Workshop Leaders Needed for Youth Arts Festival in Kevljani, Near Prijedor, Northern Bosnia, 3rd – 13th May 2012
About Most Mira
Most Mira, (Bridge of Peace), is a British and Bosnian registered charity that runs an annual youth arts festival in the village of Kevljani for around 400 children. A team of dedicated workshop leaders and trainee volunteers from Europe and Bosnia make all this possible.
The aim of the festival is to create an independent social and cultural space where young people from a divided community can learn new arts skills and make new friends. The children who take part in the festival are aged 5-15 and are from a range of backgrounds including Bosnian, Serb, Croat and Roma, and some of them attend background specific schools.
Our aim is to facilitate participatory child-led arts workshops where the emphasis is on the creative process rather than the creation of a perfect final piece. The five days of festival workshops (7th – 11th May) will be followed by a day of taster workshops and performances on May 12th. Most importantly, the festival is about cultural exchange, teamwork, being creative and having fun! You can find out more about Most Mira’s aims, previous festivals and what it’s like to be a volunteer through looking at our website: www.mostmiraproject.org
Most Mira provides flights from the UK, a days training workshop and the 3rd – 6th May is assigned for festival volunteers to plan workshops. Volunteers who live outside the local area stay in accommodation near the festival site and eat at the community centre in Kevljani where the festival is held. All Most Mira volunteers need to sign and comply with our Child Protection Policy and Code of Conduct.
**Applications are now closed. Thank you for all those you applied. We will be in touch soon about the interview process.
Most Mira is proud to announce that we have appointed as our new Capacity Builder and Training Coordinator. Here is a bit about the new member of our team:
Zoran Ergarac
Zoran studied journalism at university in Banja Luka and achieved an MA in telecommunications and media studies from Ohio University in USA.He has five years of experience as a college level lecturer and administrator, has published research and has an active participation in academic and NGO initiatives. His NGO experience includes activities in the area of cultural events promotion and public relations including grant writing and project implementation. Most recently he had worked as a youth employment advisor/counselor within a United Nations development project concerned with communications capacity building for youth employability in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Capacity Building and Training Co-ordinator
Most Mira is seeking to appoint a dynamic bilingual Capacity Building and Training Co-ordinator (CBTC) to be based in Prijedor, Northern Bosnia to take our existing work with young people and local communities into the new, exciting stage. The main aim of this project will be to develop Most Mira’s permanent presence as a provider of participative arts based activities jointly for children and young people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, mainly through support, training and networking, in the interests of helping to promote a peaceful future in the area. Working hours flexible with some international travel. The post is funded by UK based charitable trust and initially offered for one year, with possibility of extension for another year subject to funding. Salary details will be discussed with short listed candidates and final salary offer will depend on experience, agreed hours and will be paid in Bosnian KM.
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To apply please email Supporting letter and CV in English to info@mostmiraproject.org by 5 p.m. on Monday 24th October 2011
About Most Mira
Most Mira, a charity registered both in Bosnia and the UK, works in Prijedor, the second largest municipality in Republika Srpska, situated in the Northwest part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The violence which swept across Prijedor municipality nearly two decades ago, has left its mark. The process of reconciliation is very slow and the communities are still deeply divided. The local economic picture is bleak and high unemployment presents additional challenge in the process of peace building in the region. And the education system is fragmented and in many areas segregated along ethnic lines. This is the backdrop to the annual youth arts festivals which Most Mira has been running since 2009. Despite many challenges,Most Mira has successfully involved local schools and youth groups in its festivals and provided workshops jointly for their pupils in order to counteract segregation. At the Festivals it is not only the children who are brought together, but also their teachers and parents. Most Mira recognizes the impact the history and economy is having on young people of Prijedor area and our aim is to provide safe space for them to develop their skills, develop new friendships and to be inspired to create a better future.
For more details and Most Mira participatory approach and evaluation reports please explore the rest of our website.
Please forward it to your contacts especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina to help us recruit the best candidate for the job.
This position is also advertised on Charity Job recruitment website: http://www.charityjob.co.uk/seekers/jobdetails.aspx?jobid=218560
We have held successful meetings in Bosnia and the UK to establish a joint shared vision for Most Mira for the next 5 years both in terms of structure and impact. Many thanks to the nearly 40 people who participated in the process; including trustees, volunteers, teachers, head teachers and youth group workers. Also thanks to our facilitators Johnathan Dudding from ICA in the UK
and Vahidin Omanović from CIM in Bosnia.
Below our the key headings for our agreed shared future that will help shape the future for Most Mira in the coming years.
Establishment of Bosnian Management
- Physical presence in Bosnia
- Better defined structure
- Financially stable
- Recognisable Successful Brand
- Year Round Activities
- Increased community ownership
- Wider better networks
- More targeted training
- Helping to frame a shared future
- Sharing our approach in Bosnia
- Creating an evidence
On the 20th of June 2011 Most Mira was awarded the coveted ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration 2011 in Prague.
It was a big achievement to be shortlisted together with other 131 organisations out of 1,850 original applicants coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. Most Mira was voted one of the 30 country winners by a group of international and local experts and the honour also comes with a financial award of €16,000. The award is true recognition of Most Mira’s hard work and successes that has been achieved over the last three years of playing an active role in social integration of fragmented communities in the North-West Bosnia which were divided by the 1990s war.
Additional benefits coming with this award include media relations support provided by a professional PR consultants financed by ERSTE Foundation for a 2-year period; participation in capacity building workshops (on topics such as: developing social businesses as an alternative way of financing, building media relations capabilities, acquiring social media skills); presence on the ERSTE Foundation’s Social Integration Network, an interactive database of best practice projects from CEE countries, whose aim is to attract the attention of potential funders, and thus to connect the non-profit with commercial sector.
Most Mira is very grateful to the British Council Youth in Action Fund, the Sir Halley Stewart Trust, the ArcelorMittal Foundation, SDL Canada, the Spencer Hart Charitable Trust, the Youth Funding Network and the Prijedor Municipality for recent grants. We could not do the work we have set out to do without their generous support.
We are also extremely grateful to the Most Mira trustees and volunteers who have organised individual fundraising events which have brought in much needed funds.
More later about each of these…
Sue and James Macmillan are once again raising money for Most Mira; this time they are cycling across Britain from the Irish Sea to the North Sea!
They will be accompanied on this ride across the north of England by friends and family, we wish them all a good ride and are very grateful for their support!
For more information about the Macmillans’ ride and to sponsor them, please check out their justgiving page.
On Sunday,March 27th,two bands,Moynemonic and Jack Dupon are playing in Prijedor Theatre.They are starting at 7pm,and all proceeds go to Most Mira project.For more information about the bands see their MySpace pages:
Jack Dupon
Moynemonic
To raise money for the 2010 festival our project coordinator, Sue Macmillan, has completed a sponsored swim across the Dardanelles with her husband James.
The strait of the Dardanelles (known in the past as the Hellespont) is one of the two Turkish straits that separates the geographical areas of Asia and Europe. The swim that the Macmillan’s did was part of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron, the renown British Romantic Poet, swimming the same route on the 3rd May 1810.
