In the Library Project, we have renewed the atmosphere of this space so that it conveys a feeling of greater friendliness. I am in charge of registering all the books that we have and those that are coming in to make it easier for girls and boys to take them home and thus improve their reading. This project made me reconnect with reading, as well as my children, and it helps me a lot to improve my Spanish.

2021-04-27T12:42:47+00:00April 27th, 2021|

SA LLAVOR EDICIONS: THE BOOK BECOMES ART

Sa Llavor Edicions was born last year as a result of the love for reading, a casual exchange of books and the desire to find a space to talk about them. Reading allows us to leave our confines, to travel to other worlds and other realities, to know the unknown, but also to inquire more about ourselves. In this time of stopping and slowing down, staying home, going to bed early, being calm and quiet, it is a good time to celebrate reading again. Sant Jordi is an excellent occasion to reactivate Sa Llavor Edicions in the best possible way, by reading and sharing this love for books!

2021-04-30T15:54:06+00:00April 27th, 2021|

“ALREDEDOR”

No somos de aquí Sino de invernales senderos, Del brillo del agua De los oscuros pozos De la mirada del otro. Ediciones Sa Llavor inaugurates its editorial line with an art book project, "Alrededor" by Enrique Barrenengoa and Victor Mardaras, combining poetry and painting. Enrique Barrenengoa is a poet, experimental artist, musician, creator, soundtrack composer and violinist. Barrenengoa is a nonconformist and restless spirit. Just as his facet as a creator and composer has led him to project himself outwards, his facet as a writer has remained on a more intimate level. Victor Mardaras is a multidisciplinary artist whose core is experimental painting and music. In this collaboration, the two creators have wanted to take the book beyond printed letters and traditional illustration, turning painting into the essence of the poem, where both text and images complement each other in a metaphysical look at everything that surrounds us; the links, matter and connections. The intention, with this edition, is that around the book, as its title expresses, the creative project expands through the holding of an exhibition and an event. We invite you to the ART BOOK presentation event on Saturday May 29 at the Fundació Sa Llavor.

2021-04-30T15:56:37+00:00April 27th, 2021|

FROM INDIVIDUALISM TO COLLECTIVITY

The forest is also a time to learn to share. From the beginning of the year, the students began to build cabins in the forest and, with the spring, they began to spontaneously make small gardens, sowing seeds that they brought from home: garlic, apple seeds, onions, ... Taking advantage of this desire to cultivate, during the Forest Project a shared orchard and garden space has been devised where everyone can grow from seeds taken from home to small plants. The idea is that they go from this more private concept to the communal and shared. Thus, during the last day, borage, Calendula Oficialis and pumpkin seeds were sown. The idea is not to have a garden from which to get edible vegetables but rather a place to learn to take care of the plants that will later serve as organic matter to enrich the earth, where they can work cooperatively and generate a habit among themselves to learn to manage a community use of space.

2021-04-27T11:26:44+00:00April 27th, 2021|
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