The students of the DCG from the French Drama Club participated for the second time in the observation of the International Francophonie Days in Celje, Slovenia. On World Theatre Day, March 27th , 88 students from 13 different Slovene high schools gathered to stage a contemporary performance in French, namely the L’Européenne by David Lescot. Directed and assisted by two young French artists, Slovene students set up this project, which is unique also in a broader European context, and demonstrated some amazing teamwork. The students of DCG worked under the mentorship of Daša Obrč.

President Pahor and two other guests,  Tit Turnšek and  Peter Sušnik, will meet students of The Diocesan Classical Gymnasium on Tuesday, April 14th at 2.30 p.m. in the Matija Tomc Hall (St. Stanislav’s Institution). The panel discussion in the remembrance year will be conducted under the title »I am here to love, not hate« (Antigone by Sophocles).

Welcome!

In January 2014, Alojzij Šuštar Primary School started a two-year project named Outdoor Learning. Our partners in the project are primary school Borge skole (Fredrikstad, Norway) and Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association.

The main goal of the project is to improve our methods in outdoor learning, to learn new approaches and techniques from the partners, to adapt and use them in working with our pupils. We are hosting teachers and pupils from Borge skole in April and we will visit them in May. Besides showing each other the improvements we have made since last year, we will spend quality time together and share new ideas and knowledge we have gained.
The project coordinator at our end is Ela Rupert.

He is laid in a tomb.
The sign of a cross appears
from the stone tomb,
from his anointed body,
It enters into the bosom of life.
As a sign of birth,
as a sign of death,
as a sign of suffering. Suffering.
As a sign of joy.
And a sign of Love.
So inconceivable. Endless.
Incomprehensible. Eternal love.
Will you, the Spirit of God,
eradicate the evil
rooted in our flesh?

(14th Station of the Cross, Dane Zajc)

The suffering and pain of today’s world are also filled with the joy of resurrection. May the celebration of Easter be a source of abundant hope that love is stronger than hatred, forgiveness better than revenge and life more powerful than death.
We wish you a happy Easter!

Roman Globokar, Ph. D.
Director

 

 

 

 

 

As a part of their European Tour, St. Stephen’s Global Touring Ensemble from Austin (Texas, USA) performed in Cankarjev dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia) together with the String Orchestra on 12th March 2015. A variety of eclectic music from classical music, blues, jazz, sophistic music to southern American melodies was be performed under the conductor and soloist John Moon. The String Orchestra, which consists of students of the Diocesan Classical gymnasium, played the Concerto op. 6, nr. 8 by A. Corelli under the baton of Damijan Močnik.

The American group is to present concerts in the cities of Salzburg, Ljubljana, Trieste and Venice. In St. Stanislav’s Institution we looked forward to the experience of performing together with the young American musicians and sharing common enthusiasm for music.

 

From 24th – 26th March, 2015 the students of the DCG took part in the innovation camp together with other students from different Slovene high schools as well as the students from Oslo, Norway who shared share their abundant experience in entrepreneurship. The event took place under the sponsorship of Microsoft and in cooperation with the Slovene Institution for Promotion of Entrepreneurship among the Young, which functions under in the realm of the international organisation JA-YE.

Ther innovation camp is a a part of the Erasmus+ project, this time led under the mentorship of Mirjam Lindič .

 

 

After an international conference in November 2014, we have edited and published the conference proceedings. The publication bares the same name as the conference itself The Mission of Catholic Schools – An answer to the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow.

Due to Slovenian legislation we cannot make the PDF available in the first six months after publication. If you would be interrested in a printed copy, you can contact us at [email protected].

On 4th March 2015 the DCG students and their mentors participating in the project Erasmus+, Art nouveau-Art Renouveau went to see the exhibition entitled New Art and Nature in the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. The exhibition is a part of an international network of Art Nouveau European cities, with Ljubljana being a part of this group.
The founders of Art Nouveau movement observed and researched natural parameters and motifs and included them in their art, thus establishing a new artistic expressiveness. The nature was considered as a sanctuary and was depicted and interpreted with numerous symbols.
Observing nature and interpreting its symbols is part of the Art Nouveau – Art Renouveau project and therefore we were extremely pleased to have the possibility to see the results of the observations of the Art Nouveau founders from 1900.

Students who take French in the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium are getting ready to stage a new theatrical piece in cooperation with 14 other Slovene high schools. They have been working on it for last five months under the mentorship of a French director and an actress. They will stage a contemporary play by David Lescot L’Européenne. The mentor in the DCG is Daša Oberč.

The performance will take place on 27th March, 2015 in Slovensko ljudsko gledališče Celje. Welcome!

The traditional exchange with three Slavic Gymnasiums took place from 2nd – 6th March, 2015. This year the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium hosted students from Piarist Gxymnasium in Trenčín (Slovakia) and Piarist Lyceum from Krakow (Poland). Traditionally, students exchange their knowledge of singing as well as of all three Slavic mother tongues, namely Slovak, Polish and Slovene. The exchange ended with a concert of all three choirs and presentation of their language work.