Green green green grass. Green green green leaves. Green green green street hooligans! And now even AIESEC Riga blog changed outfit. Since now and forever – check it here – www.aiesec.lv/blog

one girl from Latvia spent last year in Guatemala working in the local kindergarten with 90 kids.

Now she has , in my opinion, brilliant idea – to improve the health of children she invites everyone to donate Ls 5 whitch will be used to buy 3 hens for each child.

You have to transfer ur money here: “Seiba — atbalsts Gvatemalas bērniem” (registration number 40008130292, “Hansabanka”, account number LV51HABA0551021859116, pleas sepcify the conent “Ziedojums — vistas”).

If you specify your adress, the photo of the kid you helped will be sent to you in October 2008.

You can get more informaton in Latvian in this site: http://www.studentnet.lv/vip/article.php?id=237407

Get to know yourself and World around you- Watching movies!

Watching movies can be entertaining, interesting, fun but as well useful. We would like to invite for movie evenings and challenge a bit to run away from “Hollywood” movies and to discover another part of so popular way of entertainment.

So drums go for the first movie evening. Bellow you can find short description about the movie we are going to watch

on 6th of August, 19:00 sharp.

We would like to tell you, that from the next week (time and date will be announced after watching movie “Baraka”) we will have European movie nights, meaning we will watch movies made in different parts of Old Continent. So we start with……. You are always welcome to offer your movies.

Stay tuned!

Lina and Aija

p.s. To make film watching process more pleasant, how about bringing some snacks with each of us …;)

Baraka (1992)

Film is a Todd-AO (70 mm) purely cinematic visual film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio.

Often compared to Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka’s subject matter has some similarities—including footage of various landscapes, churches, ruins, religious ceremonies, and cities thrumming with life, filmed using time-lapse photography in order to capture the great pulse of humanity as it flocks and swarms in daily activity. The film also features a number of long tracking shots through various settings, including one through former concentration camps at Auschwitz (in Nazi-occupied Poland) and Tuol Sleng (in Cambodia) turned into museums honoring their victims: over photos of the people involved, past skulls stacked in a room, to a spread of bones. In addition to making comparisons between natural and technological phenomena, such as in Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka searches for a universal cultural perspective: for instance, following a shot of an elaborate tattoo on a bathing Japanese yakuza mobster with one of Native Australian tribal paint

The movie was filmed at 152 locations of 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States. It contains no dialogue. Instead of a story or plot, the film uses themes to present new perspectives and evoke emotion purely through cinema

Sun, beach, sunbathing, active sports, cool people, 27^oC…

Isn’t that enough? More?

Camp fire, tents, party all night long on the beach (if possible – maybe take sleeping bag with U)

We meet on July 26 at 12 in front of Central station clock. We go to Pabaži, Saulkrasti.

So meet there on the beach what ever time U come

Just give us a call when U are there:

Lāsma – 22448429

Ņina – 29675185

Laura – 29501688

HEY AIESEC………..SAY WHAT…………………HEY AIESEC ……..SAY WHAT???????????

Hallo,

I would hereby wish to cordially take this opportunity to invite you and your respective countries to our forth coming East African Leadership Development Seminar 2008 to be held from the 13th-17th of August. This is the first time that AIESEC Nairobi will be expanding this conference to have an international scope. We have been carrying out the conference successfully for the past four years and we would like you to be part of our expansion effort in making it an international conference.

Please find attached information on the conference and other useful links concerning the conference. I would appreciate if you could assist us in marketing this awesome opportunity to the LC members.

I have attached some essential documents in the email. Please do download these attachments.

Regards,

Michael Omondi
EALDS 2008
Conference Manager

Link to the first delegates’ mailer

http://www.myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10017517

Delegates’ application – Deadline July 25th

http://www.myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10017496

Promo video for EALDS

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=17931901981&oid=17548451346

If you have any inquiries contact us at

ealds2008@gmail.com

where will perform attractive Brazilian percussionists Tiago Loei and Andreazo together with Latrvian

samba band “Samba from Riga”.

In concert Tiago Loei and Andreazo as well as „Samba from Riga” will perform rhythms of Brazilian culture.

Entrance fee – 2 LVL

www.artspace.riga.lv

Phone for info: 67181330; 67181332

Address: Kungu street 3 (under the Blackheads house square)