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FSAA takes part in the World Village Festival
Finland - South Africa Association takes part in the World Village Festival in Kaisaniemi Park and on the Railway Square 29 and 30 May 2010. As in the previous years, FSAA showroom is located at the Mahdollisuuksien tori-tent. Welcome!
The Annual Meeting of FSAA on May 10, 2010
The Annual Meeting of FSAA will be held on Monday May 10 at 18 pm. The venue is Restaurant Grecia (address Katajanokanlaituri 5, Helsinki).
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Seminar on Micro entrepreneurship 14th Oct
Finland-South Africa Association organises in cooperation with the Federation of Finnish Enterprises a seminar on 14th October titled "Micro entrepreneurship as an engine of development". The seminar mirrors entrepreneurship through Finnish and South African cooperation.It also looks wider into the meaning of entrepreneurship for development. The seminar is a part of the Finland-South Africa Association's project "Developing Micro Entrepreneurship in South Africa 2005-2009". In the same occasion a handbook made in the project will be launched titled "Hit the Ground Running - Doing Micro Business Training in South Africa".
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Project guest from SA to Finland
Already 1 700 micro entreprneurs have been trianed in the FSAA's project "Developing Micro Entrepreneurship in South Africa 2005-2009". In October, partners and entrepreneurs from the project will visit Finland.
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Story Got Wings
Story got wings -book will be pubelished at Mikkola school, Lyyra building (Lyyranpolku 2) Vantaa September 1st at 4 pm. Welcome!
Story got wings -storybook tells about friendship and co-operation between three schools: Mikkola School from Finland, Arethabeng School in South Arica and Namutuni School in Namibia are friendships schools with common interest to story crafting. For this book we have collected story craftings from these three schools.
Friendship school activity between Finnish Mikkola School and South African Arethabeng School has been going on for several years. Co-operation that started with exchanging of letters, drawings and photos started to have new forms little by little. Year 2006 we published a story crafting book Tunne kieleni - Tseba leleme la ka which contains story craftings from South African and Finnish children. Then we made a movie together: Our Own Movies is a movie about rights of the children and it was published year 2008.
Co-operation got new forms when year 2008 Mikkola School got a new friendship school from Namibia, Namutuni School in Windhoek. The new Friendship started with a story crafting workshop which was held in Namutuni School and was arranged by Mikkola School and Arethabeng School. Once again we got new story crafting friends.
This is how a new story exchange between three schools started: Finnish, South African and Namibian children started to exchange stories with each other. The children told the stories in their own language: Finnish children in Finnish, South African in North Sotho and Namibian in Oshindonga. First the stories were translated into English which made it possible to translate them to all the languages spoke on the friendship schools. Children also illustrated their stories and for most of the stories we were able to include the photo of the child.
This four-language storybook is made out of the material we collected in this exchange. The reader gets kind of a box seat: he gets a chance to peek into the world of children living in different cultures. In these stories adventures of the children, lions, reindeers and snowflakes tell in their own way about the things that are important to children and also what kind of things preoccupies their minds. Through the medium of the stories cultural differences come out but also many things that are common to all the children in the world.
More information: Maiju Tykkyläinen, Mikkola School
maiju.tykkylainen(at)vantaa.fi, 050345 5563
World Village Festival 23th to 24th of May 2009
Cultures from all over the world meet in Kaisaniemi Park and on the Railway Square 23 and 24 May 2009. The festival offers world views and possibilitites, as well as music, circus, dance, theatre, art and activities. 2009 is a special year, as World Village Festival will be organized for the 10th time. The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and expanding one's possibilities for affecting everyday life. http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/home
The main organiser of World Village Festival is the Service Centre for Development Cooperation, KEPA, the umbrella organisation for over 270 development organisations or other NGOs working on issues concerning development and globalisation.
Finland - South Africa Association takes part in the event with its own showroom (G721 at the Mahdollisuksien tori -tent). FSAA is also part of the factual programme on Sat 23th 12-12.15 at the Taiga-stage when the Chair of FSAA Arja Alho and Jarmo Hyytiäinen, the Head of Communications at the Federation of Finnish Enterprises discuss about the Power of Micro Entrepreneurialism in reducing poverty. (in Finnish)
This year poet Vonani Bila, one of the top SA poets, takes part in the festival. http://www.maailmakylassa.fi/english/program/factual_program_and_literature/1541
Sat 23.5.2009 16:40-17:00, Mekong-stage, Vonani Bila: Poems
Sat 23.5.2009 18:20-18:40, Amazon-stage, African Poems: Shailja Patel and Vonani Bila
Sun 24.5.2009 13:40-14:00, Amazon-stage, Postcolonial Literature in Africa: Shailja Patel, Vonani Bila and Mohammed Umar
On 16th May Vonani is in Tampere Social forum, 17th May Poetry Marathon' of the Lahti Poetry Week and on 25th May his poems can be heard in Hämeenlinna.
Matka - Travel 2009
Nordic Travel Fair MATKA is the biggest travel industry event in Northern Europe and the Baltic region. This year it takes place from 15th to 18th of January. FSAA takesalso part in the fair with its own showroom at 6R16. See you there!
Our Own Movies - download
Finnish and South African Children have produced a short film "Our Own Movies - Dialogue about the Rights and Dreams of Children" that van be dowlnloaded for free.
The film is about rights and dreams of the children and it has been produced in workshops in Finland and South Africa during spring 2008. The films are written, shooted, acted and edited by the children themselves under the guidance of a professional film maker Hanna Toiviainen.
The project is coordinated by the Elementary School of Mikkola in Vantaa and Finland - South Africa Association. Partners in the project are Voisalmi-Tyysterniemi school at Lappeenranta, Board of Education, Finnish Refugee Council and the Embassy of South Africa. In South Africa we are partnering with the school of Arethabeng in Soshanguve, near Pretoria. The project has been supported by The Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Finland and the Arts Council of Finland.
The language of the films are Finnish, Sotho and English and the duration of the film is 45 minutes. The film can be downloaded from here.
More information:
Project Coordinator Maiju Tykkyläinen
maiju.tykkylainen(at)vantaa.fi (040 749 2536)
Black Foot Clan is the Young Africa band for 2008
Young Africa 2007 is a development project organised by Cultural Association Etnokult. The main purpose of the project is to create stronger ties between the Finnish and the South African youth and to pass on information of South Africa's situation and the ways in which the local people are working on the grass-root level to battle their problems. It aims to inform and break down preconceptions that exist in Finland towards Africa and at the same time make South Africa and its youth more familiar to the Finns. The concrete aim of the project is to bring young talented South African musicians to perform in Faces Etnofestival and several different events in Finland in July and August. The project has received support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
This year's band is Black Foot Clan from Cape town.
You can see them on concert at the following places in Finland:
Esplanadi stage Helsinki 25.7
Valkeakosken työväen musiikkitapahtuma 26.7.
Faces Etnofestival 1-3.8
RasePori Jazzissa in Tammisaari 27.7
See www.faces.fi for more information and an updated list of the concerts.
World Village Festival 24th to 25th of May 2008
There is a bit of everything going on in Kaisaniemi Park, Helsinki on the 24th and the 25th of May at the World Village Festival 2007. There are star performers from near and far: music, dance and theatre, a full programme for kids along with exhibitions and great exotic food.
The main organiser of World Village Festival is the Service Centre for Development Cooperation, KEPA, the umbrella organisation for over 270 development organisations or other NGOs working on issues concerning development and globalisation.
Also Finland - South Africa Association takes part in the event with its own swhowroom. Also South African partners from the FSAA entrepreneurial project will be present.
Matka - Travel 2008
Nordic Travel Fair MATKA is the biggest travel industry event in Northern Europe and the Baltic region. It gathered almost 85,000 visitors in January 2008. Of them 16,000 were travel trade visitors. FSAA took also part in the fair with its own showroom.
South African Cultural Week in Caisa 25th to 30th of September 2007
Films, South African culinary culture, and colourful Ndebele art; come get to know the varied and versatile culture of The Rainbow Nation! Free entrance to all events!
Cultural Centre Caisa is in Mikonkatu 17 C / Vuorikatu 14 / Kaisaniemi metrostation.
Programme at Caisa's webpages www.caisa.fi