*Exam preparation for the  CELI certificate (30 hours, 2 lessons per week)

*Levels B1, B2, C1, C2.

*The courses will be taught by teachers specialised in L2 teaching.

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Interested? Contact us!

Arci Catania, 47 Piazza Carlo Alberto

The second transmission went live Thursday evening, with special guest Romina Pincha.

Live every Thursday 20:30, and again Monday 17:00.

Listen here: RadioMatria.org

Download here

Playlist:

Femi Kuti – Oyimbo

Ojos de Brujo – Rumba dub style

Ando Drom – Oh my God (Abaj Devla)

Mina Mazzini – Mi sei scoppiato dentro al cuore

Bob Marley and The Wailers – Coming in from the cold

Grace Jones – Libertango

Romina Pincha – Pincha consciousness (guardare le prestazioni qui)

Portico Quartet – Ruins

Jorge Ben – O telefone

Ginkobiloba -Yo vivo por la montana

DJ Youness and DJ Salz welcome you to the new radioshow…

RADIO DEL MOVIMENTO

This radioshow is a true fusion of worlds, sounds and voices.

Youness, from Marocco, and Sally, from the UK, invite a different guest each week to speak about their favourite music, giving us a chance to explore their stories and views through song.

The show is a chaos of multilingual noise… have a listen.

Live every Thursday 20:30, and again Monday 17:00.

Available as a podcast to download at http://www.radiomatria.org/2012/10/11/musica-senza-frontiere-prima-puntata/

This is the tenth year that we will be hosting a series of intercultural theatre workshops where the telling of places, cultures, landscapes and experiences will be explored through the game of social theatre.

Come along to the first meeting, to be held Tuesday October 2 at 20:30 at Arci Catania in Piazza Carlo Alberto, 47.

For more information and registration call 095/8207675 or email catania@arci.it

PROMOTED BY ARCI CATANIA

CELI Italian course and exam (B1-B2)

Arci Catania is a CELI certification centre!

The CELI is a certificate of proficiency in general Italian, catering for adult learners. It certifies the skill and ability to use Italian and apply this in the fields of work and study.

The course is aimed at students and foreign workers legally residing in Italy who wish to improve their language skills. CELI is taught on two language levels: B1 and B2. A valid identity document is required for enrolment on the course.

– Registration is open until September 27.

– Course start date: October 1.

- Exam: November 19.

Arci Territorial Committee of Catania, Piazza Carlo Alberto, 47.

phone 095/8207675

mail: catania@arci.it.

Wednesday, 6th June 2012

18.30h at the courtyard of CGIL

Via Crociferi, 40 Catania

Ten years of shaping the future

2002 – 2012

With a bit hard beginning in the distant 2002, these 10 years of European Voluntary Service (EVS) in Arci Catania have been a pleasant voyage for both the volunteers coming to work here but also for the Arci Catania local volunteers and staff that year after year welcomes young enthusiastic people from all over Europe and beyond.

Because of the broad range of activities that take place in Arci Catania, every volunteer has the possibility to find its place gaining skills and developing competencies. Activities such as: development of your own radio show; organization of various kinds of workshops; presentation of your own culture through intercultural movie nights; organization of music festivals; intercultural dinners; intercultural social theatre; possibility to teach your own language; and so much more…

For many volunteers both hosted and sent by Arci Catania, the EVS has been a gateway towards personal growth and self awareness. Reflecting upon their EVS projects, many have come to realize that exactly that period of their lives has been the turning point.

During the celebration (6.06.2012) of the 10^th anniversary of EVS in Arci Catania, many of the Italian volunteers that were sent by Arci, shared their testimonies and experiences regarding the difficulties they have encountered and the ways they have overcome them, shared their memories of the places they have visited and the people they have met, they gave advices for the future volunteers and suggestions for the ones that are still in doubt- to go or no to go.

There was a photo contest which included all the photos that were sent by the previous EVS volunteers, both sent and hosted by Arci, and the voting was happening during the entire evening. The winning photo will be put on a post card and will represent the EVS for one year.

here the winning photo

by: Giuseppe Bordonaro

Kurdistan, 2009

“ don’t call it south-east anatolia, please…

The pleasant and exciting evening was concluded with a concert by Dirty Duck and Davide Di Rosolini, leaving the guests wanting for more.

The entire event was organized and executed by this year’s EVS volunteers in Arci Catania (Helena, Theodora and Biljana) and the National Civil service volunteers (Alessandro, Claudia, Ivana and Barbara).

photo gallery

Spot Anti-mafia workshop 2012

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Super Volunteer - Intercultural voluntary mission

International Training course

Nicolosi , Sicily, Italy 15^th- 21^st June 2012

Who are we?

Arci Catania is a no-profit organisation active in the field of non-formal learning, youth work and international youth mobility since 1999. We’ve a long experience in organising international training events especially within Youth in Action programme.  

Who is Super Volunteer?

Super Volunteer – Intercultural voluntary mission training course can bring some fresh ideas and approaches in Learning in the field of volunteering and the field of Intercultural Dialogue. International voluntary experiences such as Evs are great opportunities to practise intercultural learning and to explore culture diversity. At the same time also in volunteering at local and national level, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue are in question because of the coexistence of different cultures in society and in the same organisation. But are organisations and youth workers prepared enough to support intercultural learning process and intercultural dialogue in voluntary activities at local and international level?

An international team of trainers is preparing a training course on how to support intercultural learning processes of volunteers and alternative approaches towards it. The training course will involve, during 7 days (included travel days), 22 youth workers and leaders dealing with intercultural learning and volunteering at local or international level (such as ngo representatives, Evs mentors, etc. )

Main aims are to learn how to deal with cultural diversity, to use cultural diversity as a tool to discover identity and to work with concrete aspects of cultural diversity in a specific context such as international voluntarism.

Come and join us on this journey where Super Volunteer is a hero and makes all the prejudices come down to zero!

Objectives:

-      Awareness of the importance that influence of culture has on person’s behavior and identity, especially in international voluntary activities.

-      Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of international voluntary activities: mentoring system in sending and hosting organizations and share good practices on this topic.

-      Develop knowledge and competence in key concepts of intercultural learning and life long learning with young people.

-      Pointing out the importance of international voluntarism and cultural issues in YIA Programme.

-      Developing tools, activities, strategies for improvement of youth work on local level focused on international voluntarism and cultural diversity.

-      Promoting multiplying effect of youth workers in local participation.

Technical info:

Name: Super Volunteer - Intercultural voluntary mission

Dates: 15^th-(arrival day)  21^st June  (departure day) 2012

Place: Catania, Sicily, Italy

Number of Participants: 22

(number of participants per country will depend on final number of partners)

Age of Participants: +18

Profile of participants: Youth workers or Youth Leaders dealing with voluntarism and intercultural issues interested in using alternative approach in these fields.

Participants should come from one of the project partner countries: Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden. In case of places available candidatures from other Youth in Action programme (EU members + EFTA + Turkey + Croatia)  countries can be considered. Candidature from other countries can’t be considered.

Costs: participants have to cover 30% of travel cost to reach training course venue. All the other costs will be covered by the project grants.

Arci Catania has received financial support from Youth in Action programme Action 4.3 and from Sicilian Regional council within Accordo di Programma Quadro “Giovani Protagonisti Azione 5 “Orientati verso l’Europa”.

Methodology

The methodology that is going to be used is based on experiential learning and alternative approaches towards voluntary work and intercultural learning. A Specific feature of the training is practical focus on tools and exchange of tools among youth practitioners, therefore in certain moment it will consist of two parallel working groups in one TC, for the sake of proposing more tools to everyone.

Participants will be able to experience Super Volunteer with shared sessions at the end of every working day, where they’ll build a common learning experience through sharing, evaluation, discussion and integration of both groups’ experiences.

Also, another specific quality of this training course is the focus on tools and concrete use of learning products, therefore participants will be supported and guided on development, implementation and evaluation of their own tools for intercultural learning and dialogue.

Trainers team :

Rodrigo Vilarinho Portugal/Sweden

Milena Lazic Serbia

Saro Rossi Italy

Panayiotis Theodorou Cyprus

How to apply:

Please complete the application form and send at latest by 16^th April 2012 to the email training@arcicatania.org. Selected participants will be informed at latest by 20^th April 2012