Leon (Fides Service) - More than 10,700 people, including 6,200 students of 21 private and state schools of all grades and some 200 teachers have visited in six months an Inter-ethnic Exhibition "Culture Browsing" organised by the Salesian Mission Delegation in Leon and the North East Delegation of the NGO Youth for the Third World. The travelling exhibition which opened in September 2002 has stopped at 13 towns in north east Spain and has numerous invitations for the coming months.
The exhibition presents 5 distinct "Islands" of cultural information: art, technology, music, fashion and spirit. The objects on display are illustrated with information tags. Visitors are accompanied from one island to another by Mademba, a globe fish. Didactic material offered to visitors includes stories, songs (registered on CD), computer games, a Great Inter-Ethnic Game, masks, building blocks, work papers, suggestions for laboratory work and other activities, as well as a video-guide of the campaign as a whole.
The exhibition is in fact a campaign to increase awareness. Besides admiring the display of articles, visitors are also encouraged to take part in round table discussions, listen to conferences, fair market, inter-ethnic concert, and other proposals. The exhibition can also by visited on the Internet www3.planalfa.es/voluntariadomisionero.
The aim of the "Culture Browsing" Inter-ethnic Exhibition is to increase knowledge of the many different cultures which surround us as citizens of the world, to be a concrete means of missionary animation using new technology and all this in view of education to universal Christian values. SL (Fides Service 25/3/2003 EM lines 26 Words: 269)