ACTIVITIES CULTURE SPORT SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT SCIENCE / OLYMPIADS As a Brussels school, we like to make use of the cultural opportunities that the capital offers us. Culture is something that binds us in all our diversity. We therefore attach great importance to culture. Film forum We also draw the map of culture with the film forum. Film is an accessible medium for many, but we also want to introduce students through the film forum to films that receive less or no attention in the commercial circuit. Thanks to the facilities of the Actor's Studio and the debriefing by Steve Thielemans (winner of the 2011 Docville festival with 'L île Déserte') we try to demonstrate to the students how a script is constructed, how social values and norms are played with. in this medium and how the end product is the result of the many radars that have been activated long before the film recordings. Together we look and discover many facets that you do not see at first glance. School trips In the higher years we broaden our view during the multi-day school trips. We are going out with the quarters in Amsterdam, with the 5 in Paris and with the 6 in Berlin. We highlight the origins and growth of these cities and their economic and cultural development. We walk along their beautiful streets, canals, squares, churches and monuments. We visit museums that help shape the individuality of each city: from the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and Beaubourg in Paris to the Pergamon Museum, the Helmut Newton Foundation and the Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. We have an eye for the social problems of the metropolis, but also for its vibrant cultural dynamics. School theater Mabo has a solid theater tradition: every two years we choose a piece that we stick to with the students. Entirely specific and cross-curricular pedagogical aspects are part of the performance of their own theater: the pupils involved first and foremost learn to bear the consequences of their voluntary efforts, and discover a profound form of cross-degree 'teamwork'. On top of that, of course, is the formative value of text analysis and interpretation, 'empathizing' with the thoughts of another, verbal expression and body language, etc. The introduction to theater-supporting arts, skills and techniques, such as composing and performing your own music , the design and implementation of costumes, props and set elements, the technicality of the lighting, the graphics of the posters, advertising brochures and program booklet, the hassle of the entire organization with mailing, press, catering, reception, ... Maria-Boodschaplyceum Moutstraat 22 - 1000 Brussels tel. 02 506 89 20 - E-mail: mabo@skynet.be - photos: Kris Van Beek - web design: Filip Vandeputte