Streets Festival - open-air multicultural event

Summary

We are organizing an international multicultural outdoor festival for the local youth in Kumanovo, Macedonia that will gather performers from the Macedonian and Albanian communities.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $10 was raised for this project.

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The project is being organized in the framework of the Post-Conflict peace building actions in the region of Kumanovo. The project will bring the local Macedonian Albanian and Serbian youth together on the main square in Kumanovo for an international and intercultural music experience. By bringing together the most popular bands from the Balkans in one common space, aiming to promote peace and tolerance is the right message from the youth in the post-conflict society.

Activities

The planned activities apart of the 2 day festival are an international youth exchange and volunteer camp, fair of youth organizations and groups, debates and presentations on issues such as alcoholism and safe sex, and a school for street animators

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $10

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $10 .  The original project funding goal was $7,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The projects long term impact is to contribute to the peace building efforts in the region by bringing different cultures together in non formal way promoting cultural exchange, peace and reconciliation. We use music as universally understandable too

Project Message

For the first and only time until now, Macedonians and Albanians were together on the square, danced together, joked together and had fun together. No politics and no hatred. Music brough us together
- Ivana Davidovska, Project staff from last year

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Stefan Manevski
President of Board
Gjuro Gjakovic 27
Kumanovo, Republic of Macedonia 1300
Macedonia, Republic of
38978350177
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

Center for Intercultural Dialogue
Vera Kotorka 39
Kumanovo, Republic of Macedoni 1300
+38931421330
http://www.cid-mk.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Macedonia, Republic ofMacedonia, Republic of and can also be found under EducationEducation.

For more information about Macedonia, Republic of, read the Human Development Report on Macedonia, Republic of or the Wikipedia entry for Macedonia, Republic of.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 16, 2009