First meeting of Latvian participants in Liepāja

17.06.2019.

This week at the office of Radi Vidi Pats was held the first meeting for the Latvian participants of youth exchange “Imagination is the true magic carpet”. From Radi Vidi Pats we are going to send 12 girls from Latvia to Rustavi to participate in this project. The main goal was to meet everyone, to get to know each other before and learn more information about the project in order to prepare better for the journey to Georgia.

During this meeting all participants were introduced to the agenda of youth exchange, aims, tasks and planned results of the youth exchange. The participants were given some homework to prepare before going to Georgia and one of them is to learn more information about the life of Jūlijs Straume and to study his artistic work.

For this meeting we also invited Giorgi Gogilidze from Georgia who works as a long-term volunteer in Vaiņode secondary school. We asked him to prepare a presentation and to tell about his country, its culture, history, traditions, food and other interesting facts. He also managed to teach us the first phrases in Georgian language.

After the informative part the participants had a tour around office and its neighborhood so they could see other mosaic works made by project coordinator and mosaic specialist Agnese with helping hand of other volunteers from Georgia that participated in another project last year at Radi Vidi Pats.

This day was full of discoveries and gave us some insights about the adventures that are waiting for us in Rustavi. And of course, we couldn’t end our meeting without taking our first group photo together.

Greetings from Latvian team!

Latvian group leader
Laura

What are Mosaics?

The main objective of the project is to collectively build a piece of mosaic using techniques of our experienced professional - Agnese.

What exactly is a Mosaic? Well, you probably have seen them many places around your town or around the world. From far away they look like paintings, but if you come closer you can see and admire the actual hard work and precision put in to the work, every piece has been touched and cut precisely to make the Mosaic. Every piece is crucial for the making of the piece of art. 

Here's the official definition, provided by wiki:

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made  from the assembling of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

It is often used in decorative art or  as interior decoration. Most mosaics are  made of small, flat, roughly-square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae. Some, especially floor mosaics, are made of small rounded pieces of stone, and called "pebble mosaics".

Your Volunteer for the project,

Martins 'chuks' Piebalgs

Advance Planning Visit  (APV) in Rustavi / Tbilisi. 

05.06.19 - 09.06.19

During the Advance Planned Meeting two leaders and two participants from each partner country took part in this transnational meeting for successful preparation before Youth Exchange “Imagination is the true magic carpet”. GYE additionally were supported with their 2 Latvian ESC volunteers Marite and Martins who recently works with them. 

First of all we were talking about activity programme for a YE and step by step discuss our tasks and homework for the next weeks – what responsibilities we should take, what games and entertainment we should prepare for participants and what information, materials do we need for great start and incredible final result – the mosaic based of Julijs Straume works.  

The second part of Advance Planning Visit included a trip to Tbilisi in order to visit Georgian Folk Art Museum where are introduced with Julijs Straume life in Georgia, his left culture heritage for Georgians and his two big, beautiful designed carpets!

His textile sketches, shapes, colors, the small details were around us, so we kept this impression and inspiration for the upcoming exchange.

After exploring the museum we had a good lunch and short walk around the city. Thanks to all leaders and participants for coming!

See you on July,

ESC volunteer,

Marite.