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THE FREE SCHOOL ...
by TOM DURRIE
You may see several thirteen year old Californians roaming the Gulf Islands. And if you see them, you'll know they're leftovers from a visit from Pinel School in Walnut Creek to the Saturna Free School on the island. After they left us about a week ago, I wondered how they had been able to reunite the whole, a group of 19 children and four adults, in one place to return to their homeland.
Anyone embarking on a three-week trip from California to British Columbia with that many kids must be either efficiency experts or just lunatics. But joking aside, the kids had a great time visiting Saturna, Pender, Galiano, and even Vancouver Island. They spent five days with us here, and many of the children naturally wished they could go to school here on beautiful Saturna Island. You might be wondering, what the whole free school thing is. There are about six other free schools in Canada and I don't know how many in the States. In March, I went to California to attend a conference on new schools.
Around 30 schools were represented, some “free”, some not quite, but all of them were trying to break with old traditions and find new ways of educating young people. What we try to do at Saturna Island Free School is to give children a chance to experience some of the problems and joys of life in Eal for themselves, and to discover what interests them and what they want to learn, without having someone else's ideas cram down their throats. Everyone agrees that people learn best when they are genuinely interested. I guess we're saying that people only learn when they're interested or, better, when they're doing something really important to themselves. And we try to have faith that pushes or prompts.
We think kids are awesome human beings, and while their energy sometimes drains us, we think they have the ability to take life as it comes and do what is necessary to live it successfully. I never cease to amaze you at the number and varieties of things that “children discover about the information they accumulate, and the knowledge they have. While our place on Saturna is a boarding school - where "school" goes on twenty-four hours a day, Pinel School is a day school. They have nearly seventy students who come from various areas of the San Francisco Bay Area every day during class hours. Their philosophy of learning is much the same as ours – and anyone who has met them would agree that they are a bunch.
To pass the time between Swartz Bay and the islands, some of our Californians turned to music. We are in debt to Dick Flasher, one of Pinel's staff, for the following verse to "The Wabash Canon Ball": exit from Swartz Bay aboard the Pender Queen towards the island of Saturna, the land of blue and green; via Otter Bay on North Pender Island; return to Saturna to be greeted with a smile. Listen to the gurgling, rumbling and moaning, Steam to Saturna in ninety minutes; Cruise the ocean beyond the pine shores, returning home, leaving the blues city behind.
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What a lot of emotions! It's so beautiful, as a bonus of the drawings, you're great, and so much freedom, how I understand you!
I'm in for a treat.
Thank you for adding to my purchase, it's my Christmas gift, and for once it will be magical!
Yes it's beautiful, it's simple joy, open the site and look endlessly at the gesture of the brush that puts a line of ink on the paper and suddenly a bird takes flight, it's the joy that settles for the day
I loved what you were doing in hinge, I love your poetry, I'm here too, I agree 1000 percent
It's beautiful!
Annette Gibert, annettegibert01@gmail.com
A real pleasure to walk around this site. I am still moved by my visit.
Your book "Branche de platane" reveals your emotions about the moments lived and shared.
If you wanted to express a message and I felt it that way, it was to take advantage of your freedom to approach life with serenity and to know how to appreciate what nature offers us.
I feel in you a very great sensitivity, turned towards true friendship and sharing.
I had a lovely time with you reading you.
Thank you.
Congratulations for your creations that I had the curiosity to admire on your site! One of your "abstract paintings" in particular stopped my attention, in the heart of which I see a look that stands out (a fox, perhaps?). But your universe more generally, the work around stones, and especially your pen in small delicate touches, which reveals us a familiar and magnified world.
Gaetane,
I just went to your site.
You are a genius artist who does not lack imagination and we admire you.
😘😘
Gaetane: Your site is wonderful. Your intro is very intimate, warm, 👍 plus having this division into recent works is great. Besides, your find of music accompaniment is unique.
It's nice to see you paint one of the birds we have😘😘
And your sculptures: these objects in blue-gray and yellow are adorable. Truly you are a genius. And it translates into your site. 👍👍👏🌹
Without Dave, there would be no site. Many ideas are his, scrolling, enlargement, black background and now music. I also think it's really good.
Thank you Renée, your enthusiasm makes me really happy!
That's the synergy:1+1=5😁👍
thank you Gaëtane for your message, I just looked at the new works, it's always a party
"Friends" are present and dance around these beautiful colors
I kiss you
hello Gaëtane, Monique has just given me the address of your site, I simply enjoyed having and reviewing your creations, reading and rereading your texts, you are very present in every gesture, every sign, thank you, what beautiful memories relive, what a desire to put myself in your footsteps in this sensitive inventiveness, see you soon, I measure the distance of 10 km and I come
I saw the acrylic series again and I remembered the title of the exhibition at Samuel Vincent "the head of others" with the FHP workshop companions, where you had put figures on newsprint and they had been very inspired
I saw the acrylic series again and I remembered the title of the exhibition at Samuel Vincent "the head of others" with the FHP workshop companions, where you had put figures on newsprint and they had been very inspired
I saw the acrylic series again and I remembered the title of the exhibition at Samuel Vincent "the head of others" with the FHP workshop companions, where you had put figures on newsprint and they had been very inspired
in the last works the series in yellow and red, sublimated by black, made me enter a disheveled cavalcade, where I heard the cries of joy of someone who comes out of isolation, who no longer knows where it is more urgent to run to meet who...
in the last works the series in yellow and red, sublimated by black, made me enter a disheveled cavalcade, where I heard the cries of joy of someone who comes out of isolation, who no longer knows where it is more urgent to run to meet who...
in the last works the series in yellow and red, sublimated by black, made me enter a disheveled cavalcade, where I heard the cries of joy of someone who comes out of isolation, who no longer knows where it is more urgent to run to meet who...
hello Gaëtane, Monique has just given me the address of your site, I simply enjoyed having and reviewing your creations, reading and rereading your texts, you are very present in every gesture, every sign, thank you, what beautiful memories relive, what a desire to put myself in your footsteps in this sensitive inventiveness, see you soon, I measure the distance of 10 km and I come
December 2021
December 2021