CDC, Laranjeiras neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro City
PARTNER INSTITUTION AND PROJECT
This program is to develop activities linked to Educational Art, mainly through circus techniques, seeking the development of a creative socialization processes. The beneficiaries are young in risky situations, they live in very difficult conditions: street children, young residents in villages or slums. Some of the pedagogic targets are: motivate the desire to learn and the taste for knowledge; teach how to deal with conflicts; respecting rules and limits and; create new relationship forms. Supplying practical experiences with several artistic languages, seeking for the self-knowledge and expressiveness, strengthening the self-esteem and stimulating social participation.
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Youths
tended by SERFM in a training session |
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Presentation
in a public school, Rio de Janeiro's suburb |
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ACTIVITIES THAT CAN BE
DONE BY THE VOLUNTEERS
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Abilities:
the Participant should have high technical
skills and also pass an initial formation
in SERFM's methodology
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| A– Basic Module
(beginners) |
Ground
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Somersault, hand standstill, lion jump |
Mini trampoline
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Extension,
grouped, others |
Juggling
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Manufacturing
balls, juggle up to 4 balls or three clefs. |
Aerial
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Simple and double
trapeze, Lira, Cloths. |
Cycles
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Unicycle |
Clown
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Pantomime, body
language, clowning |
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–Evolution Module (medium or advanced) |
Ground
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Mortal straight and
back, Flip-Over, gymnastics sequences. |
Mini
trampoline
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Lion jump – grouped and
extension, Arab mortal, double mortal,
others. |
Juggling
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Up to six balls or clefs |
| Aerials |
Complicated numbers |
| Clown
and cycle |
Advanced routines |
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The volunteers can participate of the presentations, when there is
one. |
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Children and youths tended by SERFM on a presentations |
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Trapeze training in CDC |
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Number and type of activities developed;
- Children's interest level in Social Circus activities
(reports and attendance records);
- Technical improvements accomplished by project’s
youths;
- Sensible artistic and/or expressive variations on the tended youths
productions;
- Number of opportunities generated to the tended youths
(work, shows, classes, laboratories, others);
- Audience increase (regarding seasons previous to the
program);
- Level of interest demonstrated by the volunteer (individual
reports);
- Work integration level between the volunteer and the other techniques and
professionals.
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Group
tended by SERFM on a street
presentation, Rio de Janeiro |
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Youths tended by SERFM in a training session, Rio de Janeiro
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