Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/90836czxny
Getting to Know Bourek – Zlatko Bourek Through the Prism of the Work with the Young
Vera Ćuže Abramović
orcid.org/0000-0002-3752-6116
; Gimnazija Požega, Požega, Hrvatska
Abstract
The project Zlatko Bourek Through the Prism of the Work with the Young refers to the pedagogical-methodical approach to the work with a target group of secondary school students attending the Creative Workshop for Secondary School Students.
Work with the young demands a specific approach to the topic, both in content and methodically. Due to the current health conditions, in which direct contact work has been disabled, the otherwise usual approach needed to be adjusted and the communication enabled on the Teams and Zoom platforms, in accordance with the recommendations issued by the Ministry of Science and Education and the Croatian Public Health Institute.
The paper will tackle the project entitled Zlatko Bourek – One Artist / Three Cities, carried out in collaboration with the Institute for Scientific Research and Artistic Work of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Požega, in which the following three schools participated: Požega Secondary School, 1st Secondary School from Osijek, and the Applied Arts and Design Secondary School from Zagreb. The objective of the project was to link the three places related to the life of Zlatko Bourek – his native town, the city where he was educated, and the city in which he worked.
The students established contact and were given tasks within the eTwinning project. Every school studied the life and work of Zlatko Bourek from the spatial angle: the students from Požega from the perspective of Požega as Bourek’s native town; the students from Osijek from the perspective of Osijek as the city in which Bourek grew up; and the students from Zagreb from the perspective of the city in which he studied and worked his whole life. Every school published its results on the eTwinning digital platform.
The students have studied the artist’s oeuvre divided in groups according to their particular interests:
Group 1: family tree, memories from Požega, biography related to Požega.
Group 2: Dobro došli u Baltazargrad! / Welcome to Balthazargrad (the animated film
Baltazar, with the emphasis on the town created by Zlatko Bourek).
Group 3: Bourek the painter (collage of Bourek’s works, phases, favourite topics, the
most frequent motives).
Group 4: Bourek the sculptor (sculptures, collage of works).
Group 5: Bourek the costume designer / puppeteer.
Group 6: Bourek stage designer / caricaturist.
Group 7: Bourek the director (animated and feature films).
Group 8: Interview in Požega (Do people from Požega know who Zlatko Bourek is?).
Group 9: Film Homage to Bourek.
Students’ works in the form of posters, paintings, puppets and films will present a kind of homage to the artist Bourek at the City Library and Reading Room in Požega.
The collaboration will be completed by the performance of the Drama Group of the Catholic Grammar School in Požega under the mentorship of Marijana Ćorluka, which will show Bourek’s Theatre of Figures – Theatre of Freaks based on Krleža’s text Balade Petrice Kerempuha (The Ballads of Petrica Kerempuh).
Keywords
homage to Bourek; work with the young; school collaboration; eTwinning project; the theatre of freaks.
Hrčak ID:
284555
URI
Publication date:
7.10.2022.
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