Uzbekistan - 🌞 More Light 🌞

More Light: A Celebration of Kindness!

Join us on a vibrant journey from sunny Uzbekistan with our uplifting song, "More Light"! 

This warm anthem from the International Talent Academy shines a spotlight on peace, friendship, and joy, inviting everyone to sing and dance together.

With heartfelt lyrics that dream of a world filled with happiness and no negativity, we believe in spreading light to brighten every heart.

🎶💫Lyrics:

Hey! Salam aleykum to everyone!
Greetings from sunny Uzbekistan!
The city of Tashkent.
International Talent Academy presents this song to you.

Istagimiz - dunyoda
Hech bo'lmasin yomonlik.
Baxtli bo'sin insonlar.
Doim ustun yaxshilik.

Quyosh nuri yoritsin
Zulmat bosgan yerlarni.
Yorqin ranglar to'ldirsin
Yer yuzi va qalblarni.

I dream of such a world
Where there is no word
To describe something bad.
Cos everyone's glad.
You might say this is mad,
But I just wanna add
More light
To break up the shade.

Let's sing, let's dance, let's do it together.
Let the good we exude have no tether.

As we come together in this musical celebration, let’s embrace the power of kindness and compassion, reminding ourselves that even the smallest acts can create ripples of positivity.

Through the universal language of music, we hope to inspire a movement of love and understanding across all cultures. Let’s unite in harmony and let the good vibes flow!🎶💫

Switzerland - Karawane

Sometimes things just fall into place. The first inspiration for this song was an outing, on which we coincidentally got introduced to this sound path. The most impressive of the gadgets was this track of tuned stone plates with a granite sphere. At the same time one of our classes dealt with sound poems, most of them by Hugo Ball. Hugo Ball was one of the artists who founded the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916. Dada was a movement that made art totally different to what was expected in order to protest against the fighting that was going on and how the world was working at the time. So they did silly and surprising things that didn't always make sense. Amongst other things, Hugo Ball wrote sound poems that left it to the audience what exactly the sounds of these syllables represent. To illustrate our song we animated the works of artists of the time to use as background. One of them, the guy with the tall white hat, is supposed to be Hugo Ball, as he dressed for his performances. 

So the big idea about Dada is that art is all about being creative, playful, and even a little rebellious. We hope that all of you have a lot of fun while working on your contributions to this year's Schoolovision project and that you can enjoy our entry as much as we did creating it. We are looking forward to seeing all your postings and wish you loads of luck for the results.

Peace, love and light from Switzerland 

Germany - Barbaras Rhabarberbar (Barbara's Rhubarb Bar)

Does this song sound familiar?

Some months ago "Barbara's Rhubarb Bar" went viral with people singing along, translating it into their languages and dancing away to its tune around the globe. Thus it became a fun and entertaining ambassador of the German language and culture.

The song plays with the specific characteristic of German which allows to construct compound nouns of infintite length by adding additional words like in "Rhabarber-Bar-Barbaren-Bart-Barbier-Barber-Shop" which is especially big fun with all the alliterations.

Our children love the lyrics by Bodo Wartke along with Marti Fischer's music who gave us permission to present their song in Schoolovision which we are very grateful for.

Enjoy the performance and dance with us if you like!

Czech Republic - Joy

There are so many negative, aggressive things and wars around us. We chose the song Joy, which sings:

“Clap, smile, dance - the earth is turning, the sun is rising, the night is going to sleep, now is the time to laugh”.

Joy strengthens us and it is said that “laughter is the best doctor”. Feeling happy is important to us.

Chorus: "Clap your hands, smile, dance - the earth is turning, the sun is rising, the night is going to sleep, now is the time to laugh."