Exhibition

So… The project is coming to the end but we’ll keep up with capturing our thoughts anyway!

The time has come to let others to see the results of our intensive work – each partnering country (Slovenia, Poland, Greece, Italy). Take a look at the exhibitions’ calendar:

15^th November – the opening night at the University in Koper, Slovenia

21^st November – one of Cafés in Thessaloniki, Greece

26^th November - 08^th December – Café Fraza ul. Mokotowska 16/20 Warsaw, Poland

09^th-21^st December - Auditorium Maximum (main University Campus) Warsaw, Poland

Near future… Milan, Italy

We’ll sum up the results of the project in Café Fraza (Warsaw) on 29^th November 2010 at 6 p.m. You’re welcome to share this moment with us. It’s the opportunity to see Ania’s documentary on the big screen and talk about the project. Make sure you don’t miss this event.

See the movies!

There are two great movies made out of our youth exchange. One is made by Piotrek, other by our camerawoman Ania.

Feel free to see the movies showing our youth exchange!
See Ania's movie on http://www.vimeo.com/15500488 and Piotrek's on http://www.vimeo.com/15109897

You should have been there with us!

Feel the atmosphere of our final exhibition by taking a look at photos taken during it.

By Franco



By Piotrek

By Ileana



By Piotrek

By Ileana

Final exhibition

Our final exhibition presenting photos taken by young participants of Capture your thoughts took place in Rydzewo, next to Jagodne Wielkie, on September 15th. Local community was invited to see it and some of locals used their opportunity and joined us for exhibition evening.
The main subjects of photos were multiculturalism, contemporary values and problems. The photos were taken, both, in digital and traditional way. Feel free to take a look at some of them.

By Mateja, “Way to the goal”

By Leja, "Capture your thoughts”

By Kynthia, “Ride in the Nature”

By Krzys, “Looking into the future”

By Ileana, “You can’t buy happiness”

By Franco, "Education"

By Enrico, “The passage”

By David, “You can’t buy happiness”

By Chiara, “Matriosca”

By Ania, “Nature – I don’t care”

By Aliona, “Dialogue”

By Piotrek, “Diversity – unity”

WELCOME to CAPTURE YOUR THOUGHTS

It’s time to sum up what we did during those 10 intensive days. Tired but happy we returned home, trying to get used to daily routines again.

Are you curious to know how we captured our thoughts?
Check what did we do during the exchange!

Day 1.

Our journey to Jagodne Wielkie was an ordinary bus ride. 20 participants captured in one place for more than 5 hours! Time to start INTEGRATION! Just 45 minutes before final destination prolonged with an unpredictable stop in the middle of nowhere… What a luck :P. Finally thanks to our bus driver we arrived at Old Village School in Jagodne Wielkie – our home for next 9 days. Organizers and delicious dinner already waiting for us!

By Tomek

Day 4.

Ecology was a theme of the day. Starting with a movie on this issue we prepared ourselves for the excursion to Kadzidlowo. Folklore museum and Wild Animal’s Park of Kadzidlowo were waiting for us! Goofy warm-up at the parking and off we go to explore the places. Old village house and school in one building…this is how it used to be in 19th – till beginning of 20th century in this region. Handmade stuff and household equipment. After lunch – entering wild animals’ hospital and endangered species’ reproducing center. COOL!

By Kynthia

Day 7.

Time for a bike-ride and do some out-door sports. Biking through the fields and forest…down and up the hills…passing villages and houses, old cemetery and cows…everything in one loop. After that joggling workshop and sport games. All of us needed some fresh air! In the afternoon time to explore the dark room and develop our black and white photos. We already know how the chemicals work. Now it’s time to use enlargers and finish what we’ve started by shooting with our analogue cameras!

By Ileana

Day 8.

Coming to Mazurian Lakes cannot pass without visiting the biggest lake and Mikolajki! Weather was perfect our moods as well. Ready for a new adventure! Making some confusion in the main square of Mikolajki was just a beginning of a perfect day. Just few minutes after noon THE CRUISE has started. Just watch Piotrek’s video... no comments are needed :D
In the afternoon we moved to the dark-room again to finish our work and started preparing the display. Black&white and color, names, titles and descriptions…Getting ready for tomorrow’s exhibition.

By Ileana

Day 9.

So so…our adventure is nearly coming to the end. Today - the Big Day! Time to show the results of our work. Exhibition opening at 17:00 in “Swietlica” of Rydzewo – village near Jagodne Wielkie. But before time to set the boards for display and sum up the project. Group of participants decided to promote our exhibition with posters and face to face invitations for inhabitants of Jagodne Wielkie and Rydzewo. Some of them really came to see what’s going on in “Świetlica”. During the opening night there were some prizes…for the nicest person, the most talented, most annoying, most bossy person etc. … guess who won each of them?
After that…time to go back to Jagodne Wielkie and do the luggage…AND THEN farewell party with delicious dinner, viewing photos and a movie from the cruise.
In the middle of the night…the time has come to say GOOD BYE to Jagodne Wielkie. And here we start our journey back home…

By Tomek

Exchange logo

There were many people involved in creating Capture your Thoughts logo. There were many great ideas coming out of youngers' minds. Finally the logo looks this way....

by Piotrek Chuchla

And we put it on the t-shirts!

by Piotrek Chuchla

First movie

Piotrek Chuchla made a very nice movie during our youth exchnage. Feel free to take a look at it! Enjoy!

Watch it on: http://vimeo.com/15109897


Author: Piotrek Chuchla
Music: Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
Place: Mikolajki


Soon the second movie will be online! Ania is working hard on it!

The end?

I am really tired after nice and creative 10 days spent in Jagodne Wielkie.... Tried but happy.
We all did good job and took great photos. Some of them you can see below.


By Tomek



By Franco



By ???

Coming soon...

In few time our big photo adventure will begin. Are you ready for it?
We are just waiting for the last information about flights that you will take and we will be ready to book a bus that will take us from Warsaw to Jagodne. When we reach Jagodne, there will be good dinner waiting for us!

Logo

We have logo of our youth exchange.

It will be printed on nice green t-shirts that each of us will get!

Time to eat...

Oi!

We already know the menu for our briliant youth exchange...

Chicken drumsticks, spinach rice, lemon and rosmary chicken legs, pasta arrabiata and much more...

It sounds good to me :) Big "wow" for new menu !

Fundacja dla Wolnosci

Ready to get to know something about the organization hosting Capture your thoughts ?

The Foundation was created at the end of 2004. Its Foundators are: Antek Adamowicz, Dora Montagna and Krzyś Jarymowicz. What brought us together was the issue of the quality of social life and in particular, anxiety triggered by the repeated manifestations of violations of the Polish Constitution, involving discrimination against ethnic, national, religious or sexual minorities.

The Foundation is a place for discussion. We try to break stereotypes, put into question the commonly held perception, increase sensitivity to human suffering. We also promote knowledge of individual and collective rights, in particular the right for freedom of expression, access to information and education. Our aim is also to present the diversity of cultures and beliefs.

For more information about Fundacja dla Wolnosci, its activities visit http://www.fundacjadlawolnosci.org/

APV

The group leaders have already met! They came to Poland, to Jagodne Wielkie for APV that was a weekend visit to Jagodne Wielkie. Its aim was to prepare our exchange, work on the timetable and activities that will be implemented. The leaders worked hard but it was fun anyway! Now, we are even more than sure that our exchange will be great and that you will love it!

They will cook for us! Yey!

The TOP CLASS chefs will run the kitchen…capable of cooking anything anywhere!

Ryan and Giovann will cook for us... Can't wait to try your perfect dishes!

Where will we stay....

Jagodne Wielkie is a small village situated by the lake Jagodne in the Land of Great Masurian Lakes. Surrounded by lakes, fields and forests will be a perfect place for capturing thoughts. We’ll be hosted in the Old Village School changed into homelike guesthouse – run by Ania and Wojtek Kleinrok.























Comfy and cosy…






























Perfect backyard for all activities…












Some school remains…










Safe… Marta made sure of that ;)

What Capture your thoughts is......

Capture your thoughts is an youth exchange that will take place in Poland, Jagodne Wielkie. The event will be in September 2010. Four groups of youth will work on expressing their thoughts using photography. There will be some non-formal classes on basis of photography, not only the digital one. We will get to know how to develop the photos, yey!



„Ten projekt jest realizowany przy wsparciu finansowym Komisji Europejskiej. Ta publikacja [ten materiał] odzwierciedla jedynie stanowisko jej [jego] autora, a Komisja nie ponosi odpowiedzialności za sposób wykorzystania zawartych w niej [w nim] informacji.”

Timetable....

The question that you probably keep in your mind is what will we do during the exchange in September. And the answer can be found below... It is only a first draft of this timetable. If you have any proposals, changes that you would like to make or any other ideas about what can we do there, let us know. The best way to do it, is to comment it on this blog or talk about it with you group leader that will come to APV to Poland in middle of June.

The first video of our exchange!

Check it out! Here you can find a promotional video of our exchange! It was made by Magda, a girl from Polish staff taking care of the exchange. Enjoy it!