SATURDAY, 8 October
Bird in Hand – dove or duck?
Media literacy workshop for children
14.00
Venue: “Hearing Voices Café”, Pils iela 23
The event will be held in Latvian.
There is a saying: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Thoughts are free and rich in meaning but in order to understand them the only option is to catch one, tie it down and put it in a cage and… confine it. Thus, only one bird is left from a the two. What’s better? To ponder the two in the bush, or to make the most of the one in the hand? And then it’s left to be seen whether the bird in the hand is a dove or a duck. And whether the two in the bush are white doves, that might make someone recall the Holy Spirit, or, perhaps, or someone else it might remind of an old postal system.
How to get the message, and the thought, out of a printed sentence or an interesting picture? How to catch all the symbols and implications? How to take into account the impressions that news leave on our actions? Questions such as these will be discussed in the media literacy workshop – a game for school students: Bird in the Hand – Dove or Duck?. It will be led by the media researcher Ilva Skulte and the participants of the Journalism and Media Literacy club of Rīdze elementary school.
ORGANIZER
Ilva Skulte has a degree in philology, she has worked in cultural journalism, and she’s a communication and media researcher at various Latvian universities. Associate Professor at the Riga Stradiņš University.
The Hearing Voices Cafe is a project of the Goethe-Institut incorporated into a comprehensive package of measures for which the Federal Foreign Office provides funding from the 2022 Supplementary Budget to mitigate the effects of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
*The event is accessible to people with disabilities. Before visiting the festival, please read about the accessibility here. If you need special access requirements or have any questions about the accessibility of the festival, please contact us at mara@lcca.lv