Ya empezamos la Exhibicion Nacional de Ahecha Paraguay. Estuvo en CCPA. Tuvimos mucho exito. El bridis estaba spectacular. Gracias a todos en CCPA, los voluntarios, invitados y especialmente a los participantes! Buen Hecho!
La exhibicion continuara el 8 de junio en Shopping Villa Mora enfrente del Super6. Se queda hasta 26 de junio. Nos vemos!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Correccion
El concierto Ahendu empieza a las 21:00
y Older Pub queda en Avda Cerro Cora y Tacuary
Disclupame para el error
y Older Pub queda en Avda Cerro Cora y Tacuary
Disclupame para el error
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Pehendu!
Ahendu
dos mundos. un sonido.
Una vez mas CoCuMu presenta una noche de musica!
Cuando: jueves 23 de abril
Hora: 19:00
Donde: Older Pub (Oliva c/ Tacuary)
Entrada: 10.000 Gs
ESPECIALES EN BEBIDAS
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ahendu!!!
Concierto de Ahendu
Hecho por CoCuMu
Hecho por CoCuMu
Ejumi! Eguahe! Eguapy! Ehendu!
Cuando: 11 de dicembre de 2008
Donde: Cafe en Sintonia - Espana y Senador Long (Asuncion)
Porque: Una festival de musicales paraguayas y estados unidenses
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Extencion de Exposicion en la Alianza Francaise
Damas y Caballeros!
Tuvimos tantos éxitos con la Exposición Nacional de Ahecha Paraguay en la Alizana Franciase, vamos a dejarlo allí una semana mas! Nos gustaría invitarles para pasar y ver los trabajos de jóvenes paraguayos y paraguayas!
La exposición va estar hasta el 6 de septiembre, 2008.
Si tengan preguntas pueden llamar la oficina de Cuerpo de Paz
(021.600.155) o La Alianza Francaise (021.210.503) ó visitar www.alianzafrancesa.edu.py
Friday, August 15, 2008
Exposición de Ahecha Paraguay en la Alianza Francaise
Nosotros del Comité de CoCuMu tenemos la oportunidad para exponer las
fotos del proyecto de Ahecha Paraguay en la Alianza Francaise. Nos
gustaría invitarles para venir para la Inauguración de la exposición el
19 de agosto a las 19:30 en la Alianza Francaise (1039 Estigarriba
c/EE.UU). La exposición va estar abierta al publico el 20 hasta el 29
de agosto. Por favor pasar y ver los trabajos de los jóvenes
paraguayos.
Ahecha Paraguay es un proyecto en el cual participa la juventud
paraguaya y está diseñado para dar una oportunidad a los jóvenes de
áreas rurales a desarrollar su creatividad y auto confianza, y ganar
una nueva perspectiva de vida a través del lente de una cámara. El
proyecto pone énfasis en las cámaras y el conocimiento a través de
talleres interactivos de fotografía, en manos de la juventud
paraguaya.
Este proyecto se hace realidad gracias al trabajo de los jóvenes
Voluntarios del Cuerpo de Paz en Paraguay.
Para ver las fotos en una pagina del web, por favor hacer un clic acá.
Si tengan preguntas pueden llamar la oficina de Cuerpo de Paz
(021.600.155) o La Alianza Francaise (021.210.503) ó visitar www.alianzafrancesa.edu.py
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Éxito en el CCPA
Tuvimos muchos éxitos con la inauguración de la exposición de fotos en el Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, Sábado el 2 de agosto, 2008. Abajo están algunas fotos del evento.
Introducción al Exposición
Artista y su foto
Entrevista con un artista sobre su foto
Las artistas (participantes), Voluntarios y el Vice-Director de Cuerpo de Paz
Friday, August 1, 2008
Exposicion en el CCPA
El comité de CoCuMu (Compartiendo Cultura Mundial) esta muy emocionado para presentar la primera exposición nacional de fotografias del proyecto Ahecha Paraguay. Con el apoyo generoso del Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano la exposición durará dos semanas para que el público pueda ver los trabajos y habilidades de los jóvenes fotógrafos del interior del Paraguay. La exposición expone trabajo de 12 comunidades de todos partes de Paraguay.
Ahecha Paraguay es un proyecto en el cual participa la juventud paraguaya y está diseñado para dar una oportunidad a los jóvenes de áreas rurales a desarrollar su creatividad y auto confianza, y ganar una nueva perspectiva de vida através del lente de una cámara. El proyecto pone énfasis en las cámaras y el conocimiento através de talleres interactivos de fotografía, en manos de la juventud paraguaya.
El BRINDIS será realizado el 2 de Agosto, 2008 a las 11 de la mañana en el CCPA. Van a estar presentes varios artistas de cada comunidad como representantes. Todos están invitados; vengan a conocer los jovenes fotógrafos! La entrada es gratis. La exposicion va estar en el CCPA hasta el 15 de agosto!
El Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano está ubicado en la Av. España 352 e/ Brasil y EE.UU en Asunción, Paraguay. Para preguntas sobre el horario o localidad, favor marcar: 224-831 (R.A) | 214-544 o correos a: ccpa@ccpa.edu.py
Para ver todas fotos que estuvieron en las exposiciones en las 12 comunidades por favor ver esa pagina de web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414253@N05/map
Para cualquier pregunta por favor enviarnos un correo a cocumu@gmail.com
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Road to Exhibitions
This just in-
We are currently preparing for the Ahecha Paraguay Cycle 1 Final Exhibition Series beginning this July in the nation's capital of Asunción, including a Cultural Field Trip that will bring together all of the youth participants from communities all over Paraguay and give them the opportunity to view and celebrate their photographs on display at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (CCPA) downtown.
Please refer to the sidebar to the right for a preliminary exhibit schedule.
Latest News:
- CCPA brindis field trip for Cycle 1, Teams 1-3 – dates have been set for Aug 1-2, 2008. See the end of the minutes for the tentative schedule in Spanish. We will be contacting everyone to confirm details SOON AFTER June 16 (date of SPA grant review meeting).
- SPA Grant – The new and old Coordinators turned in some SPA Grants (facilitated by Peace Corps, funded by USAID) for continued project funding! The SPA Grants will include supplemental funding for the Cycle 1 Final Exhibition Series including the CCPA brindis Field Trip. Thanks to Jeff Nicholson, Luke Keeler, Aubrey Stenger and Rachel Newby for signing off on these.
Reminders
- All those on the Final Exhibit long-sleeve shirt pedido, please remember to drop 53 mil (women) or 57 mil (men) in Jen Cheng’s mailbox (g21) by June 23rd. Gracias.
- Please check below for your assigned task team in preparation for the Final Exhibition Series!
Help Wanted
- Partnership Funds Reconciliation – Jim plans to do this at the PCO sometime soon. Anyone interested in lending him a second cabeza (mejor que una)? Contact Jim.
Highlights
- New Coordinators: Rachel Newby, g24 - Ashley Raasch, g22 - Allison Whaley, g22
[Check out the recently added lindo Coordinator-identifying fotos on the sidebar]
***FE Task team assignments***
o foto/frame assembly – Orlando (lead), Claudia, Jim, Sadiya, Matt, Tammy, maybe Kyle
- need to meet in Asunción about 1 week before July 4th to prepare for the inaugural Embassy exhibit
- Orlando will avisar team about set-up and take-down dates
o transportation/set-up/take-down – Orlando (supervising up until COS date), Rachel (supervising after Orlando's COS date), Adam and Ashley (help when possible)
- Let's get PCVC in on this!
o captions – Jen, Jim
- name of photographer and community; assigned number (for print sales); paragraph of each community; map of PY
o self-portrait banner or collage/slideshow assembly – Ashley (lead), Kelly
- the small foto idea morphed into a collage or banner of all the kids' self-portraits (gracias a Rache!)
o publicity – Rachel, Bradford, Luke, Orlando, Jim
- afiches
- invitations (as in to VIPs)
- newspaper (Mariano, owner of Chaco will help, remind him 1 week before Aug 1 Field Trip)
- pasacalles
o sales table/donations box organization – Allison (lead), Sadiya, David, Aubrey
o sales table volunteers – Jill, Jeff (will be contacted by Allison and team)
o products procurement – Jen, Allison, Adam, Jim, Ashley
- see Ahecha merchandise section for specifics
-
Ahecha merchandise (for project sustainment)
o Long-sleeve tees (organic cotton from Aratex (formerly known as Arasy), available to current Ahecha facilitators for now, will be offered to public más adelante) - Jen
o Tote bags (new logo, reorder) – 100 bags
- may need to increase quantity if we get bags as participant CCPA brindis favors
- Allison (bag parchase), Adam (bag printing)
o postcards – Ashley, Jim, Rachel
- got quote from Para Vos graphic design printing place on Rep. Argentina c/ Mcal. Lopez
o participant prints
- Exhibit prints will be numbered
- Prints will be ordered from Kodak in matte (not glossy)
- Purchase form – Jen
- price 50 mil per print (we did market research among PYans AND nortes)
- Will include print and TY slip inside envelope – Anyone interested in prepping? Probably Ashley and Allison (?)
- Buyer pays up front, pick up at PCO, got Michael's OK!
- We need to organize who will do the pedido at Kodak for each Exhibit (help from PCVCs?).
* * *
To Focus on AFTER the Final Exhibition Series is Underway:
Recruiting Volunteers
o Strategies to implement:
- Dispel commonly-held belief that CoCuMu is the artsy group – it is for all Volunteers who want to work with youth on personal development via PYan and world culture & arts tools
- Change meeting time and location (GAD has good time but we wouldn't want to be mean and rob them of their time, would we?)
- Send text messages week before meeting
- More CHP action
• invite Volunteers to CoCuMu meetings during training (like NVAC)
• create a PowerPoint presentation to show trainees (Rachel's suggestion)
CoCuMu Kuat Section
o deadline July 12th
o Ashley will determine optimum order for maximum impact
- Photo spread page – Ashley photos, Jen text
- Meet new coordinators blurb with foto – Ashley
- Ahecha experience – Allison
- How to check out cameras – Rachel
- Camera kit request form – Jen will submit
New Policy: EVERYONE MUST RETURN CAMERA KITS TO THE PCO.
o Why? We found there are issues with direct camera kit hand-off (PCV to PCV)
- can’t check for damaged/missing items
- can’t update manual hard copy
o Is a wear and tear registry necessary? Who will create?
o There needs to be lag time between check-out periods – New Coordinators will decide how long
o Ask Team 3 to bring in cam kits to PCO on June 15th – Jim
o Update manual June 15-16th – Jen, Jim, Orlando
Camera repair – Brad will submit a cautionary what-to-do-in-case doc to include in the camera kit manual about his experience having to fix a camera dropped by a youth participant.
Manual updating and post-cycle 1 overhaul – New Coordinators
o long-term project
o need to include more examples! Adam will get 5 cover-to-cover photocopies of Ashley’s big photo book. We will also include money for more photo book purchase in the SPA Grant.
Ahecha Paraguay CafePress Store
o We set up a CafePress.com account (Kudos to Big B for the idea)
o Here's the link to our CafePress store: http://www.cafepress.com/ahechaparaguay
o When we have some time, we can start uploading products and setting prices and doing publicity
o To make this legit, a Stateside supporter will be authorized to receive money and make official donations via an annual Peace Corps Partnership grant
Peace Corps-Wide Publicity
o Rachel is working on getting us an article in PC's WorldView magazine
o We should also hit up PC Times
-
Tentative CCPA Brindis Field Trip Schedule (in Castellano)
# de participantes - mínimo 36 alumnos y contrapartes paraguayos (adultos), 12 voluntarios
= 48 personas en total
viernes, el 1 de agosto de 2008
A la mañana - llegar al Hotel Chaco para check-in y almuerzo
-después, tiempo para descansar, uso del Salón Bahía para juegos tranquilos-
15:00 - excursión al Museo del Barrio
19:00 - pizza cena en el hotel
20:30 - uso del Salón Bahía para mostrar una película
sábado el 2 de agosto de 2008
7:30 desayuno
A la mañana - llegar al CCPA para el brindis de la exposición de Ahecha Paraguay
12:00 almuerzo y check-out
- Adios Asunción, holajey el Interior!
We are currently preparing for the Ahecha Paraguay Cycle 1 Final Exhibition Series beginning this July in the nation's capital of Asunción, including a Cultural Field Trip that will bring together all of the youth participants from communities all over Paraguay and give them the opportunity to view and celebrate their photographs on display at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (CCPA) downtown.
Please refer to the sidebar to the right for a preliminary exhibit schedule.
Latest News:
- CCPA brindis field trip for Cycle 1, Teams 1-3 – dates have been set for Aug 1-2, 2008. See the end of the minutes for the tentative schedule in Spanish. We will be contacting everyone to confirm details SOON AFTER June 16 (date of SPA grant review meeting).
- SPA Grant – The new and old Coordinators turned in some SPA Grants (facilitated by Peace Corps, funded by USAID) for continued project funding! The SPA Grants will include supplemental funding for the Cycle 1 Final Exhibition Series including the CCPA brindis Field Trip. Thanks to Jeff Nicholson, Luke Keeler, Aubrey Stenger and Rachel Newby for signing off on these.
Reminders
- All those on the Final Exhibit long-sleeve shirt pedido, please remember to drop 53 mil (women) or 57 mil (men) in Jen Cheng’s mailbox (g21) by June 23rd. Gracias.
- Please check below for your assigned task team in preparation for the Final Exhibition Series!
Help Wanted
- Partnership Funds Reconciliation – Jim plans to do this at the PCO sometime soon. Anyone interested in lending him a second cabeza (mejor que una)? Contact Jim.
Highlights
- New Coordinators: Rachel Newby, g24 - Ashley Raasch, g22 - Allison Whaley, g22
[Check out the recently added lindo Coordinator-identifying fotos on the sidebar]
***FE Task team assignments***
o foto/frame assembly – Orlando (lead), Claudia, Jim, Sadiya, Matt, Tammy, maybe Kyle
- need to meet in Asunción about 1 week before July 4th to prepare for the inaugural Embassy exhibit
- Orlando will avisar team about set-up and take-down dates
o transportation/set-up/take-down – Orlando (supervising up until COS date), Rachel (supervising after Orlando's COS date), Adam and Ashley (help when possible)
- Let's get PCVC in on this!
o captions – Jen, Jim
- name of photographer and community; assigned number (for print sales); paragraph of each community; map of PY
o self-portrait banner or collage/slideshow assembly – Ashley (lead), Kelly
- the small foto idea morphed into a collage or banner of all the kids' self-portraits (gracias a Rache!)
o publicity – Rachel, Bradford, Luke, Orlando, Jim
- afiches
- invitations (as in to VIPs)
- newspaper (Mariano, owner of Chaco will help, remind him 1 week before Aug 1 Field Trip)
- pasacalles
o sales table/donations box organization – Allison (lead), Sadiya, David, Aubrey
o sales table volunteers – Jill, Jeff (will be contacted by Allison and team)
o products procurement – Jen, Allison, Adam, Jim, Ashley
- see Ahecha merchandise section for specifics
-
Ahecha merchandise (for project sustainment)
o Long-sleeve tees (organic cotton from Aratex (formerly known as Arasy), available to current Ahecha facilitators for now, will be offered to public más adelante) - Jen
o Tote bags (new logo, reorder) – 100 bags
- may need to increase quantity if we get bags as participant CCPA brindis favors
- Allison (bag parchase), Adam (bag printing)
o postcards – Ashley, Jim, Rachel
- got quote from Para Vos graphic design printing place on Rep. Argentina c/ Mcal. Lopez
o participant prints
- Exhibit prints will be numbered
- Prints will be ordered from Kodak in matte (not glossy)
- Purchase form – Jen
- price 50 mil per print (we did market research among PYans AND nortes)
- Will include print and TY slip inside envelope – Anyone interested in prepping? Probably Ashley and Allison (?)
- Buyer pays up front, pick up at PCO, got Michael's OK!
- We need to organize who will do the pedido at Kodak for each Exhibit (help from PCVCs?).
* * *
To Focus on AFTER the Final Exhibition Series is Underway:
Recruiting Volunteers
o Strategies to implement:
- Dispel commonly-held belief that CoCuMu is the artsy group – it is for all Volunteers who want to work with youth on personal development via PYan and world culture & arts tools
- Change meeting time and location (GAD has good time but we wouldn't want to be mean and rob them of their time, would we?)
- Send text messages week before meeting
- More CHP action
• invite Volunteers to CoCuMu meetings during training (like NVAC)
• create a PowerPoint presentation to show trainees (Rachel's suggestion)
CoCuMu Kuat Section
o deadline July 12th
o Ashley will determine optimum order for maximum impact
- Photo spread page – Ashley photos, Jen text
- Meet new coordinators blurb with foto – Ashley
- Ahecha experience – Allison
- How to check out cameras – Rachel
- Camera kit request form – Jen will submit
New Policy: EVERYONE MUST RETURN CAMERA KITS TO THE PCO.
o Why? We found there are issues with direct camera kit hand-off (PCV to PCV)
- can’t check for damaged/missing items
- can’t update manual hard copy
o Is a wear and tear registry necessary? Who will create?
o There needs to be lag time between check-out periods – New Coordinators will decide how long
o Ask Team 3 to bring in cam kits to PCO on June 15th – Jim
o Update manual June 15-16th – Jen, Jim, Orlando
Camera repair – Brad will submit a cautionary what-to-do-in-case doc to include in the camera kit manual about his experience having to fix a camera dropped by a youth participant.
Manual updating and post-cycle 1 overhaul – New Coordinators
o long-term project
o need to include more examples! Adam will get 5 cover-to-cover photocopies of Ashley’s big photo book. We will also include money for more photo book purchase in the SPA Grant.
Ahecha Paraguay CafePress Store
o We set up a CafePress.com account (Kudos to Big B for the idea)
o Here's the link to our CafePress store: http://www.cafepress.com
o When we have some time, we can start uploading products and setting prices and doing publicity
o To make this legit, a Stateside supporter will be authorized to receive money and make official donations via an annual Peace Corps Partnership grant
Peace Corps-Wide Publicity
o Rachel is working on getting us an article in PC's WorldView magazine
o We should also hit up PC Times
-
Tentative CCPA Brindis Field Trip Schedule (in Castellano)
# de participantes - mínimo 36 alumnos y contrapartes paraguayos (adultos), 12 voluntarios
= 48 personas en total
viernes, el 1 de agosto de 2008
A la mañana - llegar al Hotel Chaco para check-in y almuerzo
-después, tiempo para descansar, uso del Salón Bahía para juegos tranquilos-
15:00 - excursión al Museo del Barrio
19:00 - pizza cena en el hotel
20:30 - uso del Salón Bahía para mostrar una película
sábado el 2 de agosto de 2008
7:30 desayuno
A la mañana - llegar al CCPA para el brindis de la exposición de Ahecha Paraguay
12:00 almuerzo y check-out
- Adios Asunción, holajey el Interior!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
If you fear change, leave it here.
Come out to the next meeting where we will be choosing the next Ahecha PY/CoCuMu Coordinators. Throw your hat in the ring and have your say on Saturday, May 24th around noon after the NVAC meeting (meet at PCO to decide on lunch plans).
Team 1 (pilot checkout group) met on March 15th for a super-calidad session to share their experiences from running the first round of Photography Instruction Workshops.
As a result of the meeting, we made these key project changes:
- Camera checkout period extended to 45 days
- Team 4 (formerly the June checkout group) will tag onto Cycle 2’s Final Exhibition
Refer to the checkout schedule posted on the sidebar for revised start dates
The Ahecha PY admin binder has been created and can be found in the Coordinator’s office (on the shelf next to Sarah Fout’s desk). This is your 1-stop source for picking up or turning in project forms and other materials.
The project Flickr page is now up with photographs taken by the first youth participants and other project images! Thanks to Jim and Team 1 for blowing virtual life into Ahecha. Check out the mapped photo feature via the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414253@N05/map
Donor emails – Please send any known donor emails to cocumu@gmail.com. Jim is working on a project update email to about Ahecha. Thanks to Allison and Adam for mailing out the official donor thank you letters. CoCuMu’s got gratitude.
Final Exhibition Concept – Banana crates. See it to believe it. Contact Orlando if you’ve been intrigued into collaborating on the Final Exhibition site development and/or design.
The group decided that In-Site Exhibition material costs will be part of the community contribution. We will create a Shared Resource box that will be stored in Jason’s office (for the time being) along with the camera kits. Ahecha vets can donate re-usable project materials for the use of future facilitators.
Priority project assignments
Photograph examples for camera kit - Ashley, Brad
Final Exhibition site development and design sub-committee - Orlando (chair)
Postcard product development - Ashley, Jim
New logo editing - Orlando, Ashley, (Adam?)
Born into Brothels Spanish subtitling - Jeff
Budget update – We are under-budget! Consult Jim for the figures. Extra funds to be allocated to Final Exhibit materials and potentially to postcards or other product investments.
Más ideas –
- Newspaper publicity – Oscar at Kodak offered help with this for the Final Exhibition; talk with in-site contacts for community workshop coverage
- Integrate Ahecha project introduction into Pre-Service Training – consult CHP
- Creating an Ahecha Café-Press page to sell project merchandise (working towards the self-sustaining model)
If you are still reading these minutes, you just might be a calidad candidate for the CoCuMu-Ahecha Paraguay Coordinator position. Ideally we are looking to select a triple-threat trio of 3 co-coordinators at the next meeting. Please contact Jim, Orlando or Jen to discuss your interest.
Team 1 (pilot checkout group) met on March 15th for a super-calidad session to share their experiences from running the first round of Photography Instruction Workshops.
As a result of the meeting, we made these key project changes:
- Camera checkout period extended to 45 days
- Team 4 (formerly the June checkout group) will tag onto Cycle 2’s Final Exhibition
Refer to the checkout schedule posted on the sidebar for revised start dates
The Ahecha PY admin binder has been created and can be found in the Coordinator’s office (on the shelf next to Sarah Fout’s desk). This is your 1-stop source for picking up or turning in project forms and other materials.
The project Flickr page is now up with photographs taken by the first youth participants and other project images! Thanks to Jim and Team 1 for blowing virtual life into Ahecha. Check out the mapped photo feature via the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24414253@N05/map
Donor emails – Please send any known donor emails to cocumu@gmail.com. Jim is working on a project update email to about Ahecha. Thanks to Allison and Adam for mailing out the official donor thank you letters. CoCuMu’s got gratitude.
Final Exhibition Concept – Banana crates. See it to believe it. Contact Orlando if you’ve been intrigued into collaborating on the Final Exhibition site development and/or design.
The group decided that In-Site Exhibition material costs will be part of the community contribution. We will create a Shared Resource box that will be stored in Jason’s office (for the time being) along with the camera kits. Ahecha vets can donate re-usable project materials for the use of future facilitators.
Priority project assignments
Photograph examples for camera kit - Ashley, Brad
Final Exhibition site development and design sub-committee - Orlando (chair)
Postcard product development - Ashley, Jim
New logo editing - Orlando, Ashley, (Adam?)
Born into Brothels Spanish subtitling - Jeff
Budget update – We are under-budget! Consult Jim for the figures. Extra funds to be allocated to Final Exhibit materials and potentially to postcards or other product investments.
Más ideas –
- Newspaper publicity – Oscar at Kodak offered help with this for the Final Exhibition; talk with in-site contacts for community workshop coverage
- Integrate Ahecha project introduction into Pre-Service Training – consult CHP
- Creating an Ahecha Café-Press page to sell project merchandise (working towards the self-sustaining model)
If you are still reading these minutes, you just might be a calidad candidate for the CoCuMu-Ahecha Paraguay Coordinator position. Ideally we are looking to select a triple-threat trio of 3 co-coordinators at the next meeting. Please contact Jim, Orlando or Jen to discuss your interest.
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