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Youth Events
Nov 30, 2008
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE
CALL FOR YOUTH MEDIA SUBMISSIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
*Deadline for submissions: December 10, 2008
The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices seeks youth-produced media works on human rights issues* for its second annual YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program to screen in our New York, London, Boston and San Francisco film festivals in 2009-10. YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE provides a platform for youth to share their perspectives with audiences worldwide. We want film, video and animated works on human rights issues created by youth ages 19 and younger!!! SUBMIT TODAY!
For information on how to submit your film, please visit:
www.hrw.org
Tree Aid Cake Bake
27 Nov - 06 Jan 2009
TREE AID's Christmas Cake Bake is a great way to celebrate right up to the last day of Christmas on 6th January. You set a date, tell your friends, family, colleagues or congregation and get baking in aid of TREE AID and have an even more memorable Christmas. Enjoy these delicious 'tree cakes'! Find out more at:
treeaidcakebake.org
Wallace & Gromit's Great British Tea Party
05 Dec 2008
We invite you to join us in celebrating Wallace & Gromit's Great British Tea party to help raise vital funds for sick children and their families in hospitals and hospices across the UK.
Where ….At home, at work, with friends and family or at one of our special Tea party venues across the UK you decide It is easy to take part and celebrate the Great British Tea Party.
Simply get friends, family or colleagues together. At home, at work, at school or nursery, at a parent and toddler group, your local library – anywhere you like, and ask them to make a donation to join your party and show their support for your local children's hospital and hospice. What could be easier?
Please RSVP today by visiting our website www.wallaceandgromitfoundation.org or call 0845 600 1924 to register to take part and receive you fantastic free Wallace & Gromit Tea Party pack including Wallace & Gromit Tea Coasters, invitations, balloons Yorkshire tea vouchers and much, much more.
RSVP today to enter our FREE prize draw to WIN a YEARS supply of Yorkshire Tea ! Thank you for your support . Enjoy the party!
International Volunteer Day
05 Dec 2008
The annual celebration of the contributions of volunteers to various causes and communities around the world.
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the focal point for International Volunteer Day (IVD), and provides many resources on its World Volunteer Web to help both volunteers and voluntary organisations make the most of the Day.
Included is an IVD Tool-kit with resources organisations can use to customise their own IVD publications and media relations.
Organisations are invited to report their IVD activities to the UNV via the World Volunteer Web, so that these activities can be promoted on
the web to UNV's global audience.
The critical question is, however, what happens on 6 December?
Newspapers may turn their attention elsewhere and sound bites may fade away, but the work of volunteers goes on with or without publicity and well-deserved recognition. The spirit of IVD must live on as well. In its 2001 resolution, the United Nations General Assembly called on "governments, with the active support of the media, civil society and the private sector, to observe 5 December, IVD, and to include activities focused on following-up on the achievements of IYV".
Encouraging more people to volunteer is a 365-days-a-year task. If you consider the committed work of volunteers of all ages around the globe, carrying out every imaginable kind of activity, IVD should be a day that never ends.
For more information visit the International Volunteer Day website. www.worldvolunteerweb.org http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org
Tree Dressing Day
05 - 07 Dec 2008
Decorate and celebrate a living tree in your street, garden, playground, village, hedgerow or park on Tree Dressing Day and show how much you value it.
Anyone can celebrate a tree, as individuals or with a group, and the most suitable day can be chosen from the first full weekend in December, Friday to Sunday. We can all build on this tradition to show that we value our local trees and wish them to be well-cared for.
Tree dressing is based on many old customs from all over the world and at different times of the year.
Tree Dressing Day was initiated by Common Ground in 1990. They decorated a group of London Plane trees on the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and High Holborn in Covent Garden with 150 large number, showing that EVERY TREE COUNTS!
Since then, groups and individuals have dressed their trees all over the country.
Help to create your own social celebration of the trees in your place. This cross-cultural community expression for everyday nature could include storytelling, dance, music, hanging ribbons, shapes, shining lights, anything which draws attention to the trees we take for granted, an enjoyable first step towards taking more care of them.
Contact Common Ground for more information and to let them know your plans. info@commonground.org.uk
International Children's Day of Broadcasting
14 Dec 2008
A day when broadcasters around the world "Tune in to Kids".
Celebrated on the second Sunday of every December, broadcasters air quality programming for and about children. But most of all, they allow children to be part of the programming process, to talk about their hopes and dreams and share information with their peers.
The Day is a joint initiative of UNICEF and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Every year, thousands of broadcasters in more than a hundred countries take part in the day, celebrating it in ways that are as unique and special as children themselves.
Television and radio broadcasters continue to mark the International Children's Day of Broadcasting with distinctive and dynamic programming produced in their own countries.
"After 14 successful years, we continue to view ICDB as an innovative way to increase children's participation in the broadcasting industry.
We hope regional judging will strengthen the competition and lead to greater commitment from broadcasters towards children on the day itself and during the rest of the year."
Dr. Sharad Sapra, UNICEF's Director of Communication
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, is a global champion for children's rights which makes a lasting difference by working with communities and influencing governments.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - which sets out the right of all children to reach their full potential - is the foundation of all UNICEF's in over 160 countries and territories to fulfil children's rights to health and nutrition; education; emergency relief; protection; and water and sanitation. By working in partnership with others, from governments and teachers to youth groups and mothers, UNICEF is a driving force for people throughout the world working to ensure a better future for children.
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