Tag: Children

  • Kolibrí festivali spring 2016

    Kolibrí festivali spring 2016

    Kolibrí festivaali is much more than a children’s festival! It is a multidisciplinary artistic platform that focuses on the promotion of multiculturalism through art expressions. We embrace artistic expressions from various fields such as circus, music, painting and photography in our activities. We aim to work in an integral manner with people from all ages and backgrounds while focusing on sharing our culture with the Finnish society. Kolibrí festivaali recognizes and cherishes cultural differences, for they enrich our vision of the world.

    The core team of Kolibrí festivaali is a group of foreign nationals that have adopted Helsinki as their home and offers activities free of charge for children and their families. We work hard to make of this space a stage that enhances the visibility of immigrant artists, creative and talented people with artistic proposals. While our focus is in sharing our culture from the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, the activities are offered to all children interested to join, regardless on their mother tongue. For the purpose, we offer workshopsand activities in various languages simultaneously, but what is more, we aim to share art that does not have any language barrier. The invited artists are resourceful and diverse and will use the support of new and old technology in order to engage the senses of children, their parents, grandparents, and whomever joins us.

    The raised money will be used to pay artists that would perform in the festival and to pay for the production expenses. Your contribution means the world to us. Big thanks!

    Castellano

    Kolibrí es más que él festival infantil iberoamericano en Helsinki, es una plataforma educativa y artística que promociona el multiculturalismo en Finlandia. El festival Kolibrí trabaja de manera integral con todas las familias e integrantes, independientemente de su edad e identidad. Lo hacemos a través de diferentes expresiones danza, música, circo, literatura, fotografía, arquitectura, entre otros. Kolibrí festivaali reconoce y aprecia las diferencias, éstas enriquecen nuestra visión del mundo.

    El equipo clave de Kolibrí festivaali está compuesto por inmigrantes residentes en Helsinki y programa actividades de acceso gratuito para los niños y sus familias. Nos proponemos compartir arte y tiempo de calidad en familia sin barreras en la lengua. Así nos esforzamos por visibilizar aquellos inmigrantes los artistas, creativos, investigadores y talentos que desarrollan propuestas educativas y artísticas vinculadas con la infancia en Finlandia.

    Nuestro enfoque está en la promoción de cultura de los países hispano y portugués hablantes. Sin embargo, son muy bienvenidos todos los interesados en participar sin importar cuál sea su lengua materna. Para lograrlo, nuestros talleres y actividades se ofrecen en varias lenguas de manera simultánea. Los ingeniosos artistas hacen uso de viejas y nuevas tecnologías para activar los sentidos y saberes en niños, sus padres, sus abuelos, o quien sea que los acompañe. Kolibrí es una propuesta artística educativa que privilegia la interrelación entre los miembros de esta diversa comunidad que es Helsinki, desde la perspectiva de los niños y sus familias.

    El dinero recaudado será utilizado para pagar salario de artistas y gastos de producción Kolibrí. Tu contribución hace toda la diferencia. Muchas gracias!

  • Moving Mountain School Bag

    Moving Mountain School Bag

    Moving Mountain School Bag is an initiative of Rewati Gurung – a local student of development studies and her project aims to provide school children from the age of 4 to 12 with a basic school bag, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, notebooks – called ‘copy’ in Nepal – a whistle for emergencies and a pair of sandals as children often come to school with nothing on their feet.
    While the rest of Nepal and her International support partners and aid workers are concentrating on Food Relief, Shelter, Health and Safety, we felt that the parents of children who had lost everything would find it hard to justify the purchasing of school materials before their basic needs of food and shelter had been met.
    We strongly believe that education is the building blocks of the future of Nepal, and that by providing school bags immediately after this catastrophe school children are reminded that their education is the best way to move mountains. Please visit our website at www.movingmountainschoolbag.org and see what we have achieved so far.
    When you buy bags here, Moving Mountain School Bag rewards you by including your name on the Supporters page of our website. Rewati Gurung arranges the delivery of the donations and personally visits each school. These are situated in remote areas that are very difficult to get to and her team often have to walk the last few hours with porters to reach the villages.
    Through this crowd funding platform Moving Mountain School Bag hopes to raise enough donations to provide thousands of these children with the basic tools for learning. We need your help to achieve our goal. Every Bag Helps!