To : informal groups, non profit/non gov organisations
CALL FOR PARTNERSHIP AND NOMINATIONS
HIP HOP against racism NETWORKING PROJECT
**Deadline, 31 October 2009, 11,59 PM**
a EUROPEAN NETWORKING PROJECT, Youth in Action Programme, action 4.3
promoter organisation : Aps YARD / NO MAMA HIP HOP PROJECT AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA (MILANO, ITALY)
Dear friend, We write to you and your organisation in order to ask for your partecipation to a european and multinational HIPHOP NETWORKING PROJECT AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA. We are going to activate this project on 2O1O so we are looking for partners. We want to invite all organisations and informal groups active in the field of actions against racism and xenophobia thru the involvement of young people and the music and "flow" of the HIP HOP music and culture. Our aim is to GET IN NET all those experiences in order to share experiences ; to exchange best practices ; to give visibility over the local or national level to this kind of actions and projects ; to have a multipling effect so to empower the growing of hip hop projects and young hip hop crews active everywhere in the fight of racism and xenophobia. The NETWORKING will be developed thru a european web site with a databes where each partner will give visibility to the local hip hop against racism experiences, events, productions; the ideation and realisation of a common campaign linked to the HIP HOP against racism and xenophobia theme. The promoter will create a mailing list usefull to manage all the project activity with all the project's partners.
IMPORTANT INFOS on the PROJECT, this is a NETWORKING PROJECT :
A NETWORKING project IS NOT a seminar or a exchange project, the project will be managed by the promoter association YARD in partnership with all organisations and informal groups that will answer to this call for action. The HIP HOP AGAINST RACISM NETWORKING PROJECT is a combination of activities aiming to create a NEW NETWORK under the Youth in Action Programme : this aim will be reach by promoter organisation YARD and all partners by keeping in contact each other by several instruments as mailing list, skype, web site & more.
INFOS ON PARTECIPANTS :
No age limits on partecipants. Also the number of partecipants have no limits, each organisation/informal groups can involve locally alla partecipants they want.
INFOS ON THE PROJECT ACTIVITY :
The detailed project activity will be mailed to all partners that will answer to this call for action. In a brief summary the activity of the project will consist in creating : a mailing list between all the projects parteners; creating a web site where to share the several experiences, ideas, best practices; on the web site give visibility to the work of all partners also thru a calendar where to promote acvitities and hip hop events; creating a call for action to young people as writers oriented to find the best graphic idea for a campaign linked to the concept "hip hop against racism and xenophobia"; creating a virtual database where to share hip hop songs against racism; creating and sharing between all partners posters or stickers connected to the campaign.
How to partecipate :
1) CONTACT US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND SEND US THE PARTNERSHIP DECLARATION :
Each organisation/informal group have to answer to this mail before October 31th 2009.
Each organisation/informal groups have to fill the partnership declaration :
fill and return back to us the partner form in attach as soon as possible (deadline 30 August 2009).
- Please fill in the form in attach completely providing all data as requested and please DO NOT FORGET TO SIGN the form
- Return (before October 31th 2009, 11,59 PM ) the filled and signed form to us, you can do it by mail (if you have a scanner) or by fax :
a] if you have a scanner please scann your signed form and then you can return it to us by e-email to : info@apsyard.org
b] if you do not have scanner please return the filled and signed form to us by sending it to our fax number : 0039-02-99983787
2) GIVE US INFORMATIONS ABOUT YOUR ORGANISATION/INFORMAL GROUP AND ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT WILL PARTECIPATE TO THE PROJECT :
Please answer to the follow questions :
a] Describe in a short summary the general work of your organisation/informal group.
b] Describe in a short summary the specific work of your organisation/informal group in the field of HIP HOP MUSIC linked to the anti-racism and xenophobia field.
c] Tell us the total number of people that will be directly involved in the project by you : the total number, the number of males, the number of females.
3) MORE INFOS :
- Sending this form to us does not guarantee that you will be called for this seminar.
- Parteners & Candidates will informed about the confirmation of their partecipation around the last week of January 2009.
- Parteners & Candidates will informed about the confirmation of their partecipation around the last week of January 2009.
ABOUT US :
This call and this networking project is organised by Aps YARD. YARD it is the acronym for "Youth Action for Rights Development", Aps means "association for social promotion". This project is developed after many years of experience of our organisation in anti-discrimination actions, movements, campaigns against racism and xenophobia. YARD is a local italian ngo borned in 2001 and active in and around Milan with many connections in Italy and with several european ngos and networks. We spread a wide range of initiatives and actions in the field of multi-culture and active citizenship. We mainly involve high scholl and universitarian students, but not only. Yard's volunteer have actively partecipated in the last years in the visibility and implemantation of the Youth in Action programme and in the "All different All Equals" campaign. In the last year YARD has become part of the UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA network. From 2001 YARD have been active in the support of informal groups of young people in the spreading of actions and projects and in the support of movements against detention centre and right wings organisations. Actually YARD supports many projects, actions and civil society movements also : a milan social centre open all year ( www.cantiere.org ); an italian school for migrants, with legal help desk support; initiative against discrimination on sexual orientation and in particular a "free very body" campaign around every March 8th; an hip hop against racism and xenophobia project called "NO MAMA HIP HOP PROJECT AGAINST RACISM AND XENOPHOBIAt" ( www.myspace.com/nomamaproject ); an anti-fascist hard-core project ( www.myspace.com/velociefuriosi ) ; a "not forget ABBA" campaign and civl society comitate in memory of a young citizen of Milan whose family was from Burkina Faso killed on Sept 2008 by fascist people ( http://abbavive.blogspot.com ); a "milan loves freedom" campaign against fascist and right wings movements for istance against the european right wings; anti-racism formation initiatives in the primary and mid schools ( www.apsyard.org/araxe ) ; productions of books, cds & much more. Many photos on our actions and initiatives here : . Finally, we have to excuse about our web site, many infos on us like photos on our actions and initatives can be view on this web site http://media.cantiere.org because right now our web site it is very basic and right now we are working on a new dinamic, multilanguage platform. Our new web site will be on line as soon as possible, here : www.apsyard.org
or do not hesitate to contact us directly : skype : apsyard.org1
+ mobile (ita/english speaking) : 0039-339-4050668
