L i nk68 15 May 2015
Content Editorial Who we are New volunteer Help needed Interview with volunteer Mother’s day Visual art Recipe Painting group in Portugal 6 days of Cretan adventures Ronnie James Dio death German Asylum: Attacks on Refugee Hostels a Growing Problem City Greener A Window on High Tuscia Tragedy in Ancient Messene Help needed What’s new What’s coming soon
Editorial Summer is coming and we have bright news for youth work in Kalamata! Although the workshops of the Youth Center of Kalamata are closing their circle, summer activities are staring... open workshops, roof parties, environmental actions, art exhibitions and open meetings for any kind of social issue! New faces and happy activities. Also KANE is preparing new local activities which will offer local youth opportunities to learn, create and enjoy! Youth exchanges in all over Europe, international projects and a new fantastic local project we are starting these days; KANE, after the success of its first local projects which now are both independent and blooming (Youth Center of Kalamata and Kalamata Street Festival) is proudly announcing the new local project. More details coming soon but in short, KANE is initiating a music label which will offer the opportunity to 3 young musicians or bands per year to record and release their first album! KANE will ensure a music fellowship for each musician in order to record the album and will release it in CD and online format. If you like the idea, stay tuned for more details in order to find out how you can
benefit or support! Also we are open to proposals, ideas and comments... Until the next issue of Link, have fun, be active and enjoy the sea!!! Filaretos Vourkos
Who we are My name is lolita but you can call my lola also. I have twenty years old. I studie social work. I love animal and in particularity my favorite are horses. I like dancing, listen music. My personality adventuress, Philosophie of lolita : stay serious but when the time is for enjoy, laugh because life is simple ! =) I am Burçin BEZİRKAN, from Turkey. I am 25 years old and coming from Antalya. I studied Public Administration at Akdeniz (Mediterranean) University and I am doing master at same university and on the same major. Here in Kalamata, I am working in Farma Fifa with Mirto Fifa for Natural Farming Project. I love reading book and watching movies and I love this Country!!!! Aye, i’m Laura nineteen years old and i come from the south of France. I’m interest in learning other language and cultre and that’s why i came the Greece. I’m more of an indoor person with a calm personality and i really like snow that why i love winter but i pefer spring for the flower. XD Hello everyone, as you already may know, I am Daan the Dutch EVS’er. Don’t confuse it with Deutsch, I am from The Netherlands. You know, Amsterdam, cheese and weed. Ok, I would love to meet a lot of people, so if you are in for a beer or a coffee, you will find me!
Hello, I’m Agnieszka, I’m 23 years old and I come from Poland. I’m volunteering in Youth Centre of Kalamata. I’m a big fan of music festivals and live music. My favorite season is summer, and the most enjoyable sport is snowboarding ;). Hello people, I’m Nuno Davide and I twenty-three years. I’m from Portugal and I live in (Lisbon). I studied Graphic Design, and I love drawing, painting, listening to music, playing football and many things .. I came to Greece to evolve in my artistic career and learn and experience new cultures English Greek principaly. ;) So..I am from Poland. My name is Kasia and I am 23 years old. I study Croatian language and literature. Balkan, most of all Serbia, is my place in this world, but I love to travel, to live in different places, to meet new people, because from this people I draw energy and joy. I love to dance and sing even I’m not the best in it. I love to listen to people and see some situations from different perspective. I learn by experience, project in Greece is next step in my “education”on”. Hi! I’m Stina, 20 years old and from Hamburg in Germany. My project here where I volunteer, is in the Youth Center. What I like the most, is music. In Hamburg I sing in two bands, I’m learning the guitar and go to concerts and festivals as much as I can.
Aye my name is Lorenzo Brizi ad i come from Italy. I come from a small town located between lazio, umbria and tuscany. Named acquapendente. In the province of viterbo. I’m 20 years old and i will stay in Kalamata until september. I will work to the youth center as a teacher of italian and also in tourist information center. I want to try new working experience to improve myself and also enjoy the summer, the beach and the company
Hello, my Name is Jana an I am from Hamburg. I am working in the therapeutic horse riding project and also in the KEFIAP Center. In my free time I like to dance ballet and meet some friends. Hi! I’m Tania, an Italian volunteer. I’m graduated in Foreign Languages and Communication Studies. Since I was 11 I discovered my passion for studying English and then I decided to study also other languages like Spanish, a little bit of French and I took up also to study a little bit of Polish and Russian. Greek language will be the next. I love rock music, travelling, stay together with my friends and my family and create accessories, especially with crochet technique. Hey my name is Kostantinos (Kostas) and i come from Cyprus, Limasol. I was born in August of 1992. I love music especially rockand punk rock. I will be in Kalamata until February . See you!
Like we say: we keep the best for the end so now K.A.NE people
Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager at K.A.NE. organization and responsible for all sending motilities (sending EVS volunteers, participants in training courses, interns, etc). Apart from my work in K.A.NE., I also volunteer in the Youth Centre of Kalamata, a volunteer initiative managed by a team of local volunteers. I am very proud of and I love the Youth Centre, its dynamic, and most of all its natural inclusiveness that allows everybody to feel “at home� there. See you around :-D
Filaretos Vourkos / Last 7 years I am working in the field of non formal education as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 4 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate the youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor of change.
New Volunteer in Kalamata
Hi! My name is Liliana, I’m 29 years old and I am Portuguese. I am a lover of Nature, all animals and a big defender of respecting all forms of life! Also a believer that the planet must be taken care of, which is why I am now in Kalamata, working on recycling and permaculture farming!
Interview with volunteer Aye Kosta it’s a pleasure to have you with us. My pleasure :) Can you introduce yourself a bit to the people who still don’t you. I’m 22 years old (my birthday is in August so almost 23), I speak Greek , English, and a bit of French. I have one older brother and 2 sister one older and one younger. I try to go to university, I Montpelier in France where I studied for 1 year musicology but in the second year I stop because I didn’t like the university. I begin guitar lesson at 12 for 4 years and I played water polo. How long as it been since you arrive in Kalamata? I’m here since 3 weeks, for a project of 9 month. What is your impression of the city? I came in Greece during a seminar and I like it that why I choose to come here. I think Kalamata is a beautiful City, with a good weather, and I want to discover more thing about the city
What is your project about? My project is about the youth center, to help and organize thing like workshop As far as you have work on it what do you think about it? I was hoping to have more people for workshop and in general I communicate with a lot of different people, who are friendly, EVS and Greek volunteer so I like it What motivate you to do an EVS? A lot of thing: I was searching before this project to do en EVS and I found this project which seems nice because it was in Greece and I speak the same language, I could work with young people and at the same time improve my skills like language Why doing it in Greece why not in another county a bit more foreign since you come from Chyprus? I was searching for an EVS before and couldn’t found anything when I saw the project. It was more easy for me because the language and culture aren’t really different, and the project interested me.
What about your future? Is still a bit too early for me to know because I just arrive but I’m sure I will learn a lot of stuff here. It was nice a have meet you.
Laura Doddi
Mother’s Day ( There is a hadith in my religion: “Paradise lies beneath the feet of mothers” ) Last Sunday we visited the rest home for elderly people with some of the EVS volunteers and local volunteers. It was amazing to see their smiling eyes. We just gave them a little bit of love and smile and 1 flower for each and they gave us back a little bit of heaven. They all blessed us and wished really nice things for us. Kyria Dimitra told us to be positive and believe that we will be good, everything is in our minds. Kyria Stamata told us stories about the power of woman. Kyria Vasiliki sang a song for us. They were really nice to us and it was good to be with this positive energy. On the other hand, it was really sad to see old people who can’t walk or can’t even move from their beds. And for me the saddest one was the old lady with her husband’s photo on her pillow.
The combination of these different feelings can easily tell us how lonely these people and how easy to make them happy. If we visit them as much as we can, we will make them happy at least for a few hours… For me; I am going to visit this place again for sure. Because Kyria Marina told me that she was mother and I was daughter. My cute, friendly mother… I don’t need a long time to love her! I love her! And χρονια πολλα to all mothers and future mothers!!
Burçin Bezirkan
Human expression through visual art Since the primitive times, the human being has always tried to express himself through visual art. It’s well known to all of us that the primitive men would draw on the walls to celebrate and describe their huntings, theis discoveries, and to leave their mark on Earth.
Later on, the Egyptians would paint their walls and pyramids to show worship and adoration for their kings, explain building processes, and even form an alphabet through images, so they could communicate in a visual, artistic way.
But times have changed. We evolved immensely. We have grown into new cultures, gained more knowledge, got to know ourselves and our surroundings. Nevertheless, all this knowledge (and self-knowledge) also led us to realize that we still have the need to continue expressing ourselves in a visual way, announce who we are, our thoughts and beliefs. From an early age we are highly motivated to draw, paint and show our emotions in a visual manner, either at home or in school.
Mostly, we always tend to try to express our emotions, what we like, how we feel. But as we grow older, we tend to evolve this matter and become more and more visually communicative towards one another. We start showing not only how we feel but also who we are, our beliefs and personalities, and we are getting more and more creative! Some of us do it by dressing up in different manners, to make a visual statement that differs from society:
Sometimes we do it through body art. More and more people are now fans of expressing themselves in their own skin through the art of tattooing. This shows a big devotion to the art in itself, as it is a painful process that remains for life!
A lot of women do it also through make up, demonstrating the desire to perfect themselves, achieve more beauty, or sometimes just stand out from the crowd:
Visual art is a part of our society, either to try to embellish it:
Or sometimes to make a statement, express feeling towards others, raise awareness:
There are many ways to communicate with each other and share information, thoughts and feelings. Visual art is one of them, and it is more and more common every day. We are so used to it nowadays that sometimes we don’t even realize how it is everywhere! We now have sculptures in streets, graffiti, different ways of dressing, body painting, etc. We are mainly always trying to reach each other, socialize, even if that means not communicating in a ‘faceto-face’ manner at all. Try being more aware of this next time you go out, even if it’s just around your town, just look around and see the endless possibilities and ways of communicating through visual art. You will be amazed!
Lilianna Correia
Tradicional Polish bread
Ingredients • • • • • • • •
2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast 1 teaspoon white sugar 2 cups water 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon salt 8 cups bread flour 1 tablespoon caraway seed
Directions 1. The night before making the bread, in a medium sized mixing bowl, dissolve one packet of yeast and the sugar in 2 cups of water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes. Stir in the rye flour until the mixture is smooth. Cover and let stand overnight.
2. The next day, dissolve the remaining package of yeast in the buttermilk. Add the rye flour mixture, the baking soda, the salt, 4 cups of the bread flour and stir to combine. Add the remaining 4 cups of bread flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring well after each addition (you may not need to add all of the flour). When the dough has become a smooth and coherent mass, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and supple, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle the caraway seeds on the dough and knead them in until they are evenly distributed throughout the dough. 3. Lightly oil a large mixing bowl. Place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with the oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour or until the volume has doubled. 4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 5. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into three pieces. Form each piece into a loaf and place in 3 lightly greased 9x5 inch bread pans. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 1 hour. 6. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for about 35 minutes or until the bottom of the loaves sound hollow when tapped.
Katarzyna Chojnowska
Painting group Portugal It all started three years back in the urban art festival (The neighborhood and the world), on appeal, the neighborhood where I live. I and my friends Wilson and Nelson received a proposal we paint the buildings, and how we enjoyed painting and show our art, we accept. But after finishing the festival with great success, we create a group by a teacher and friend Nelson file. The “Atrpalharte� because this name is a way of being before the Art ... bothering her, embarrassing her, mistaking her ... shaking consciences, ours, yours, everyone ...! Each has different areas and techniques, we were sure that we would have a big lead in the group, although we have a friendship grid. We work with everything a little graffiti, strokes painting, photographs, graphic design. Right now we have a small workshop in the school Appeal which were offered by the school principal. We have participated in some events, competitions and festivals.
Nuno Davide
6 days of Cretan adventures Three girls from Poland, Russia and Germany, a fabulous combination of countries, went to one of the most Southern islands of Europe: Crete. There had always been some laughter when we answered the question: „Where are you from?“ and everybody was wondering how we found together. We started from Chania, a city with a wonderful pronunciation ;), where we stayed with André, a portuguese guy who was hosting us and had also been in Kalamata at KANE for a project before. He and his as well portuguese flatmate showed us nice places, like a hidden beach in a bay where we had to climb down to arrive it, with many mountain goats („Kri Kri’s“) and nice bars on the port. After we tried to hitch hike to Rethymno. We were walking 12 km to leave the city center, which we didn’t really expect to be that far and made a break on a petrol station, where we sat down exhausted and had a huuuge picnic with
one cookie for each of us. We watched the cars passing by and were a little bit disappointed. One red sports car came by and we were looking jealous after it. But suddenly we realized it was rolling backwards in our direction. „Haha no, he will probably only needs some petrol“, we were joking. But he stopped and it turned out: He really wanted to take us along! We couldn’t believe we were driving with the best car we saw that day, after hours where not a single car was stopping. So we exhausted people were going to Rethymno with a young pilot in a red sports car (unfortunately I can’t tell the brand, as I’m not interested in cars at all). In Rethymno we stayed in a small, cute hostel - the only hostel in the whole city - which was not really crowded for being the only one, with really nice and funny owners. We were swimming on the beach, visiting the fortress, enjoyed huge meals and getting ALWAYS lost in the cute little streets. It seemed like the streets moved by theme self, because every way back to hostel was completely different!
Once we tried to leave Rethymno by hitch hiking to go to Heraklion, but it was a hopeless attempt. We didn’t even find a way where cars could take us and hiked through the „Rethymnous“ mountains for some hours. But it was a nice trip and a beautiful, calm area. We’d never expected that we were coming to exactly this area back in the evening, because a nice guy from Couch Surfing had the mercy to host us spontaneously in his home over there. He was a really kind guy, who just brought us to the most beautiful beach in the next morning on the other side of the island. Here we found a river flowing into the sea and a great palm forest. And finally we were extremely lucky with hitch hiking -> we were hitch hiking by boat, leaving the jealous tourist families behind us and could see everything from a great perspective. So first, we were back in Rethymno. Every way goes back to this city… After we came back to Chania where our portuguese friends accommodated us again, but before filled our stomachs with Falafel, what I really missed. Sometimes you just can’t see pita anymore, haha.
So what did we learn from this 6 days ?: If you want to be sure to meet the plans of your travel, rent a car. But if you want to get to know many kind and nice people, and discovering areas you didn’t expect and never planned to be at, be free and see where it will accidentally take you. Next time we decided to probably rent a car to be sure to see the rest of the island, but we will never forget this exciting adventures we could go through.
Stina Binder
Ronnie James Dio death The 16h May, marks the fifth anniversary of Ronnie James Dio death. One of Heavy Metal’s Legends left this world to joined his friends in the another world. Dio was born in 10th of July 1942 in Portsmouth of New Hampshire. At the age of 5, Dio started his first formal musical training of trumpet while was participating to the school band. His career started by his first Rock N Roll group named “The Vegas Kings” which it was renamed after a while to “Ronnie and the Rumblers” and then « Ronnie and the Redcaps »
At 1969, Dio and the guitarist from his last band transformed it, into another band called “Electric Elves” or « Elf ». Over the next few years, the group were playing the opening acts for « Deep Purple ». In the mid-1970s, Deep Purple’s guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore and a few musicians of Elf, formed a new band initially known as “Ritchie Blacmore’s Rainbow”.
In 1979, the group splitted with Blackmore taking the band in a more commercial direction and Dio finding the « love » at the sound of Black Sabbath while Ozzy Osborne left the band. There, Dio met Vinny Appice, the new drummer of Black Sabbath. A new band was formed called « Dio » in 1982. Until 2004 they released t’en albums and the band never stopped tourring and recording.
In 2006, Dio rejoined Black Sabbath’s members Tonny Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice for a tour under the name Heaven & Hell. In 2007, three new songs were added under the name of Black Sabbath:The Dio Years and in the following year the band released a new album for critical and commercial matters under the name Heaven & Hell, The devil you know.
I have found extremely important to remind us all the world’s legions of Ronnie James Dio, whose career and songs are following us and enriched us, until today. So come, raise his spirit and salute a true metal legend.
Kostantinos Ioannou
German Asylum: Attacks on Refugee Hostels a Growing Problem
Here is a small part of a very interesting aricle I want to show you! The recent arson attack against a refugee hostel in Trรถglitz has made headlines around the world. But it is far from the exception in Germany. Even as most asylum-seekers in the country are left in peace, there has been a disturbing rise in anti-refugee violence. Indeed, attention these days could be focused on Vorra instead of Trรถglitz, where a similar arson attack made international headlines this week. Or on Escheburg, near Hamburg. Or Ger mering, located next to Munich.
Or Sanitz, in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Or on Berlin, the allegedly cosmopolitan capital of Germany. All of these places have seen arson attacks perpetrated recently against refugee facilities; all of these places have seen animosity escalate dangerously. There are such places in the western part of the country and in the eastern part; they include villages and cities; and they are both welloff and poor. It would, of course, be inaccurate to say that Germany is in flames. And, contrary to what some have been saying, Tröglitz is not “everywhere.” Most asylum-seekers in Germany live in peace and are left largely alone, aside from the thousands of volunteers who ensure that the newcomers have all they need. Normality is the standard in Germany’s refugee homes. And yet, Tröglitz is far from being an exception either. Last year, in fact, there were almost three times as many attacks on refugee hostels in Germany as there were in 2013. Often, the cases are never solved and in many instances, those behind the attacks achieve what they set out to: spreading fear, creating a disturbance and preventing refugees from moving into their town by destroying their shelters. Sometimes, though, the arsonists achieve the exact opposite. It isn’t seldom that such attacks bring communities together and increase a sense of solidarity with the refugees.
How a town deals with such an attack depends to a large degree on the politicians and on the residents -- whether fear wins out or courage, whether there is silent agreement or a loud outcry. Read more at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/ germany/german-refugee-hostel-attacks-on-the-risea-1027994.html
Jana Henschel
City Greener Seminar organized by the members of the coffee “Prosoros” Here is a day to share with the group City Greener. First we created the “seed bomb” to protect the seeds from harmful organisms (eg bird) or otherwise. For this we need water; seeds and soil. In a bowl put a background of water, seeds and mix with the earth, seed size make small balls then you can plant.
In the second part we planted a tree. To do this you have to dig a broad pierces depending on the size of the plant then you can plant. It is also possible cardboard mud to filter out more water in the ground, it is also possible to angre, compost to feed the plant can also finally put a nail tip or hair because keratin is a good nutrient for the tree.
We can now cover the earth plant, leaving the surface a hollow space to put water and some hay to help the plant grow.
At the end of the seminar each person in the group has a project one of them was: the youth center of the roof redevelopment in kind and meeting space.
I just wanted to share with you my meeting with these people and knowledges obtained. See you soon. =)
Lolita Garcia
A Window on High Tuscia
Dear readers, today I want to talk a bit ‘of my origins to know us better. As I explicated in the interview that stina maded to me, when I am not traveling around the world I live in a small village of the high Lazio in the province of Viterbo. A fantastic village, named Acquapendente, in a valley between the various areas of the headlands. My village is located in the far north of Lazio near the border with Tuscany, it is the last town of Tuscia, name with which is called the fraction of the Lazio region in the province of Viterbo. its boundaries are marked by Lake San Casciano, and Umbria, about ten kilometers north of Lake Bolsena at the Monte Rufeno Nature Reserve which is located on the opposite bank of the river Paglia; the town is crossed by the Via Cassia. Where is situated the country today, there was an Etruscan town then inhabited by the Romans, then invaded and destroyed by the Lombards. The village is located on the Via Francigena route that served as a link between Rome and central Europe, especially France.
The first evidence of the existence of the Via Francesca date from the ninth century and refer to a stretch of road in the countryside around Chiusi, in the province of Siena, while in the tenth century the bishop Sigerico described the path of a pilgrimage made by Roma, which he had come to be received by the Pope the “pallium”, to return to Canterbury, on what is already the twelfth will be widely called Via Francigena. Others argue that the Via Francigena is the continuation to the south, toward Jerusalem, although there are no historical evidence of this claim. Dealing with mysticism and sacredness I would just tell you one of the most important historical events of the country: The Miracle of Our Lady of the flower. That will take us well to discover the current traditional festivals of the country with their beauty are attracting pilgrims and tourists from around the world. During the period of the struggle between the Papacy and the Empire, the tradition shows the “Miracle of the Madonna of the Flower” due to which the inhabitants of Acquapendente drew the auspices to rebel against the domination of the tyrannical imperial governor. The Madonna del Fiore is attributed indeed the miracle of flowering of a dried cherry that aroused feelings and hope to the people. In honor of this event every year, the third Sunday in May, the festival takes place
in May or Middle of the Madonna del Fiore, known for fantastic Pugnaloni, huge drawings (m. 2.60 x 3.60) made with flowers, twigs, leaves and inflorescences and located in the most characteristic of the city. The festival takes place from the beginning of the first of the three weeks preceding the second Sunday in May. For the entire population is a fantastic moment of meeting both family and social, in which you work on the Pugnaloni and we celebrate together. Personally I love this time of year to acquapende and anyone decides to travel to the areas of central Italy I highly recommend it.
Lorenzo Brizi
Tragedy in Ancient Messene
Messene is an ancient city near to Ithome significant in terms of its size, form, and state of preservation. It possesses not only sanctuaries and public buildings, but also imposing fortifications, and houses and tombs.
It is in this amazing background, in particular in the Odeon of Ancient Messene, that the 4th International Youth Festival of Ancient Drama from the 22nd to the 29th April. The festival focuses on the presentation of works of ancient Greek or Latin drama (tragedy or comedy) by students of all Europe. It does not have a competitive nature and its purpose is the essential experiential contact of young people with ancient drama and cultural heritage. On the last day, Messina “F. Maurolico� High School played the Prometheus Bound, a tragedy attributed to Aeschylus that makes part of a trilogy together with
Prometheus the Fire-Bringer and Prometheus Unbound, even if nobody knows exactly the order of the three tragedies as there are just fragments of the last two. The play is composed almost entirely of speeches and contains little action since its protagonist is chained and immobile throughout. At the beginning, Kratos (strength), Bia (force), and the smith-god Hephaestus chain the Titan Prometheus to a mountain in the Caucasus, with Hephaestus alone expressing reluctance and pity, and then departing. According to the author, Prometheus is being punished not only for stealing fire, but also for thwarting Zeus’s plan to obliterate the human race. This punishment is especially galling since Prometheus was instrumental in Zeus’s victory in the Titanomachy. The Oceanids appear and attempt to comfort Prometheus by conversing with him.
Prometheus cryptically tells them that he knows of a potential marriage that would lead to Zeus’s downfall. A Titan named Oceanus commiserates with Prometheus and urges him to make peace with Zeus.
Prometheus tells the chorus that the gift of fire to mankind was not his only benefaction, as he reveals that he taught men all the civilizing arts, such as writing, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, architecture, and agriculture. Prometheus is then visited by Io, a human maiden pursued by a lustful Zeus; the Olympian transformed Io into a cow, and a gadfly sent by Zeus’s wife Hera has chased Io all the way from Argos. Prometheus forecasts Io’s future travels, telling her that Zeus will eventually end her torment in Egypt, where she will bear a son named Epaphus. He says one of her descendants (an unnamed Heracles), thirteen generations hence, will release him from his own torment.
Finally, Hermes the messenger-god is sent down by the angered Zeus to demand that Prometheus tell him who threatens to overthrow him. Prometheus refuses, and Zeus strikes him with a thunderbolt that plunges Prometheus into the abyss. Through the interpretation of the Bound Prometheus, Messina “F. Maurolico” High School students wanted to show, thanks also to their own life experience,
all the universal features that make part of the complex psycho-physical ensemble of the whole mankind. Thanks to this tragedy they can face important issues like free will, the destiny, the friendship and virtue importance. Thanks to the use of the scene objects, like the horns that have been made by the students themselves, and the use of the voice, they have been able to build a strong emotional background that makes more intense every scene. In final monologue, based on the text of the Vincenzo Quadarella’s song Prometeo, it is expressed the need of doubting of every certainty and the difficulties of “learning” to be a human being, the Titan’s ill-concealed wish.
This event was amazing so let’s hope there will be a 5th edition of the International Youth Festival of Ancient Drama in this wonderful background.
Tania Lagana
Help Needed
With the Youth Centre opening again its doors to the public, for the 7th period, there are still some things, where we could use your help!!! For the beginning of the workshops, and throughout the year, the Youth Centre needs: * Chairs Strange as it may sound, the Youth Center is in need of chairs! As the Youth Centre acquires more and more members, and the use of the chairs is extensive, our poor old chairs are breaking down. As it is, it is impossible to have all the chairs that the workshops need. If you have any chairs that you do not use, or you think that you can spare, you can bring them! * MARKERS for the white board As all of the language workshops make use of the white board, we consume approximately 3 markers per week! * Pens You can never have enough of those! * Computers Unfortunately, the Youth Centre at the moment has only 1 working (almost) computer to be used in the info-point. We need at least 1 more computer to be used in the dance workshops (for now we are using a borrowed one) and 1 more for the outside activities‌ * Volunteers As you may have noticed, most of the time in the Youth Centre, apart from our lovely volunteers from abroad, there is usually also a Greek speaking volunteer around, to give information about the workshops and help in case it is needed. If you want to become and volunteer in the Youth Centre and dedicate 2-3 hours per week to help with the running of the Youth Centre, please, do not hesitate to contact us at: kentroneonkalamatas@gmail.com
What’s new New volunteer: Lilianna from Portugal arrived in Kalamata and will be working in the fram project.
New schedule of Party create for the summer.
Youth Center open during the summer so you can come to follow: Italian, Serbian, German, French, Dutch teached by our volunteer.
What’s coming soon A lot of event: -Barbecue and Guitar event on Thursday 21 of May at 20h00 on the Roof of Youth Center. -Intercultural Night on the Saturday 23 of May at 20h00 on the Roof of Youth Center: Come to enjoy a party with our volunteer who will test your knowledge of European culture with some game and activity they prepare. -Documentary Night three Wednesday night from 27 of May to 10 of June. - Take care of the Animal Friday 12 of June at 16h00 in the Youth Center: event about the needs of dogs, theater piece and activity to speak and think about what problem adog can create and how to solve without giving up on him. - Art exposition of Nuno Davide Work soon in June.
The volunteers responsible for this publication are hosted in Greece in the framework of the European Erasmus+ programme, KA1/youth - European Voluntary Service. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained there in.
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