Union Station, Main Hall
November 10-30, 2009
Sesame Street has been using the power of media -- and the power of Muppets -- to help children around the world reach their highest potential for 40 years!
Union Station is very excited to play an important role in helping celebrate Sesame Street as the single largest informal educator in the world, teaching more children in more countries across more cultures.
A photograph exhibit will be installed in the west portion of the Main Hall featuring children from around the world with various Muppet characters, many of whom we will remember from our own childhood! This vibrant exhibit will appeal to kids and adults alike.
The Longest Street in the World -- A Photo Exhibit:
What does a classroom of Indonesian girls in Jakarta have in common with a South African boy in Soweto and an American preschooler in Brooklyn?
A connection with Sesame Street Muppets -- an unmistakable bond that sets the stage for a lifetime of learning.
Brought together in celebration of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, these photos capture the essence of this joyful connection in some of the 140 countries where Sesame Street in making a difference.
For more information, visit: http://www.sesameworkshop.org
10 November 1969:
Sesame Street began in 1969 with a simple and transformative idea: to use television to help children learn. Forty remarkable years later, that learning continues -- crossing technological frontiers, geographic borders, and cultural barriers. Today, as the single largest informal educator in the world, Sesame Street benefits more children in more countries across more cultures than any children's program in history.
Sesame Street is produced by Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization of writers, artists, researchers, and educators. Headquartered in New York City, the Workshop partners with organizations around the world to create educational content across multiple media to help all children reach their highest potential.
When Is A Muppet a Muppet?
Every Muppet is a product of local imagination and educational need. This means, for example, that Kami in South Africa, the world's first Muppet with HIV, helps millions of children most hard hit by HIV/AIDS. It means, too, that Khokha in Egypt encourages girls to stay in school, in effort central to raising the status of women.
The result in each international coproduction is a distinctly local Sesame Street that is relevant and recognizable to the children and families watching, listening and learning.
"We don't pretend that media or a television show can solve the problems of our world, but we do believe it would be a terrible mistake not to use these most influential tools to contribute to the solutions." -- Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee Sesame Workshop
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