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Side
By Side Project
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by Rowena Gerber, Yvonne Moyer and Alice Key.
Time
line of Side by Side:
1996-Introduced
by art teacher, Helen Donnell, at Miami Country Day School
as an art project during a study of Native Americans. Elongation
frieze of Native American portraits was exhibited at school
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1997-Adapted
by Rowena Gerber and Yvonne Moyer as a project for self-portraits.
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| 1998-Introduced
as an international collaborative art project at the IEARN
conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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1999-Displayed at the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City and at the IEARN Conference
in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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2000-Over
600 portraits displayed in the Ocean Room of The American
Museum of Natural History. Displayed at the IEARN gala.
Wide spread use of Side-By-Sides as introductions to penpals
and cultural exchanges. Used at conferences in Australia
and China. Petru Dumitru introduces a variation of Side-by-Side
to EU, calling it
"Holding
Hands"
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2001-Presented and displayed at IEARN Conference
in Capetown, South Africa. Displayed in the children’s wing
and rehab center at Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, Florida.
Highlighted on the cover of “The Teacher’s Guide to International
Collaboration on the Internet”, prepared by IEARN of the
U.S. Department of Education. Publication
Cover Project participant, Petru Dimitru, is recognized
by the Global Junior Challenge and Childnet for his collection
of Side-By-Side portraits collected for the My Europe Project.
Global Junior Challenge
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2002-Presented and displayed at the IEARN
conference in Moscow, Russia. Displayed and introduced
in Trinidad and Tobego. Displayed and introduced in Rome,
Italy at the Global Junior Challenge. Side
by Side in Rome, Italy
Webcasts for introductions are posted. Ms.
Minks 3rd grade class
Classroom examples are highlighted for teacher resources
Another
view
of Side by Sides from Kristi
Kennebohm Franz at Sunnyside Elementary School in Pullman,
Washington.
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Side
by Side theme song "PUT YOUR HAND IN MY HAND" Lower
School Chorus
Side by Side Creations from
Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Japan, India, Russia, Trinidad and Tobego
and Australia
More
Side by Side drawings have arrived!
Students from St.
Mary's holding their Side by Side drawings
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"I am a masterpiece of the world."
See our Taiwan partners presenting Side by Side in movie
format. (You must have Windows Movie Maker to view this movie)
The
Side by Side Project celebrates the uniqueness of young people through
a traveling multi-cultural art show. Portraits from around the world
are hung "side by side" to represent the coming together
of individuals to make a better world.
"Americans
believe in patriotism. We don't believe in prejudice. We're determined
to fight terror. That's what we're
going to do. And we're equally determined to build ties of trust
and friendship with people all around the world." - President
Bush, 2001
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