The Archaeological Museum of Alicante has organised the 'Connected with the MARQ' campaign to consolidate the work that the Didactics and Accessibility Unit has been carrying out for the last eight years with the Down Syndrome Association of Alicante.
The First Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia ParraThe aim of this initiative is to develop further educational work with people with Down's Syndrome," he said. "The aim of this initiative is to ensuring continuity of training and contact with users in this scenario of restrictions generated by Covid-19 by providing all the necessary resources for the regular provision of services", he explained.
The project, which starts today, Monday 15 March, and will end on 10 June, will involve a total of 72 persons organised in different groups. These are part of the workshops of Training, Employment and Social Skills (composed of people over 16 years of age) and of the programme One, two, three... let's have fun! (boys and girls between 8 and 14 years old). The campaign will feature online resources and workshops at streaming The programme will be complemented with other aids such as didactic guides, games, stories and audiovisuals.
The workshops scheduled are:
- Workshop 'Work like a medieval potter'.Medieval decorative techniques on a ceramic plate. The MARQ room dedicated to the Middle Ages is dominated by ceramic objects, especially those for domestic use such as plates, bowls, pots, containers for food, drinks, etc. In the workshop, the pupils will imitate a ceramic plate by applying decoration techniques similar to those used in medieval times.
- Knights and graffiti' workshopThe participants will reproduce in stone the graffito of the image of the knight found in the Domus Lauria of the medieval site of Ifach in Calp. Through an image they will embark on a journey back in time to the medieval city on the slopes of Penyal d'Ifac.
- Illuminate like the Arabs' workshopA proposal to get to know and make objects similar to skylights, although made and decorated in a different way, adapted to a new historical context, the pinch lamps.
- Apprentices, journeymen and masters' workshopThe aim of this activity is to get to know the world of the first guilds or guilds of workers. It is the Golden Age in the Kingdom of Valencia. The workshop will take a look at the evolution of history from the 8th to the 13th century and will study in detail the last centuries of the late Middle Ages to learn about the world of the guilds, the cities, trade and the birth and consolidation of the bourgeoisie. Participants will make a panel reproducing a craft from this historical period.
