Event topic: Ecology, Art
Application deadline: 01/05/2009
Starting date: 01/06/2009
Ending date: 14/06/2009
Location/ City: Voronezh
Participation fee: 30 euro
Number of participants: 10
Description
This Project will take place in the one of the remotest areas of the city, Mashmet. It has a reputation for being a neglected and desolate place which lacks bright colours and vibrant life. Despite these drawbacks there is a huge and green park that is said to have been a popular center of family recreation area in the Soviet period. It attracted locals of all ages and interests where everybody could find smth to suit their tastes. But with time the place slowly lost its charm and became abandoned and unpopular. Recently it has received no attention from local community and municipal authority. The aim of this project is to give a new breath of life to this green oasis and help locals to see its from a different prospect.
Activities:
-eco and art workshops -cleaning the park area and placing new litter-bins on the children's playground
-creating fun and unusual «no-litter» signs -making a new bus-shelter nearby the park
-painting graffiti on facades of buildings and on roadside barriers.
Paint is providing! Come and build your oasis!
Participants will have 3-4 hours open air cleaning-painting activities per day. For weekends and free time the cultural programm will be partly provided.
Accomodation: in an apartment, food prepared by volunteers in a kitchen, products are provided.
Things to bring: a sleeping bag, warm clothes (a sweater and a rain-coat), worn-out clothes and strong shoes. Your games, songbooks, CDs, musical instruments and recipes will be also welcome.!
address which applicants should use:
c/o: Passage-Zebra
Street: ul. Elektrosignalnaya 1a
ZIP code: 394026
City: Voronezh
Phone: +7(4732)575505
Fax:+7(4732)392799
E-mail: bongostom@yandex.ru, lena808@ya.ru
WWW address: aegee-voronezh.ru
