creative cooperations

ARSIS ATHENS (GREECE)

Arsis, the Association for the Social Support of Youth, was founded in 1992. It concentrates on work with unemployed youngsters and with homeless young people of 15 and upwards who have been in trouble with the law. Arsis maintains permanent centres is Athens, Volos and Thessaloniki, and others are under development. Arsis works with short-term projects and campaigns as well as longer-term skills-development programmes. Artistic training is only one field. Young people can also train as motor mechanics or undergo commercial training with Arsis. Arsis considers itself a social and study project which helps to shed light on and draw public attention to the social situation of disadvantaged young people.

Derigny 26
10434 Athens

tel +30 210 8259880
fax +30 210 8259880

rfoka@arsis.gr
www.arsis.gr

ARCI VASTO (ITALY)

The Arci New Association is a large organization with more than 20,000 members in the Abruzzi region and over 100 clubs and meeting points throughout the region. Arci has organized numerous cultural initiatives and campaigns, festivals and competitions. It focuses on music, film and the fine arts. Arci provides support in particular for young artists who have yet to become established and lack funds of their own. Over and above this Arci has been and still is involved in numerous social and grassroots initiatives seeking to integrate minorities, support refugees, combat poverty and win respect for human and civil rights.

Via Almone 33
66054 Vasto

tel +39 0873 372028
fax +39 0873 378 493

arcivast@tin.it

BABILONAS VILNIUS (LITHUANIA)

Youth Center “Babilonas” is a non-profit non-governmental organization established in 1993. Since then it has been one of the most popular places for non-formal education of young people from all over Lithuania. All activities are based on communication and active participation, self-expression and own initiative: youngsters may experiment and realize their ideas using different forms of arts and their own creativity.
Young people come to “Babilonas” to spend their free time, to take part in “Week on arts” and other activities. “Week on arts” is a daily programme of non-formal education for high school students (15-18 y.o.). The whole class comes to Babilonas for one week (they are allowed not to attend school that week) to have workshops on theatre, dance, music, painting, etc. with professional artists and present outcomes of their work every Friday to their friends, parents, schoolmates and local community.
“Babilonas” has a very active Volunteers club, responsible for all the events here and organizing projects themselves.
Young people can also participate in different intercultural projects and activities, EVS and EuroMed programme.

Šeškines g.8
07156 Vilnius

tel +370 5 2169666
fax +370 5 2169666

babilonas@delfi.lt
www.babilonas.ws

CASA CHAO DO PRAO (SPAIN)

STILL IN THE PROGRESS OF ESTABLISHING

32329 Villar de Silva

tel +34 988 324220
fax +34 988 324220

chaodoprao@wanadoo.es

CCO VILEURBANNE (FRANCE)

The actions of the CCO revolve around community life and the promotion of cultural diversity for developing an intercultural dialogue. CCO is a place of art: concerts, theatre, dance; many cultural and artistic events take place at the CCO every year by many organizations. The CCO also holds its own events along the year, with the opportunity for many associations to get together around a common artistic project. The CCO holds also a Theatre Festival, an “African week”, a monthly gathering where anyone can come and share ideas, a drink, a soup and discover art in an informal way…the list is quite long! At the CCO, artistic and intercultural projects are a source of participative dynamics and creativity. CCO is a place of awareness: Artists, associations, groups >from different backgrounds as well as individuals and groups get help, finding their own place within the society through action and commitment, in the defence of human rights, integration and solidarity. The CCO triggers a dynamic of expressions, encounters and intercultural exchanges. Every year, almost 300 associations and groups working in the field of integration, social and non-formal education, culture… occupy their collective space. The CCO organises International exchanges (with Algeria, Germany, Israel, Turkey...), for a better understanding of our common society

39 rue Georges Courteline

69 100 Villeurbanne
tel +33 4 374 888 11
fax +33 4 789 349 11

direction@cco-villeurbanne.org
www.cco-villeurbanne.org

COMMUNITY MUSIC WALES CARDIFF (WALES)

Community Music Wales (CMW) is an umbrella organization of numerous different music groups and projects in southeast Wales. These projects make it an established part of the local arts scene in Cardiff and other places in Wales. CMW assists groups and projects particularly in obtaining funds, training and coordinating their activities. CMW provides particular support for music projects with disadvantaged and endangered young people. CMW, like Arsis, is involved in wider national reporting initiatives on the social and cultural situation of young people and seeks to draw public attention to youth issues through events, campaigns and publications.

Unit 8, 24 Nourbury Rd
Fairwater
CF5 3AU Cardiff
Wales

tel +44 2920 838060
fax +44 2920 652042

management@communitymusicwales.org.uk
www.communitymusicwales.org.uk

FILOXENIA KRYONERI (GREECE)

The youth support organisation Filoxenia, was founded in 1995 in the mountainous village of Kryoneri in the county of Corinthia (NorthEast Peloponese – 120 km West from Athens).
It aims to help the development of the rural areas of Korinthia through the realization of its own educational, youth and agrotouristic projects, in cooperation with the local authorities and alternative tourism bodies.
Activities: * Youth information and counseling * Youth free-time and creative activities * Environmental education * Promotion of alternative forms of tourism * Cooperation with schools on educational projects * Multimedia projects. * European Youth Exchanges * EVS Hosting and Sending office (long and short-term) * Organisation of training seminars * Sending and hosting organisation for the EU program Leonardo Da Vinci. Filoxenia is member of the Youth County Council of Korinthia and of the Youth Centers Network of Corinthia.

Nemea str.
20200 Kryoneri

tel +30 2742 051 084
fax +30 2742 051 085

filoxenia@filox.org
www.filox.org

FALKENHEIM GALLUS FRANKFURT MAIN (GERMANY)

Herxheimer Str 4
60326 Frankfurt/Main

tel +49 69 7380 913
fax +49 69 7391 076

KIDS IN ACTION THESSALONIKI (GREECE)

“Kids in Action” is a non-profit, non governmental youth organisation that was established in October 2003 by experienced youth workers that have been administrating international youth projects and as well have been working as animators in youth camps for four years. The organisation is mainly activated in: 1. animation and entertainment for kids (with or without disabilities), 2. European youth mobility programs (action 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the “Youth Program”)
“Kids in Action” offers space for expression for young Greeks living in Thessaloniki and the members and mainly young artists like animators, musicians, story tellers, stilt walkers, visual artist.

Lagada 12
54630 Thessaloniki

tel +30 2310 552 655
fax +30 2310 552 655

info@kidsinaction.de
www.kidsinaction.gr

KIEBITZ DUISBURG (GERMANY)

Founded in 1985, the Kiebitz International Youth and Culture Centre in Duisburg considers itself a meeting place for young people who are interested in working creatively with art and other cultures. Kiebitz works with young people from different cultural backgrounds, staging events courses, workshops and project weeks run by professional artists in the fields of fine art, photography, literature, painting, dance, video and theatre. IBIBIK, a local Turkish-German youth magazine, has been appearing since 1990. Kiebitz is among the winners of the North Rhine-Westphalia youth culture prize, has made the third place of Robert Jungk Preis 2003, is involved in international youth theatre exchanges.

Marianenstr 16a
47169 Duisburg

tel +49 203 405 185
fax +49 203 4061 690

info@kiebitz.net

LÄTTINGS KULTUR GÄVLE (SWEDEN)

Kulturföreningen Lättings is an NGO. It is a non-profit, religiously and politicaly independent association with the main aim to broaden cultural supplies in society, through activities for the public good. Kulturföreningen Lätting is working with culture activities as tools in action for increased active citizenship and equal opportunities, against discrimination. The organisation is active both on regional, national and international levels through projects, other activities and networks. Beside the legal status as an NGO, the organisation also is a training organisation, focusing on intercultural learning.

Hamiltongatan 6
80266 Gävle

tel +46 26 189383
fax +46 26 181555

kultur@latting.se

SCHLESISCHE 27 BERLIN (GERMANY)

The Youth Art and Culture Centre Schlesische 27 offers community oriented Art Projects especially for children and young people (age 6 to 27), who are facing social disadvantage and segregation. In cooperation with professional artists they discover their strength and build up their self-esteem. Community art functions as a catalyst in the fields of: Curiosity, self-discovery, empowerment, intercultural learning, participation, tolerance and filoxenia, qualification, social and civil engagement. Schlesische 27 has three main foci: 1.Specific art projects with young people 2. International dimension – intercultural dialogue in European communities 3. Partnership between public and private sector – corporate citizenship .

Schlesische Str 27
10997 Berlin

tel +49 30 617 767 37
fax +49 30 618 80 48

info@schlesische27.de
www.schlesische27.de

TEATR KANA SZCZECIN (POLAND)

Theatre Kana is a non governmental organisation engaged in non commercial, non profit activities, realising artistic and cultural projects for the city and the habitants of the region as well as in the international exchange based on the cooperation with similar partners in Poland and abroad pl. Piotra i Pawla 4/5
70521 Szczecin

tel +48 91 4330 386
fax +48 91 4330 386

www.kana.art.pl