We're making stencils, bring a T-shirt.

For lovers of photo experiments or plain experiments!
This Sunday at 12:30 we're learning to make photo cameras from stuff at hand, boxes, cans of any kind, even from a matchbox.

It's fun and the results are unexpected, as is the feeling of making a working photo camera yourself. .)
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If you're interested, check in on facebook^ru for us to know how many people to expect. It's all competely free, but you need:

1. a 35mm reel of film, the most usual kind;
2. what you'll be making the camera from - a box, not too big, a matchbox will do;
3. black tape.

It will all be facilitated by a person and a photographer Dmitry Bulkin.

We invite everyone to see a movie in JASMA office. We watch the movie, talk, share emotions and meet hew and interesting people. Free entry.

First time that I propose a soviet movie and it's sci-fi again. We're watching "Kin Dza Dza" (1986). It's a comedy, an antiutopia and it even left an influence on russian language.

We watch the movie with a beamer on a white wall, the movie is in russian.
As it is longer we start earlier, at 18.00.
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This Saturday, 29th of October, JASMA team invites everyone willing to walk a day's route along the Green Dune.

We believe that one can find beauty and peace in nature on our homelands. That's why we propose to hike this Saturday in the Kemeri national park.

This is a hike without staying for the night, but a hike non the less, so one should be prepared for our changy weather and that the route can easily make your feet wet. It is a 14km hike.
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We meet at 8:50 by the Origo clock in the central station and take the 9:20 train out of Riga. If you attend, but are late - call Sania (26263217). We arrive to Kemeri at 10:22 and walk. The route will take 3-4 hours (maybe even more), at some point we will make a stop.
The route ends in the same place it begins.

The ticket is 1.35Ls one way and 2.63Ls two ways. It's possible to come by car, there's a parking space near the station.

What to take optionally:

• Sandwiches and thermossed tea;

Obligatory:

• convenient clothes and footwear (there's no bad weather, only unsuitable clothes);
• charged mobile phone;
• positive attitude (can't go anywhere without it ;)

The route on Ceļotājs.lv

This monday a couple of volunteers from Slovakia presented their project to youngsters in JASMA.
They work in Vaivari primary school and organize different activities with children every day (takes a lot of imagination!).
Also, they designed a webpage for other volunteers to know what to be prepared for in Latvia (originally in slovak with automated translation).

volunteeringinlatvia.com

Keep up the good work!

Loesje - is a creative collaboration process, creation of short texts, that become posters, t-shirt texts or wall texts, - njmake people wonder, smile, see different thoughts and points of view.
We invite everyone interested on the 4^th of october (tuesday) to JASMA office to get creative and developed a creative spark! No experience necessary, only interest and will to create .)
Examples of such texts can be found here and there^ru.

This time the language of the workshop is russian.
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Sania is talking about EVS in public school N34.

Communication... There was something about that in the university, it was called "computer networking"!

If you don't know what's EVS, we're coming to you!

The main event of project Step Up! has ended.

The international youth exchange was hosted in Talsi region, Valdemarpils city, near a beautiful lake. From 9th to 17th of August 25 young people from 5 countries through interactive and fun methods found out for themselves what it is like – to work together, lead an active way of life and think of people around oneself. Countries involved in the exchange are situated in different Europe's regions, which gave an extra intercultural value to the exchange. We didn't do without intercultural everyday conflicts, but we found common language and learned to live together.

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As always we had to account for the weather, but overall all the planned activities went very well. We've done interesting and somewhat difficult exercises on ropes, which helped find common language and find one's limit.
Much time was devoted to realizing own opportunities and opportunities of other people - we designed real exercises and games for people with special needs, which we afterwards did together with inhabitants of a facility for mentally challenged in Veģi. We had lots of good impressions and memories. (coming soon to photos section)

The exchange is over and everyone is back home. But it doesn't mean that everything is over! We plan to do an open event in Riga to introduce our exchange and, possibly, propose interesting and new experience. Everyone's invited, follow the announcements!

National Agency of the „Youth in Action” program supported our youth exchange project „Step Up” (not about dancing, but about taking part). What will the exchange be about?

The themes are – active life style; participating in what is happening around; communication with youngsters from 5 different countries (Czech Republic, Lithuania, Turkey, Finland and Latvia) and a variety of interesting and active things.

We’re beginning the preparations, details coming soon!

On 19-26 of April in Svetlogorsk (Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia) was organised a training course for young leaders from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia "Leadership for Participation: Making Local Projects with Impact".

The training course brought together 25 youth leaders, who actively work in youth organizations on local level, and was dedicated to themes of non-formal learning, youth participation, developing own ideas for resolving actual problems of young people. Also participants could share experience of living and working in their countries, get to know more about each other's culture, communicate and relax together.