Who you will be able to meet in the village? This is a list of non- governmental organizationswhich will present themselves on September 13th:

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The Ecological Foundation ARKA

The main task of the Bielsko- Biała foundation, functioning since 2005, is an ecological education. Currently ARKA is realizing a few ecological programmes and undertakings focused on, among others, an issue of managing the waste, air protection, animal protection, garden ecologisation . At the foundation’s stand you will be able to e.g. stamp the template graffiti on ecological bags and to watch an exhibition ‘If you love kids, don’t burn rubbish’, which relates to many aspects of managing the waste with the special emphasis on the problem of burning rubbish at homes.

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The Other Space/ The Tibetan Programme

The Tibetan Programme is a separate area of The Other Space Foundation’s activity- it functions as a Polish organization supporting Tibet and  is a part of an international network of organizations which have similar aims all over the World. It is a member of the International Tibet Support Network. The foundation functions in the name of democracy, human rights, multiculturalism and tolerance. P projects realized by them are characterized by an artistic and social dimension.

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The Polish Association of Esperantists, Gdańsk branch

The association unites people who know or learn the Esperanto language, and its aim is to spread and promote Esperanto as a tool of communication helpful in international contacts. In December last year Gdańsk Esperantists were celebrations the 100th anniversary of Esperanto in Gdańsk Pomerania.

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The Pomeranian Association of Integration of Cultures and Art ‘One World’

The aim of the association funtioning in Sopot since over 10 years is to promote African culture in Poland and fight with stereotypes. The association prepares educational- cultural projects for children and youth, organizes concerts and festivals (eg. an annual festiwal ‘Music Against Intolerance and Violence’. At the association’s stand you will be able to see traditional African instruments, listen to African music and learn to play the drums.

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The Young Centre Association

The association has been founded in 2001 and is uniting over 600 pupils and students form all over Poland- people growing up in free Poland, aware of history and willing to make use of a chance which is our participation in United Europe. In the festival village the association will be promoting its newest project ‘City Space’, which aims to develop the public spirits among the young generation and to counteract the minorities’ feeling of being excluded from the civil society, also to spread the knowledge about civil rights, most of all rights to protection of every man’s dignity.

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The ‘City Culture’ Association

The assocciation’s main activities are focused on the educational culture, which builds the civil society, on forming democratic attitudes, especially among the youth. Its aim is to promote activities, which does not impose the culture schemes, but exercise young civils in an art of dialogue, negotiation, protection of own attitudes and critical reflection. Another important problem on which the association is focused is the spacial culture- relations constructing the city space, understood in social, architectural, artistic and historical context.

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The ‘A Kuku Sztuka’ Associations

The ‘A Kuku Sztuka’ is a creative collective of fans from Tri-city, the hybrid of artists, animators and dreamers, who talk with different voices about culture without borders. The space of their activities they treat as a sphere of under construction through realization of many projects at the meeting of many medias and arts, always in the move… In the festival village the association will be promoting the newest action ‘Join In! Culturally’, which aims to encourage a big number of people living in Tri-city to take part in the culture life in all its indications.

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The ‘Never Again’ Association

The association, functioning for over 10 years has come into being as an objection to prevailing politics of indifference, growing wave of hate to other nations, waking up old conflicts and spreading chauvinism and as a reaction to lack of unambiguous social protest towards this situation. The association is going to change this state through creating a social lobby functioning to eliminate dangerous ideologies and to increase social awareness and sensitivity.
 “Campain against Homophobia” (KPH)  is an all-Poland organization whose main aim is to promote tolerance and counteract discrimination, mainly in the field of sexual orientation. Since 2004 KPH Tri-city branch was established.
The activities of the association are the following:
•    counteracting discrimination and violence
•    psychological and legal support
•    anti-discrimination workshops
•    queer cultural events, happenings, festivals
•    regular meetings of members and friends

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The Association of Fair Trade „The 3rd World and us.

The association’s main aim is to promote the idea of fair trade which was developed in the 1960ies. The movement advocates the payment of a fair price as well as social and environmental standards in areas related to the production of a wide variety of goods. It focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries such as  handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, tea, or bananas. Fair trade's strategic objective is to deliberately work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to security and economic self-sufficiency.

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3fala.art.pl

The group was established in 1998 in Bielsko- Biała, and currently is an all- Poland informal movement, uniting people from 17 Polish cities. 3F Group takes part in social- political activities, is inspired by cultural changes and belief that through the street culture we can inspire people to undertake positive actions. 3F in its projects relates to the problems of racism, xenophobia, war, consumer lifestyle and respect for human and animal’s rights.