The team
Are you interested in contributing to Meet the freak #6? Contact us! You are very welcome to join the team!!!!
2009 coordination team was working hard.
The Heart core team of Meet the freak#5 2009:
Cili - Coordinator, information flow between international and local people
Marie - Freak leader coordinator
Benno - Art group leader coordinator
Edit: Local coordination
Anita - Local administration and logistic
Important supportive roles during the preparation phase:
Ala - Freak project
Martijn - International promotion, Final event coordination
Sophie - Webmaster
Sucker: Local coordination support
Freak leaders and art group leaders
Ever thought about joining MEET THE FREAK TEAM? Take your chance!
Ever thought about facilitating an art group at Meet the freak? Take your chance!
Apply here
What will be your tasks?
The Art Group Leaders run (probably in couples) two times three days workshops in the first week. You will help the participants by using your experience and knowledge in your art field to realize their creative ideas. The participants are young and creative people but most of them don't have professional art experience.
The workshops are based on the following principles:
- shows that everybody can do art
- ·provide basic skills to participants in the art fields
- develop skills like team work
- develop self-confidence (‘I can do something’, dare to express, to do, …)
- raise intercultural awareness
- challenge the participants and you
This year the main topic for all the workshops is Neighbours in Touch.
Which is a frame that connects the different art fields in the project. You can interpret, use, apply it creatively as you wish.
The concrete outcome of the workshops will be small performances, which will be presented.
In the second week there will be projects, where everybody (participants as well) can initiate any ideas and realize it, possibly connected to the main topic Neighbors in Touch. Who initiates the idea will be the project leader and involve other interested people. At the end of the camp there will be an open Final event, where the outcomes can be presented.
If you are ...- between 18 and 30 years old
- having experience with the art field (studied/participated on professional courses and currently practicing it)
- experienced in working with groups of young people (18-25 years old)
- able to express yourself in English
- ·interested to work with amateurs
- ready to communicate with other members of the praparation team before the beginning of the Meet the freak project
- able to participate on the preparatory meeting in Hungary (3-5 July 2009)
- able to arrive already 2 days before the camp starts and stay a bit longer (9-27 August) in Hungary
We offer:
- experience and learning opportunities
- possibility to try yourselves out in group leading, transferring your attitude towards art
- space for realization of any freaky, artistic ideas, about which you only dreamt of so far
- possibility to work together with another person, whom you can exchange your experience in your art field with
- time to meet, during the preparation meeting (2-5 July), 2 days before Meet the Freak (9-11 August)
- personal and professional support
- reimbursed 70% of travel cost
- reducted participantion fee for Meet the freak
We are very flexible and open for everybody, don’t be shy, be yourself, apply!
If you have any questions contact Benjamin Peter (mrb.peter (at)gmail.com) for more information.
You are interested in becoming a freak leader. You are member of a partner organisation? Get in contact with your organisation and with marie.venclova(at)gmail.com
Application as freak leader here
Freak leaders and what they are up to do…
...before the activity
- get to know the project and its values, Freak leader´s role and responsibilities
- find participants
- communicate with the coordination “Heart Core” Team (mainly with the Freak leaders coordinator, Marie)
- support participants in the applying process
- collect the participation fees
- gather the participants before the project for an info moment where the aims and objectives of the project are introduced, questions are answered and the participants are being prepared for an international environment
- support the participants in coming up with ideas for “Hokus Focus” free time activities, which should be offered to the other people by themselves
…during the activity
- support the communication flow towards and among participants
- meet regularly with other Freak leaders at the meetings facilitated by the Freak leaders coordinator (Marie)
- run the Chill & Chat (reflection) groups on a daily basis
- organize the practical tasks (camp cleaning and recycling, waking up call, announcements, energisers ...)
- provide support to the groups preparing the Freak projects, stimulate initiative, facilitate the thinking/creative process of the participants, mediate in case of conflicts, try to keep the projects realistic, …
- organise and facilitate the mid-term and final evaluation of the participants (the mid-term and final evaluations will happen in small Chill and chat groups during the daily reflection/evaluation sessions and the final one also in a whole group)
…after the activity
- participate in the Freak leaders’ evaluation directly after the exchange
Wanna know even more?
- IYNF Volunteers meeting PlaNet 7-10 May 2009, Austria. At this meeting volunteers involved in the programming of our umbrella organisation (IYNF) come together, plan activities and receive training in certain topics. It´s a great opportunity for the Freak leaders to meet here, get to know each other, talk about their role and clarify their responsibilities. In case of your interest in joining this meeting, please let Marie, the Freak leader coordinator know as soon as possible.
- One of the Freak leaders´ tasks is to choose the participants from the partner organisations of the project. They are asked to form a balanced group which supports the variety of backgrounds in the camp. During the preparation of the group the Freak leader will introduce them the aims and objectives of the youth exchange. Further they will get to know the different programme parts and possibilities. The aim is to get to know each other before going to the project and prepare the group as good as possible for the experience coming on the educational, emotional, cultural and artistic level.
- The Freak leaders are responsible for facilitating the Chill and Chat groups. During their regular meetings, facilitated by the Freak leader coordinator, they will discuss possible troubles appearing in their groups.. Also in this group the exchange of specific views and experience is very important and stimulated.
