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Dearr particcipants, I’m send ding you som me practical information aabout the workshop and d your arrivall.
VAL ARRIV At your arrival at thee airport, som meone will ccome to pick you up. Justt in case we aare late, stayy next to me when youu arrive 0044 4 (0) 776 555 5 45 45. the arrivval area. Pleaase contact m ‐
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SPAIN: we w will come to pick you up (probably Godfrey) in Livverpool. Theen you will drive (around 2 ho ours) to our office in Leeeds where yo ou will be welcome arounnd a buffet. T The office is veryy near the ho otel. At the ooffice Raphae el will collectt your travelss tickets and d boarding passes. CROATIA: w we expect you u to arrive too Leeds on Su unday aroun nd 8pm (initiaally I have su uggested 7‐8pm so do on’t worry if you already booked coach tickets, Tiina). I undersstand that Raplection ggroup is coming by local bbus. Your contact for the e collection w will be Rapha ael (+447765554545) Please e text him ass soon as you u know your arrival time and where w will you will be a centrral bus/coach station? Ra aphael will bbe waiting at our arrive to – I imagine it w e notice he ccan get to the e station in 5 5‐10 min to m meet you. Please office, so even with little ouch if you h have a delay to update uss on the arrivval time. Witth Raphael o or Eva also get in to you will go tto our office in Leeds wh ere you will be welcome around a buuffet. The offfice is very near the hotel. At the office Rapphael will co ollect your tra avels tickets and boardin ng passes. o pick you upp (probably G Godfrey) at the Leeds‐Braadford airport. Then MALTA: we will come to directly to the hotel whe re we will givve you a pacck with somee snacks. Rap phael will you will go d collect your travels ticke ets and boardding passes o on Monday m morning. we will come e to pick youu up (probably Godfrey) a at the Leeds‐‐Bradford airrport. HUNGARY: w Then you wiill go directlyy to the hoteel where we w will give you a pack with some snacks. Raphael will collect yourr travels tickeets and boarrding passes on Monday morning.
PLEASE, DO NOTT FORGET T to keep and give us all orig ginal traveel tickets a and boardiing passess at your a arrival.
If you have any problem,, please co ontact Raphaael: 0044 (0) 776 55 55 45 45 Eva: 00044 (0) 78 89 5623 52 25
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The H Hotel:
IBIS Budgett (Forme erly The e Etap Hotel) H The Hotel is near thee centre of Leeds. It is a 1100% non‐sm moking hotel. Each room m comes with h an en‐ ower, air‐con nditioning, a flatscreen TTV and work desk. suite sho Towels aand sheet be ed will be prrovided. Youu just have to o bring toilettries. You can have accesss to internet through youur own comp puter in the reception areea but you have to pay £3/22hours. Address of the hotell: 2 THE GA ATEWAY NO ORTH CROWN POINT ROAD LS9 8BZ LEEDS UNITED KINGDOM (+44)01113 245 0725
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WHA AT TO B BRING??
Bring some ffood/drink w with you typiical from you ur country/re egion that yoou would like e to offer at the interccultural even ning. Prepare in ggroup a shortt presentatioon (10 minutes maximum m for your grooup) about yyour city/region tthrough a po owerpoint/vi deo. Please bring it on a USBkey andd give it to me during the first dayy of the workkshop. Your ggroup will do o this presentation duringg the intercu ultural evening. D of music frrom your couuntry, that yo ou like, for th he intercultuural evening.. Bring one CD Bring a clow wn costume that you havee designed (o one per grou up) this may be somethin ng typical from your countrry or just som mething you create. If you have the cchance to briing a costume forr a child (age 6/7/8 yearss) this would be good too o for the villaage celebration we will make on n Friday afternoon. Bring any ecccentric cloth hes/accessorries that you have at hom me and that yyou would like to use during the session. If you bring electrical appliances donn’t forget to bring an UK adaptor. Don’t forgett to keep and d give us all original travvel tickets an nd boarding passes at yo our arrival. eived it Bring the Paassport Portfolio (that yo u should recceive very soon. All organnisation rece (Tina, it has been post to o you from CCroatia).
Insurance: Please n note that all p participants will be cove red during th heir stay by o our employeer liability inssurance but you will not be p provided with travel insuurance. So if yyou want thiis you have tto arrange it.
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INFO O ABOU UT SOM ME SESSSIONS: (info prreviously sen nt by email)) ‐
During the workshop (on the Mo onday) we w will have an n activity caalled ‘’Circu us in Europe’’. Inn this session n, participantts will have tthe chance to o introduce ccircus from ttheir own countryy . Learners w will discover similarities aand differences betweenn circus in diffferent nations and how it has e evolved throuugh the agess. It would be e great that yyou begin to o think possible) abo out that. If yoou want to p present a circcus specialityy from your country (in group if p or group, it w will be the m moment for tthat.
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On the Wednesday, w we will orgaanise a workkshop called ‘’Clowninng costume workshop’’’: Participantts will presennt their clow wning costum mes brought ffrom home a and will have the opportunity to design theirr own outfit ffor Friday’s p performancee. To prepare e this ou to prepar re two things s: First, it wo ould be great t if you could d create session, we would like y ostume thatt represent your country,, and bring thhe costume with in group onee clowning co you. You willl be able to present this costume during this sesssion. Seconddly, during th his workshop yo ou will be ab ble to create your own clo owning costume. We willl have a big box with clothes and accessories, but you aree more than w welcome to bring any ecccentric uld like to usse during the e session. clothes/acceessories thatt you have att home and tthat you wou
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“3 min Skills”: On Mon nday, 2pm, w we will give 3 3 min to each h of you in orrder to show wcase your best cirrcus skills. It would be grreat if you co ould already prepare this s 3 min indiviidual presentation n. If you don n’t have any circus skills (like me!), do not worry ! You can still use (or not) this 3 m minutes to prresent sometthing in particular.
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VISIB BILITY: LIVE UP PDATE : Durring the train ning we will rrun differentt actions in order to give to your friends/ffamily and o others person n interested by the workkshop the po ossibility to fo follow particiipant’s activities in LIVE. Theerefore we w will publish r egularly picttures/videos//info on the SUITCASE CIRCUS blog (htttp://suitcasee‐circus.blogspot.co.uk/ )). We will as well update e our Faceboook, Twitter a and Youtubee Chanel every 30 min.
TELL YO OUR FRIEND DS/FAMILY//COLLEAGU UE and othe ers persons who may bbe intereste ed to follow your activitiess during this workshop. SSend them th he link to the e blog (http:///suitcase‐ e them to joinn Everythingg is Possible F Facebook acccount (Everyything is circus.bllogspot.co.uk/ ) or invite Possiblee: the one with a picture of a blond giirl and a sign n with Everytthing is Possiible in green).
ADD TH HE SUITCASE CIRCUS COVER ON YYOUR FACEB BOOK: To help you to shhare the event, we created a special Suiitcase Circus banner thatt you can add d on your faccebook.
You can download itt from the Su uitcase Circu s blog: http:///suitcase‐circus.blogspoot.co.uk/p/to ools‐for‐ participaants.html
JOIN USS ON FACEB BOOK/TWIT TTER/YOUTTUBE: If you haave a Twitter account I e encourage yoou to join us and to use # #glwsuitcaseecircus everyy time you tweeet about thee workshop. We will let aas well one laaptop on which participaants will have e possibility to tweet. If you don’t have twitterr, we will be happy to explain you hoow to use it. I encourrage you as w well to join n us on our Facebook, TTwitter and YYoutube accoount and shaare these links witth your frien nds/family/ccolleague an d others perrsons who m may be intereested to follo ow your activities during thiss workshop.
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Everytthing is Po ossible address: Everythiing is Possiblle, Unit 28, 3 30‐38 Dock Sttreet, Leeds, LS10 1JF, Unitted Kingdom m Tel: 00444 (0) 113 242 0888 www.evverythingispo ossible.eu This Grrundtvig Lea rner Worksh hop is suppo orted by ECORYS UK K & the Lifelong Learning programme e of the Euro opean Union.