Dear friends and partners of OPA - News for 2006
It is an honor to announce our news for 2006.
We also would like to take the opportunity and invite all of you to visit our new center “Casarão OPA” where we hold daily workshops of Theater, Circus and Permaculture with local youth. The center is located on Rua do Passo 62, in the neighborhood of Santo Antônio downtown Salvador.
Courses
Low Cost Solar Water Heater
Date: November 25th and 26th
Local: OPA center in Salvador
Facilitator: Albertinho Barreto de Carvalho
Cost: R$ 90,00
Course Administrative System TEVEP
Directed to OPA staff with support from the Avina Foundation.
October 23 and 24th.
Facilitator: Lucia Legan from IPEC Institute.
Physical Theater Workshop for Adults
October 2, 4, 9 and 11th from 7 to 9:30pm at the Casarão OPA. This workshop is based on the techniques of the French Jacques Lecoq and the English Desmond Jones. It will explore strength, agility, coordination and rhythm, besides exercises of clown. Facilitator: Angela Moreira.
Cost: R$ 50. Scholarships available.
Bioconstruction in Bamboo
OPA is offering a course of bioconstruction in Bamboo from August 10th to 13th in the village Diogo, Mata de São João located 89 km from the city of Salvador. Investment: R$220,00 with meals included (transportation not included). Housing: Camping with composting toilet and river bath. Participants need to bring their own camping gear.
For more info please contact us through the e-mail info@opabrasil.org or phone: (71) 3241-6204.
Events
October, 2006
Casarão OPA - Open Doors
We offer a diverse program of workshops in Permaculture and Arts to children, youth and adults in our new center. We have developed a creative vertical compost and some other Permaculture interventions, come check it out!
Once a month OPA open its door to the public to present performances, story telling, films or Permaculture demonstrations. October 28th at 5pm at the Casarão, free.
OPA Parade for the Day of the Children
October 12th in the neighborhood of Santo Antônio. Come participate and witness the OPA youth fill the streets of the neighborhood with laughter and colors. The parade will begin at 2pm at “Cruz do Pasqual.”
Third Surf Championship of Diogo
An event of “Escolinha de Surf amigos de Jóia” with Ecosurfista Project. October 7th on the beach of Santo Antônio.
September, 2006 - Cine OPA
OPA open its door to present a movie that will play with your imagination. Free at 7PM. Rua do Passo, 62, Santo Antônio, Salvador.
July, 2006 - Circo Água Viva III
On July 1st, 2006 at 3pm in Largo do Santo Antônio in the historic center of Salvador the streets will be filled with colors, music, giant puppets, children on stilts and a lot of environmental consciousness. Circo Água Viva III arrived to present a performance created by the youth of the community. As soon as the clowns come into the scenario, for the surprise of many, the language they are using between jokes is Permaculture. The show is in the plaza. The community garden that the participants created is behind the church. The interaction between Circus and Permaculture continues during the show which presents problems of the big city like pollution, violence, hunger, lack of education about trash and lack of access to clean water, and presents Permaculture as the solution.
May, 2006 - 1st Environmental Circuit of Praia do Forte
OPA participated of the 1st Environmental Circuit of Praia do Forte with hands-on workshops of Permaculture for children and adults in May, 2006. OPA also took the Project Ecosurfista to participate as part of the Surf Championship of the event in Praia do Forte. It was the first time that the Ecosurfista youth participated of a championship outside of their community.
We left with a first place trophy in the girls category and a second place for guys of 9 and 10 years old through Francisleine e Cleiton. Congratulations to the young Ecosurfistas that besides proving to be excellent athletes showed a collective consciousness and education towards the environment. They separated the recycled and organic trash generated during the event and showed a healthy positive manner of supporting and encouraging one another. The Ecosurfista Project is generating young leaders equipped with the necessary tools to improve themselves, their communities and the world at large.
March, 2006 - I ENVIRONMENTAL CIRCUIT OF UFBA
OPA participated of the 1st Environmental Circuit of the Federal University of Bahia in March 2006 with a presentation about the use of cooking oil as fuel for Diesel motors. The presentation introduced the technique to many interested students and a study group was form to look into implementing an experimental project of the collection of used oil among the students and the school cafeterias to fill up trucks of the university.
February, 2006 - Carnaval Parade
The children from the community of Diogo located 80km from the city of Salvador had the opportunity of spending Carnaval caring for nature. The Ecosurfista Carnaval Parade “Viva a Natureza” went up the hilly streets of the community with kids on stilts singing songs of praise to Mother Nature, carrying signs about the preservation of the local river. This was part of an Art and Environmental Education Project of OPA, one more time bringing happiness and education to the community.
OTHER NEWS…
Visit of American Activist Aqeela Sherrils
Leaders in Action Project received the visit of Aqeela Sherrils, a US national leader in the movement for peace, nonviolence and conflict resolution among inner city youth and gangs. Aqeela facilitated a workshop encouraging the leadership in the group and sharing tools to improve the communication and decision-making process. It was a powerful meeting to the youth in Diogo who got to hear about youth living in risky situation and oppression in the USA as well, opening the generalist view that many Brazilians have that there is no poverty in the USA.
New Land in Diogo
OPA received a donation of a piece of land in the community of Diogo where we have been offering workshops in Permaculture in the houses of community members. This land will become a small demonstration center of Permaculture in the coastal region of Bahia and will serve as support for the Ecosurfista Project that has been happening there.
Community Garden
OPA in partnership with the Boqueirão Church started a process of creating a community garden in the neighborhood of Santo Antônio behind the church. The land was abandoned filled with trash. OPA already started the implantation of a garden with the help of the youth from the neighborhood.
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