This year's Museum Night at the Ecomuseum "Batana" is dedicated to children and is entitled "Rovinj's Heritage Through Children's Eyes - Drawing Exhibition, Bookmarking Workshop and Stories for 15 Minutes of Reading".
We are embarking on a wondrous journey through children's creativity and imagination in order to emphasize the importance of children's perspectives in our work and development.
The walls of the ecomuseum will be flooded with a sea of children's artwork created at the interactive narrative workshop "Katarina the Turtle" which was held in Croatian and Italian for last year's Museum Night by members of the Drama Studio "Ulix", professors Milan Medak and Sanja Lađarević.
Through the beautiful works of students from the Croatian and Italian elementary school, we will remember the story of the Greek-Rovinj turtle Katarina and her exciting journey to Rovinj-Rovigno, which is watched over by her patron saint, St. Euphemia, who also inspired the 2nd grade children of the "Vladimir Nazor" Elementary School to create large-format drawings.
Children will show how they experience their city through art, and so that Museum Night will also be an opportunity to demonstrate their creativity, a workshop for imaginative bookmarkers, will be held.
In order to continue the reading habit encouraged by the National Reading Challenge "15 by 15: All of Croatia Reads to Children", the story of the turtle Katarina will be read to children simultaneously in Croatian and Italian, and in the Rovinj dialect, so that they can experience the beauty of linguistic expression. Along with the story, we will also follow a map of Europe, or Katarina/Caterina's journey across the Adriatic to Rovinj-Rovigno.
Each child will receive a leaflet with the story "Katarina the Turtle" in a trilingual version as a gift so that parents will have an interesting heritage reading material to read to their children that evening, but so that they themselves can return to the adventures of the turtle Katarina when they learn to read.