Colourful Christmas
Channel: Peter Babnik
Date: 18/05/2009

This scene and song performed by drama and music students from university of hull is a general statement for pluralism and diversity. Child: Sarah Brand, Mother: Amy Charles, Father: Ryan Govin, Saxophone: Andrew Ian Robinson, Choir: music student of the music department of the university of Hull.Christmas should be colourful (like human beings): there are different religions and concepts on our planet earth. Pluralism is colourful and enriching.

Peter Babnik, Colourful Christmas
Colourful Christmas (Scene)
Child: Mom, you are a religious teacher. Maybe you can help me.
My classmate Daniel is Jewish and Ahmed is Muslim.
What will they do on the 25th of December this Year?
Mom:Well, we as Christians are only one part of all human beings in the world.
There are other religions on our planet earth, for example the Jewish religion,
the Islamic religion and other religions in Asia, Africa and other areas.
Child:But, what will they do on Christmas?
Christmas is a day to celebrate, so what will they celebrate?
Father:Mmh (looking in a book) the old Jewish calendar says: this is year 5769. 
There is the celebration of Hanukkah about 3 weeks before the 25th of December 
this Year 2008.
Or the Islamic calendar is this Year in the year 1429. It celebrates the Eid  ul Adha
in the days before Christmas. And the Chinese calendar has a festival for the mid of 
Winter and they live in the year 4705. It is the year of the rat.
Child:This is interesting!
Mom:You can see: Our earth is a colourful planet! Do you know this song    ?

Colourful Christmas   Song (Christmas Swing)

The end of the song:    co  lour  ful 

Child:Thats it.
End of Scene/song.

Colourful Christmas(lyrics)
Mom:
Christmas is the time which as children we liked to see
Colours are all around us and on the Christmas tree.
The snow is white and the sky is bright blue and the baubles are red 
And yellow and green and colourful is evry  thing
And we listen to the colourful Christmas swing.
Choir: And we listen to the colourful Christmas swing.

Father:
All human beings need time to make up their mind.
We are the ones who will on our planet find 
The way we are living, together we will start giving our future a meaning
And evrybody who agrees is giving a cheer:         (Choir = cheer!)
We are having here a colourful Christmas this Year.
Choir: We are having here a colourful Christmas this year.

Choir:
Our earth is for living, really a lovely place.
You can see many colours in every human face:
The lips are red and the eyes have some white, so it is human right:
To solve problems in our thinking, we found a handy tool:
We are all human beings and colourful.
We are all human beings and colourful.
Peter Babnik, Colourful Christmas
Mom:
One thing what evrybody needs: that is LOVE.
If you want you could look up to the sky above.
Imagine the view back to earth, and a few of us have recognized,
That love is the message we should bring to us and to all
We are living on this colourful little ball.
Choir: we are living on this colourful little ball.

Father:
Faith is a thing that is strong as we really know all,
We have discussions in winter, spring, summer and fall.
Different opinions and different traditions have effects on decisions
In all our lives, and we are united in the hope:
We can colourfully live together on our globe.
Choir: We can colourfully live together on our globe.

Choir/ All:
Our earth is for living, really a lovely place.
You can see many colours in every human face:
The lips are red and the eyes have some white, so it is human right:
To solve problems in our thinking we found a handy tool:
We are all human beings and colourful,
We are all human beings, we are all human beings, we are all human beings and colourful.
Co  lour  ful !               Child:  Thats it!
End of the scene/song.