Meskwaki Youth invite you!

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Greetings from Meskwaki Youth in Iowa! Welcome everyone, it is a pleasure to share some time with you here on our settlement, which is owned by our tribe. The Meskwaki („the people of the red earth“) were almost extinct in the 19th century; we went through hard times… – But we survived, and now, we can live our culture and at the same time enjoy modern life: In our youth centre, our school, our settlement’s nature. It is great to be in contact with you now, and we are greatly looking forward to hearing from you soon! Greetings to our new friends in Kölleda / Thuringia; in whole Germany and Europe!

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Akhoi! (= „See you soon“; we don’t say „goodbye“ in our language)

Many thanks to Kay, Jonathan Buffalo, Tylor, to Meskwaki Youth Centre, the Meskwaki Tribal Centre, the Meskwaki Settlement School, to Ursula Ruedenberg of KHOI radio in Ames / Pacifica radio network and everybody that made this project possible.

 

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Hamburg<->Chicago: arts, poetry – and beyond..!

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Dear friends of North Shore Country Day school, many thanks for your drawings! We love them! Some were not finished – so we have worked with them and turned it into TRANSATLANTIC CHILDREN’S ART!

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Many thanks for your poem that you just sent to us – this will be a wonderful continuation of our collaboration between our younger students, once we have left for middle school after fourth grade. And we promise to be your sister city ambassadors in all the schools in Hamburg that we attend from new school year on! May this be the beginning of a loooong frienship! Here are the lyrics of your poem; inspired by Shihab Nye. Maybe, we can continue it….?

I made all the leaves fall

I stepped into a cave

I built a snowman

I danced like a wall

I made all the flowers spell my name

I found some magic mist on a full moon, blue moon

I broke off a branch, sat on it and flew away

I balanced 10,000,000 pinecones on top of each other

I made pictures with grass

I shot a hockey puck

I sprayed dust on the blue button and watched it grow

I wrote my name in a dandelion; only butterflies could read it

I threw flower petals

I jumped on letters to make some words

I flew 200,000 feet up in the air

I poured two bottles of apple juice over my name and set my watch for fifteen

minutes and sat there

I played hockey for an hour

I went to my favorite flower, picked it and laid it on the blue button I buried

I did five cartwheels and spun around

I ran into the sun

I made a fire

I walked in a circle five times

I made a tower of logs

I took a pencil and wrote a line until there was no more pencil lead

I walked away

I disappeared

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Your sister city peers from Grundschule Thadenstraße in Hamburg- St. Pauli. Tschüß und bis bald! See you soon! 🙂

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Chicago rocks Hamburg – and back!

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Dear friends and sister city peers in Chicago. Here comes a world premier – especially for you! Remember the school school song that you created with Radijojo, inspired by the traditional “Sweet home Chicago?” Now: Here is our response song – enjoy! 🙂

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Germany: Spreading the Transatlantic news!

We shared Transatlantic news with many VIPs on national, regional and local level. Among them are…

Our regional minister of education, Birgit Klaubert:

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Thomas Krüger, leading national expert for political education and children’s rights:

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Thérèse Tabbone, our sister city person in Jena townhall:

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Claudia Hillinger, expert for international collaboations of university of Jena, (which includes the partnership with UC Berkeley!):

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our local community radio OKJ in Jena:

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our regional students association, teachers union, media and education experts. All this talks led to many ideas for follow-up projects. Many thanks to all of you!

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Meskwaki Settlement School joins in!

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We are the children and youth of the proud Meskwaki Nation in Iowa. Our tribe was almost extinct in the 19th century; but we have survived and live to see a revival! Here are some snapshots of our youngest and oldest students of our settlement school – join us for some first impressions of our culture, traditions and values:

We have collected questions for you – and we hope to hear from you soon!

Akhoi from the Meskwaki Settlement!

Many thanks to Kay, Jonathan Buffalo, Tylor, to Meskwaki Youth Centre, the Meskwaki Tribal Centre, the Meskwaki Settlement School, to Ursula Ruedenberg of KHOI radio in Ames / Pacifica radio network and everybody that made this project possible.

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@ KPFA, the Berkeley Radio legend

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Wow…. Another great honor: A warm welcome at the legendary community radio station KPFA in Berkeley. As KPFA is part of our friends of the the Pacifica Network, and it has a children’s radio section with local students of schools in the neighborhood. We are honored and happy to join forces, to give children on both sides of the Atlantic a voice!dsc01003 dsc01005 v dsc01009 dsc01010 dsc01020 dsc01023 dsc01043 dsc01046 dsc01048

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Jena->Berkeley: 1st Transatlantic magic box!

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Greetings from Jena, dear friends in our sister city Berkeley!

dsc05580We have something very special for you: a Transatlantic surprise magic box! We stuffed it with self-created art, games, photos, videos and more. We hope you like it!

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Ah – and in your box, you will find a looong list with questions. Could you please answer them for us?

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Here are some snapshots of what we do here at Klex:

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We are greatly looking forward to hearing from you!

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The kids of Klex youth centre in Jena- Lobeda, in the federal state of Thuringia, the „green heart“ of Germany.

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1st Transatlantic Youth Film Festival!

slideshow_01Hello from Klex Kids centre in Jena!

dsc05614We have organized the first Transatlantic Youth Film Festival in history, presenting clips produced by youth in the sister cities Berkeley, California and Jena, Thuringia!

dsc05613  dsc05622We hope that we can continue this Transatlantic film festivals – perhaps as a new common tradition of our sister cities??!! 🙂

Ah, here is one of the many films that we have created. Enjoy!

Versiegelte Freundschaft from LFD on Vimeo.

Greetings from Klex youth centre in Jena-Lobeda!

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Making of Pacifica Sprouts radio show

dsc06595Welcome to a world premier! Join us in the making of the first ever Transatlantic School radio show, made by students in the US and Germany. Imagine: Our show  will be (knock on wood….) broadcast on both continents via Pacifica radio in the States and ALEX community radio in Berlin.

pacifica-logo sprouts-logo-kopieThe invitation came from Ursula Ruedenberg, one of Pacifica’s leaders. She has been a friend of Radijojo for a long time, and she made the link to the Meskwaki Nation in Iowa for our project. Ursula has invited us to produce a “Sprouts” show, which is the format for upcoming radio talents. – And now, we go for it!

dsc03184Here, you see the Kölleda middle school crew creating a first radio hotclock for the show: What elements are in such a show? Yes: Jingles, the radio hosts’ presentations, reports – and music!

dsc06594dsc06610Our show is pretty unique, as it has so many elements from so many different schools, choirs and youth centres both in the US and Germany….  all put together in a common show!

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Hello from Whittier, California! :)

DSC00882Another highlight from the West Coast: The students from Whittier in California join our Transatlantic school network! Many thanks, dear friends! Great talking to you!

Let’s see if we can find you some Transatlantic pen pals over here in Germany…

Hope to hear from you soon! 🙂

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