Theatre walk - Schoolchildren meet history
Marja van Trier of the foundation Stuipzand organizes theatre walks for school children:
‘The theatre walk through the peat land and sand dunes of the Loonse en Drunense Duinen is environmental education boosted by performing arts. A large shortcoming in the education on landscape and the environment is the history of the landscape. The theatre walk fills that gap. Until now we had more than tree thousand children from more than hundred classes of primary schools in the neighbourhood of Tilburg and Waalwijk.
What you cannot describe in words but have to experience in real life, that is what is filled up with an act. Take for instance the peat swamp De Brand. That is a place that shows how large areas of Brabant looked like. The schoolchildren there meet a lord, Paulus van Haastrecht, who cultivated the swamps. They arrive there with wet feet from the swamp, and the lord promises them dry feet, fuel for their fires and land to work on. That is on the boundaries of the swamp and the sand dunes, so there is a direct link to what happened to the swamp while the lord cultivated it. So many peats were cut that the land silted up.
In 2008 the project is finished, but we want to leave lasting information. Now all children from groups six, seven and eight participated, so a whole generation is initiated to the landscape history. On our website schools can find the map of the walks and historical information, and we are working on a book. So in the future, teachers or schools can organize the walks themselves.‘
Contact: Foundation Stuipzand
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