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<nettime-ann> SUNCHILD- Environmental festival in Armenia |
. HEY!!!! ARTISTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS, please LET US KNOW that you are READY to come and SHARE your ENERGY, KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE with us!!! WE, participants of the festival want VOICES be HEARD and want to make CHANGE with YOU. Currently we are looking for candidates to be speakers, trainers, experts in any part of our workshop program. Besides, we also are looking for those people and NGOs, who made in past advocacy campaigns on environmental topics and have cases and materials which is interesting to show during the workshop. Please, let us know, if you personally, or anyone you may suggest, could be interested to be involved in workshops program of our festival. Please, forward this mail to those who may be interested. The participants of the festival are from Iran, Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. The costs for travel and accommodation will be covered. Contact us soon!!! The SUN CHILD first regional environmental festival are happy to invite you to the cooperation within the framework of Festival Workshop Program, which will be held from 6-11 October 2007 in Armenia. The first SunChild environmental Film festival is going to be a meeting place for environmental key-players, organizations and individuals, film makers, and possibly, artists. It could also become a platform for forming of ?environmental thoughts? through open disputes, discussions, conferences, workshops and training. We plan to conduct the Workshop Program in the following format: ? Workshop on Advocacy Coalition building Networking on particularly environmental issues (duration 1 day) with presentation of practical tools, success stories, preparing action plans for future activities in the region; panel discussions and invited speakers, ? ?Exhibition of advocacy tools? for public participation in environmental decision-making in several rooms to show the advocacy campaigns, and successful tools, stories etc. ? ?Deconstructing the concrete? artists, film-makers, writers, architects and public activists are coming together to learn how we can change the environment: European experience, contemporary approaches to public issues. ? ?Eco- tourism exhibition?, the aim of which is the promotion of local communities projects on Ecotourism, presentation of tour- agencies? products, presentation of international projects on eco tourism implemented in the region, publication of booklets with based on this exhibition. We hope this will encourage public participation in environmental decision-making and assist in the solution of the most acute environmental problems in the region and this would be possible to achieve first of all by establishing required contacts, maintaining information databases, dissemination of information to all concerned and other communication efforts. Thus, we, the organizing team of the workshop part of the Festival are happy to invite you and your organization to the cooperation in any of above mentioned components of the workshop. Our team appreciate any support from your side to make our hopes become real and value your participation in the Festival Workshop Program. Please, let us know if there would be any comments, questions, ideas you would like to discuss and the topics you would like to address regarding your participation. We plan to receive initial responses on participation till April 15, 2007. Thank you for your consideration, Karen Hakobian, Mariam Elmasyan, Lala Aslikyan Workshop Coordinating Team SUN CHILD Regional Environmental Festival Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets of Armenia #5 Byron St., 375 009, Yerevan, ARMENIA Tel: + 374 10 52 93 40 Tel/Fax: +374 10 56 44 84 email: workshop@fpwc.org; www.fpwc.org _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann