SUN CHILD FIRST REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FESTIVAL ARMENIA
Author : Barbara Siebert
Earthtimes.org
Jan 15 2007
SUN CHILD – The First Regional Environmental Festival in Armenia
>>From April 1st to 15th in Armenia, SUN CHILD the First Regional
Environmental Festival will take place. The festival is organized by
the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets
in the Republic of Armenia (FPWC) and Sun Child NGO.
Overall aim of SUN CHILD Regional Environmental Festival is to
strengthen civil-society and public awareness for the serious
environmental cross bordering problems in the whole Caucasian region.
SUN CHILD will be the first regional environmental event of this
type and scale to be organized in Armenia.During two weeks Dilijan,
a small wonderful old city, will become the center of great regional
environmental events, discussions and actions of all sorts.
The schedule of the SUN CHILD Regional Environmental Festival will
include tree-planting and environmental cleansing in different
places in Armenia, concerts and other cultural events, seminars,
special activities for children and an international environmental
film program. Aim of the film section of the first SUN CHILD
Regional Environmental Festival is to bring together environmental
filmmakers from Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Georgia, Azerbeidshan and
other countries. SUN CHILD Festival will offer them a framework to
exchange their views and experiences.
Besides the film program the Festival offers workshops to discuss
actual problems as development of eco-tourism in the region,
integration of the region in international environmental communities
and exchange of local and international experience. Leading ecologists,
environmentalists and eco-journalists invited from the regional
countries and all over the world will participate in these workshops.
Sun Child enjoys the slogan For Children with Children’s Active
Participation. The festival puts a special emphasis on the youth and
children participation as the new generation of the region constitutes
a strong whole able to overstep boundaries and we aim to create a
new field for their dialogues and mutual collaboration.
Our region faces a number of serious ecological problems. The most
urgent issues are depletion of natural resources, mass extinction
of valuable species, pollution of the environment which, among
other evils, endanger human health. The latest statistical data
show an ominous increase of respiratory diseases, especially among
the children.
The situation is alarming and jeopardizes the welfare of the present
and coming generations.
The idea of having a regional festival has arisen due to the fact that
most ecological problems have regional aspect. Nature recognizes no
borders and only friendly cooperation, joint efforts and conscious
struggle will make its conservation possible and eliminate the threat.
Sun Child is another attempt to raise awareness of the existing menace
and an earnest appeal for collaboration.
We really hope that the SUN CHILD Regional Environmental Festival
will become a forum where members of environmental organizations,
professionals from different spheres like tourism, culture and
filmmaking and all interested citizens can meet in order to learn
from each other.
Call for Entries
Environmental Film Competition includes 2 main sections: Regional
Environmental Film Program and Children Film Program. The Prize Fund
of the Festival contemplates awards for both sections.
The Deadline for application for Regional Environmental Film Program
is 15 February, 2007 and for Children Film Program 1 March 2007.
Please find here enclosed the entry forms and regulation of the
festival.
Both can be downloaded on our web-site: Feel free to
contact us for any further information.
We are looking forward to your films. JOIN SUN CHILD!!!
If You need further information please contact: Barbara@fpwc.org Take
a look at our web-site:
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress