Call for group of Brave Kids 2012!!! (Central Asia and South Caucasia)

Time: September 28, 2011 to July 10, 2012
Location: Poland
City/Town: Wroclaw
Website or Map: http://bravefestival.pl/brave…
Event Type: artistic, workshops, children's, exchange
Organized By: Brave Festival
Latest Activity: Sep 28

Partner OrganizationsWe are looking for the Partner Organizations, especially from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ect) and Georgia which want to take part in the educational progrmme in Poland in June/July 2012.

MORE INFO: bravekids@bravefestival.pl

We are looking for two groups of kids/young artists, which want to take part in Brave Kids in June/July 2012 in Poland together with kids from Africa and Asia. We are looking for talented kids who regularly gather in their local environment to practice any kind of performing arts and are open to  share their skills with the peers from different part of the world during three-week workshops in Poland. Through participation in artistic workshops during which they work together children have a chance to  teach each other and learn from each other. Our goal is to put children in the centre of the learning process – so they are both teachers and students; professional pedagogs only coach the process.

Brave Kids is an programme dedicated to children of different backgrounds who use art as a tool for a social change and was started in Wroclaw, Poland two years ago in frame of Brave Festival – Against Cultural Exile under the patronage of UNESCO and Polish Ministry of Culture and Heritage.

Since 2009 we’ve hosted in Wroclaw 100 young actors, dancers, singers, b-boys and b-girls (age 6 – 16) and cooperated with following groups and organizations:

Aldebaran. Norway

Ashtar Theatre/The Gaza Mono-logues. Palestinian Autonomy

Association of Culture Practitioners. Warsaw, Poland (refugees from North Caucasia)

Awake Youth. Sweden

Breakdance Project. Uganda

Library Światoteka. Wroclaw, Poland

Mizero Children. Rwanda

Sdruzeni Petrov/MiniMerci. Czech Republic (Romani children)

M.Y.T.A/ROKPA. Zimbabwe

ROKPA CHILDREN. Nepal

In the end of the project children are invited to show their  performance one more time in UNESCO headquarters in Paris  as a part of  cultural event prepared by Song of the Goat Association,  Brave Kids  project and the Polish Delegation to UNESCO. It will be  supplemented by  an intense Seminar devoted to situation of children in  the world and the  role of arts and culture in social change.

MORE INFO: bravekids@bravefestival.pl