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Data de início: 05-04-2012

Data de fim: 06-05-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 1 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 06-02-2012

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: We organizeI International Bodrum Dance Festival every year in April. Many dancers from all over the world meet in Bodrum and take part in several cultural activities as well.Our volunteers will be working with us on preparations of this festival and also they will be actively taking part during the festival.Our EVS activity starts on 5th of April 2012 and ends 5th of May 2012.

Perfil: Age : 18 - 30 years old

Preferbly Dance experience

already attended international events

organized activities or took part in organizing comitee

who are we looking for ?

We want to receive volunteers who have some knowledge in dance, love dancing, know to speak English basic level, are open to international dialogue and have desire to learn and respect the cultural differences.

Our privileged target is that the volunteers will come from the institutions organizing cultural activities, universities, dance schools or clubs, associations making folk dance practices.

Bitez- The nicest and cleanest beach of Bodrum peninsula is here. Also there are a lot of breakfast restaurants by the seaside, they offer very good food(the prices are from 10-20 liras). If you walk until the end of the beachside, there is small rocky road by the seaside. From here begins the way to the Bitez Aquarium-wonderful view to the turquise-blue sea and islands. It takes about 45 minutes walk to get here, but it is worth it! Bitez is also known by its tangerine gardens. In november-december it is the season of tangerines and you can buy Bitez tangerines everywhere! To Bitez you can come by dolmuş.

Yalıkavak- 18 km from Bodrum.If you come here by dolmuş, you can walk to Sandıma-antique village. It is in the mountains and if there is rain seasons, you can find turtles from the ponds! There are remains of the 600 years old houses, but this place is perfect to enjoy the nature and peace of mountains. Bring also some empty bottles with you, because there is natural spring water.

Ortakent- 7km from Bodrum. Here, in MuArt Cafe are sirtaki nights every week. Also university`s fine arts faculty is here. If you enjoy arts, you can go to see Bukalemunart gallery in the beach part of the town. You can find mosaics, ceramics and paintings there and atmosphere is really nice. On daytime you can come here with dolmuş. It is nice small town and before entering the town, on the top of the hill you can see wonderful view to the sea and Ortakent.

Boat trips from Bodrum- All the travel agencies in Bodrum offer daily boat trips on summer season(from May to 15.october) You can find offers even when walking by the seaside. They have different destinations and ususally they cost 20 liras. It takes almost a whole day from 11am to 5pm. We went to Black Island boat trip. It has 5 stops in different very beautiful blue bays where you can swim. With snorkling glasses you can see colourful fishes. The price also includes lunch on the boat. It is usually pasta with meatballs and salad.
There are also free sunset trips every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6pm. Before the sunset a boat takes people to the bay near the windmills and after sunset it comes back. It is alltogether 2 hours. You can ask for it from ...? Travel Agency
Swimming in Bodrum- Sea is only 2 minutes walk from the apartment. It is so close that we swimmed every morning before work. Even though it is nice and close, this beach is not the best here. If you have time and you would like to sunbathe and swim whole day, you should definitlely go to Bitez beach. In the night when there is no full moon, you should ask somebody to take you to some darker beach, because it is possible to see shiny plancton. They call it yakamaz here and seeing it is a really wonderful experience!
Etrim carpet village- When there is tourism season, travel agencies offer tours to villages and also to carpet villages. Our friend took us to Etrim carpet village. We saw and touched the softest carpets ever! And patterns were amazing! They are of course very expensive, but totally handmade and in any case it is interesting to see this kind of village.

Bodrum Castle
The castle is in excellent condition, it now houses a one of the world's finest museums (with exhibits on underwater archaeology). Mostly stones used in the construction come from the tomb of king Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Mausoleum’s massive construction survived for centuries until an earthquake brought it down in medieval times. The knights used the ruins as a stone quarry. In 1522, while reinforcing the castle, they even discovered the funerary chamber of the king, whose treasures were quickly looted. In the 15th century AD, the Knights of St John invaded the region ( whose headquarters were on Rhodes Island ) and began constructing the castle that we see today.(www.bodrum.org)
Entrance fee to the castle is 10 liras, but it is worth it. If you want to see everything it takes at least 2 hours there. Visit it with nice weather and you can even have your picnic there in the garden.

Weather and nature in Bodrum
September-hot weather(30-37), a lot of tourists. You can go to boat trips. Season of figs, grapes, watermelons and peaches.
October-weather is still warm(24-28), but there is not so many people any more. Boat trips are finished in the middle of the october. Difficult to find figs and peaches. Season of bananas, pomegranates and oranges starts.
November- weather is not so warm any more (around 20) and there is very very few people in the streets. Everybody is going to work in Istanbul or Izmir in wintertime and Bodrum is empty. We were still swimming every morning in November, but water is not so warm any more and local people thought we are crazy Season of olives, tangerines, oranges, pomegranates, and bananas.
December- weather is chilly and in the evenings you need a warm coat. Electricity breakdowns are usual and sometimes there is very cold in the apartment. Season of tangerines, oranges.

Shopping in Bodrum
Bodrum is the most expensive town in Turkey, but even here there are some places that are a bit cheaper than others.
Food bazaar- every Friday there is big bazaar near bus station(you have to go up from the stairs of the bus station building). You can find all kinds of fruits, vegetables, dairy products, nuts, olives and spices from there. But when it is tourism season it is very expensive. There is also alternative for this Every Monday there is small food bazaar near to our apartment. (if you go to the Atatürk street and turn left, walk until you see the bazaar on the left, about 300 meters). Here is the cheapest gözleme in town, only 2,5 liras(usually in other places it is 5 liras) and it is fresh and warm.
Supermarkets- the cheapest is Dia SA, it is also very close to our home. (if you go out from the apartment, turn right and walk about 600 meters until you see Dia SA on the right). They are bringing new goods every Monday and Wednesday. Sometimes vegetables are even cheaper here than in bazaar. But, there is not too much variety of things. Carrefour Express and MMM Migros are much bigger supermarkets. From there you can find almost everything but they are quite far from home. But even bigger and cheaper supermarkets are Kipa and Metro, but these are outside of Bodrum and you cant walk there.
Clothes- you can buy clothes from Oasis shopping centre or from clothes bazaar on Tuesdays(at the same place where is big food bazaar)
Bakeries- There are a lot of bakeries everywhere in Bodrum, but our favourite bakery is the nearest to our home, it is very good and also cheap.

http://www.bodrum.com
www.bodrum.org
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Tarefas: What are the proposed activities for Volunteers?

he volunteers coming to our project will take charges with the expert trainers, organization officers and club officers in our dance themed organizations that wil be realized in the club office, our dance practice hall and different places.
A) In EVS Office (3 hours learning, 3 hours service):
Generally helping to research studies, generating ideas in the projects, giving information regarding the examples of smilar projects in their own countries, if they do not know making researches via internet, conveying their information and experiences to the applicants applying for evs, helping to the missions that will be given within the computer experiences, making contributions to the preparation activities of bodrumdans newspaper,
B ) In dance Practice Hall (3 hours learning, 3 hours service) :
taking charges in the preparation of the hall for the lessons in the dance practices realized between October and May with the trainer, participating actively to the lessons, giving assistance in the lessons in oncoming months, helping to the public relations practices in the hall, giving information, brochure etc. to the sportsmen coming for the course, meeting with the trainees and gathering data regarding the contributions of the dance practices to which they participate to their personal developments,
C ) In the events (3 hours learning, 3 hours service):
making contributions to the organization with their ideas and critics in the meetings in the preparation stage of the organization, developing organization skills by helping to the downstage and backstage activities during the dance shows and competition organizations, public relations and taking place together with the officers in welcoming the coming guests.

D ) At Dance Nights (3 hours learning, 3 hours service):
The volunteers will invited to dance nights and will help to instructor thus, the volunteers take place in the social life with other students and trainers and they are going to learn local folk dance as well.
E ) At skilled trade courses ( 1 hour leaning and practise) :
The volunteers will attend to skilled trade courses one hour in a week and right after they will practice it so they will develop their handicraft. At the end of the volunteer service duration , their creation will be exhibited in the club building.
By information stants those will be in taking place in city centre,our volunteers will have chance to promote youth in action and EVS program particularly.We believe it will be good impact on local youngsters to learn youth opportunities those waiting for them.


The role of EVS volunteers in Bodrum Dance Club and the activities of the volunteers involved;
• Our club’s members will get the chance to learn their own countries’ dances from EVS volunteers,
• They will convey their information and experiences to the foreigners living in Bodrum with their articles regarding dance and EVS by taking active charges in Bodrumdans Newspaper of the club published monthly,
• They will make contributions to the club activities by taking charges in club office,
• They will give information to the foreign tourists by taking charges in Association stand that will be set up in Bodrum Peninsula, will invite them to the different organizations.
• They will participate to the meetings realized with the association members and they will support our members in learning a different culture.
• First 3 weeks,volunteers will be learning a dance careography and while they are practising,they will be also shooting short movie about preparations. This short movie might be shown before the performance and it can be good tool for visibility of YiA program and European Commision youth programs.
• Volunteers will visit 9 seaside villages of bodrum and work at stants and do promotion of Dance festival and they will give information about YiA program and EVS program.
• Everyday one volunteer will work in our EVS office and we expect from volunteer to find similar cultural events those are taken place in his/her own city our country and create a contact list of possible future partners for following years.
• During the Dance Festival,there will be approximetely 500 participants,dancers from 10 different countries. We expect out volunteers to guide them and care about their possible needs by working in coordination with organizing comitee.

Condições: 1

Formação: Our club will provide the followings to the volunteers in terms of service and training opportunities:
• The volunteers can learn our language by receiving Turkish language support from a trainer procured by our club on two days in the week,
• They can learn popular world dances by participating to Salsa, Argentina Tango, Sirtaki practices, whatever they want, realized on every day in the week between October and April,
• If they want, during the year they will have the chance to learn our culture by getting local folk dances tranings and participating to our Folk dance practices continuing on one day in the week,
• During the year, they can take charge in dance practice and entertainment nights organized 3 times a week, by these means thay can learn Turkish entertainment culture by living and enjoying,
• They will have the chance to know and learn history, nature, culture and people of Bodrum, which is a touristic area of Turkey, in place,

Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação, Application Form