Thessaloniki Film Festival 2011

11/29 in gs blog

Thessaloniki has now come back to its usual quietness (and shiny sun, today 29th november, 17 degrees), but for nearly two weeks of mid autumn (4-13 november) the city was transformed in a Cinema Mecca, crowded with Cinema freaks, journalists, artists, directors, producers and so on. The film festival was going.

More than 140 movies, 5 sections, 5 retrospectives, a selection of short movies, experimental screenings and screenings for youngsters and schools.

I personally watched nearly 40 movies, so i can give a detailed summary of the originality and beauty of this event, both from the organizing side, the illustrious guests and the public.

All the screenings were packed, no matter at what time, and queues of connoisseurs were forming in front of the cashiers to get the last tickets every day. With a card and some will, you could always enter.

There was no theme for the festival, but surely a big eye was given to new waves, new directors and with the Balkan Section, the cinema of Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Kosovo, Serbia and Bosnia was shown.

Big surprise for the new wave of Bulgarian Cinema, represented in Thessaloniki by the movie “Ave’”, by Costantin Bojanov, at his first feature. An autobiographic story of pureness, adolescence, hitchhiking and more; portrayed with a light and dreamy touch.

And, among all the Latin American movies shown (thanks!), a mention goes to “El estudiante” by the young Argentinian director Santiago Mitre, present at the screenings; a witty critique on the world of politics in the universities, namely in the new world capital Buenos Aires.

So, good cinema to all!

THE AWARDS:

Golden Alexander: Twilight Portrait by Angelina Nikonova (Russia 2011)

Silver Alexander: Eighty Letters by Vaclav Kadrnka (Czech Republic 2011)

Bronze Alexander: Porfirio by Alejandro Landes ( Colombia-Spain-Uruguay-Argentina-France 2011)

Best director: Mark jackson for Without (USA 2011)

Best screenplay: John Mcilduff (UK 2011)

Best actress: Stefania Goulioti for J.A.C.E. (Greece-FYROM–Portugal-Turkey-The Netherlands 2011)

Best actor: Wotan Wilke Mohering for The fire (Germany 2011)

Audience awards:

The Flood by Guy Nativ (Israel-Canada-Germany-France- 2010)

Super Demetrios by Georgios Papaioannou (Greece 2011)

The Enemy by Dejan Zecevic (Serbia-Bosnia&Herzegovina-Croatia-Hungary 2011)

Tyrannosaur by Paddy Constantine (UK 2011)

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Thessaloniki Film Tribute to Human Rights

10/24 in gs blog

It ended last week the 25th annual Film Festival that Amnesty International Thessaloniki dedicates to Human Rights.
A project born as a rib of the biggest Thessaloniki International Film Festival, it has the same minds behind.
Activist and intellectuals of this city that have been operative for years since the miliary regime. And that at the end of the regime founded the local section of Amnesty International and, after , this Film Festival, that following a previous long season in Olympus Cinema is now hosted in the Port, at the Cinema Museum.

9 days of movies, 2 per nights, aimed at debating the issue of Human Rights on a global level.

We saw movies from all over the world, some tough to digest, as the latest Ken Loach’s movie “Route Irish”  about the exploitation of contractors ( armed bodyguards payed to protect privates in wars) in Irak; or the documentary “Everlasting Sorrow, Life after the Death Penalty” by David Andre and Jerome Mignard: an interview with Sean Sellers, condemned to death penalty at 16 years old that we see after 13 years of captivity, weeks before the execution. We will also see what happens next, with interviews to the other protagonists ten years after the execution: what has it brought to them?

The aim of this tribute festival is to sensitize and discuss internal controversies in our democracies and Amnesty International has been active for 50 years to defend and promote Human Rights.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/greece

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Joy of Lifelong Learning – Universal Competences for an Ageing Society

10/10 in Audiovisual Training, Global Soma, Learning by Doing, Youth Worker Training, youth exchange

6 learning events are organized to share innovative methods and best practices, to develop the key competences of adults needed to cope with the challenges set by the fast-changing living, learning and working environment of urban and rural communities in Europe. Partners are NGOs from Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy, France and the Netherlands, active in international partnerships in non-formal education, working with multicultural groups of diverse social backgrounds.

Target group is learners, volunteers, educators of our NGOs and networks.

PRACTICING COACHING

14th – 20th January 2012,
Olde Vechte Foundation,
Ommen Netherlands

Practicing Coaching Training is a seven-day coaching session that gives you an opportunity to be coached on getting what you want, while coaching others towards their desires and wanted results.  This training, covering aspects such as  self-coaching, coaching one to one, coaching small teams and groups, has a possibility to be tailored to match your individual needs.

Information & Application Forms contact: Marco Vlaming oldevechte@hotmail.com


DIGITAL PUZZLE – NEW MEDIA IN YOUTH WORK
24th – 30th March 2012,
Global Soma, Thessaloniki
Greece

The mission of this learning event is to enable people who work with people to integrate New Media into their work. Participants will be equipped with basic audiovisual competences; develop the online and physical marketing skills; transform their ideas into a product, presentable at the end of the event.

Information & Application Forms contact: Moudiou Sofia global.soma@gmail.com

CHALLENGED BY NATURE
5th – 11th May 2012,
Synergy Romania,
Romania

Participants will: experience outdoor activities: adventure games, low -rope activities and expedition; learn about tricks and techniques that make the base in outdoor activities; plus risk assessment, first aid, safety measures, logistics; create simple activities to be used in your immediate surroundings, with educational purpose.

Information & Application Forms contact: George Adrian Oprea shters4all@gmail.com


CASTING FOR LIFE
13th – 20th October 2012,
Egyesek,
Holloko Hungary

The participants of this learning event will: gain personal experience and practice in basic techniques in contemporary dance; improve communication, cooperation and presentation skills through the awareness of the body; use performance as a tool to deal with issues relevant for a group or a community; use video as a tool for coaching a group in production.

Information & Application Forms contact: Krisztina Gyory joy.egyesek@gmail.com


HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE
10th – 17th November 2012,
YMCA Parthenope Onlus,
Poggio Mirteto Italy


This project is for adults working or willing to work with people. The aim is to improve their own lifestyles, by: enhancing their intercultural dimension; preparing meals for the whole group, organizing national evenings (country presentation, folklore, food, music); learning how to manage low-budget shopping, safety issues, preparation of a whole range of different menus, creation of atmosphere; through sport activities indoor and outdoor; empowering environment by taking action as saving, recycling, reusing; making social impact.

Information & Application Forms contact: Gianluca Iacuvelle luca2310@hotmail.com


LEARNING TO PARTICIPATE
20th – 27th April 2013,
Solidarites Jeunesses,
France

This international workcamp leaders’ learning event aims to : train future camp leaders in international group dynamics; process how to manage the different aspects of an international workcamp: manual work, collective life, free time activities…; increase the impact of international workcamps on the local level; raise awareness of the value of international workcamps as tool of non-formal education.

Information & Application Forms contact: Nadege Ropert promovolontariat@solidaritesjeunesses.org


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ΗΜΕΡΑ ΕΘΕΛΟΝΤΙΣΜΟΥ ΣΤΗ GLOBAL SOMA

10/3 in Global Soma, Uncategorized

Την Παρασκευή 7 Οκτωβρίου σας περιμένουμε για να γνωριστούμε, να μάθετε τί κάνουμε, και να δείτε πως μπορείτε να συμμετέχετε σε προγράμματα εκπαίδευσης και εθελοντισμού, στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη.

Θα είμαστε στο καφέ 4 Εποχές (οδός Πάικου, περιοχή Βαλαωρίτου) από τις 7 το απόγευμα.

Στο πλαίσιο της εκδήλωσης θα γίνει προβολή video που δημιουργήθηκαν από νέους εθελοντές από όλη την Ευρώπη.

Α, και το πιο σημαντικο: κερνάμε ποτάκι:)

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2 ΔΙΑΘΕΣΙΜΕΣ ΘΕΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΕΧΟΝΤΕΣ ΣΕ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΙΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΣΤΗ ΣΕΡΒΙΑ

10/3 in Audiovisual Training, Global Soma, Learning by Doing, gs blog, media literacy, youth media training

Η Global Soma θα συμμετέχει τον Οκτώβριο σε ένα διεθνές εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα για τη χρήση των νέων μέσων.

Το πρόγραμμα θα υλοποιηθεί από το VEGA YC από 9 έως 16 Οκτωβρίου στη Σερβία.

Στη διάρκεια του 30 νέοι, εργαζόμενοι με νέους και εθελοντές από όλη την Ευρώπη θα μάθουμε να εργαζόμαστε μαζί και θα αναπτύξουμε νέες ικανότητες στη χρήση των νέων Μέσων.

Το κόστος συμμετοχής είναι 50Ε. Σε αυτά περιλαμβάνονται η εκπαίδευση, διαμονή και διατροφή για το σύνολο του προγράμματος.
Ταυτόχρονα, οι συμμετέχοντες θα πληρώσουν μόνο το 30% του εισιτηρίου.

Είναι μια καλή ευκαιρία αν σας ενδιαφέρει να εργάζεστε με τα νέα Μέσα (κυρίως video και internet) και μπορείτε να το παρακολουθήσετε αν έχετε μία βασική (ελάχιστη) κατανόηση της αγγλικής γλώσσας.

Αυτή τη στιγμή έχουμε 2 κενές θέσεις για Έλληνες συμμετέχοντες.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες δείτε το επισυναπτόμενο Info Letter.

Αν ενδιαφέρεστε επικοινωνείστε μαζί μας στο athina1707@hotmail.com

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Guide your Life! Youth Exchange

08/25 in Global Soma, Learning by Doing, Synergy Trainings, youth exchange

Guide your Life! is a is a 12-day youth exchange that will take place in May 2012 in Hollókő, Hungary. The program is organized by Youth Creative Life informal group. 36 young people will meet from 5 different countries: Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia in the exchange in the topic of art and culture and social inclusion.

Date: 2- 13 May 2012

Place: Holloko, Hungary

Countries: Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia

Age: Young people 15- 25 years old

Places available: 5 per country (plus 1 team member per country)

Cost: Travel cost refunded up to 70%  plus 65 euros participation fee

Guide your Life! is a youth exchange with personal development and awareness training. The themes of the exchange are active participation in your life and in the life of your communities as well as intercultural learning, participation through creation. You will have the opportunity to learn from people with different cultural background as well as sharing your own experiences. During the exchange we will use the method “Learning to play, playing to learn” which basically is learning through experiences, developed by the International Synergy Group.  We will approach the themes from the personal angle, where the focus will be on you, on the individual. We will always refer to how the action of one individual – you – effect his or her surroundings – people and the physical universe.

Do you want to know more?

Send an email to global.soma@gmail.com to receive the Information Letter and Application Form!

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RE:Creativity Youth Exchange for Creative Recycling

08/25 in Global Soma, Learning by Doing, gs blog, youth exchange

Organised by the ReDesign Informal Group in cooperation with Egyesek Youth Association, this project is a 10 days long exchange for young people from 5 different EU countries ( ITALY, CYPRUS, GREECE, SPAIN, HUNGARY), who want to learn and get new experience in the field of creative recycling, and share them in a creative way. This means will come together for 10 days, provide workshops and many ideas for each other, participants will sew, designing, paint, draw, cut, tint, hammer…involve local people from the villages, share  ideas and development, and present all the work for an audience.

Date: 18th – 28th September 2011

Place: Holloko, Hungary

RE: Creativity is a project:
- A place to create a lot of FUN
- A place where you make friends from other countries within EU
- is inviting you to explore together the topic of „creative recycling”
- providing workshops about creative methods of sustainability
- an opportunity to challange yourself in a beautiful environment
- an opportunity to learn about how to work in an international group
- a very good chance to get inspired and to inspire the others!

Do you want to know more?

Download the Information Letter http://www.egyesek.hu/images/text/redesign.pdf

Apply now

Fill in the application form and send it to re.creativity2011@gmail.com

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Training for Practical Communication and Coaching

08/16 in Synergy Trainings

Organised by Olde Vechte Foundation, this training can be described as a coaching session that lasts for seven days, and deals with one main question: How to take the step from being able and knowing to wanting, daring and doing?

Date: 7th- 13th of November

Place: Ommen, Netherlands

Trainers: Marco Vlaming & Stella Saratsi

What is this training about?


This training is a practice about how to help individuals identify skills and capabilities that are within them by giving the opportunity to use them to the best of their potential.

If you work with individuals or groups, as volunteers or as professionals (e.g. coaches, mentors, teachers, trainers, managers, youth workers, supervisors, consultants) this training will be more effective for you!

Upon the basic skills and techniques that are given, you develop your own coaching style. You learn how to work out of your own qualities and how to improve and implement your already existing knowledge. You will be able to identify your own style, develop it and market it.

In order to reach it we use knowledge from several approaches, such as the following: experiential learning, methods and theories on group dynamics, Transaction Analysis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Strategic Intervention and Human Needs Psychology (Antony Robbins).

You want to know more?

Download the information letter & the application form from: http://www.oldevechte.nl/trainins.html

Apply Now

Fill in the application form and send it to oldevechte@hotmail.com and we will send you confirmation letter if you  fulfil the criteria of the target group.


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You(th) Can Be the Director!

06/22 in Audiovisual Training, Learning by Doing, media literacy

This is the virtual space for the videos made during the youth exchange Youth Can be the Director. This project deals with the possibility and tools for using media in youth work, with a target group of youth workers and young leaders of NGOs. Global Soma, a member of Youth4Media European Network and the International Synergy Group has contributed in developing the content of this project.


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You(th) can be the director! Basic Synergy training

04/19 in EVS, Global Soma, Learning by Doing, Synergy Trainings, Youth Research, Youth Worker Training

The International Synergy Group offers a 9-day long international youth exchange and Basic Synergy training

Title: You(th) can be the director!
Date: 18-28 june
Place: Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Countries: SK; RO; BG; HU; LV; LT; GR
Places availables: 4 per country (plus 1 team member per country)
Cost: travel cost refunded up to 70% plus 60 euro participation fee

What is this training about?

During this training you will be provided with tools which can be integrated into your personal or professional life (as a youth leader). The training deals with vital questions, such as: What do I want to do with my life? How do I cope with events? How do I build up good relationships, both in private life and in work situations? How do collaboration, self-confidence, love, self-expression and other aspects that determine my personal growth make up the framework of my life?

This training takes into account the presence of audiovisual media in our daily life, in order to benefit from the power of images to achieve personal goals in life. Video and photography are used during part of the programme and will form an integral part of the training. However the mean is not to achive technical elements, but to cope with the questions: How does my image work? How can I use media for personal, universal communication? How does media-making affect my behaviour in a team?

What is the training like?

This video is telling the story of two participants of the Personal Development & Media Training  organized in september 2010 in Poland


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Application Form and  Information Letter here

For more information contact vladimir.randa@gmail.com or call + 421 949 754 146.
We are looking forward to meet you here in Slovakia!

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The best surprise you can get going out: a FLASH MOB

04/7 in Global Soma, Learning by Doing, gs blog, media literacy


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“A flash mob (or flashmob) is a term coined in 2003 to denote a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. The term is generally not applied to events and performances organized for the purposes of politics (such as protests), commercial advertisment, publicity stunts, that involve public relation firms, or paid professionals.”  (wikipedia.org).

Flashmobs are a way to communicate, break schemes and make free and public art. They give expression to the desire of people to be free and have a purpose at the same time, the desire to  be visible while self-expressing, together with people,  in an easy, positive and funny way. They dont need money or equipment, just the willingness of the participants and our (and your) camera to film it.

Flash mobs are a new way to join and be active.

You can have the chance to experience it here in Thessaloniki, this June, as a Global Soma’s local action, so stay tuned for more informations or register in our mailing list


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