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ARMANDO DE ARRUDA PEREIRA MUSEUM COLÉGIO RIO BRANCO ANNIVERSARY In order to tell its history of more than six decades and to celebrate its anniversary, Colégio Rio Branco prepared special activities, involving students from Pre-School and Elementary School from the Higienópolis and Granja Vianna Units. Documents, photos and objects, which are a part of the school’s historical archive, were exposed to the students. about fifty years, the teacher from the 2nd grade of the Elementary School and former student Andrea Lopes, and Ana Maria Vaccaro, an employee for 38 years, currently a librarian, talked with the children about the different periods they experienced in school. To close the activities after seeing the exhibition, all students made Armando de Arruda Pereira Museum prepared an exhibition about the history of Colégio Rio Branco records by means of drawings, poems and texts about the things The exhibition was prepared by the students got surprised with that called their attention the most. the Armando de Arruda Pereira what they saw and heard and At the Granja Vianna Unit, Museum, in the building of the were involved in the story of the the 67 years of the school were Higienópolis Unit. Welcomed by school, which seeks, along the also celebrated. Coordinated by the historian Ana Amélia Sabino, time, to accompany the evolution, the teacher Isabel Simon, the the children got acquainted with continuing being one of the most teachers spoke about the history, the school´s trajectory, since its traditional in São Paulo. as well as their experience at Rio creation, passing through different The school’s trajectory was told Branco. In Pre-School, the children significant changes. Among the in the classroom by the teachers also prepared boards, which were photos and old school uniforms, to the Pre-School students before placed in the school’s hallways to objects from the middle of the XX the visits. The teacher Maria de celebrate the date. century and records of the activities Lourdes Bellinazzi, who works at of the first Rio Branco students, the school’s Higienópolis Unit for MÁ RIO GRUBER EXHIBITION Colégio Rio Branco exhibited works by the Brazilian artist Mário Gruber at the Armando de Arruda Pereira Museum in the Higienópolis Unit. In October, the presentation of Classes from studentes from the 5th to 7th the exhibition was held during the grade of Elementary School. traditional lunch of the Rotary Club The objectives of the exhibition were de São Paulo. At the occasion, Paulo to present Mário Gruber’s work, Marcondes Torres Filho, a member of and, in addition, to stimulate the club and of the Fundação’s Superior production, interpretation and Council, owner of the collection, artistic representation, to strengthen presented the exhibition, spoke about the education by means of the productions and their importance museological space and to and invited everyone to honor it. contribute to the valuing The pieces could be seen toghether and the preservation of the with the material prepared during Art cultural assets. Paulo Marcondes Torres Filho 2013 Annual Report 23


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