Head sõbrad! 

13.–14. oktoobril 2011 Tallinnas toimub 1. rahvusvaheline soome-ugri 
kuvandikonverents. Konverentsil analüüsitakse soome-ugri kuvandi 
hetkeseisu, selle tähtsust ja tähendust soome-ugri liikumisele ning 
pakutakse välja võimalikke tegevusi soome-ugri kuvandi tugevdamiseks 
nii globaalselt kui ka hõimurahvaste seas. 

Konverentsi töökeeled on inglise ja vene keel, tagatud on 
sünkroontõlge töökeelte vahel. 

Osalemine on tasuta. 

Short-term EVS project "Faces without Masks 2011"

Estonian UNESCO Youth Association is looking for 2 unemployed participants from Estonia for a training course entitled "(Ex)Change your Masks". The training will gather unemployed young people and youth workers from 8 European countries where the rate of unemployment amongst youth is extremely high.

Short-term EVS project in Macedonia

Location of EVS: Macedonia, Skopje
Host organisation: Volunteers Centre Skopje (www.vcs.org.mk)
Sending/Coordinating organisation: Estonian UNESCO Youth Association (www.euya.ee)
Duration of EVS: since the 1st of April till the 31st of May 2011 (for
two months)

Summary of the project:

In July 2010, Estonian UNESCO Youth Association carried out the study visit "Fenno-Ugria Tribes: Unity of Russia and EU" (FUTUREU).

Being supported by Estonian Agency for Youth in Action programme (ENEB), the project took place in South Karelia village Korobitsyno, Russia.

In spring 2010, long-term unemployed youngsters became short-term EVS volunteers.

Together with participants from France and Portugal, four Estonian youngsters were hosted in Macedonia, Skopje within EVS project related to international alternative theatre festival "Faces without Masks". The name of the festival gave a title to EVS project itself.

The project was an attempt to investigate the problem of perceptive reconfiguration by the group of young artists, designers, performatists and psychologists, working with art-therapy groups and physically disabled people. The main focus was on the mechanisms of culture which consider each perceptive act as reconfiguration of both mind and physical traits of the body. As the art is one of the most powerful instruments of the kind, it was taken as cognitive experiment which can help to inspire the learning process from the deviant (physically disabled people).