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ACHO – Active Moments of Leisure , Tabakova 6 , 811
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Dear friends! Our nongovernmental
organisation ACHO wants to
prepare 9 day multilateral youth exchange from the 24th of August to the 1st of September 2012. Our
project will take place in a beautiful calm village called Miloslavov (www.miloslavov.sk) situated in the
south-western part of Nature of
this traditional rural area and yet closeliness to the big modern city is going strenghten
an excellent opportunity to prepare the project called: CHANGESCHIP
CHANGES in the world and
FRIENDSHIP, SHIP of CHANGE ideas and creativity - these
are the main words, which we want to analyze during the project. Recently
we found ourselves encountered with many changes in our societies or in our
perception about them – either youth sparkled social movements around Europe
and further against growing political and economic inequality, revolutions in
the Arab world for acquisition of democracy, or changes in our perception
about Europe and its solidarity. All of these changes rose from conflicts between human beings (can
be ideological, social, racial, gender, religious-based, generation, health,
employment, environmental, economic, north-east, south-west…). Our
project will deal with the topic of conflicts through creative personal
level: how a person in a society can deal with such a conflict-change.
Applying unconventional
artistic methods participants will try to understand and deconstruct these conflicts,
and further educate the local community of the conflicts and their solutions
or preventions. We hope to understand how the creativity of artists can be the
power, which in many cases changed the world and how the art can
help to grind off the conflict edging. So, visual art, performing art, drawing, art-craft, dance, theatre are
the methods we want to work with. Through this experimental learning process everyone
learns what she/he wants to learn and she/he wants to teach. This
artistic approach will assure a good way of dealing with conflicts and help
us to realise that we - European dwellers - have very similar human problems.
This together with knowing other participants and their cultures will foster
our mutual friendship. Further, we hope it will leave inerasable imprint in Profile of the
participants: - Total Number: 24 - Age and number of participant per group: 5 young
people (age 18 to 25) + 1 leader (without age limit). - All groups
should be happy to use in their workshops and presentations visual art, performing art methods, like
drawing, dance,
theatrical, preparing movies/slideshows, or other methods and their members should like to
learn about new artistic ways of work. - We expect participants to be open, creative, and
motivated to actively participate throughout the whole project. - This project we want to prepare for four
organisations/groups from EU or neighbouring countries. The working language is English. Travel
expenses, board, lodging and program costs: - 70% of the costs will be
reimbursed. Board, lodging and program costs are provided and paid by the host organization.
No participation fee. Interested? If you are interested to participate in this project, or know somebody who might be interested, in the preparation
process of this project, please, fill in the joint CHANGESCHIP Application
form and send it to acho.sk@gmail.com
For more
information, questions or comments please contact: Igor Šabla – acho.sk@gmail.com , tel.: 00421-905-849 051 Information
about our organisation and our past projects you can see here: www.tapdance.sk
We hope to
see you in Working Methods
Creative sessions: Expressive non-formal and informal
education will be the main tool during the project. The use of dance,
theatre, performing and visual art methods, role-plays, evaluation-shows,
energizers, active discussions, functional and decorated session-spaces, etc.
With this way of working we create a safe
environment that invites people to be actively involved in the learning, task
and group proces – to involve of growing of their creativity. Informal education: Everyone learns what she/he wants to learn
and she/he wants to teach. We spend a lot of attention to the functionality
of the session rooms and also the environment. A tool library, informations,
cosy corner, games, materials free to use on any moment, coffe-moments, ....
Small things, but very important tools to improve the swing of the group and
the learning proces (not only with the swing music). Learning by doing,
experimental learning: The project will be a very active an
practical one. During the project we will go to different places and
'experiment' the games, activities, tools,... in 'real life'. |