EYFA is looking for the Winter Meeting 2005 Hosting Organisation

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EYFA IS LOOKING FOR THE WINTERMEETING 2005 HOSTING 
ORGANISATION!!

Hello to all,

EYFA is looking for a host collective/organisation for the Eyfa
WinterMeeting 2005. The WinterMeeting 2005 shall take place 
around
February -exact dates can be arranged at convenience- in the 
hosting
place, consisting of a week of workshops and discussions for 
people
related/interested to/in Eyfa and the local struggle/topic of the
hosting collective.


The WinterMeeting is usually prepared by seeting up an organisers 
group
formed by the Eyfa crew and the hosting organisation, which will
cooperate to carry on the venue under anti-capitalist, non-
hierarchical,
environmental and gender justice principles. The preparation of the
WinterMeeting would ideally help the hosting organisation in 
improving
their logistics resources, getting experience in organising
international events, raise awareness on their local struggles and 
make
amazing contacts with other grassroots-active collectives and
individuals. All that enjoying and being part of the Eyfa
platform-space!


IMPORTANT: We need to find this host organisation-place before 
20 March
2004!! (deadline to apply for fundings is April 1 and we should 
already
mention the place of the venue in the application).


IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, KEEP READING!! 


What is the Eyfa Wintermeeting?

The Eyfa WinterMeeting and Ecotopia are the two Eyfa annual
gatherings. Ecotopia is the summer "sustainibility festival", an
open gathering in a nature area with environmental facilities,
horizontal group dynamics and extens daily programme with
self-organised workshops on environmental and social justice 
issues.
Whereas Ecotopia aims at wide reachout, put-in-practice and
raise-awareness objectives, Wintermeeting concentrates on Eyfa 
strategy
building and network coordination. 

The Wintermeeting aims at gathering the people
connected -or wanting to be connected- within the Eyfa space-
platform
to evaluate current collaborations, set up priorities for eyfa
strategy and build up future plans and actions using Eyfa space and
resources. Besides, at the contents level, the wintermeeting wants 
to
give major attention to a topic related to the local struggles, or a
topic targeted by the host organisation as one of its priorities. For
example, if the host organisation is busy planning action against 
the
local nuclear plant, the wintermeeting would leave space-time for it
(workshops, actions, strategy planning) and the toopic related to 
the
wintermeeting could be about renewable energies. In any case, the 
point
would be to connect the contents of the wintermeeting with a 
ongoing
campaing that could be benefited and projected through the
wintermeeting.

Summarising, the wintermeeting would be a combination between 
eyfa
strategy planning and network coordination plus work done around a
topic related to the host organisation campaings. These two 
objectives
should be carefully planned in the program so that there would be 
time
for everything. This is why it is so important that the organisers
group is set up, communicate fluently and build up the event 
considering
all interests.



What it involves to host the Wintermeeting?

The hosting collective/organisation would be mainly responsible for
arranging the venue logistics(sleeping places, showers, food, 
workshop
spaces), and contributing to all other aspects of the preparation of 
the
meeting as part of the organisers group. This organisers group,
consisting of Eyfa crew + Host organisation would work out the 
contents
and program(topics to be discussed, activities, methodologies) and
dealing with participants travelling (visas, applications, travel
reimbursement). Eyfa crew would specifically take care of the
fundraising and the financial administration of the event.

Of course we are flexible to adapt our ideas to local and cultural
backgrounds, and the final distribution of tasks and
responsibilities is to be worked out and agreed by consensus by 
the
organisers group.

So...what else do you need to know?
Do not hesitate and contact us if you are interested or have any 
idea
that could help us!! 

plaese write to
[email protected]


THANKS SO MUUUUUUUUCH!!
Eyfa crew