IB Visual Art Exhibition

After months of work in the classroom experimenting, exploring and producing, after countless hours of preparation and setting up, the 2nd year IB Visual Art students of RCN held their Final Exhibition, for all the community to see, on Sunday the 8th of April. This was a very emotional and vulnerable moment for the 2nd year students, as each piece and each space was carefully thought through, carefully crafted and for some, extremely personal. All of this effort, however, did not go unnoticed and resulted in a stunning exhibition opening, breathtaking moments for the students when they saw staff, students and visitors reacting to their work, and lastly to a beautiful ending to their two years of hard work as RCN Visual Art students. Congratulations to all!

See an album of pictures here.

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Marianne Andresen

Marianne Andresen has been a longstanding supporter of UWC Red Cross Nordic (and UWC Norge and UWC internationally) – and has been a lionhearted champion of our College for over twenty years.

Generation after generation of RCN students have benefited from her thoughtful contributions and gentle suggestions to the development of the College. Marianne has contributed in very many ways – including donations towards classrooms, the Silent House, the grand piano, scholarships, capacity building in fundraising and (more recently) the Baking House, alongside raising awareness in Oslo of our work as educators towards peace and sustainability. She has also offered up her home to be a ‘host mother’ to students on the RCN winter programme.

On the 1st November 2017, Orfeus Publishing launched ‘Slottet – Familien – Kunsten’ (‘The Palace – The Family – The Art’) – a biography of Marianne and study of her art, written by Nanna Segelcke. In tandem with the book launch, an exhibition of Marianne’s art work, ’70 Years as an Artist’, ran in central Oslo from the 2nd until the 12th November. Over 320 guests attended on the opening night.

Marianne’s wish at the outset of the project was that all proceeds from the sales of her work at the exhibition would be directed to supporting our work towards education for peace at UWC.

The exhibition, including the Shelby Davis match, raised 1.5 NOK for scholarships at RCN.

She is planning a second exhibition later this year in Stockholm to support Swedish National Committee students, in need of financial aid, to study at RCN.

On April 7th 2018, Marianne was featured in the Financial Times Weekend. Please click here to read the article and here, to see the online version with some of Marianne’s pictures included.

We look forward to welcoming Marianne and some members of her family to the opening of the Baking House in early June 2018.

On behalf of all the students and staff of RCN, past and present, thank you Marianne for your continued support of this College.

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2018-11-21T11:25:06+01:00April 6th, 2018|

Visit from UWC Mostar staff

Bonfire outside the new Baking House

We have been delighted to be able to host a team of Support Staff from our sister College, UWC Mostar, during the second half of last week. UWC Mostar kindly hosted a team of RCN Support Staff in the summer of 2012 and we wanted to reciprocate.

Our twelve guests have had an action packed programme which included presentations, meetings, dinner in Bekker House, folk dancing (gammaldans), excursions into the local region and much more finishing with a farewell bonfire outside the new Baking House.

It has been a great opportunity to learn from each other and we would like to thank UWC Mostar for their visit. We are looking forward to the continuation of the cooperation.

 

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Landmine Awareness Day

Today, April 4th is the International Landmine Awareness Day.  Our project, Survivors of Conflict, which we do in close co-operation with the Norwegian Red Cross and Red Cross Haugland Rehabilitation Centre started by giving young persons affected by land mine injuries education and rehabilitation according to need. Our students will arrange a special day on Landmine awareness on Saturday:

1100-1300: Kantina activities during brunch. Students share information and impressions from landmine affected countries. Information wall.
13.00: Kahout quiz.
15.30-17.30: Goalball and Race in pairs
19.00-20.00: Sharing Circle. Survivors sharing their stories

A video, made by Geireann (RCN ’19) was used to help promote the day.

Landmine Awareness Day

On 8 December 2005, the UN General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. We marked the day yesterday.

Gepostet von UWC Red Cross Nordic am Sonntag, 8. April 2018

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