Professional photographer Dominik Stixenberger showed the little art students camera tricks in a photo box set up on the premises of voestalpine Precision Strip GmbH in Böhlerwerk: photographing a child with dark skin in a white T-shirt holding ice cubes in a transparent plastic bag in front of a white wall , is a challenge for the exposure. The tricky photo experiment in a “branch office” of the Waidhofen Children’s University, whose campus will be the Rothschild Castle from July 5th to 7th, is one of many seminars that make knowledge fun.
The course catalog for this year’s edition of the “Children’s UNIversum”, as the Waidhofen summer academy for girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 15 calls itself, is ready. The four “faculties” of crafts & technology, architecture and history, nature & environment and culture & society are again taught with a high degree of practical relevance. The “art education” in recent years led, for example, to an underground car park, the gray walls of which the participants sprayed with graffiti.
“The joy of experimentation and creative work must not be neglected,” says curator Gudrun Schindler-Rainbauer. “Children are naturally curious and open-minded,” says rector Gabriele Hofleitner, who sees the young listeners’ thirst for knowledge as a major asset. The course catalog goes online today, the registration period will then start on Wednesday, although parents are advised to have their children enrolled as soon as possible.
Source: Nachrichten
