Ceres Educational Programs

Ceres in East Brunswick offers a wide variety of educational programs for children of many ages. Among the many multicultural programs they offer, is an Indonesian program which takes place in their on-site Indonesian village. These programs are taught by Indonesian tutors and content and presentation are adjusted for age-level.

This program includes activities related to daily Indonesian Village life with pounding of grain; temple presentations and gong chiming; tea making and rice preparation; and rice padi maintenance, watering and feeding fowl. This program is rounded off with Indonesian tea and a vocabulary quiz in the village dapur. Studies in traditional culture with activities in Wayang Kulit (Javanese shadow puppet) and Kuda Lumping (traditional bamboo and play horse demonstrations). Students play the Angklung (Sundanese orchestra), dress-up fashion show and traditional games (takraw, benthik and dakon). Agriculture action which gives background on Indonesian agriculture utilizing the CERES farm and Sawah. Land use practices, farm animals, fish farming, terracing, bee keeping - all given an Indonesian flavour with key phrases and activities. Melbourne's first rice crop - study and plant in the CERES Sawah. A new program called street life which is an interactive activity whereby students learn how to bargain the Indonesian way and can purchase some small artefacts made by the street kids of Yogjakarta. The profits go directly back to these kids and are a nominal price (80 cents - $2.00). Shoe shining, street performance and a comparison of Indonesian street kids and Australian student daily life are included in this reality-based program. Students also play traditional games, learn Indonesian dances and do Batik.

For further information or bookings, contact
Elle Morrell, Glenn Davidson or Cathering Percil on (03) 9387-4472
or email elle@ceres.org.au