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Write ideas by March 20 - find partners and develop your idea by April 16!

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Write ideas by March 20 - find partners and develop your idea by April 16!

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Write an idea
It can be an issue common to several members in our network and which you would like to do something about it, or a concrete idea for an action you are looking for cooperation partners for.

What kind of ideas?
The idea should be of public interest (suitable for public funding), and to the benefit of the Moniheli network and their communities (meaning, beyond your own association and community).

Include your contact info!
Remember to write your contact information, so others can contact you to join your initiative. Write also clearly if you have criteria, f.ex. what languages you can be contacted in.

Check for comments and other ideas
Remember to visit the page quite often to see if there are comments or questions on your idea, or if you would like to join someone else's idea!

Start planning with partners
Go forward with planning the initiative you would like to carry out together with the partners you have found here. What would you do, who would do what?

Find two more partners and prepare and idea by April 16!

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Kirjoita ideasi 20.3. mennessä - löydä yhteistyökumppaneita ja kehitä ideasi 16.4. mennessä!

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Kirjoita ideasi 20.3. mennessä - löydä yhteistyökumppaneita ja kehitä ideasi 16.4. mennessä!

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Kirjoita idea
Kyseessä voi olla usealle järjestölle yhteinen haaste, johon haluat puuttua, tai konkreettinen idea, jolle kaipaat toteuttajia.

Millaisille ideoille?
Yleishyödyllinen idea, joka sopii julkisesti rahoitettavaksi, ja sellainen, joka hyödyntää Monihelin verkostoa ja sen jäsenjärjestöjä (muitakin kuin omaa järjestöäsi ja yhteisöäsi).

Lisää yhteystietosi!
Muista jättää myös yhteystietosi, jota kautta sinuun saa yhteyttä ja halukkaat voivat ehdottaa yhteistyötä. Lisää tieto jos haluat, että sinuun otetaan yhteyttä tietyllä kielellä.

Lue kommentit ja muiden ideat!
Palaa sivulle tasaisin väliajoin vastaamaan ehdotukseesi tulleisiin kysymyksiin ja/tai lähtemään mukaan muiden jättämiin ideoihin!

Suunnittele yhteistyökumppaneiden kanssa
Edetkää yhdessä projektin suunnittelussa. Sopikaa työnjako.

Löydä kaksi muuta yhteistyökumppania
ja lähetä ehdotus 16.4. mennessä!

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KULTTUURIKARUSELLI -TAPAHTUMAT / CULTURAL CAROUSEL EVENTS

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KULTTUURIKARUSELLI -TAPAHTUMAT / CULTURAL CAROUSEL EVENTS

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Hello everyone, let us introduce ourselves! Our nonprofit association (Voimauttavan taiteen äärellä ry) runs a cultural centre KULTTUURIMYLLY in East Helsinki (downstairs of Liikuntamylly, next to Myllypuro metro station) We have been planning event series with the working title of Kulttuurikaruselli* (Cultural carousel) The idea goes something like this: Once a month (for example, depending on the interests, how many events would be hosted in a year etc) there would be organized a CULTURAL CAROUSEL cultural nights. Each night of the program would be hosted in collaboration with one (each time different) Moniheli -multicultural association, giving each one the chance to step into the ”limelight” of the Kulttuurimylly event stage to present your culture in the way you would like to. It could be a concert, a film screening, a dance performance, open mic or something else, what ever you think that would be the best for your association. The event would have two goals: 1. Provide a cultural space for the Moniheli association to get the people of their own cultural community together, meet up, celebrate and present their culture in the best light possible, to both them selves and to the others interested to learn more about it. 2. Second goal of the event serie would be to give an interesting, safe platform from where the locals and finns could more easily find you and come to learn more about your cultural richness etc.  The role of the event serie would serve as host and a platform for the people of all ages and all different cultural bakcgrounds to come together and ”dive into” one cultural theme at a time. During the year the ”carousel” event would get to present a series of cultural events of different origins and languages. (The event could include a food culture of each association, presenting not only the music and dance of the each culture but also the traditional culinary of each - and give a chance for people to taste it, one tradition at a time. That could also serve as a platform for fundraising for the associations to have ”pop up” cafe/restaurant activity merged with the event) The role of Kulttuurimylly would be to be a ”base station” for the meetings, to co-host each event with the chosen Moniheli-association. Kulttuurimylly would provide a local space, necessary event technique (stage, light, sound system for concerts etc.) technician to set up and run the light,video, sound technique, the space for people to gatherand a help to promote the event. How ever, we would like to give the freedom of planning/booking/organizing/producing each event to the chosen association, since you are the experts of your associations own cultural richness. If needed we gladly help in anyway we can, but the active role of creating the event would be on a chosen association. We warmly welcome you on Kulttuurimylly, lets create together a wonderful ”Carousel” serie of events to present the wonderful cultural diversity, that we have here inside Moniheli -partner associations. Contact information: Nemanja Stojanovic, nemanja@mariabaric.com / Kulttuurimylly   https://www.kulttuurimylly.com/kulttuurimylly-1

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Kulttuuritila ja alueellinen teatteri
Kulttuurimylly on tunnelmallinen uusi teatteri- ja kulttuuritila Myllypurossa. Kulttuurimyllyssä pitävät päämajaansa itähelsinkiläinen visuaalisen teatterin ammattiryhmä Maria Baric Company sekä sen taustalla vaikuttava yleishyödyllinen kulttuuriyhdistys Voimauttavan taiteen äärellä ry. Kulttuurimyllyssä sijaitsee Maria Baric Companyn tuotantotilat, taiteilijatyöhuoneet, varasto- ja harjoitustilat ja Voimauttavan taiteen äärellä ry:n toimitilat. Lisäksi Kulttuurimyllyssä on kaksi näyttämösalia, joita vuokrataan myös muille toimijoille.

Esittävien taiteiden näyttämö ja kohtaamispaikka
Kulttuurimyllyn ohjelmistossa voi nähdä muun muassa nukke- ja varjoteatteria, musiikkia, tanssia, uutta sirkusta sekä teatterin harvinaisempia muotoja kuten vesinukketeatteria ja black light - eli pimeässä hohtavaa mustaa teatteria. Maria Baric Companyn oman esitystoiminnan lisäksi Kulttuurimylly toimii myös vierailunäyttämönä muille vapaan kentän freelancetaiteilijoille ja ryhmille.

Vuokrattavat näyttämö- ja salitilat
Kulttuurimyllyssä on kaksi näyttämösalia, joita voi vuokrata. Monipuoliset nousevilla katsomoilla varustellut näyttämösalit ja ovat molemmat black box -teatterisaleja. Esitysten ja konserttien lisäksi tilat sopivat hyvin erilaisten tapahtumien ja juhlien järjestämiseen.

Cafe Kulttuurimylly
Kulttuurimyllyn esitysten, konserttien ja tapahtumien yhteydessä toimii Pop up kahvilamme Cafe Kulttuurimylly.

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Kulttuuritila ja alueellinen teatteri Kulttuurimylly on tunnelmallinen uusi teatteri- ja kulttuuritila Myllypurossa. Kulttuurimyllyssä pitävät päämajaansa itähelsinkiläinen visuaalisen teatterin ammattiryhmä Maria Baric Company sekä sen taustalla vaikuttava yleishyödyllinen kulttuuriyhdistys Voimauttavan taiteen äärellä ry . Kulttuurimyllyssä sijaitsee Maria Baric Companyn tuotantotilat, taiteilijatyöhuoneet, varasto- ja harjoitustilat ja Voimauttavan taiteen äärellä ry:n toimitilat.

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Organising smaller meetup/networking events between different associations about different themes

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Organising smaller meetup/networking events between different associations about different themes

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Just a suggestion, if any association is interested in doing so (if so, just write a separate post with more details, like what would be the theme, would it be physically somewhere, what language...).

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Association: International Working Women of Finland Ry
Contact info: lucia@iwwof.com (Lucia Vuillermin)
Language: English.
Looking for partners!

Idea: The first barrier for internationals in Finland is the language. The idea is to organize informal meetings where very basic Finnish is the communication language. Mistakes are welcome but communication must flow. During meetings, participants can bring their CVs to be checked by others, ask for support for bureaucratic issues, share if companies have openings or simply enjoy a coffee while using the language without feeling judged. It will foster a sense of peer support and community for participants. It will help to enlarge also the network and feel less isolated while learning Finnish in real-life situations.

Location: Selkosuomi cafè should be held in public places where we book a space for the members. Once a week, after working hours, for a period of 3 months. Start in Helsinki and if it is successful, we can spread it all over Finland.

Partners: IWWOF can coordinate the organization of the Selkosuomi cafè, and other organizations can help to organize the single meetings and spread the events with their members.

For whom: Every international talent who is interested in learning Finnish while having a peer-support.

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21.5 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (UN)

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21.5 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (UN)

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Askelten Palo
askeltenpalo@gmail.com
We are after this idea for a long time:  reunited organizations with immigrant background to organize something to give visibility to the multicultural Helsinki (taking the public space) but also to rise  together Discussions about the positive impact but also the challenges of living together in a multicultural city as Helsinki.
We consider it important because this kind of spaces are mostly lead by Finns leaders of big organizations, universities etc what is good but the discussion is orientated to other leaders or academics. What if immigrant background organizations bring their members take their own voices and discuss about it in a more public space outside of the classrooms or big events talking about us something that need to be fixed or find their use, immigrants as issues? What if we include the immigrant background people that are not necessarily academic to listen and give anf opinion about it?

An space where real people can participate.

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Wende Luvinga and Menard Mponda performing at a satuhetki event. (Photo credit: Kulttuurikeskus Caisa)

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Satuhetki selkosuomeksi is a project that aims to increase diversity and representation of different communities while supporting their Finnish language learning process through collecting traditional stories and translating them into easy Finnish language (selkokieli). We work with other associations, community groups, libraries, daycares, culture centres and festivals.

In 2023-24 we are looking at ways to build community through the project. This week we piloted a new format for collecting stories with Sillat ry’s Pidä huolta itsestäsi äiti group and we would like to develop this format with new groups:

Session 1: We meet your community, discuss how selkokieli and selkokirja (easy Finnish books) can help the whole family’s experience in Finland. We bring book examples for participants to browse and give them more information about where to find selkokirja. One of our storytellers performs a story to the group and then we discuss sharing their own stories.

Session 2: After stories shared by the groups are translated, we meet again to perform the stories, reflect on the process and ask where the community would like the stories to be disseminated to (e.g daycares, local libraries). This session can be informal and celebratory and participants are welcome to also perform the stories in their mother tongues and to perform music, share food, etc.

The information sessions can be in Finnish or English (or both, or we can work together to offer other bilingual ways of sharing the information) and the stories will all be in easy Finnish checked by Selkokeskus and awarded a selkotunnus.

Who: any associations that work with families or with S2 parents, who might benefit from learning more about selkokieli/selkokirja and who would enjoy sharing and hearing their stories for the project.

We can come to one of your regular group meetings (which we did with the äiti group this week) or ideally, if we could find several partners in similar geographical areas or with common interests that would like to meet up, we could organise each session for 2-3 different groups in a mutual place.

Contact: Carly Markkanen (in English or Finnish) Selkokulttuuri ry: carly@selkokulttuuri.fi

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Coordinating the organisation of the MIP event on December 6th

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Coordinating the organisation of the MIP event on December 6th

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The Multicultural Independence Day event has been organised many years by Moniheli, but we would like to pass the torch to our network. Would there be organisations interested in taking the lead to cooperate with co-funder Citizen's Forum to organise the event this year? The Citizen's Forum is providing 1500 euros of funding already and we have agreed to open the call for performances also to their member associations. But the performances should be selected for a balanced programme, and then the event should be organised in practice. Moniheli supports the event with some funding and with communication. Leave your contact information in the comments if you are interested, we will contact all interested associations at once a little later this month to tell more about what has been already agreed and what is expected.

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Nuorten festarit/ festival for the youth in August in Espoo 

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Nuorten festarit/ festival for the youth in August in Espoo 

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With several partners in Espoo (including the city, other organizations) we Espoon monikulttuuriset lapset ja nuoret ry are organizing a festival in August for the youth and also their families (most likely in Suvela).

We are inviting others to join together to make a positive change, introduce their organizations with matala kynnys and toiminnalliset menetelmät and just be present to people. There will be some performers, food market and some other things as well. Feel free to contact us, let's do something concrete and positive together.

Br, Espoon monikulttuuriset lapset ja nuoret ry / 045-3436727/ Johanna Syren

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Coordinating the organisation of the Moniheli´s member association of the year Award -MAYA 

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Coordinating the organisation of the Moniheli´s member association of the year Award -MAYA 

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MAYA is an annual event that aim to recognise and appreciate the work of member associations and to motivate others to become active. The panel of judges comprises of experts in the field of intergration and organisation world. MAYA has a different them each year. The winner of the award is declared during the multicultural independence party on the 6.12.

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Hello everyone, Autokton ry is interested to organize different activities in Espoo, Vantaa, and Helsinki to raise awareness of immigrants about the importance of regular health check-up and their benefits. Since the number of diseases is increasing and people usually tend to neglect their health until they see the symptoms, we aim to change that mentality and provide materials first to our target group (Albanian-speaking immigrants) and in English to the wider audience and also together with our volunteers and possible partners that will join our initiative through the network initiative of Moniheli. We are planning to do some health measurements for free (BMI, Blood sugar, Hemoglobin, cholesterol, blood pressure) and explain to participants how to interpret the results and the importance of owning their health.
Come and let's create together meaningful events that save people's lives.
Contact information: alba.vrapi@gmail.com
Phone number: 0466688694