Delphiade of Arts - Games between the Games

What is the 'Delphiade of Arts'?

The Delphiade of Arts brings the concept of the Delphic Games to schools and youth culture.
It is designed as a whole year competition alongside the normal school time.
The Delphiade of Arts includes professional-led workshops, presentation of the works by the participants and public events.
The schools and the regional school administrations respectively carry the responsability for this project, for which the motto is redefined every year.
It is conceivable that this project could develop into a national level competition and finally even onto an european level taking the international Youth Delphic Games as a model.

The Delphiade pursues several goals. It helps to encourage young people in their cultural and artistic education and enhances their interest in current issues in society. Young people will have personal access to art, culture and society and will also be given space to express themselves and be open in creative debates. They will benefit from exchanges with other young people, from the experience and professional advice of skilled experts. The Delphiade of Arts will give teacher new impetus for their teaching. They will also be introduced to the development of adolescent expression and communication. The Delphiade strengthens the identification of students with their school, whilst providing the opportunity to demonstrate their potential and present themselves in public.

The Pilot Project - Delphiade of Arts 2009/2010

At the International Delphic Council (IDC) a project was founded for the implementation of the 1st Delphiade of Arts. Co-operation partners for this pilot project include the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Heinrich Böll- and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
The 2009/10 Delphiade of Arts began with the symposium entitled ''60 Years of Basic Law - 20 Years Fall of the Berlin Wall'' on 19th May 2009, which took place at the Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
During professional workshops and lectures, teachers and workshop leaders were trained to develop ideas for their class, to devise accurate perspectives for practical work and to see opportunities for educational and artistic debates.
Learning about Basic Law and the German unification process are an important part of the school curriculum. However, for many young people these issues continue to be far from their everyday lives.
For this reason, Delphiade of Arts 2009/10 seeks to promote youth interest in recent German history.
By developing their own artistic expression, and through exchange and competition with others, pupils should develop a deeper understanding of democracy and enhance their social and communication skills.
Active discussion of such issues also helps young people to forge personal relationships.

Film der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Competitions and presentations

The artistic disciplines of the Delphiade are especially youth oriented, which are school intern or school extern appeal to the creative potential of the pupil. The school intern entries at the Delphiade of Arts will be devised in class and in the working groups under the guidance of specialist subject teacher and group leaders. The school extern entries will be done in workshops under the guidance of artists, educators and other professionals.

Highlight is the common conclusion show. The participants take on with their own names, but represent also their schools. The several schools get the chance to constitute their profile and special projects as well. A specialised jury elects the winner in each discipline and places the prizes, finally altogether are celebrating on the prize gala.

Competitions

School internal part
Essay
The classical literary genre 'essay' includes many different forms, such as treatises, columns and articles. An essay always deals with only one subject and poses new questions. The texts will be developed in classrooms, whereby an essay should be in each case the work of individual pupils.

Political debate
Debate means: Comment on an issue, ponder and convince. Without convincibility, power of expression and expertise, a disputation can't be won. It requires rhetorical skills and personal lines of reasoning. Only shortly before the debate starts, it's clear who represents the pros and cons which means the participating adolescents must deal with the two conflicting perspectives beforehand.

Photography & Photo Design
Showing things from a different perspective, documentation, conceptual work or snapshot: There are many ways to work with photography. To cover a topic photographically means to make use of an universal visual language and guides the essential elements to get to the heart of the matter.

Digital Media
Digital Media have become an integral part of our work and our everyday life and therefore they are also becoming more important in school life. Whether PowerPoint or short film, students are asked to use their knowledge and their ability to develop a project beyond the school and hence, allow access to a greater audience.

Projects outside the school
Poetry Slam
One of the most vivid poetry slam scenes in the German-speaking world is located in Berlin. Poetry Slam is a modern literary lecture competition which is presented to the audience as a short, self-written text.

Impro Theatre
Improvisational theatre (also known as impro/improv theatre) are short plays in which the improvisers use improvisational acting to perform spontaneously. Improvisers typically use audience suggestions to guide the performance as they create fixed frames for dialogue, characters, time, place, etc...
Breakdance
With the feature film "Beat Street" in the mid-80's, breakdancing started its triumph around the world. Today, breakdancing is an integral part of youth culture. This is how it goes: Individual dancers or teams compete against each other in a "battle" to demonstrate their artistic skills.

Streetart
Streetart is a contemporary form of art in public space. The artists use different materials such as marker, brushes, paint rollers, spray cans, stickers or posters in order to design all kinds of backgrounds. Streetart allows students a nonchalant contact with art and the opportunity to create their own environment in a visual way.

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