The West Coast Collaborative presents:
The Outdoor Atelier - Exploring wonder and learning through the dialogue between the indoor and outdoors
Featuring:
Tiziana Filippini and Isabella Mennino, Reggio Children
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The West Coast Collaborative:
Bright Start, Santa Barbara
The New School West
Branches Atelier
Growing Place - Lab School, Ocean Park, Marine Park
Tickets available via Eventbrite
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We invite you to join us for a multi-day, multi-site conference exploring wonder and learning through the Outdoor Atelier. You are welcome to attend one or both days. Due to the hands-on aspect of this event, space is limited and early registration is encouraged.
Tiziana Filippini is a pedagogista who collaborates with Reggio Children with regard to research, conferences, and consultancies in Italy and abroad.
From 1978 to 2015, she worked as a member of the Pedagogical Coordinating Team of the Instituzione - Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia.
Tiziana is currently one of the curators of the new version, "The Wonder of Learning: The Hundred Languages of Children”.
In addition to her work with the municipality, Tiziana was part of the original research group of Making Learning Visible, a collaboration between Reggio Children and Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The collaboration resulted in a book, Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners, which became very well known in North American early childhood circles and all over the world.
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Isabella Mennino has been an Atelierista with the Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres, municipality of Reggio Emilia since 1999.
Currently she is working in the role of atelierista with the “Martiri di Sesso” municipal preschool in Reggio Emilia.
For Reggio Children she has collaborated on the realisation of publishing and exhibition projects, and on professional development initiatives.
Isabella studied for her Art Diploma, specialising in architecture, at Modena’s “A. Venturi” Art Institute. She then completed a course in Inkscape and Graphic Design at the A.G. Fronzoni Studio-Workshop in Milan.
Subsequently she participated in the Young Artists of Mediterranean Europe Biennial (BJEM) and worked in several architectural practices and graphic design studios.
She worked as atelierista in the Centre for Documentation and Educational Research, and again in the role of atelierista at the Diana, Anna Frank, and Gulliver municipal preschools in Reggio Emilia.
She has worked for Reggio Children in the area of Exhibitions and Publishing, and in the Ateliers at the Loris Malaguzzi International Centre.
She has collaborated on, participated in, and helped to curate, several educational and professional learning projects with Reggio Emilia’s municipal Istituzione of Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres, and with Reggio Children.
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SCHEDULE:
Friday, November 3rd 2023
AM:
8:00am to 9:00am (PST)
Registration
9:00am to 12:00pm (PST)
Presentation by Tiziana Filippini and Isabella Meninno, Reggio Children
12:00pm to 1:30pm (PST)
Lunch (included)
LOCATION:
Wake Campus SBCC
300 N Turnpike Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111
PM:
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Hands-on experience with materials at
Tuckers Grove Park,
4800 Cathedral Oaks Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111
https://www.countyofsb.org/847/Tuckers-Grove-Park#cd-area-1
4:00pm to 6:00pm (PST)
Bright Start School Tour / Wine and Cheese Reception
LOCATION:
Bright Start Child Development Center
1617 & 1621 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101
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Saturday, November 4th 2023
AM:
8:00am to 9:00am (PST)
Registration
9:00am to 12:00pm (PST)
Presentation by Tiziana Filippini and Isabella Meninno, Reggio Children
12:00pm to 1:00pm (PST)
Lunch (included)
PM:
1:00pm to 3:00pm (PST)
Presentation by Tiziana Filippini and Isabella Meninno, Reggio Children
LOCATION:
Wake Campus SBCC
300 N Turnpike Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, 93111
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*Early Bird* 2-Day Full Conference Ticket - $300 (after 10/12/23 - $375)
Friday ONLY Ticket - $195 (lunch provided)
Saturday ONLY Ticket - $195 (lunch provided)
We offer a 50% reduction on admission for enrolled ECE students
Questions and student discount inquiries:
Contact allison@branchesatelier.com
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