Equallizer - Youth Exchange info pack

equALLizer Youth Exchange - on electronic music Tbilisi, Georgia 19-26 June, 2016

Table of Content 1. What is the project about?

2. Street Music Day 3. Partner organizations 4. Venue 5. Travelling to here: 8. What to bring with?

9. Note that...

10. Application form and contacts

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What is the project about?

Nowadays myriad individuals suffer from social, religious and cultural collisions, exclusion and gender inequality. These problems exhibit issues themselves in several other chained problems like lack of values, e ant to discrimination, school drop­outs, unhealthy lifestyle, radicalism. There is a need among the young generation to initiate active dialogue, self­ address expression in the society, to motivate and encourage for shaping a voice for be included.

Electronic music is found as a big part of the interest of the youth today. `Underground lifestyle` is increasing day­by­day in the communities nowadays. There are many creative musicians, producers and DJ­s across the continent, but there is no sense of networking or group work.

Moreover, electronic music today is mostly based on commercialism and self­expression often is limited by the record labels and club policies. There is a causative feedback between these facts and lack of massages and values in the modern electronic music. There is a crucial need to form a change­making attitude and shape the sound for modern values. We believe that this is one of the keys to start the dialogue between the young individuals. Electronic music is a speaker which can deliver the messages about the problems of the youth. What is also needed is the stage and atmosphere where young professionals and semi­professionals in electronic music can perform, express themselves without any limitation, share their experience and build up a network.z

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equALLizer is an 8 days Youth Exchange conducted close to Tbilisi the capital of Georgia from 19 of June 2016 till 26 of June 2016. The project aims to foster mutual understanding, raise the awareness of cultural diversity between young people from different countries through art and culture and achieve cultural dialogue between them through turning them in a process of planning, preparing and conducting the music festival.

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Objectives

The project will be implemented in line with “Street Music Day” in Tbilisi (25.06.2016) – a festival which give chance to young professional and semi­professional musicians to perform in the streets of the town and express themselves.

Main Objectives of the project are: • To develop professional skills of young musicians involved in project through giving them possibility to perform in front of the wide audience and take part in organizing the festival; • To create an atmosphere for young people to express themselves unlimitedly to share and build up a network; • To organize an intercultural exchange between young people from different cultural backgrounds; • To promote tools of non­formal education as a way of individual development; • To promote the electronic music as a tool to deliver the messages of the youth; • To foster equality and tolerance among young people; • To inform and promote Erasmus+ as a tool to educate and enhance the youth work and international and intercultural dimension.

The youth exchange will bring 24 young people and 8 group leaders with the professional or semi­professional background in the electronic Who are music from the organizations in 6 countries to shape them into young e looking change­makers through music and more specifically electronic music. for Our targeted participants for the youth exchange are young musicians, DJ­s, sound engineers, producers, professional and semi­professional artists who would like to perform their art pieces during the festival in Tbilisi.

We will pick the participants according to the following criteria: ­the background; ­the needs and interests accordingly to the project; ­the will and ideas to develop their own local or international projects and build network. We would like to create a platform, where participants can express their ideas and work on the future outcomes of their preconceptions. ­We also ensure that participants are willing to take active part of the programme and support the idea of creating a network for individuals as messengers and ambassadors of youth. ­As the whole project will be carried out in English we require intermediate skills in that language.

The whole project is based on the principles of non­formal learning. It will last for 8 days and from the very beginning we will focus a lot on the group dynamic, through implementing team­building activities, ice­breakers, Methodolog energizers, meetings/evaluations, group work/rehearsals, sharing best practices from different cultures/sub cultures, presentations, group discussions, excursion, intercultural evenings and other tools, which will foster participants cultural learning and mutual understanding.

The participants will have a chance to challenge one another, learn together, resolve conflicts and challenge prejudices. Besides the day time activities, they will have free time to interact and learn about working and living together. As a matter of fact, it is worth to mention that the youth exchange will take place alongside the cultural festival of Street Music Day, the participants will have the opportunity to express their art, creativity and self on the wider public to develop their self­ recognition, self­confidence and personality.

The types of methods are taken from non­formal education and we intend to make it as diverse as possible, for the APV we will have a group sessions and presentations to plan the process and for the flow of the youth exchange we will be utilizing the following methods: • Getting to know to each other/team building; • Making short presentation/performance of the music that participants are playing in their countries; • Cultural exchange­ getting to know to each other’s cultures; • Exploring Georgian country and culture, visit in the radio; • Preparation of the performance for the festival day; (in national groups) • Preparation of one common musical piece/ performance for the day of festival (whole group) • Meetings and study visit to organizers of the Street Music Day festival; • Workshop/sessions about usage of digital technologies as a tool of promotion; • Presentation of Erasmus + program; • Working on new ideas and possible cooperation in future; • Promotional street action day before the festival; • Participation/Performance on Street Music Day festival; • Project evaluation

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Street Music Day

Since year 2012 in every Spring or Summer, Youth Association DRONI is organizing a music festival “Street Music Day”, which is giving chance to young musicians, individuals and bands to play their music in public in front of the wider audience. The idea came from Lithuania, where people celebrate this day for a long time.

From the very first time festival had a big resonance from side of society, that’s why it became annual and bigger with each year. During last four years on the day of festival Youth Association DRONI is hosting a youth exchange which is bringing young musicians from different countries and gives them space to perform together. All of the Youth Exchanges have been very successful, promoting the cultural diversity of the festival, offering the public different kinds of folk and any other genres of music from numerous countries and cultures, attracting big attention from the audience. It’s been two years since one of stages is dedicated to the electronic music and it found quite a success in the audience.

This year the Street Music Day will host “equALLizer” ­ electronic music youth exchange. The organizers of the festival will provide one stage on which the participants will perform. The stage will be chosen according to the needs of the participants.

Here's the web­page of the festival: http://streetmusic.ge/ And the facebook page of it: https://www.facebook.com/QuchisMusikisDge/ Here's the facebook page of the organization: https://www.facebook.com/droniorg

Partner Organizations 1. TidsNätverket i Bergsjön 2 group leaders + 4 participants Contact: maria.evs@tnb.nu

2. Youth Club Active 1 group leader + 4 participants; Contacts: youthclubactive@gmail.com

3. Elektrenu kulturos centras 1 group leader + 4 participants; Contacts: giedre_uzk@karjera.info

4. Asociatia pentru Dezvoltare Creativa ​

1 group leader + 4 participants; Contacts: adc@usalumni.md

5. Ireli PU 1 group leader + 4 participants; Contacts: mirhasan.seyidov@ireli.az

6. Youth Association DRONI 2 Group leaders + 4 Participants; Contacts: nika.bakhsoliani@gmail.com

Venue Hotel: The youth exchange will be hosted in Misaktsieli, very close to Tbilisi – the capital and even closer to Mtskheta – the old capital. A facility provides good standards for accommodation and training spaces for an international educational activity. The food is provided by the hotel three times per day. Misaktsieli is just about 25 km from the capital Tbilisi. Hence, the participants will arrive to Tbilisi and they will be picked up by the organizers either from the center of the city or directly from the airport and transported to the venue. The towels and bed linen are provided by the hotel.

You can view the information of the hotel here: www.kapiloni.ge Here’s the google map link for Misaktsieli: https://goo.gl/maps/6mz2EA7UsSK2

Weather: The weather in Misaktsieli in June is relatively warm and sunny, around 20­28 Degrees Celsius, but we urge you to check the weather forecast before departure. There’s a swimming pool in the hotel, you may enjoy it during the breaks, so make sure you bring appropriate clothing for it.

Visa: The visa is not needed for the participants unless you are not the resident of the sending organizations' countries, in this case, please do contact the coordinator. In case if you need visa, you can apply on the following webpage: www.evisa.gov.ge for electronic visa. However, visa costs will not be reimbursed.

Please, don't forget to bring your passport with.

Insurance: Remember health insurance is your responsibility so make sure you have medical insurance. Also you are required to have travel insurance. Please note that each participant is required to have travel insurance and health insurance and it is not reimbursable as it is your choice with which company and plan suits you.

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Language: People speak Georgian here, a language which is related to nothing and no matter what you will not understand anything. However, some people speak other languages too, younger generation is more likely to speak English and the older ­ Russian.

We use our own alphabet here, which is very different from anything. But most of the signs are also in English. However, you can view the alphabet here to be safe and sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_scripts

Currency: The currency in Georgia is LARI (GEL), 1 EUR equals around 2.5 GEL; You can exchange your money in the exchange points in the city center or airports and in Banks.

We recommend you to exchange your money in the city center currency exchange points, most of them don’t have commission, Euros and US Dollars are mainly easily exchangeable. Please, double check, double count the money after you exchange on spot. Most of the supermarkets accept the plastic cards, but not all of them, so be aware of it.

Emergency: The emergency number is here ¬ 112.

Electricity: The power socket / plug ins in Georgia is regular European one.

Medication: If you take any medication please remember to bring it with you, we have pharmacies here but if you need prescription medication you cannot buy them over the counter without a prescription. Also please inform us of any medical conditions we need to be aware of in the registration application. If participants have any allergies especially to food this needs to be expressed in the application form above, because changes to the menu will not be possible once the project starts.

WiFi Wireless internet is available at the venue and it’s free. There’s free wifi in the streets of Tbilisi as well named under “Tbilisi Loves You” – but sometime it doesn’t really, because it may not accessible. If it’s an utter necessity to have internet, we suggest you buy SIM card, which you can dispose for 3G or 4G, for which you have to pay around 5­10 GEL per 1GB.

Some of the rules in Georgia: Any kind of drugs including “light drugs” are prohibited in this country. You may be stopped by the police and get checked, so don’t put yourself in this situation. Drinking alcohol outside is also prohibited by the law.

Please, contact the embassy for other information.

Travelling to here The travel grant per each participant: Georgia ​ ­­­ 20 EUR Azerbaijan ​ ­­­ 80 EUR Moldova ​ ­­­ 170 EUR Estonia ​ ­­­ 270 EUR Lithuania ​ ­­­ 270 EUR Sweden ​ ­­­ 270 EUR The sending organisation or participants themselves will buy flights tickets.

All prices need to be accepted by the coordinator before any purchase is made, a screenshot from the website can be sent to us in advance and we will approve or decline within 48 hours, all attempts will be made to answer these emails as soon as possible. Tickets purchased without prior consent could result in no reimbursement for travel costs.

DO NOT THROW YOUR BOARDING PASSES! All boarding passes, invoices and travel documents must be kept and submitted after the project in original format and must also be emailed to the responsible officer of the host organisation before the project.

Travel costs which exceed the limit will be the responsibility of the participants or the sending organisations.

Please note that all the participants are required to have the travel insurance, but costs are the responsibility of the participant and/or sending organisation.

The participants will be later on provided a detailed information on how to get to the venue.

The reimbursement will most likely occur via the bank transfer, please bring your bank account numbers with.

You will be consulted in advance on how to get from the airport to the center.

For the participants travelling to Kutaisi airport there's a direct bus connection to Tbilisi, which you can check out on www.georgianbus.com The travel dates: 18.06.2016 and 27.06.2016. You are required to arrive on 18th of June and depart on 27th .

What to bring with...

Bring the stories of the musicians from your communities which are expressing about the issues of the society through their art;

Hometask

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equipment

You will need to bring your own shampoo, soap, tooth brush and tooth paste and any other personal hygiene items you need.

We will have a multi­culti evening! Bring some snacks, drinks, performances and stories from your communities. Power­ point presentations and prezis are stricktly prohibited on this youth exchange.

This is not a regular youth exchange. Please, be concise of what kind of equipment you need for working and performing. Bring it with you, we will try to fulfill your requirements. However, we cannot make any promises on the equipment. Please, communicate with the coordinator in advance regarding these matters.

Note that...

1. Note that the participants are required to have 100% participation during the projects and failure to do so will result in no reimbursement of travel costs. In the event that a participant is not feeling well or needs to miss a session, for any reason, this needs to be communicated to the responsible coordinator of the project either by the participant or by the leader.

2. Note that the participants are required to complete preparation tasks which are stated in this informational pack and bring these to the project with them.

3. Note that, participants are also required to complete surveys sent by the National Agency and/or European Commission, this is part of the project and all participants need to complete these surveys. Failure to do so means failure to participate which could result in no reimbursement or blacklisting of the sending organisation.

4. Note that the participants are required to participate in the dissemination part of the activities after the project activity and all the activities needs to be reported to the coordinators. Failure to do so may result in no reimbursement or blacklisting the sending organization.

5. Note that the activity dates are 19.06.2016 ¬­ 26.06.2016 ¬ the participants will be leaving the venue on 27.06.2016

Application form The Application form can be viewed and downloaded here: https://goo.gl/9EtlDR Please, make sure to send it before 20th of May!

Contacts Nika Bakhsoliani Project Coordinator +995 579 35 1717

nika.bakhsoliani@gmail.com

Maria Kousoula Project Coordinator maria.evs@tnb.nu