"Baracouda Nymphonik Orchestra"" shared their tunes with Izmir!"

Free Open-air Concerts & Workshop
Izmir-TR, 18-20 August 2008.


Baracouda Nymphonik Orchestra visited Izmir between 18th and 20th August 2008. They gave two free open-air concerts with the organisation of Young Society Initiative.

The orchestra gave their first free open-air concert (above) in Kıbrıs Sehitleri Caddesi at 19:30 on 18th August 2008. Then they played another free concert in Sardunya Bar between 22:00 and 00:30.

After official act in the Festival Stage(above), Baracouda Nymphonik Orchestra gave another concert on Kordon seashore between 22:45 and 01:00 on 20th August 2008.

Baracouda Nymphonik Orchestra is a brass band made up of 17 musicians that resides in Paris, France. They play a mixture of acoustic jazz, big beat and funk with the addition of different tunes around the world.

Young Society Initiative thanks Baracouda Nymphonik Orchestra for the joy and friendship that they shared with us in Izmir...

http://www.myspace.com/nymphoniks

"A Dialog for Change"

Advanced Planning Visit of Youth Exchange
Chisinau-MD, 1-3 August 2008.

The youth leaders from Armenia, Georgia, Italy, Moldova, Latvia, and Turkey came together in Moldova to discuss on the details of the youth exchange project "A Dialog for Change" between 1st and 3rd of August 2008. The leaders discussed on the principles, the schedule and the workshops of the youth exchange. In addition the task division among the youth leaders is agreed upon.

"A Dialog for Change" youth exchange is a project that focuses on interreligious dialogue through intercultural learning. Young Society Initiative will attend the youth exchange with a youth leader and 5 youngsters.

"You and Me Equal in Gender"

Youth Exchange
Macedonia, 20-28 September 2008

Young Society Initiative is going to attend the youth exchange "You and Me Equal in Gender" between the dates 20-28 September 2008.

Young people from Albania, Macedonia, Latvia, Portugal, Serbia, and Turkey will gather to discuss, share, understand, and learn on gender and equality via human rights education. They will search for common effective ways to fight against gender prejudices and discrimination.

Aim:
The aim of this youth exchange is to get together 36 young people from all across Europe and to meet all together in order to share experience, feelings, to find common ways to fight gender prejudices and stereotypes and look around for solution for the negative behaviour in order to raise the awareness about gender issues and their importance on European level and to promote gender equality.

Objectives:

- To collect and share the realities providing positive example;

- To make the participants reflect on their country gender issues situations;

- To explore gender roles in our countries and give best practice;

- To allow the participants to reflect their understanding of gender issues and their experience;

- To gather educational experiences useful for follow up activities in their organizations;

- To equip the participants with some tools in order to increase their capacity while dealing with gender prejudices in their daily life and intercultural groups;

- To help participants to fight gender prejudices and stereotypes.

"Youth Empowerment for Local Participation"

Seminar
Porto-PT, 22-28 June 2008

Young Society Initiative representatives attended the seminar “Youth Empowerment for Local Participation” in Porto between 22^nd and 28^th June 2008. The seminar was organized by Porto Federation of Youth Associations, with the financial assistance of EU Youth in Action Program.

The seminar “Youth Empowerment for local participation” brought together youth leaders and youth workers from Europe, ready to share best practices and to work on joint projects on empower youth in general but specially to empower local/ international youth participation.

The 5 day-long seminar aimed to empower 18 local young actors with knowledge and skills. It was also a learning opportunity for youth leaders/youth policy makers and youth workers to exchange good practices and methodologies on local youth policies and youth empowerment.

"Sailors on the Citizenship"

International Training Course

Srebarna Gora-Wroclaw-PL, 3-11 February 2008

"Sailors on the Citizenship" is a training course that aims to support the professional development of young trainers and to raise the quality of their projects concerning (European) citizenship.

The idea of citizenship is discussed on three different levels: locally, nationally and in the European context. The work was based on cases, examples and europe in practice.

The team worked on improving the 'sailors’ toolkit' on how to motivate youngsters for participation in their community and beyond.