Again, the Youth center Kreaktiv gave an opportunity to the youngsters from Kavadarci to participate in youth exchange on abroad. Five members from the center on age from 13 to 18 years, together with a leader- employee from Kreaktiv, were part of a group of 38 participants that attended this exchange. Beside Macedonia, there were also participants from Belarus, Germany, Island and Belgium.

The exchange started at 28th of July and it lasted until 7th of August. It took place in Ostend, the most famous touristic city and this year’s city of culture in Belgium. The purpose of the exchange was preparation of a small play that was presented on the last day of TAZ festival (Theater Aan Zee- theater on sea). It is a festival for drama and music traditionally shown in the past sixteen years.

The participants had the honor to work with two professional actors who helped in the preparation of the play, but all the ideas were given from the youngsters. The final result was a postmodern drama, a performance that lasted 30 minutes and it was shown in front of 300 people.

Despite the rehearsals for the show, on this youth exchange the youngsters had also a lot of fun. “We had a great time, we made a lot of new friends, during our free time we practiced beach sports, rafting, kayaking… and every evening we visited concerts and plays from the festival “-said the youngsters that participated in the exchange .
As before, in the future there will be more exchanges to come for other young people from Kavadarci to participate.

Are you interested in doing your EVS for 9 to 12 months in Macedonia?

We have open call for new volunteers for the 1st of September deadline, all the projects are starting in December 2010 or beginning of 2011.

To read more about the project follow the links:

EVS project in Skopje

EVS project in Kavadarci

To apply for the EVS project in Skopje please download the application form, and send it to evs@kreaktiv.mk

To apply for the EVS project in Kavadarci please download the application form, and send it to sakina@kreaktiv.mk

If you have any additional information please contact evs@kreaktiv.mk

PROMOTION OF THE EVS PROJECTS

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“You don’t have to win it, just don’t lose it.” Quoted by Ray Lewis.

Not everyone has the talent of being a football player and even fewer make it further then sitting in front of the TV with remote control in their hands or playing video games. The ways to be part of the World Cup are many, you can be among the most numerous ones who are just watching football matches with beer and snacks or
you can go deeper and disappear into the game world of FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa. In the description of the video game you can read: “feel the passion, the feelings and the rivalry between the nations” – so your dreams can come true, just not in reality”.

There are also football hooligans who seem to be more into disturbing, destroying and fighting then actually cheering and watching the matches. They could easily be fans of whatever conflict, just if there’s room for them to act all their destructive and unruly behavior leading the fans into panic and people being killed by fences and walls collapsing. And what is the point of it? Join a boxing club or something I would say.

Personally the World Cup doesn’t interest me at all, but sure, I can join others if they want to watch, and to watch them watching football matches is an amusement itself. The people get crazy, cannot move their eyes from the screen until it´s recess, in the best case, and before/after the game the only thing on their mind is the upcoming or the just played game. You see them jump, scream, throw things, laugh and comment as if they were there, as a part of the team they are cheering for. Are they really so obsessed of being someone else
that they cannot stay in their reality?

Kicking a ball, running and trying to trick each other just to be able to get the ball into a net and then scream, put the t-shirt over your head and get applause – the dream of lot of people. What does it mean to have such dream?

The World Cup emerges a lot of different reactions, feelings, behaviors, thoughts and mood from people all over the world; everyone is in it in one way or another. This event is a whole science if you think of it connecting all people, instead of looking at it as just a game and TV show.

Read the July issue of Libertas at http://libertas.cre-act-ive.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

for the international Training Course

“Young people in divided communities!” – Exploring issues and strategies for

young people and youth organisations working in divided communities

- Struga, Macedonia: 7th to 14th of September 2010 -

Nowadays there are a big number of societies around Europe that are strongly divided/segregated on the basis of people’s different backgrounds. Youth organizations and youth workers from such countries meet great challenges in addressing the issues arising from these conditions, and in establishing relations and trust between young people. This project will gather together youth and social workers who face these issues in their countries or who are interested in developing knowledge about this subject. The learning process is intended to develop both skills and knowledge for developmental work in this field.

Eligible countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and United Kingdom.

To read more about the project please click here

To download the application form please click here

Complete application form send to contact@cre-act-ive.org Application deadline 10th of July 2010. Please note that only selected participants will be contacted.

On 28th of May creACTive in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Shtiftung Organized a panel discussion on the “LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORKING TOGETHER” in the EU INFO Center in Skopje.

The minister for local affairs Mr. Musa Dzhaferi, The special Representative of EU H.E. Ervan Fouere, the director of Konrad Adenauer Shtiftung Mr. Henri Bohnet and the representative of creACTive Mr. Dragan Atanasov and Stevica Levajkovki gave speeches and addressed the participants.

Enjoy the short presentation of creACTive at a National TV station A1.

A1 KREAKTIV 26 04 2010 from creactive on Vimeo.

Eight members of creACTive with Viktor Atanasov and Scottie Pinkster went to Slovenia for a youth exchange. The youth exchange was called “Always connected together yesterday and tomorrow”. It brought youth together from Slovenia and Macedonia to write and act out a play about former Yugoslavia. The first few days we adjusted to the new place, culture, food and people. There were team building games and events that bought us closer. It was really cool to see the youth become good friends. They began writing about different stories they’ve heard about former Yugoslavia, from that they wrote the scenes from the play. Practice, practice, practice; they practiced until they could do it in their sleep. The show went without a hitch. Overall the youth from creACTive had a great time, made new friends and experienced a new country and atmosphere.

creACTive presented @ ALSAT-M from creactive on Vimeo.