Arte diem Europe Asia

Arte Diem in Asia: Promoting culture of peace and solidarity.

ARTE DIEM is a project about promoting culture of peace and solidarity through art. The idea is to gather young people from different backgrounds and countries to reflect about art and how it can serve as a tool to build a peaceful society. The international youth exchange project has been organized annually since 1999 in different countries (in Europe and outside of Europe).

For the first time ARTE DIEM will be organized in ASIA by SJ VIETNAM and YAP with the collaboration of NVDA !! We will receive 30 young people, 20 young people from Europe and 10 young people from Asia. The International volunteers, Vietnamese volunteers and professional artists will use art as a tool to promoting a culture of peace and dialogue.Through discussion, creativity, learning and workshop, barriers cultural and even languages incomprehension, can be broken down and new ideas can born in order to promote peace through art and voluntarism. Volunteers will also share life experiences of local population who are disabled, disadvantaged or live in poverty.

 

 

1. Project title

- Arte Diem Asia 2008: Promoting culture of peace and solidarity.

2. Theme

- Arte Diem 2008, the first one hosted in Asia, will celebrate cultural diversity, building up a peaceful and fruitful coexistence between youth people from different social background in Asia and the world.

3. Type of activities

Youth Exchange

4. Date / Duration

From : 03 September to 20 September 2008
Duration: 3 weeks with possible extension by joining local extra voluntary activities done by SJV.

5. Justification/ motivation for the project

- Exploring changing societies and learning about new cultures, mixing concepts and traditions. Through discussion, creativity, learning and workshop, barriers cultural and even languages incomprehension, can be broken down and new ideas can born in order to promote peace through art and voluntarism.
- To develop partnerships and intercultural exchanges within Asia, to learn and to exchange with this area of the world.

6. Objectives

- To create a fertile atmosphere for young people from different parts of the world and Asia as well as from the local community, to interact, live together, learn from each other, and implement different activities together.
- To focus on themes such as co-existence of counties after bloody conflicts.
- Use art as a tool to promoting a culture of peace and dialogue
- To share life experiences between the local population and the participants about the issues of poverty and development through the medium of arts.
- To promote collaboration with disable people through art.

7. Activity description

Target group :
- Local and international young people involved in their local communities, disable young people and local children with social difficulties. We will receive 30 young people, 20 young people from European and 10 young people from Asia.

Activities:
1. The workshops (Theatre, painting and sculpture, dance, music, media, water puppet theatre…)
- We will prepare one day for all children to join together in theatre and another day for water puppet theatre, in that time we will reflect all the children to know what is important in life without conflict and war. After that show those to know what is beautiful, the world would be fruitful of peace.
- Another activities like painting and sculpture we will celebrate in Youth house with street children, poor children, rural children…

2. Traditional food, games, story, blind dinner, picture and joke
- In the evening we will cook together at Fisher village, at that time we will have a group of blind dinner, blind children have to guess the ingredient of food by smell or give a touch and if someone can give a proper answer we will have a gift for them. Participants will join together to play games and tell a short story of each country.

3. 2 local community festival in Hanoi, on Mid-Autumn festival
- Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival for children in Vietnam. The children will have a chance to take part in many leisure activities. Volunteers will help SJ Vietnam to organize the festival for the poor children in the fisher village, and the disadvantaged children in the National Pediatric Hospital. They will make mid-autumn cakes and five-star lanterns to give to the children. Volunteers will also teach the children to sing and to dance the basic songs. In free time, volunteers will organize some leisure activities for the children (games, a little show, painting, etc).
Places: in Hanoi and Hai Duong (50km far from Hanoi, capital of Vietnam)
+ In Hanoi:
- We will celebrate at Blind school, Youth house, Fisher village
+ In Hai Duong:
- We will celebrate in Hannah kindergarten and Center of Social Welfare.

8. Program outline

- The first three days of the exchange will be dedicated to getting to know the participants, the project, and the environment in which it will take place.
- Project presentation and team building on the second day.
- A topics discussion will take place for the third day, and on day four the workshops will be introduced and the activities begin.
Art Workshops in the pediatric hospital of Hanoi.

The major activities of each day:
+ First day: Location introduction in Hanoi
- Blind school, Fisher village, Pediatric hospital, Art school.

+ Second day: Location introduction in Hai Duong province
- Hannah kindergarten, Center of social welfare.

+ A usual day: we will have 5 groups for: Blind school, Pediatric hospital, Art school, Hannah kindergarten, center of social welfare.
7:30 am:  Getting up and having breakfast. Daily tasks
9:00 am:  Preparation of activities to do with the children in the afternoon
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:45 pm:  Departure to the place that set above
2:30 pm:  Join your department
4:30 pm:  End of work: arrange the materials and back to accommodation place
6:00 pm:  Cooking and having dinner together

We will have an evaluation with project coordinator every 3 day.

The participants will organize exhibition / performance in a public place the last day of the program to promote the result of their work.

9. Members/ Partners involved

- YAP
- NVDA
-  Local partners (Blind school, Fisher village, Pediatric hospital, Art school…)
- Partner organizations that have experience in international  youth activities and have acted as a team member in previous Arte Diem projects

10. Coordinating organization/ body

SJ Vietnam as local coordinator, the global coordination is run by YAP and with the collaboration of NVDA network.

11. Follow up

- An exhibition will be held for public and mass media during one week after the last day of the project. SJ Vietnam will arrange the exhibition in Blind school, it’s a very precious opportunity to show peace through art and understanding different culture between Asia and the world. In this occasion we will promote the event through local newspaper, national Television and Radio, special website done for this event.
- Participant will be encouraged to join art workcamps in 2009 in Vietnam.

12. Extra info

phuc@sjvietnam.org (Vietnamese / English)
Pierre@sjvietnam.org (French / English)
admin@yap.org

13. Web sites

www.sjvietnam.org
www.yap.org
www.nvda-asiapacific.org

 

 

The organization Solidarités Jeunesses Vietnam (SJ Vietnam) is a non-profit international youth volunteering organization in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a small organization, set up for, and by young volunteers. In december 2007, 3207 young vietnamese volunters were official members of SJ Vietnam.Our volunteers are active in the organization as work camp leaders, project managers or as volunteer on our local projects.

The goals of SJ Vietnam are:
• Work towards a society of justice, peace and solidarity.
• Break cultural misunderstanding between peoples and nations.
• Improve local and global environment, provide non-formal education, reduce poverty and establish human rights.
• Encourage young people to participate actively in the society in which they live.

The SJ Vietnam slogan reads: "Tình nguyện để sẻ chia, học hỏi và trưởng thành", which can be translated as: "Volunteer for sharing, learning and being responsible". SJ Vietnam organizes short- and long-term work camps and projects, actions of social integration, training activities, international solidarity actions, and runs a small youth centre in Hanoi since 2006. All volunteers, both Vietnamese as well as international, are warmly welcomed to join and participate in the projects provided by SJV. Furthermore, Vietnamese volunteers are sent abroad to participate in volunteering projects by partner organizations all over the globe.

SJ Vietnam organizes mainly 4 kind of activities: local activities during all the year (mainly for local volunteers living in Hanoi), international workcamp (hosting and sending volunteers), long term voluntary projects (hosting and sending long term volunteers) and promotion of International Volunteerism .All these activities are the specific tools of our organization to reach our goals about youth education, peace, tolerance, and solidarity.
All our activities are open to everybody: to join our activities, you need only to buy your annual member card or to be sent by a voluntary organization partner of SJV.

Two short video presentations of SJV can be downloaded at http://vietnam.solidaritesjeunesses.org/video/sjvpresentation/sjvnetchua.mpg (in vietnamese) and at http://vietnam.solidaritesjeunesses.org/video/sjvpresentation/sjvpresentation.mpg (in english)

Local Activities & Self-Management

SJ Vietnam is proudly a non-professional youth organization ;except our secretary staff, all the organization is completely managed by everyday youth themselves from Vietnam and around the world. All the local and international activities are imagined and realized collectively by the members. SJ Vietnam is a youth organization FOR young people BY the young people.

All SJ volunteers (national and international) are non-paid. We donate our time for free because we believe in the goals of our projects and they are most important for us.
During the year, SJ Vietnam organizes local activities open to everybody: visit to museums with poor children, lessons for street children, environmental activities, autumn festival for child victims of the Orange Agent, free lunch for poor children, cultural and leisure activities, etc.

Each week at least one activity is organized, contact the secretary to get our calendar.

Feel free to join us, you are welcome!!

Organizing & Promoting Workcamps

SJ Vietnam organizes and promotes international workcamps throughout the year and trains workcamp leaders to run them. The over 40 international camps in vietnam aim to promote:
1. Volunteerism, friendship and solidarity among young people.
2. Awareness of local, national and international issues.    
3. Improvement on quality of life. (Water filters for people living on Red river, free medicine for those with TB, information about HIV and sexual health, leisure and cultural activities, environmental projects, etc…)
4. Cultural exchange by living together.

Each year, SJ Vietnam uses to host around 300 international short and long term international volunteers coming from different voluntary organization around the world. If you live outside Vietnam and you want to join one of our workcamp, contact your national voluntary organization (check the section "partners" on this web site). You can see our list of workcamps in vietnam in the section "workcamp" on this web site.

But SJ Vietnam is also a sending organization : SJ Vietnam trough an international network of partners offers to Vietnamese volunteers the opportunity to join international workcamp abroad as volunteer. At this time around 30 countries are accessible to Vietnamese Volunteers (France, UK, Mexico, Germany, Thailand, Korea, Japan, China; Mongolia, etc). And each year more that one thousand projects are available…

In parrallele, to assure high quality workcamps, SJ Vietnam organizes week-end workshop to train workcamp leaders.

To know more about workcamp, see the section "workcamps & LTV " on this web site

Long Term Volunteerism

A long term project is a little bit like a workcamp but longer (between 1 and 6 month). More motivation is required from the volunteer but it also provides more rewards. Long Term Volunteerism with SJ Vietnam gives the opportunity to foreign volunteers to join our long term projects in Vietnam .

SJ Vietnam through this network also offers long term opportunities to Vietnamese volunteers to be volunteer abroad.

To know more about LTV, see the section "workcamps & LTV " on this web site

Promotion of International Volunteerism

SJ Vietnam is also actif on the internal stage to promote the philisophy of workcamps and international solidarity between youth people. In this frame, SJ Vietnam is an active member of NDVA and CCIVS.