Link 42 II Summer edition July 2013 by NGO K.A.NE.

LiNK Nr. 42

Summer July 2013 II

edition

Foreword Just one week before the 7th Kalamata Street Festival and the team of volunteers which is organizing the festival is going crazy! Too busy and too excited! This year is actually the best year for the Kalamata Street Festival in terms of preparation, participation and parallel events. The most rich program is result of the big success of the 6th festival which, from a small street festival, became an international festival, well recognized in Greece and abroad. Among the others, this year you will have the opportunity to experience the acrobatics from SWAMP Circus from England, the graffiti artists from France from the crews Paragraf and Therapicturale, breakdancers from Portugal and many many more. Only if you join the festival you will experience this amazing atmosphere... we are looking rorward to see you in the 26-27-28 of July!!!!!!! Filaretos

Editor: Taaniel Stoitsev Staff members of KANE: Filaretos Vourkos Fotini Arapi Georgia Giannakea Panagiota Arapi Giwrgos Housenbelli

Long Term EVS: Alice Ponticelli Bjartur SteingrĂmsson Dorian Agnel Ines Dupont Miault Jelena Scepanovic Leonard Pristl Loic Marchand Manuela Gascon Taaniel Stoitsev

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Short Term EVS: Edyta Jadowska Anna Rozecka Mateuzs Huptas Agnieszka Dymek Katarzyna Janas Yana Debusschere Dries Witdouck Ganizani Msiska Pieter Vandenberghe Tine Vandenberghe Marie Christine Exler Harald Hummer Magdalena Pauer Viktoria Spielauer Erwin Negl Anais Alexandre Ottavia Marangoni Kevin Andreazza Benjamin Marie Charlotte Clatot Ceyla Asker

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Program of Street Festival

DAY 1

Rock day

DAY 2

Hip Hop day

#Friday, July 26, 5:00pm#

#Saturday, July 27, 5:00pm#

17:00 – Skates and BMX

17:30 - In Situ by Martha in the frame

18:00 – Photo Exhibition by the Pho

of the project “The lives of

tography Club of Kalamata

others”.

18:00 - Photo Exhibition by the

18:00 – Photo Exhibition by the

18:00 - Handmade jewelry exhibition

Photography Club of Kalamata

Kallitexniko Steki association

18:00 - Photo Exhibition by the

18:00 – Graffiti

19:00 - Basketball Tournament

Kallitexnio Steki association

18:00 - Handmade jewelry exhibition

19:00 – Opening the Climbing wall

19:00 - Basketball Tournament

organised by the Mounteneer

19:00 – Opening the Climbing wall

ing Club of Kalamata

organised by the Mounteneer

20:00 – Hip Hop Concerts:

ing Club of Kalamata

21:30 – Rock Concert with:

Eisvoleas & friends Kazdall (Bit box from France)

Schooldrvers

Freestyle Open Mic

Daze of Youth

(Local and international MCs)

Mors et Amor

...and many more!

Dizzy Dizign Fetameriganoi

17:00

18:00–

18:00

18:30–

19:00

20:00 21:00

DAY 3

ance-Theatre day #Sunday, July 28, 5:00pm#

0 – Skates and BMX

–PhotoExhibitionbythePhotographyClubofKalamata

0 - Photo Exhibition by the Kallitexniko

Steki association

0 - Handmade jewelry exhibition

0 – Opening the Climbing wall organised by the Mounteneering Club of Kalamata

0 – Graffiti

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0 - Basketball Tournament

0 - Alley Cat Race

0 - Poetry Workshop by Vassilis Floros – Street Thatre and Dance workshops: Swamp Circus Χοροδιδασκαλείο Just Dance Fame Dance Academy Group 88 - “The poem ofYiani”

Pantelis Pagalos - “To xaratsi” Group 88 - “Kuku”

Crowdfunding for Street Festival

alamata Street Festival is a volunteer’ based structure willing to achieve a wider cooperation of the active organizations in the city of Kalamata. Associations, active groups, individuals, are putting all efforts on organizing a big festival (last year we gathered 3500 people), including more than 10 parallel activities for 3 creazy days, with a very low budget. By supporting the 7th Kalamata Street Festival, you become one of us, one of the people who care about offering youth the chance to express themselves through their art and to local associations/groups to prove that people can organize a big international festival which includes everyone, with the strength of their cooperation and with limited budget.

http://gogetfunding. com/project/kalamata-street-festival

Festival Miden

n the 4th, the 5 th and the 6th of July, Kalamata hosted the short movie festival called Festival Miden. It was the 9th edition of this video art event. During these 3 days, more than 250 movies from all over the world have been screened in different places of the town. You could find screens at each moment of the day: mornings in the Archeological Museum of Messinia, evenings in Kalitechniko Steki, and nights in Ampheia Square. Besides these different projections, you could try freely a videogame called Banopticon, created thanks to a two years work of Παντειο Πανεπιστημιο Κοινωνικων and Πολιτικων Επιστημων Κεντρο Σπουδων. For the organization of this festival, a team of 7 curators have worked during several months in order to create different thematics (“Mother”, “All about work”, “Cheer up”, “Come as you are”, “Lasting”…). After the open call launched in spring 2013, they received loads of short movies from every continent. Then, they watched all of these movies and selected the ones that fitted the more with their thematic.

Besides of that, some art schools, video art institutes or artistic projects participated in the Festival by sending one of their selections, let’s quote “Video Art Network Lagos” from Nigeria, “Where Dreams Cross” from Sweden, “Red Nomad: WAW” from Spain and the FILMHOUSE of Kalamata as examples. 6

The festival started on Thursday, the 4th of July at 10:30 a.m. with the press release in the Archeological Museum of Messinia, lasted during the 2 days following and finished on Saturday, the 6th of July, with loads of smiles, thanks and good vibes. Thanks to the Festival team, and to the help of the EVS volunteers from the Youth Center of Kalamata, everything went on in a perfect way. Our motivation and optimism was stronger enough to fight the small unexpected “surprises” due to technology problems! I hope you could join at least for one night this amazing worldwide festival, otherwise, see you next year for the 10th edition. Let me tell you that 2014 edition will be an amazing week-end in Kalamata! Text author: Manuela

Let’s warm up for Street Festival Text authors: Edyta & Ines

Street Art Festival is not only an unusual event, which takes place between 25th and 27th of July. Parts of it are also various pre-fest activities which give opportunity to warm everybody up and taste a little bit of an atmosphere of the that are waiting for us in the last days of the month. What was it? Why so much noise in the Plateia Othonos on the 12th of July? The first pre-fest activity took place in the last Friday on the square next to the Youth Centre. The target of most of us were children. We prepared a lot of activities, which gave them a chance to improve their creativity and let them feel free in composing little pieces of street art. Special corner with games offered them also face painting, so after few hours we could see colorful compositions and patterns on children (and EVS volunteers as well) faces. Very important part of the evening were special walls on which children could using different materials (sprays, various types of paints, markers, brushes, bottles of paints and even their own hands) paint what they wanted. The inspiration for them was for sure a graffiti show which were giveb by a guest from France. Volunteers from music workshop prepared a little concert - singing with accompaniment of guitars, uculele, harmonica and rattles. 8

Surprise for viewers in the square was a flash mob in which participated all short term voluntaries. Based on everybody’s own dance improvisation and song by Florence and Machine “Dog days are over” proved ballet skills of Charlotte and great spontaneousity of all of us. It was just the first part of pre-fest activities, we are waiting for next, that already took part on 19th of July in the port area. Look at the pictures, they speak for themselves...

Intercultural party Austria, Belgium, France, Poland and Turkey + Georgia - it’s not easy to present six countries during one night, nevertheless we made our best and showed the most interesting and the funniest elements of our cultures. During the long evening on the 13th of July we gathered to the train park to show others what our countries are all about! The event started with children games. After 5 minutes I was bored with listening to “Napoleon, napoleon,…” but local children apparently enjoyed it very much and were risking their lives just to win, to be the best, even though they couldn’t expect any prize they had plenty of fun time together with our multicultural crowd. Then time for presentations came. Different dances were more interesting for me. We saw elegant Waltz, traditional Polish Polonez, crazy French Pakito and some Turkish movements. We also had a quiz about participating countries. Quiz was sometimes tricky, but mainly banal. At the end we could all admire impressive fire show by Mateusz from Poland, as he cleverly manipulated flaming balls. I think the volunteers enjoyed it, however it’s a pity that only few citizens of Kalamata were at the park at same time and - apart from children - they didn’t participate in our activities. Again something to learn from for upcoming events! 10

Text author: Anna

Filaretos Vourkos, Greece

Who We Are

Office + Long Term EVS

Alice Ponticelli, France

Fotini Arapi, Greece

Georgia Giann

Manuela Gascon, France

Leonard Pris

Bjartur SteingrĂmsson, Island

Dorian Agn

Panagiota Arapi, Greece

Giwrgos Housenbelli, Greece

stl, Germany

Loic Marchand, France

Taaniel Stoitsev, Estonia

Ines Dupont Miault, France

Jelena Scepanovic, Montenegro

nel, France

Who We Are

nakea, Greece

Pieter Vandenberghe, Belgium

Dries Witdouck, Belgium

Erwin Negl, Austria

Who We Are

Group EVS volu Katarzyna Janas, Poland

Edyta Jadowska, Poland

Kevin Andreazza, France

Ottavia Marangoni, France

Yana Debusschere, Belgium

Harald Hummer, Austria

Charlotte Clatot, France

Marie Christine Exler, Austria

Ceyla Asker, Turkey

Agnieszka Dymek, Poland

Viktoria Spielauer, Austria

Anna Rozecka, Poland

Anais Alexandre, France

Tine Vandenberghe, Belgium

Benjamin Marie, France

Ganizani Msiska, Belgium

Magdalena Pauer, Austria

Mateuzs Huptas, Poland

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unteers

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