Noč z Andersenom

So this is it: yet another Night With Andersen has gone by, this time the seventh in a row. We have joined the 1,180 libraries and schools throughout the Czech Republik, Slovakia, Poland, Croatia, and Ukraine, as well as a number of cities like Sydney, London, Paris, Baltimore, Geneva, and Dresden. And there were as much as 44,067 children and 17,701 adults  that kept vigil during this special night.

We spent the night in the library and had a really good time the whole night through. This whole-night having-fun was well documented: numerous photos were taken, an overview videoshow was recorded, videoclips of Andersen’s What the Old Man Does Is Always Right and The Emperor’s New Clothes puppet shows were made, an exhibition was prepared … The breakfast we had the morning after was a hit, too.

The event was attended by sixteen children and nine librarians, who were later joined by a number of guests. The children were 12, 13, 14, and 15 years of age respectively (i. e. primary-school pupils from the seventh grade upwards). They came from different localities of the Radovljica, Bled, Bohinj, and Gorje municipalities, with two of them coming from the Osnovna šola Antona Janša primary school, a school for children with special needs. Joining our ranks were also two of the schoolteachers from the Anton Janša school. They enjoyed the event as much as we did; this is expected to be further proven the following year if they decide to join us again. Now, after they have lived through the night in our company, it is their wish that this become not only a yearly but also traditional event.

The night was eventful. First we tried to guess each other’s identity. Since we are now used to do things differently, we made each other’s acquaintance differently as well. So each of us filled in his/her own questionnaire first, and then we all tried to guess who the respondent was for each of the sheets. We had some very interesting answers to questions such as »If you could spend a day with a celebrity, your choice would be …«, or »Lying on my bedside table is …« One of the requirements was also to make a drawing of oneself. If none other, the colour of one’s hair gave us the right clue. Thus, introductions were made, and some very nice pictures were taken. The Night With Andersen also took place at the Bohinjska Bistrica primary school. So we »peekabooed« their event interactively, and they did the same to us in return. Next, we made ourselves familiar with the life and work of H. C. Andersen in a somewhat unorthodox way – by way of an interesting game, Andersen – Don’t Get Angry!. This served as an overture to our stage acts: each group picked one of the fairy tales by Andersen, cut out their own shadow puppets, and put up their own puppet show of What the Old Man Does Is Always Right and The Emperor’s New Clothes tales. A little bit of rhythmic excercise followed: we did some rumba and belly dance. The next item on the agenda was the reading of a fragment from the book Cavazza by Vesna Milek; naturally we concentrated on the biographical childhood and youth reminiscences. This was done just about midnight, since this was the time of the reading in all the libraries and schools participating in the Andersen event. We all wished we could have read the book right to the end, but regretfully there was not time enough to do it the same night. Each of the participants made his/her own proposition for the »superbook«. It came as no surprise to any of us that the choice was different with each participant, since we all have our very own taste in reading. Another special feature of the night was the karaoke, with us singing the songs by well-known authors in pairs and fours. We just could not get enough of it. Additionally, we engaged in various creative activities, did a crossword puzzle (thanks to Mr Marjan Stare, who composed one just for the occasion), made some posters so that the participants will be able to show their achievements to their schoolfriends, and we blogged – just take a look at what we all wrote. It is no small thing to dance on a dance rug at 5 AM, but we did it with a flare anyway … The night was through in no time. Some of the children were a bit tired, but not so much as to go to bed! We even took a walk through the streets of Radovljica in the wee wee hours of the night! We had a great time exploring what it seemed like an extinct town. But then we started to feel cold and quickly took refuge in the warm and cozy premises of the library. After the breakfast, we put up the exhibition and made everything ready for the reception of guests: on March 31st at 9 AM we made a presentation of our Night With Andersen to all the visitors and offered them breakfast.

We are proud to have more and more people stay up with us each year during the Night With Andersen, not only in Europe and worldwide but, above all, here in Slovenia. This year there were seven locations where the Andersen event took place: at Anton Tomaž Linhart Library of Radovljica (for the seventh time now), Tone Seliškar Library of Trbovlje and Rinža primary school of Kočevje (both for the fourth time), Josip Plemelj primary school of Bled, Janez Mencinger primary school of Bohinjska Bistrica, and primary school of Stara Cerkev (all for the second time), and  Tone Čufer primary school of Jesenice (for the first time). And we received confirmation that two more schools are going to join the event in the days to follow, namely those of Spodnja Idrija and Železniki.

The children and the librarians, we all had a really great time. No wonder it was our unanimous decision: we are going to have a Night With Andersen in our library (and, hopefully, many other places as well) in 2013 too!

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Tako, za nami je sedmič »Noč z Andersenom«. Pridružili smo se 1.180 knjižnicam in šolam na Češkem, Slovaškem, Poljskem, Hrvaškem, v Ukrajini, pa tudi v Sydniju, Londonu, Parizu, Baltimorju, Ženevi, Dresdnu …. In v tej noči je po svetu bedelo kar 44.067 otrok in 17.701 odraslih.

Noč smo preživeli v knjižnici in imeli smo se super. Vse »dokaze«, kaj smo počeli, kako super je bilo, smo vestno beležili – posneli smo cel kup fotografij, samo dogajanje predstavili s t. i. »showom«, posneli videoposnetke igranih prizorov iz Andersenove pravljice »Kakor naredi stari, je vedno prav« in »Cesarjeva nova oblačila«, pripravili razstavo … Tudi zajtrk je bil zadetek v polno!

Sodelovalo je šestnajst otrok in devet knjižničarjev, pridružili pa so se nam tudi gostje. Otroci so stari 12, 13, 14 in 15 let, kar pomeni, da so učenci od sedmega razreda navzgor, dva izmed njih pa sta učenca Osnovne šole Antona Janše, ki je šola za otroke s posebnimi potrebami. Doma so iz različnih krajev občin Radovljica, Bled, Bohinj in Gorje. Da dober glas seže v deveto vas, sta povedali učiteljici iz Osnovne šole Antona Janše. Tudi zanju velja, da sta se dobro počutili. Kako dobro, bomo pa videli naslednje leto, če se nam bosta spet pridružili. Zdaj, po končani noči, pravita, da se bosta in da si želita, da to ne bi bilo vsakoletno vprašanje, ampak tradicija. Pridružil se nam je tudi prostovoljec iz Društva Več Radovljica, društva za osebnostni razvoj mladih. V veliko pomoč pa nam je bil tudi Andrej Jalen, zlasti pri karaokah.

Dogajalo se je veliko. Najprej smo poskušali ugotoviti, kdo je kdo. Ker vse počnemo malce drugače, smo se tudi spoznavali tako. Najprej smo izpolnili vprašalnik in poskušali ugotoviti, kdo je tisti, ki ga je izpolnil. Nadvse zanimivi so bili odgovori na vprašanja: če bi lahko preživel/a dan z znano osebo, bi povabil/a …, na moji nočni omarici je … In tudi narisati se je bilo potrebno. Če nikakor ni šlo, barva las je razblinila vse dvome. Tako smo se spoznali. In naredili prav zanimive fotografije. »Noč z Andersenom« so preživljali tudi na osnovni šoli v Bohinjski Bistrici. »Ku –kuc« smo jim naredili in malce drug k drugemu interaktivno pokukali, kaj počnemo. Nato smo se seznanili z življenjem in delom H. C. Andersena. In to ne kakorkoli, ampak z zanimivo igro »Andersen – ne jezi se!« To je bila uvertura k »igralskemu« dosežku: vsaka skupina si je izbrala eno izmed Andersenovih pravljic, izdelala lutke in to ne kakršnekoli ampak senčne in jo odigrala: »Kakor napravi stari, je vedno prav« in »Cesarjeva nova oblačila«. Nekaj prav posebnega je bilo razmigati telo in posledično tudi duha: zaplesali smo na živahne ritme zumbe in trebušnega plesa. Sledilo je branje odlomka iz knjige »Cavazza« avtorice Vesne Milek. Poudarek je seveda na biografski ispovedi otroštva in mladosti. Odlomek smo brali malo pred polnočjo, kajti opolnoči so brali po vseh knjižnicah in šolah udeleženkah »Noči z Andersenom«. Zaželeli smo si, da bi knjigo lahko prebrali v celoti, a žal to noč to ni bilo možno. Udeleženci smo predlagali svoje superknjige. In res ima vsak svojo in naši bralni okusi so zelo različni. Karaoke so bile nekaj posebnega: peli smo znane pesmi znanih avtorjev, v dvoje, v troje in v še širših zasedbah in prepevali bi še in še … Tudi ustvarjali smo, reševali nagradno križanko (hvala gospodu Marjanu Staretu, ki jo je prav za to priložnost sestavil), naredili plakate, da bomo sošolcem lažje pokazali, kaj vse smo počeli, blogali – le preberite, kaj vse smo napisali. Ob petih zjutraj ni tako lahko plesati na plesni preprogi, ampak mi smo zmogli … In noč je bliskovito minevala. Nekateri otroci so bili utrujeni, vendar ne dovolj, da bi šli spat! Šli pa smo na sprehod po nočni Radovljici! Počutili smo se super, kot da raziskujemo izumrlo mesto. Pa nam je bilo kar mraz in smo se kaj hitro zatekli v okrilje tople in prijazne knjižnice. Po zajtrku smo pripravili razstavo in vse potrebno za sprejem gostov, kajti v soboto zjutraj (31. 3. ob 9.00) smo predstavili »Noč z Andersenom« obiskovalcem in tudi njih pogostili z zajtrkom.

In ponosni smo, da nas vsako leto »Noč z Andersenom« prebedi malo več, ne le v Evropi, pač pa tudi po svetu in predvsem doma. V Sloveniji smo tokrat bedeli na sedmih lokacijah: v Knjižnici Antona Tomaža Linharta Radovljica že sedmič, četrtič v Knjižnici Toneta Seliškarja Trbovlje in OŠ Rinža Kočevje, drugič v OŠ prof. dr. Josipa Plemlja Bled, OŠ dr. Janeza Mencingerja Bohinjska Bistrica ter OŠ Stara Cerkev in prvič v OŠ Toneta Čuferja na Jesenicah. Vemo pa tudi, da bosta v prihodnjih dneh to storili še dve šoli: v Spodnji Idriji in Železnikih.

Da smo se res imeli super, tako otroci kot mi, dokazuje tudi naša odločitev: »Noč z Andersenom« leta 2013 v naši knjižnici bo! In upamo, da še kje.

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Ura je pol treh zjutraj. Prej smo reševalai krtižanke za nagrade, pred tem pa prirredili lutkovne predstave, imeli smo tudi zumba ples in trebušne plese. Zdaj imamo karaoke!

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lepo smo se imeli in zabavali. zelo je bilo lepo……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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