The Grenaa Global Music Festival started last year so this year I decided to find out more about it for the latest show in our podcast. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the press conference just prior to the festival which meant that I could speak to one of the prime movers behind the festival, Moussa Diallo together with Butch Lacy who was MC for much of the festival.
The idea behind the festival is not just to play good music and offer it for free but also to try and foster some intercultural understanding through many other aspects such as food, dance and theatre. One group very much involved in these other aspects of the festival was the International Baccalaureate stream of students at Grenaa Gymnasium. The IB is an international education taught through the medium of English giving access to university. It therefore attracts a very multi-cultural group of students and I talked with students from Poland, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Russia as well as some very well travelled Danes.
I wondered what such an event can achieve and that was the question I put to most of my guests. I also became very curious about the International Baccalaureate and will try to follow that up in a future show.
Comments
Putting two and two together and making five, is it fair to assume that you are involved in the IB business in French? Perhaps we could get your students to contribute to one of our shows onthe IB theme?
I remembered your blog this week when at school we had more discussions about introducing the IB into out school here in France. We discussed the fact that 'all in English' continues to bother us. We need to see if it'd be possible to run the IB in the languages we decide, namely some courses in French some in English; I don't know to what extent this is possible, or whether students might feel that this could affect their grades , ie not playing to their stronger language.
Anne, what is a feed exactly? What does the 'grab the feed' do?