Hey!Were thinking of going on a camping trip to Fanore this weekend.Who wants to come? Which day would suit best Friday/Sat/Sun Night? Let us know by Wednesday so we can organise stuff

Camping In Fanore 2009

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Pics from last years adventure

Fishbowl Acoustic Night 2010

Friday 4th June @ 8pm in Mountshannon Hall

Music, Dance, Poetry,HipHop,Break Dance, & Films

in a Café style setting

€7 Entry

Anyone interested in performing at the Fishbowl Acoustic Night, Friday 4th June 2010

as part of the Mountshannon Arts Festival?

If you would like to perform Music, Dance, Song, Spoken Word, or anything else you can suggest,

Please contact Emma Sams on (087) 7782488 or info@fishbowlyouth.org

Work has started on the Bangladesh Building Project.

We are having a meeting this Friday 09/04/2010 to determine how much funds we can send.

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For more info contact Emma Sams on 0877782488

The last exchange we went on was from 15th – 22^nd of February. We spent 7 nights in a hostel in Orvieto. There the three schools explored democracy together through team building, exercises and fun activities. We looked at the existing hierarchies in Scariff Community College and Youthreach and compared them to the Italian school, Liceo Scientifico Nomentano, and we discussed our feelings on them. The two groups gelled really well and really quickly, which made it easy to work together.

This time we hosted the exchange in Ireland in Mountshannon. The Italians came over from Thursday 18^th – Sunday 21^st March and during these few days we went into more detail on how our schools were governed. We discussed the power and influence of the principal, a teacher, a student and the different boards i.e. the Parents’ Council.

We also had discussions and answered questions about our schools, and we gave the Italians a tour of Scariff Community College, Fishbowl Youth and Youthreach. In Scariff school there was a demonstration of hurling and in Youthreach, we continued our workshops and had tea and coffee.

During that exchange we produced a lot of work in the areas of PR, film, research, finance, logo and fundraising.

The Irish group will go back to Rome in April to compare the research that will be carried out between the two visits.

In the next few weeks we will present a questionnaire to students, teachers and people from the different boards in order to get a better understanding of how our schools work and we will also carry out interviews, which will be filmed as part of the film we will produce during the project.

Currently Fishbowl is working on a Democracy Project, and for that we partnered with two Italian organisations. Other partners in this project are Scariff Community College, Scariff Youthreach and in Rome Liceo Nomentano, a large secondary school with about 1500 student.

We have been running workshops in all the schools and now we have just returned from our first trip to Italy:

Democracy Explored : The First Exchange.

Democracy Explored is a project in which young people analyse democracy. As part of this project, nine students from Scariff Community College, one student from Youthreach and two young support leaders went on an eight day exchange to Orvieto, near Rome in Italy. They were supported by a teacher from Scariff Community College and a leader from fishbowl Youth.

During the exchange we took part in workshops and presented our work, but we had loads of fun too. We played games, took part in teambuilding activities and had an intercultural evening when we presented our culture in the form of song, dance, DVDs and food. The trip was part of Youth in Action, which is a programme funded by the EU.

It was a fantastic experience which we all enjoyed, and we made great friends who we hope to meet again soon!

This was only the first leg of the international project, as it will run until June 2010, with a final presentation in the first weekend of June.

Four students of the Italian school will come to Ireland from the 18th to the 21st of March. During this visit we will explore and make decisions on how we will edit the documentary and compare the research we have done so far.

We will now continue with the workshops in Scariff, and start our research of how our schools are governed, we will interview all the people involved in our school community and create an overview of the way our school works. Our Italian friends will do the same in Rome, and we will compare the results of our research when we meet again in the next few months.